Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston Speaker Biography

Leading Expert on Business Sustainability

Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, New York Times, and CNBC. Andrew is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, Boeing, HP, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, and Pepsi. Andrew also serves on the Sustainability Advisory Board of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the Executive Environmental Advisory Council for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and as a Sustainability Advisor to PwC.

Early Career

Andrew bases his work on significant in-company business experience. His earlier career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and MTV. After these more traditional roles, Andrew pursued his passion to explore the overlap between business and environment. He served as the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Books and Publications

Andrew is the author of Green Recovery and co-author of Green to Gold, the international best-selling guide to what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go green.writes extensively on green business strategy, including a weekly column for Harvard Business Online and regular pieces on Huffington Post. For his efforts, Andrew was named a “Planet Defender” by Rock the Earth.

Keynote Speaker

Andrew is also a highly respected and dynamic speaker, reaching audiences of thousands of people around the world and acting as a practical evangelist for the benefits of going green. He’s given keynotes and moderated panel discussions in front of audiences of all types and sizes, from small meetings of the top executives at a corporation to large conference keynotes in front of thousands of people. Andrew relies on his real-world business experience and comfort on stage to bring a relaxed (and often humorous) style to his presentations on the overlap of business and environment

Education

Andrew received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale. He lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife and two young sons.

Andrew Winston Speaking Topics

The Big Pivot: Doing Business in a Hotter, Scarcer, More Open World

Based on his new book, The Big Pivot, Andrew Winston, a globally recognized speaker and business strategy expert, lays out a new vision for business in fundamentally changed world. Some critical mega-trends are changing “business as usual”: deep demographic shifts, resource constraints (that over time is raising prices for nearly every input into the economy), climate change and extreme weather, and radical transparency driven by new technologies that connect us all. But these challenges also offer unprecedented opportunities: multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and the winners of this new game will profit mightily. In a unique and entertaining way, Winston’s talk… • Describes the simple but profound mindset shift – the Big Pivot – that companies must make to go beyond merely coping and actually navigate and solve the world’s toughest challenges; • Provides crucial tactics and strategies for executives and managers to profit from this new, volatile reality; • Offers many “a-ha” and “wow” moments backed by surprising data about the world around us. With concrete advice and tactics, and stories from companies like Apple, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Dow, Ford, Nike, Unilever, and Walmart, The Big Pivot provides a blueprint for creating more resilient, flexible businesses that profit from building a healthier, more sustainable, more prosperous world.

The Big Pivot: Innovation and Value Creation in an Unpredictable, Expensive, and Digital World

Based on his award-winning new book, The Big Pivot, Andrew Winston, a globally recognized speaker and business strategy expert, lays out a new vision for business in fundamentally changed world. A few critical mega-trends are changing “business as usual” and how companies are valued by employees, customers, and the markets: deep demographic shifts, resource constraints (that creates enormous volatility in input prices), climate change and extreme weather, and radical transparency driven by big data and new digital technologies that connect us all. But these challenges also offer unprecedented opportunities: multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and the winners of this new game will profit mightily. In a unique and entertaining way, Winston’s talk… • Demonstrates how investors are rethinking the value of many sectors – from energy, utilities, and infrastructure to retail and consumer products – in the face of deep change; • Dives into the highly contentious “stranded assets” theory that could quickly wipe out half of the value of oil, gas, and fossil fuel companies; • Explores how a simple, but profound shift – the Big Pivot – creates both direct and intangible value in companies, improving profitability and resilience, while greatly reducing risk to the enterprise; • Offers many “a-ha” and “wow” moments backed by surprising data about the world around us. With concrete advice and tactics, and stories from companies like Barclays, Bank of England, PNC Bank, as well as global brands like Apple, Ford, Nike, Unilever, and Walmart, The Big Pivot provides a blueprint for creating more resilient, flexible, profitable, and value businesses.

The Big Pivot: Product and Service Innovation for an Unpredictable, Expensive, and Digital, Demanding, and Connected World

Based on his new book, The Big Pivot, Andrew Winston, a globally recognized speaker and business strategy expert, lays out a new vision for business in fundamentally changed world. Some critical mega-trends are changing “business as usual”: deep demographic shifts, resource constraints (that raise prices for nearly every input into the economy), climate change and extreme weather, and, most importantly, radical transparency driven by big data and new technologies that connect us all – consumers and retailers can now ask and answer a range of questions about every product, where it came from, who made it, and how big an impact it has on the world. But these challenges also offer unprecedented opportunities: multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and the winners of this new game will profit mightily. In a unique and entertaining way, Winston’s talk… • Shows how the world’s biggest and most innovative retails and consumer products companies are cutting costs, enhancing resilience, reducing risk, driving standards up their supply chains, and innovating to help their customers improve their businesses and lives; • Provides crucial tactics and strategies for executives and managers to profit from this new, volatile reality; • Describes the simple but profound mindset shift – the Big Pivot – that customer-facing companies must make to go beyond merely coping and actually navigate and solve the world’s toughest challenges; • Offers many “a-ha” and “wow” moments backed by surprising data about the world around us. With concrete advice and tactics, and stories from companies like Apple, Coca-Cola, CVS, Diageo, Ford, Nike, Unilever, and Walmart, The Big Pivot provides a blueprint for creating more resilient, flexible businesses that profit from building a healthier, more sustainable, more prosperous world.