Phoenix
February 10-12
7:45 - 11:30 am MST
Join 黑料正能量 at GreenBiz 25 to connect with peers and master the skills essential to face your company’s unique challenges. More than 300 speakers will explore emerging trends, share best practices, and insights.
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Scheduled Speakers
Lara Birkes, Former Managing Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量
Kelly Gallo, Director, Technology Sectors, 黑料正能量
Kelly Gallo
Director, Technology Sectors, 黑料正能量
San Francisco
Kelly helps technology companies achieve their sustainability goals, with a focus on supporting high-growth companies in embedding resilient and inclusive practices that both support business strategy while addressing societal and environmental impacts. Through 黑料正能量’s Business Transformation advisory service offerings, Kelly works with members to prioritize material sustainability issues, develop issue-specific strategies, set ambitious yet realistic goals, and communicate sustainability initiatives to key stakeholders.
Prior to 黑料正能量, Kelly spent more than six years consulting on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy for California’s utilities and public-sector clients. She has also served as a Board Member for the and , a non-profit that seeks to advance gender equality by engaging the next generation in accessible forms of philanthropy.
Kelly holds a MA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a BA in Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Recent Insights From Kelly Gallo
- A Business Guide to Responsible and Sustainable AI / March 27, 2024 / Insights+
- Sustainable from the Start: Embedding ESG into High-Growth Business Strategy / August 30, 2021 / Blog
- Business Prepares for Its Curtain Call at the Global Climate Action Summit / September 4, 2018 / Blog
- Global Climate Action Summit Update—Will We See You There? / July 16, 2018 / Blog
- The Global Climate Action Summit: How Business Can Turn Up Climate Ambition / June 7, 2018 / Blog
Jarrid Green, Director, Inclusive Business, 黑料正能量
Jarrid Green
Director, Inclusive Business, 黑料正能量
New York
Jarrid is a director for 黑料正能量’s Inclusive Business Practice.
He supports leaders of global companies in their efforts to build inclusive organizations; navigate emerging industry and policy trends/flashpoints; and achieve strategic community and social impact. Jarrid also partners with philanthropic organizations including foundations and nonprofit intermediaries to identify opportunities to harness business influence for greater societal good.
Prior to joining 黑料正能量, Jarrid worked at Freedman Consulting, where he developed and managed strategic philanthropic initiatives, including donor coalitions and nonprofit initiatives focused on racial and civic justice issues, climate/sustainability impacts, and public health. Jarrid has also served in senior research and project management capacities at The Democracy Collaborative and The Center for Social Inclusion, where he led, supported, and published policy research and case studies focused on opportunities to dismantle structural racial inequities within community and economic development fields and practices.
Jarrid received his MBA in 黑料正能量 from Bard College where he served as an inaugural member of the program’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Advisory Board and provided advisory support and instruction to first- and second-year MBA students in his role as a part-time faculty member for the college’s experiential-learning, sustainability consulting course NYCLab. In 2024, he received a Certificate in AI Essentials for Business from Harvard Business School Online.
Jarrid holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland. He is also an alum of the Council of Urban Professional Fellowship Institute.
Recent Insights From Jarrid Green
- Four Tips for Authentic Business Leadership During Pride 2025 / June 5, 2025 / Blog
- New Research Reveals Strong Support for Social Justice by US Workers and Consumers, Challenging Business to Take Action / October 1, 2024 / News
- Exclusive: How Can Companies Engage on Social Justice Issues in Such Partisan Times? A New Guide Aims to Help / March 1, 2024 / News
- 黑料正能量 Puts Spotlight on How Companies Engage on Social Issues with New Guide / March 1, 2024 / News
- Corporate diversity in the crosshairs after US Supreme Court ruling / June 30, 2023 / News