Videos
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Christa Gyori on Purpose
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The Private Sector’s Role in Rebuilding a More Equitable Economic Recovery
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Inspiring Infinity: Why businesses must look beyond their lifetime | Live Panel Discussion
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A Chat with Co-founders of Leaders on Purpose: Christa Gyori and Dr. Tatiana Kazakova.
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Leaders on Purpose | Christa Gyori & Dr Tatiana Kazakova | Hub Culture Davos 2022
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Leaders On Purpose
Learn More About Christa Gyori
Christa Gyori (“JOR-ee”) is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organization that supports multinational businesses in the transition to become more sustainable enterprises.
An international executive with 20 years of senior experience, Gyori spent much of her career as an executive at Unilever where she was a founding member of their North American FS Sustainability Council. Inspired by a mission to address sustainable development goals (SDGs) while helping leaders maximize value for organizations and stakeholders, she co-founded Leaders on Purpose with colleagues from Unilever, Harvard, the World Bank, and the London School of Economics. As CEO of Leaders on Purpose, Gyori has worked with and studied the world’s most inspiring leaders and CEOs, and she and her team have developed insights and methodologies to support leaders in embedding purpose at the core of business strategy.
Gyori is a co-founder of SysMeta, an intuitive systemic data exploration platform and visualization tool. She also sits on the board of Space4Girls, an organization dedicated to providing opportunities for girls and young women in space and innovation through STEM programming.
Shortlisted for the 2023 Thinkers50 Ideas Into Practice Award, Gyori was named a Conscious Leader of the Year by Conscious Company Magazine in 2018 and was the 2013 winner of the TED Global-Unilever Innovation Award. Gyori was a Harvard T.H. Chan School Professional of Excellence Fellow from 2014 to 2020 and is the co-author of 2018, 2019 & 2020 Leaders on Purpose CEO Studies.
Gyori has worked with leaders across 5 continents, has an MBA in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and regularly serves as faculty for Harvard’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program.
Christa Gyori is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers & Advisors, a division of Stern Strategy Group.
Achieve Ambitious Goals Through High Impact Sustainability Leadership
Organizational sustainability goals have quickly become just as important as financial goals – so how can leaders ensure that the rigorous approach companies take to finances are also being applied to sustainability? According to CEO and co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, Christa Gyori, executives must become fluent in the steps to becoming high impact sustainability leaders. By revealing the five phases organizations must move through to build a sustainable business model – from inactive to generative – she shows how purpose and profit can in fact bolster one another. Gyori will reveal her accessible framework for navigating the five phases in a systems-based approach. Audiences will be empowered to take stock of where they are, where they want to be and how to get there in a practical, realistic way that will allow them to lift their organization by achieving ambitious sustainability goals.
The Role of a Leader as an Authentic Communicator
The role of a leader is more consequential now than ever before. According to CEO and co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, Christa Gyori, what leaders do in the next ten years will impact the next 10,000 years. How can executives ensure they are working toward a future all can be proud to be part of? In this enlightening presentation, Gyori draws on the insights gained from interviewing and working with more than 100 of the world’s top CEOs to outline the most important qualities of exceptional leaders. She zooms in on why it’s vital to prioritize authentic, transparent communication when sequencing and mapping out strategy. Audiences will leave with immediately applicable strategies for setting big goals, clearly communicating those goals and the steps to get there, and authentically recovering from mistakes to move a company forward in a purposeful fashion.
