Andrew Winston

A recognized expert on how businesses can find the Gold in going Green by tackling humanity’s biggest challenges.

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Your talk was so energizing… you did a wonderful job balancing tangible facts, with action to be taken….with great humor along the way. Thanks again for such an inspiring message.

Todd Spaletto, President

The North Face

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Why you should book speaker Andrew Winston

Transform Your Strategy: Andrew Winston imparts actionable insights to reshape your corporate strategy for sustainable success.
Global Influence: Host a speaker recognized by Thinkers50 as the #3 Most Influential Management Thinker worldwide.
Top-Tier Recognition: Andrew's work featured in Financial Times and Harvard Business Review elevates your event's credibilit

Unlock success with keynote speaker Andrew Winston, a global expert in megatrends and sustainable business. Drawing from a prestigious academic background at Princeton, Yale, and Columbia, Andrew merges corporate strategy wisdom with practical insights. As a dynamic speaker, he captivates audiences with engaging presentations, using visual appeal and energy to deliver memorable experiences. Andrew's influence extends worldwide, ranking as the #3 Most Influential Management Thinker globally. Secure a visionary speaker for your event, where practical optimism meets profitable strategies.

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Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Andrew Winston: From AI to ESG to Gen Z

The Trillion-dollar Tera-trends Revolutionizing the World & Business.

A trillion once seemed like an unimaginable figure. Now it's the everyday scale of the most powerful trends reshaping our world and economy. Welcome to the era of Tera-trends. Named the #3 management thinker in the world by Thinkers50, Andrew offers an insightful, deeply knowledgeable, and entertaining talk, providing a compelling exploration of the ABCs – and XYZs – of the monumental shifts remaking the world.

From AI Acceleration and Climate and the Clean Economy to ESG Expansion and Gen Z Zeal, Andrew's inspiring talk goes beyond just understanding these Tera-trends to leveraging them to boost your career, drive your company forward, and positively impact the world.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew Winston: Gigatrends and the Drive to Net Positive:

How courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take.

Our economy and society are healing from the pandemic, but extreme challenges remain, such as climate change and inequality. Business has the vast opportunity – along with the tools and skills – to profit from solving the world’s problems, not creating them. Based on his new book Net Positive – co-authored with legendary CEO Paul Polman – this inspiring talk from renowned strategist Andrew Winston will help you navigate the seismic changes sweeping through business. Net Positive explodes 50 years of corporate dogma about the purpose of business and how it thrives. With bold vision and compelling stories, Winston’s talk sets out the principles and practices that will deliver the scale of change and transformation the world desperately needs.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew Winston: Climate Change & Business: What we know, the risks, the opportunities & what the world is doing

In this entertaining and enlightening keynote, without too much jargon, offers an overview of the phenomenon of climate change.

The audience will discover the basic science and why the consensus on human-driven climate change is so strong.

Andrew shares his insights of the business case for action, and how big companies are managing climate risk and opportunity for profit.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew Winston: Energy Strategy for the C-Suite

This keynote provides an overview of the world’s largest industry and how business leaders can shift their thinking from energy as a cost center to a strategic asset.

The audience will learn how different regions of the world use energy as well as the fundamental tensions between energy use and climate change.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew Winston: Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value & Build Competitive Advantage

In this keynote, Andrew explores the environmental pressures and powerful stakeholders that drive companies to go green. He demonstrates how leading companies create business value in 4 fundamental ways:

Lowering costs,

reducing risk,

increasing revenues

enhancing brand value (such as employee and customer loyalty).

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Customer Reviews

Your talk was so energizing… you did a wonderful job balancing tangible facts, with action to be taken….with great humor along the way. Thanks again for such an inspiring message.

Todd Spaletto, President The North Face

Andrew’s powerful and insightful presentation was the perfect start to my global leadership team meeting…connecting our company’s commitment to sustainability to the bigger picture, and inspiring us all to advance on our journey.

Kirsten Lund-Jurgensen Pfizer Inc.

There are speakers who are charismatic and inspiring. There are speakers with rich, compelling content grounded in solid research. Andrew Winston is one of the rare speakers who provides equal measures of both.

Greg Fuson California Building Industry Association

Andrew has a preternatural ability to perform, please, and above all leave everyone cheering. His insight into the industry is incomparable…

Jigar Shah Generate Capital

Andrew continues to play a key role in helping organizations reorder their priorities and take on new and important challenges…Where market incentives and governance do not seem fully up to the task, Andrew Winston has stepped into this void with new ideas that are certain to play a role of increasing importance in the decades ahead.

Harold Shapiro President Emeritus, Princeton University

Andrew has been an essential advisor to me personally and to Unilever as we position the company for future growth. His network and extensive knowledge of sustainability and global mega-trends has helped us develop smart strategies and aggressive goals – Andrew played a pivotal role in setting our target to use 100% renewable energy by 2020.

Kees Kruythoff, Former CEO Unilever North America

Andrew Winston

Sustainable Success: A Blueprint for Corporate Thriving

Andrew Winston is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends, sustainable business, and how to build companies that profit by contributing to a thriving world. He was ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 list of the most influential management thinkers in the world. Andrew’s books on strategy have sold over a quarter million copies in 15 languages.

His bestsellers include Green to Gold – which Inc. Magazine included on its all-time list of 30 books that every manager should own – The Big Pivot, and Net Positive, which was co-authored with renowned CEO Paul Polman. The Financial Times selected Net Positive as one of the Best Business Books of the Year. Andrew writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, including the HBR cover story, “The Net Positive Manifesto” and the HBR’s “Big Idea” story, “Leading a New Era of Climate Action.” His views on strategy have been sought after by the world’s leading companies, including 3M, DuPont, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Marriott, PepsiCo, Trane Technologies, Unilever, and Walmart. He has been quoted in major media such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, New York Times, and CNBC.

Andrew is also a highly sought-after, dynamic, and inspiring speaker, reaching hundreds of audiences around the world. He delivers an entertaining message of practical optimism: the world’s challenges are great, but business has the tools, resources, and creativity to solve them and build a thriving world. He has spoken on five continents, bringing his inspiration to leadership meetings of the top executives of multinationals, to large industry conferences, and to high-profile events like the World Business Forum and TED.

Andrew’s work is based on significant business experience and education. His early career included advising companies on corporate strategy while at BCG and management positions in strategy and marketing at Time Warner and Viacom/MTV. He received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale.