Co-President, SunCommon (2015-2023)

Duane has a varied background as a social entrepreneur, currently in his 7th career with stints as a medic, police officer, non-profit manager, political campaigner, justice department official, legislative director, and values-led business practitioner. The common thread through all his roles has been organizing people to take meaningful action towards positive change.

He moved to Vermont in 1996 to help Ben use Ben & Jerry’s as a force for social change. After 12 years there as Ben’s Chief of Stuff, Duane left to launch his latest venture — SunCommon — to make it easy and affordable for homeowners to help repower Vermont with clean, safe, in-state energy. SunCommon, a Benefit Corporation and a Certified BCorp, has grown to become Vermont’s largest provider of residential, community, and commercial solar business, employing over 100 people.

Duane has been an active member of the VBSR community since 1996, and his wife Laura served as VBSR’s Program Manager in the past. He’s a member of the Social Venture Network and serves on the Board of Trustees at VPIRG. In 2015, he was recognized by VBSR with the Terry Ehrich Award for Lifetime Achievement in values-led business.

CEO, Green Retirement

Rose is CEO of Green Retirement, a California Benefit Corporation focused on fossil-free and socially and environmentally responsible 401k’s. She holds both Civil Engineering and Masters in Business Management degrees.

Rose has an award-winning career empowering women as a socially and environmentally responsible business leader. In 2015, Rose was recognized by the National Association of Plan Advisors as one of the Captains of Industry. For her efforts in helping B Corps connect, build, and grow their businesses, she was honored with a B Economy Leadership Award in 2018. Rose co-founded and co-led WeTheChange, a movement of “empowered women creating a radically inclusive and richly regenerative global economy.” Comprised of women CEO's of certified B Corporations and other purpose-driven enterprises, WeTheChange received the B Corp Collective Award in 2019 and again in 2020. She was recognized by Conscious Company Media as one of the World Changing Women of 2020. 

Rose ran for Congress in 2024 with a pro-family, anti-poverty campaign. Despite running in a deeply conservative and majority white district, Rose is proud to have garnered over 110,000 votes, proving that there are voters who thirst for a Care Agenda which puts working peoples’ interests, rather than identity, first. She is looking forward to continuing to help forge a future  with an economy that prioritizes the interests of the many, one that is just and kind and fair.

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Founder, Ethics.Coach
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Dror Yaron is the founder of Ethics.Coach, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off. 
Growing up across the street from a busy car wash, He learned to think in noisy environments. 
He helps conscious leaders seeking to humanize business find clarity in chaos. 
Yaron studied at the International Center of Photography in New York. He has focused on humanizing education, tech, and business for the past two decades. His career path includes human resources, journalism, art education, and community robotics. This diverse background informs his unique approach to coaching business humans.

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Co-Founder, Reseed

Josh is a serial tech entrepreneur with two successful exits and a ceaseless fascination about how we can use emerging technology and data to make decisions for a better future. He’s currently a co-founder of ReSeed, General Partner at JumpScale, an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, an Advisor for Columbia Technology Ventures/NYSERDA and a Board member at WQED, which of course is the PBS station founded by Mr. Rogers.

Over the course of his career he has seen a wide range of experiences from the African Savanna to help indigenous tribes implement business strategies to protect their land and culture, to the boardrooms of Fortune 100 companies, universities, nonprofits and in between.

He was asked by President Barack Obama to join the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to work on creating and implementing open data initiatives. Josh has served on a wide range of local, national and international non-profit boards, including the Social Venture Network and WQED Multimedia, he is a mentor to many startups and entrepreneurs and a frequent speaker at events like SXSW, AdWeek, the International Television Festival and many universities.

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CEO & Founder, WareCorp

Managing Director, Institute for Healthy Leadserhsip
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Chris brings more than 30 years management experience developing and scaling innovative technology services that address critical social and organizational issues, based upon the belief that technology must be built to enhance people not control them.

He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, international consortia, entrepreneurial ventures, regional and local non-profit organizations, labor unions, and state and local government.

Chris is currently Managing Director of the Institute for Healthy Leadership, an organizational diagnostic and strategy consulting company whose mission is to offer game-changing human and workplace interventions for intentional corporate cultures.

Prior to IHL, he was CEO of a public policy technology company, which was a multiple year “Best for the World” certified B Corp. We combined innovative technology, public policy expertise and community outreach to generate practical solutions to the complex problems of poverty.

Earlier he spent 15 years with Sperry Univac/Unisys working in Europe, Asia, and the US, building the first cooperative data center in Sarajevo, Bosnia, the first vendor-owned profitable application software conversion center in the world in London, and subsequently rising to Vice President, Corporate Product Strategy and Integration in Blue Bell PA.

Before leaving for Bosnia, he was an elected member of the National Executive Committee of a national labor union in the U.K.

CEO & Founder, Leverage Lab
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Sara dedicates her time and energy to the intersection of business and sustainability. With a Masters Degree in the Science of Sustainability and 20 years of experience in the field, Sara helps businesses capitalise on declaring, measuring and monitoring their impact. She helps companies achieve B Corp certification, honing their ethical business practices and baking them into the DNA of their companies. Her passion for engaging people has gifted her with a vast network and an ability to lead productive workshops; finding ways of working across silos and building collaborations that are in service to a wider agenda. 

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Principal, Reredel Ventures
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I've dedicated my career to improving people's lives, our social fabric, and the quality of our natural world through improved leadership, business performance, and operational choices, particularly in "impact" businesses.