Interview with Carol Sanford, Author of The Regenerative Life

Published: Sept. 9, 2022, 10 a.m.

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Carol Sanford is a consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executive teams, designing and leading systemic business change and design. She is Senior Fellow of Social Innovation, Babson College; Founder, The Regenerative Business Development Community, Change Agent Development community. Her best-selling books have 15 awards, are required reading at leading business and management schools including Harvard, Stanford, Haas Berkeley and MIT. Carol also partners with producing Executive Education through Babson College, Kaospilot in Denmark, University of Washington and The Lewis Institute at Babson. Her books are filled with case stories, from around the worldwide diversity represented.

To that end, Carol has been leading regenerative education efforts in both Fortune 500 and new economy businesses for more than 40 years. Her client list includes long-term relationships with Colgate Europe and Africa and DuPont Canada, US, Asia, and Europe. She also works with new-economy companies like Intel, Agilent, and leaders of corporate responsibility such as Seventh Generation, Numi Tea, and Guayaki. Google uses her work as a framework in the Food Innovation Lab. Carol is CEO of Carol Sanford Institute, an education company on building Regenerative Businesses that become non-displaceable in their markets, enduringly. The Carol Sanford Institute is based in the Seattle region of the Puget Sound.

She combines her economic development experience with her extensive business education and background using urban systems, psychology and learning practices. Carol has published dozens of works in 10 languages, including a series of articles in Executive Excellence, Stephen Covey\\u2019s newsletter and At Work, a Berrett-Koehler Journal. She is the author of five books with three publishers. Central to Carol\\u2019s philosophy and approach is a fresh look at what makes an organization truly regenerative. \\u201cIt\\u2019s important to discover your singularity, what enables you to differentiate your business from the crowd,\\u201d she says, \\u201cand then thinking about how to do business so that communities, societies, and ecology as a whole are improved. These are not separate but interwoven pursuits. It\\u2019s completely doable, and a conversation worth having.\\u201d

She holds undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley in Economics and Public Law and graduate degrees from California State University, San Jose in Urban Planning.

To learn more, visit: https://carolsanford.com/

Additionally, you can join Carol in making the world a better place: https://seed-communities.com/

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