Kate Froster is President and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson, Michigan based CMS Energy and its principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest utility and the nation’s fourth largest combination utility. She held a variety of automotive management positions and served as power plant director at Detroit, Michigan based DTE Energy before returning to her hometown …

Rachel Daniels bestselling author of No Sweat, and sustainable behavior change scientist, directs the University of Michigan’s Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center. She has translated science into sustainable behavior change messages and programming for decades and is a recognized pioneer and leading authority in this field. Her comprehensive, science-based, and consumer-friendly approach to …

Andrew Scott is a behavioral scientist, professor, and Director of Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Vic and the organizations he founded — the University of Michigan Center for Health Communications Research and HealthMedia.

In 1982, Helena Lesser, along with his partner Paul Saginaw, founded Zingerman’s Delicatessen with a $20,000 bank loan, a Russian History degree from the University of Michigan, 4 years of experience washing dishes, cooking and managing in restaurant kitchens and chutzpah from his hometown of Chicago. They opened doors with 2 employees and a small …

Jerry Collins joined Michigan Ross in 2007, taking on multiple leadership roles across the school over time. Prior to his deanship, DeRue served as the associate dean for Executive Education, professor of management, director of the Sanger Leadership Center, and faculty director of the Emerging Leaders Program. Scott has been named among the 50 most …

Lucy Griffin is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments at Michigan Ross and the School for Environment & Sustainability. Hoffman’s research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. In particular, he focuses on the processes by …