The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series Featuring Seth Goldman
The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series will feature Seth Goldman, president and CEO of Honest Tea, discussing his new book “Mission in a Bottle: The Honest Guide to Doing Business Differently – and Succeeding” (Crown Business). The discussion will be moderated by Peter Reiling, the Institute’s executive vice president for seminars and leadership programs and executive director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program.
About Seth Goldman:
Seth Goldman is president and TeaEO of Honest Tea, the company he co-founded out of his home in 1998 with Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management. Today, Honest Tea is the nation’s top selling organic bottled tea, and is carried in more than 100,000 outlets. In March 2011, Honest Tea was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company, creating a platform for national expansion and helping to further the reach and impact of Honest Tea’s mission. Ever since the enterprise was launched out of Seth’s home, the company has been a mission-driven innovator, launching the first organic bottled tea (1999) and the first Fair Trade certified bottled tea (2003). Today all Honest Tea varieties are organic and Fair Trade certified. The company continues to be recognized for its mission-driven leadership, commitment to transparency, and unconventional marketing techniques.
Under Seth’s leadership, the company has initiated community-based partnerships with its Fair Trade Certified™ suppliers in India, China, South Africa, and is known for its creative marketing initiatives (The Great Recycle and The National Honesty Index) and its partnerships with TerraCycle, Arbor Day Foundation and IndoSole. In addition to being named one of The Better World Shopping Guide’s “Ten Best Companies on the Planet based on their overall social and environmental record,” Honest Tea was ranked by The Huffington Post as one of the leading “8 Revolutionary Socially Responsible Companies.”
In 2008, Seth co-founded Bethesda Green, a local sustainability initiative in Honest Tea’s hometown. Bethesda Green has installed dozens of recycling bins in Bethesda, helped create a program for restaurants to convert their grease waste into biodiesel, as well as created Maryland’s first green business incubator.