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Chris is an internationally recognized authority on corporate citizenship and business leadership in society.  

He is currently Senior Vice President of the Progressive Business Leaders Network (PBLN) and a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Business and Society program where he is leading the development of the Aspen Business and Society Leaders Forum.  Chris is a leading expert in the changing social contract between business, government and civil society, and works with C-Suite executives nationally and internationally on the future of business leadership. He is widely sought after internationally for his counsel, facilitation and planning expertise by executive teams, industry councils, sustainability and corporate philanthropy initiatives.

Prior to joining with Aspen and the PBLN,  Chris was the Director of Research and Policy and Director of Executive Education at the Center for Corporate Citizenship where he worked with over 350 leading global companies on the integration of corporate citizenship into business strategy and operations.  Chris is the chief architect of the Center’s Corporate Citizenship Management Framework and the Center’s corporate citizenship executive education management curriculum and certificate program.  As Adjunct Professor at the Boston College Carroll School of Management, Chris designed and taught the Carroll School’s MBA curriculum on corporate citizenship as an integrated driver for business strategy.

Prior to joining the Center in 2005, Chris was Director of the Imagine program in Canada, a national initiative that brought together Canada’s leading corporations in a campaign to define business leadership based on a set of principles and commitments. Chris was also Vice President of Corporate Citizenship at the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. He is a resident of Newton, Massachusetts.