Jennifer Forman

Founder & Principal Consultant

Cross-sector expertise in sustainability strategy, corporate responsibility, and social impact leadership

Jennifer has been developing social impact and sustainability initiatives for nearly two decades as a consultant and senior leader at global corporations and national nonprofit organizations.

 

Interested in working together, inviting me to speak at your event, or discussing sustainability strategy? I'm based in Boulder, Colorado and Toronto, Ontario and would love to hear from you.

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EXPERIENCE

Jennifer has worked with and trained employees at Fortune 100 companies, fast-growing startups, and nonprofit organizations to build and strengthen sustainability and social impact strategies and ROI-driven programs.

Cisco . Splunk . PopSockets . University of Colorado . Manhattan Strategies . Focus Social Impact . Copper Labs . eTown . RAND Corporation . Mercy Housing . Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

WORKING, TEACHING & speaking

Currently at Cisco, Jennifer leads the Selling with Purpose program, empowering sales teams to serve as impact ambassadors. Her work helps translate Cisco and the Cisco Foundation’s sustainability and social impact commitments into customer and community narratives.

Previously, Jennifer served as ESG Program Lead at Splunk, responsible for sustainability reporting, rater and ranker evaluations, and annual impact reports. Prior to that, as Director of Corporate Citizenship at PopSockets, she developed an award-winning global social impact initiative, managed a multi-million dollar global grants budget, and launched environmental sustainability benchmarking. Her cross-sector experience spans technology, consumer products, and nonprofit leadership—including serving as Vice President at Colorado's largest homeless services organization.

Jennifer taught the Certificate in Sustainability & Social Impact program at University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business for four years and is a frequent speaker for organizations including ACCP, Pledge 1%, Social Impact World, Engage for Good, and B:CIVIC. She holds certifications from Harvard (Sustainable Business Strategy), CU Boulder (Climate Action for Business), and the Global Reporting Initiative.

In 2022, she founded Make.More.Good., a Public Benefit Corporation that supports companies on their sustainability journeys. Her work has earned recognition including Engage for Good's Halo Award, PRWeek's Purpose Award, and the Shorty Social Good Award.

AWARDS

  • EcoVadis Bronze medal for Sustainability at Splunk

  • Engage for Good Halo Award: Best JEDI Initiative (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) for Black History Month 2021

  • Engage for Good Halo Award: Best Consumer Activated Donation Campaign, 2020

  • PRWeek Purpose Award: Best Integration into Culture, 2019

  • Shorty Social Good Award: Best Celebrity Activation, 2019

IMPACT PARTNERSHIPS

  • Best Buy

  • Dallas Cowboys

  • Oprah Magazine

  • Target

  • T-Mobile

  • Walgreens

  • Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project

  • Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp

  • (RED)

  • Trevor Project

  • Doctors Without Borders / Medicines Sans Frontiers

  • American Cancer Society

  • Feeding America

  • Malala Fund

  • Rock the Vote

  • UK National Health Services

CERTIFICATIONS

Harvard Business School Sustainable Business Strategy Certificate

Sustainable Business Strategy

Harvard Business School

GIR Certificate

GRI Sustainability Reporting

Professional exam pending

Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from Leeds School of Business

CSR Certification

University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business