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Marga Hoek
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Biography Highlights
- Thinkers 50 - Ranked top 30 impactful management thinkers in the world.
- Award-winner - Multiple golden award-winning author two best-selling books.
- Three-time CEO - Three-time CEO, strong business leader experience.
- Global speaker - Globally renowned speaker sustainable business, innovation and investment.
Biography
Marga Hoek: Pioneering Sustainable Innovation and Business for Good
Step into Marga Hoek’s world, where visionary leadership fuels tangible impact in sustainable business, capital, and technology. With a proven track record as a three-time CEO, former Chair of the Sustainable Business Association, Board Member and Chair of multiple, international boards and driving force behind Business for Good, Marga blends expertise with passion to catalyze positive change.
Renowned for golden awarded bestsellers, Marga stands as a beacon of inspiration and innovation. Her Thinkers50 recognition, contributions to G20 and Climate Cop Magazines, qualify her as a top thought leader in sustainable business, capital and technology, captivating audiences with dynamic speaking engagements.
From boardrooms to global platforms, Marga’s influence resonates. Through compelling storytelling of hundreds of real life business cases, she demonstrates the transformative power of sustainable practices, inspiring a future where profit aligns with purpose. As a trailblazer, Marga’s visionary ideas grace esteemed publications worldwide, shaping the narrative of sustainable innovation. From The Financial Times to MIT Technology Review, her thought leadership drives meaningful change on a global scale.
“BUSINESS FOR GOOD IS GOOD BUSINESS.”
Marga Hoek coined this slogan. She launched the term back in 2014 to emphasize her mission “to make Business for Good the norm, rather than the exception.” In her books The Trillion Dollar Shift and Tech for Good (launch Q4 2023), Marga demonstrates the power of business to do good in over one hundred of real-life cases.
Not only does she motivate a variety of audiences around the world, but Marga Hoek also founded Business for Good to support Boards, CEOs, and Management Teams in identifying their purpose and aligning their companies’ strategies with the Global Goals via Boardroom advice.
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Profitable Purpose: Unlocking Business Opportunities through Sustainable Practices
Discover the path to prosperity: Business for Good is Good Business. Explore how to seamlessly merge profit with purpose, unlocking a wide range of exciting business opportunities that drive sustainable success!
Purpose-Driven Excellence: Leading with Purpose for Lasting Impact
Elevate your leadership: put purpose first! Uncover the strategies employed by visionary companies and leaders to consistently implement purpose-driven initiatives, fostering resilience and unparalleled growth.
Tech Innovation:Leveraging Advanced Technologies for Good
The tech revolution is transforming Business for Good! Learn how to harness the power of AI and other cutting-edge technologies to catalyze sustainable business opportunities, paving the way for a brighter future.
Investing in Tomorrow: Maximizing Returns with Sustainable Investments
Redefining investment success: Making money while making a difference! Explore the realm of sustainable investing and how it can deliver equal or superior returns while creating a positive impact on the world.
Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times: Becoming a Force for Good
Leading with Impact: Unleash your authentic leadership in a chaotic world! Gain invaluable insights into navigating the complexities of modern leadership, emerging as a beacon of strength and authenticity amidst uncertainty.
Future-Proofing Strategies: Tapping into Next-Generation Markets
Seizing tomorrow’s opportunities today: Embrace generational differences and thrive! Discover how to leverage the unique characteristics of upcoming generations and tap into the markets of the future, ensuring sustained growth and success.
Leadership in a tumultuous and rapidly changing world
How to create sustainable success by leading with purpose.
Unlocking sustainable business opportunities: in a dynamic environment
’23 Global business risks and opportunities overview: outlook on a more prosperous world.
Sustainable, inclusive capitalism: a new economic, multi stakeholder system.
DEI: how to create a truly diverse company and team, seizing its value for business.
Purpose: as a guidance in a disruptive and tumultuous world.
Sustainable business: the risks and opportunities, moving ESG to the core of strategy.
ESG investment: how investment can help create a better world, with equal, more stable returns and growth perspectives.
The city of the future: smart and sustainable, creating a better lifestyle, sustainably and higher business value.
The city of the future: smart and sustainable, creating a better lifestyle, sustainably and higher business value.
Tech for Good: how technology can create both sustainability and business value.
TESTIMONIALS
Thinkers 50
Fortune
World Lottery Association
Scaled Agile US
Irish Management Institute
GAD World, Global Aviation Conference
Expense Reduction Analysts
Europlatform Conference, IPAF
Paul Polman
CEO,
Unilever
Gérard Mestrallet
Chairman,
ENGIE
Feike Sijbesma
CEO and Chairman,
DSM
Books
Tech For Good: Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges
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Tech For Good: Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges
The Trillion Dollar Shift: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Business for Good Is Good Business
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The Trillion Dollar Shift: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Business for Good Is Good Business
New economy business: seven windows of opportunity
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