Website: www.willmarre.com
Will Marrè (pronounce like hooray) is the co-founder and former president of the Covey Leadership Center where he translated the concepts of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People into powerful leadership courses taught to over one million executives world wide. Will is a pioneer of socially strategic enterprise that transforms Corporate Social Responsibility into Corporate Social Opportunity. As CEO of the REALeadership Alliance Will works with corporations to create growth strategies by creating a unique value advantage driven by the Triple Bottom Line.
In 2004 Will founded The American Dream Project to help leaders of the future develop and find the ideas, tools and relationships they need to create the next chapter in American and world history. Will recently received an Emmy Award© for writing the learning documentary “Reclaiming Your American Dream” that continues to air on Public Television stations around the country.
Will is a pioneer in Triple Bottom Line strategy, which harnesses the power of enterprise to improve the lives of People and the health of the Planet while generating a sustainable Profit. Working with New York Stock Exchange companies to develop social-environment commerce, Will co-founded the Seacology Foundation dedicated to saving the fragile environments and cultures of South Pacific Islanders. Seacology became the source of active skin care ingredients for an international skin care company. He also helped institute GPS, a national educational effort to bring science, technology, engineering and math education to develop in-demand skills for students not interested in college.
Will is passionate about helping organizations improve the quality of their personal lives and accelerate economic and social improvement throughout the world. Will also serves as Consulting Director of the Corporate Responsibility Forum at the University of California San Diego linking civic, non-profit and the business community into a common vision making the San Diego California region the most sustainable in the world within ten years. Will serves on the leadership faculty of UCSD extension, the visiting Scholar of Social Enterprise at Clemson University and is a former Leadership Scholar in Residence of The University of San Diego. Will’s new book Save the World and Still be Home for Dinner will be released in September 2009.
His daily blog, “Ten Years to Save the World” is at www.thoughtrocket.com/blog.
