Gifford Pinchot III has a long career as an environmentalist and social justice activist. He is also an author, consultant, social entrepreneur and thought leader. He has co-founded five companies and NGOs. He coined the word intrapreneur with his wife, Libba, and they wrote the book that started the intrapreneurship movement. Intrapreneuring: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (1985) explained how the intrapreneurial spirit can flourish within larger organizations to the benefit of both the company and the employees. The book was a NY Times bestseller and published in 15 languages. The Intelligent Organization, written with his wife, Libba, took intrapreneuring a step further, to include empowering organizational changes that allow all employees to lead with their values. Since 1983, Mr. Pinchot and his wife Libba have led Pinchot & Company, a consulting and training business that has served over half of the Fortune 100 and helped them to launch over 700 new products and businesses. The company delivers live and online learning and accelerators as well as coaching and cultural interventions to increase innovation.

In 2002, the Pinchots co-founded and led the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI), the first school to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business. In 2016, BGI merged with Presidio Graduate School which is now the Presidio Center for Sustainable Solutions based in the Marin campus of The University of Redlands.

Mr. Pinchot has received numerous awards in his lifetime, among them, Executive Excellence, listing him in the top 20 of leadership thinkers. In 2009 he was awarded the Olympus Lifetime Education Award and in 2010 he and his wife were both named Purpose Prize fellows. In 1965 Mr. Pinchot graduated from Harvard University with honors in Economics and completed all-but-dissertation in a PhD program in Behavioral Physiology at Johns Hopkins. He can be found online via Intrapreneuring.com, BetterWorldVisionaries.com, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/giffordpinchot/