Events

The Center for Social Sector Leadership Speaker Series brings thought leaders and practitioners from across our social impact community with Haas students, alumni, and the larger community in a year-long speaker series that explores emergent and critical social impact topics and promising practices in the field. Events are free, open to the public, and cover timely and relevant topics while exploring emerging and promising social impact practices.

Upcoming Events

See you in 2023!

Recent Events

Blue Economy Panel |11.16.22 6:00-7:30pm

With the existential threat of climate change increasing unabated, investors look for technologies that can turn back the climate clock in scalable and profitable ways. Join our expert panel to discuss the viability of ocean carbon removal as a climate panacea and sustainable business model. Refreshments provided. Click here to view recording.

Impact Pizza |11.8.22 12:30-1:30pm

Join us for our third in a series of informal lunches in the courtyard where we will listen to your goals and connect with others interested in social impact. Lunch provided.

Impact Pizza |10.25.22 12:30-1:30pm

Join us for our second in a series of informal lunches in the courtyard where we will listen to your goals and connect with others interested in social impact. Lunch provided.

2022-2023 S3 General Info Session | 10.18.22 12:30-1:30pm

Join this session to learn about Social Sector Solutions (S3), an Applied Innovation course where you can gain hands-on consulting experience working with a nonprofit, public organization, or social enterprise. Take your impact to the next level and help your client increase their impact through our professional management consulting partnership between Berkeley Haas and McKinsey & Company. Lunch provided.

Social Impact Consulting Panel | 10.12.22 6:00PM-7:30PM

Interested in a consulting career with impact? Meet leaders from the top firms, including Bridgespan, FSG, and McKinsey and learn about their journeys, approaches, and perspectives. Dinner provided.

Your Impact Belongs Here | 9.15.22 12:00PM -1:00PM

Your Impact Belongs Here, the first in a series of lunches with CSSL on the courtyard. We will provide light snacks while we listen to your goals and you connect with new friends who also want a world where business is a positive force for good.

Voices for Change Speaker Series | 11.4.21 12:30PM -1:30PM

Ft. Anthony Chavez, Eric Cortez, & Cristy Johnston Limon

Our speaker series offers opportunities for dialog, learning and networking as students and practitioners alike connect. This year’s speaker series is “Voices for Change,” as we highlight varying levels of leadership across industry and generation. We’re excited to host this intergenerational panel featuring Anthony Chavez—Education advocate and grandson of the renowned social impact leader, Cesar Chavez—and Eric Cortes—youth voices advocate and UC Berkeley student, with CSSL’s Executive Director, and arts education leader Cristy Johnston Limon.

Social Impact Consulting Panel (10.19.21)

Discuss Career Pathways, Trends, Equity Work

Interested in Social Impact consulting? Watch this 1 hour, 11 minute panel moderated by Bridgespan Partner and Haas MBA Meera Chary, and a panel of social impact consultants from Camber Collective, Dalberg Advisors and Public Equity Group discuss everything from their own personal career journeys to how they’re advancing racial equity through their respective approaches and perspectives.

IS THE CHASE FOR ADVERTISING DOLLARS KILLING THE INTERNET?

ft. Matt Rivitz | April 18, 6-7PM PST Wells Fargo Room (C420)

In recent years, the competition for online ad dollars has hit a fever pitch. Consumers have grown increasingly wary of tech platforms and targeted advertising, and Congress is considering numerous bills to regulate the industry. Who is responsible for the growing discontent? Is it the platforms? Is it the advertisers? Should government regulation have a role or do free speech laws necessitate a free market solution? Matt Rivitz, founder of Sleeping Giants—an international campaign for media and social media responsibility—will explore this issue, along with panelists from the industry