Corporate Purpose, Values-Based Leadership & Transformation
Judy Samuelson
Executive Director, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; VP Aspen Institute, Author
Judy Samuelson is the founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and a vice president at the Aspen Institute.
Signature programs under Judy’s leadership include a ten-year campaign to disrupt Milton Friedman’s narrative about corporate purpose, a multi-year dialogue to produce the Aspen Principles of Long-Term Value Creation, and a partnership with Korn Ferry to rethink executive pay.
She previously worked in legislative affairs in California and banking in New York’s garment center and ran the Ford Foundation’s office of exploration of impact investing - the Office of Program-Related Investments.
Judy writes regularly for Quartz at Work, is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and a director of Financial Health Network.
She obtained a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Management and a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from UCLA. Her book, “The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World,” was published in January 2021.
Judy lives in New York.
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Judy Samuelson is the founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and a vice president at the Aspen Institute.
Signature programs under Judy’s leadership include a ten-year campaign to disrupt Milton Friedman’s narrative about corporate purpose, a multi-year dialogue to produce the Aspen Principles of Long-Term Value Creation, and a partnership with Korn Ferry to rethink executive pay.
She previously worked in legislative affairs in California and banking in New York’s garment center and ran the Ford Foundation’s office of exploration of impact investing - the Office of Program-Related Investments.
Judy writes regularly for Quartz at Work, is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and a director of Financial Health Network.
She obtained a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Management and a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from UCLA. Her book, “The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World,” was published in January 2021.
Judy lives in New York.
