A pioneering thought leader on impact due diligence, Tami Kesselman is known for her proprietary framework, SMART Impact, which she lectures on at Harvard and keynotes on for investor audiences around the world. She advises multiple family office investment committees & foundation grant boards and guides their grantees/portfolio company founders to improved results as they are increasingly tasked with simultaneously meeting financial & impact targets.

 

Ever an evangelist for impact-with-alpha, helping traditional investors co-prioritize impact while remaining true to their market objectives, Tami has served on the NEXUS Impact Investing Steering Committee and as President of Harvard Alumni in Impact. She chairs Opal’s Impact Investing Forum, is a pitch mentor & judge for Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition and the Presidents Innovation Challenge, and a start up track mentor at SXSW.