Passion Projects

Ygrene Energy Fund – innovative model for bringing scale capital ($2B and growing) to clean energy upgrades (Vice Chairman)

Partnership with over 500 Cities & Counties for Clean Energy Programs (Executive Sponsor & Advocate)

Sir Richard Branson and The Carbon War Room Endorse Ygrene PACE (Member, Carbon War Room)

Cool City Challenge – A climate moonshot for U.S. cities to become carbon neutral by 2030 (Advisor and Board Member)

United Cities Fund – Empowering cities globally with tools and resources for carbon neutrality (Advisor and Board Member)

2021 Shift Music Festival & Visionary Summit – Empowering evolutionary changes for our world (Sustainability Stage Host)

Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action (Working Group Member and Award recipient)

2020 Shift Summit and Music Festival - An epic gathering of visionary changemakers (Chair and Sustainability Host)

Investing in Community Education - PACE-Enabled World and PACE Works (Thought Leadership)

Earth Day Service Projects (Volunteer teams)

“My advice for young women entering the work world? Be a Goddess. Shine your power and passion into the world. Don’t be afraid to shake things up, question the status quo, paint bigger possibilities for people.”

— Stacey Lawson

Conscious Business & Leadership Workshops, Summits and speaking events (Course Creator & Speaker)

Hybrid Capital and Sustainability Forum, Co-sponsored by World Affairs Council, Skoll Foundation & Social Fusion (Moderator, Organizer)

Tallberg Forum: How on Earth Can We Live Together? Tallberg, Sweden, July 2006 (Sustainable Finance Track Moderator and Working Group Facilitator)

“Inner change and outer change go hand in hand. Innovative solutions arise from a new mindset. It is time to reinvent ourselves, in support a saner, more sustainable world.”

— Stacey Lawson

Insight Timer - the #1 free App for sleep, anxiety and stress (Investor)

The Shift Network - offers transformative education and events. Shift Your World. Awaken your full potential. (Board member)

Pillai Center for Mind Science is bringing science and spirituality together for wisdom, healing, abundance and enlightenment (Course Instructor, Advisor)

Dragonfly Media (acquired by Conscious Enlightenment Publishing) - covering ecology, environment, wellness, and spiritual growth (Former Board member)

Film: As She Is – Can feminine power bring life back into balance?  (Featured expert)

Aspen Institute Forum on Communication & Society (FOCAS) (Working Group Member)

“I’ve had the great fortune to live many careers in one lifetime. After spending 10 years as a technology executive, I co-founded the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at UC Berkeley and had the privilege of teaching many bright young entrepreneurs. I love helping innovators dream big and put themselves out there to make things happen.”

— Stacey Lawson

CDS Visual (acquired by Dover Corp) - augmented reality technologies for industrial businesses (Board member & Investor)

SupplierMarket.com (acquired by Ariba) - online marketplace for buying and selling manufactured direct materials (Seed Investor & Advisor)

Digital Paper (acquired by ePlus) - software for web-based document access and collaboration (Investor & Advisor)

California Technology Council - serving technology innovators with essential startup services (Advisory Board Member)

“My proudest moment was deciding to take the plunge to run for U.S. Congress. It was a big step for a first-time candidate. Sometimes we are called to serve in surprising ways and for me this was a labor of love.”

— Stacey Lawson

Political engagement with government leaders for Clean Energy Programs (Advocate & Bridge-builder)

Emerge recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office (Program Graduate, Donor)

“I have always resonated with Nikola Tesla’s well-known prediction: ‘The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence’.”

— Stacey Lawson

Agastiya BioTech - combining modern drug discovery and ancient Indian therapeutics to create new medicine for the 21st century (Advisor)

Nambu Botanicals - Herbs developed by spiritual scientists to revitalize mind and body (Advisor)

Pharmacopia - modern apothecary collection of better-for-you bath and body products (Former Advisor)

Institute of Noetic Sciences – research center and direct experience lab specializing in the intersection of science and profound human experience (Board member)

IONS Discovery Lab (IDL) -unlocking the mechanisms of transformation embedded in wisdom practices and healing modalities (Science Committee Member)

Phonemic Intelligence – empowering people to access their highest intelligence through cutting-edge brain science and innovative educational technology (Advisor)

UN Accredited NGO, Tripura Foundation, brings education, food & shelter to those in need (Board member, Volunteer, Donor)

100+ HOPE Learning Centers support severely impoverished children (Sponsor)

Million Meals of HoPE gets food into the hands of people who need it most (Sponsor)