About Kate Gaertner

Kate Gaertner is a leading expert and consultant in corporate sustainability with 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience. She holds a Masters of Science in Sustainable Management from the University of Wisconsin, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, and an A.B. from Dartmouth College.

Kate serves on the board of the XXcelerate Fund, a business-accelerator and fund for women led businesses, a technical advisor to the Loopt Foundation, a non-profit that is seeking to progress zero waste goals in both pre- and post-consumer materials, and has held positions at XM Satellite Radio, Ziff Davis Media, and Time Inc., as well as worked as a strategic consultant to Fortune 500 companies developing go-to-market business cases. She also founded a sustainable women’s active wear lifestyle brand, OMALA. 

Kate is available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics around corporate and personal sustainability including business circularity, carbon inventories, materiality assessments and stakeholder engagement.