Bernadette Clavier

Bernadette Clavier recently retired from her role as the Director of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to focus on advancing the cause of Lyme patients. While at the helm of the Center, which educates insightful leaders for social and environmental change, she led a profound transformation of its offering to meet the development needs of modern day impact leaders hoping to leverage markets for social good and to reform capitalism. She led the design, launch, and growth of a social enterprise incubation program, an impact investing fund, a mentorship program, traditional classroom curriculum, as well as a certification, an internship, and multiple fellowship programs. Before transitioning to academia, Clavier led a 10-year business career in procurement where she witnessed first hand the social, and environmental challenges of our global economy and developed an unwavering belief that purposeful leadership can change the world.