On May 23, SAGE hosted Visiting SAGE Marc Freedman for a special presentation: Don’t Leave a Legacy – Live One, followed by Q&A and time to mingle and learn about opportunities to take action for future generations. Author of The Big Shift and creator of the $100,000 Purpose Prize, The New York Times describes Freedman…

SAGE honored New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof as its 2014 Visiting SAGE speaker. Presenting to over 750 guests, Mr. Kristof spoke about his new book, A Path Appears, which he co-authored with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn. Kristof described meaningful and effective new ways to connect to causes that make a real difference—from helping those…

SAGE honored best-selling author Robert Putnam as its 2015 Visiting SAGE. Presenting to over 400 guests, Putnam discussed his newest best-seller Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, which looks at the growing barriers to upward mobility faced by children and families. Putnam is a highly-acclaimed professor of public policy at Harvard University who served…

SAGE honored best-selling author Paul Hawken as its 2016 Visiting SAGE. Hawken is a world-renown environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author on sustainability. Presenting to over 400 guests, he spotlighted his newest initiative, Project Drawdown, a non-profit that is mapping and modeling 100 existing, substantive solutions to reverse climate change. When implemented globally and at scale over…

With over 600 guests, SAGE featured Van Jones as its 2016 Visiting SAGE speaker. Van Jones is a world-renowned social entrepreneur, best-selling author, and the host of The Van Jones Show on CNN. Jones discussed his new bestseller, Beyond the Messy Truth, a passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide.…

SAGE featured world-renown oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle as our 2019 Visiting SAGE. Popularly called "Her Deepness," Dr. Sylvia Earle is a hero for the planet. She spoke about the world’s oceans as the source of all life, why they’re in peril from pollution and climate change, and how we can save them. She shared her…