Steve Rochlin

Co-Founder and Senior Partner @ IO Sustainability

Currently a Senior Fellow of the Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) of the US Chamber of Commerce, Steve Rochlin has over 17 years of experience in sustainability and corporate responsibility (S&CR) as a senior executive at two leading S&CR organizations. For AccountAbility he served as the Director of Global Advisory Services and a member of the Board of Directors. For the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Steve served as the Director of Research and Development.

Steve is co-author of two books on S&CR: Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship and Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets. Steve currently serves on the Advisory Boards for New Earth (inventors of the Social Hotspots Database and Handprinter Initiative) and for the Global Services Leadership Initiative of the Meridian International Institute. Steve started his career in the arena of Innovation and Technology-based Economic Development for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the National Academy of Sciences. He obtained his MPP from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and his A.B. from Brown University.

Practice Areas: Enterprise-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Strategy, Business and Non-profit Development Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, Measuring the Returns and Impacts from S&CR, Designing Effective Management and Governance Structures for S&CR, Enhancing Reputation, Communicating Sustainability Performance, Effective Reporting, Community Investment Strategy, Base of the Pyramid Strategy, and Partnership Development.