Steve Schmida

Steve Schmida is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of

Resonance, an award-winning global development and corporate

sustainability consulting firm with more than 100 consultants

worldwide and offices in Vermont, Washington, D.C., Seattle,

and Manila. Resonance clients include Fortune 500

companies, international donor agencies, and leading nonprofits

and foundations.

Steve has been at the forefront of corporate sustainability

and global development for more than two decades, focusing on

developing cross-sector partnerships that enable clients to

tackle “wicked problems” from climate change to human trafficking

in supply chains. His writing has appeared in the Huffington

Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, NextBillion, and the Moscow

Times. He sits on the Leadership Group of the Platform for Accelerating

the Circular Economy (PACE) and on the Sustainable

Innovation Executive Council of the Grossman School of Business

at the University of Vermont.

Prior to founding Resonance, Steve lived and worked for

eight years in Russia and Central Asia, where he established and

led programs to support entrepreneurs and civic activists for the

Eurasia Foundation and the National Democratic Institute. Fluent

in Russian, he holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law

and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Vermont with his

wife, Nazgul (who is CEO of Resonance), and their two children.