CEO, beCause Global Consulting, Hack was named Top 100 Thought Leader on Trustworthy Business Behaviour often enough to earn a Lifetime Achievement Award in Trust. She advises Fortune 500 company executives, heads of state, and other global leaders and organizations on clarifying their goals and tackling the obstacles to achieve them. Hack was the first woman to be Executive-in-Residence at IMD Bu
siness School, where she maintains an active affiliation, to focus on responsible leadership, diversity, sustainability and other social issues. She was Board Chair of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and has served as a non-executive director on several for- and not-for profit boards. Global CEO Magazine ranked Hack nine of Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Leaders; SustMeme ranked her 60 of world’s Top 500 Sustainability Influencers; and Ethical Corporation shortlisted her CEO of Year (with CEOs Accenture, Patagonia, Danone, Globe Telecom, Yes Bank). She’s accepted numerous awards including International Outstanding Achievement, Mentor of the Year, Coach of the Year, Mentor of the Year; and Inspiration award for lifetime achievement presented at Säid Business School Oxford University, among many others. Featured on Atlantic Speaker Bureau, Hack gives keynotes at conferences, graduations and major gatherings, including a TEDx, Adversaries to Allies. She makes private presentations for boards and senior executives. She’s had articles written about and/or published by her in The Financial Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Times, ReWiring Business, The Library of Professional Coaching, etc. She’s appeared extensively on television, radio, the Internet, and is on the international on-line brain trust of women experts, SheSource. Hack continues to lead sessions in IMD executive education programs, including one-on-one intensives with senior executives and deep dives for business teams or organizations, often in the role of “designated challenger” to help them work through their challenges and chart their future. As Executive-in-Residence she distilled her pioneering work on engagement leadership and its proprietary framework Strategic Relational Engagement (SRE™) into teachable lessons on improving stakeholder engagement to increase productivity, profitability and sustainability. Her clients, among many, in the private sector include The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Omnicom Group, Royal Dutch Shell and other multinationals; in the non-profit sector, The Ford Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Robert F Kennedy Center, etc.; in the government and/or public sector, Presidents Nelson Mandela and Corazon Aquino, the Association of German Public Banking Institutions, the Shanghai Stock Exchange and many UN specialized agencies in New York, Geneva, Nairobi, etc. See fuller list at www.because.net
Creating connectedness is central to Hack’s work: she aids individuals and organizations to connect to their core purpose, connect across silos within their organizations, and connect with external stakeholders, friendly and even adversarial, all based on building and sustaining trust. Her company has 34 Senior Global Associates, each with their own networks and teams with multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary capabilities. Its sister non-profit Global Citizens Circle has helped solve critical world problems that transcend nations and sectors. She has Master’s degrees from Harvard University and The New School. She is a Fellow at New Westminster College; she created and taught graduate courses at New York University, Southern New Hampshire University; and guest lectured at universities throughout the world.
