MO Summit 2025
Top Gathering for Impact CEOS
MO Summit 2025
April 21-23, 2025, at the Renaissance Hotel & Conference Center, Asheville, NC
About MO
Learn and make lasting connections.
At MO, leading impact CEOs engage, learn, and forge a new path on critically important topics. The Summit includes a combination of core panel topics and deep networking. Come be part of how businesses are redefining capitalism creating solutions to the world’s pressing social and environmental issues creating enduring value through strategies that leverage the inherent link between natural, social, and financial capital.
Join us for the biggest annual gathering of impact CEOs of high-growth, positive-impact companies using the power and creativity of business as a force for good. A gathering of leaders who are building the future – one that is inclusive, regenerative, sustainable. In 2018, Big Path Capital created the MO Summit to bring together leaders who had a similar vision of capitalism to expand our collective impact.
Watch Wendy and Blair's testimonial
"It’s actually changed the trajectory of my career and business. Best conference I’ve been to."
The goal of the MO is much deeper than a learning event. It fosters an environment for impact CEOs to connect and develop meaningful relationships – relationships that are symbiotic and lasting. Check out the video to the left to see how the MO helped connect Wendy Strgar (Good Clean Love) and Blair Kellison (Formerly of Traditional Medicinals).
Interactive programming that inspires.
Power of Partnerships
Our current world calls for a different future – one of inclusion, stakeholder primacy, and balance with the natural world. The new path will not be forged by one industry, one company, or one person but rather by a committed collective focused on our common good. Come join the largest gathering of mission-driven CEOs as we engage around how to leverage partnerships to build a bigger future.
2024 Summit Agenda
Day 1 Agenda
6-9pm Kick-off Reception
Join us for dinner and drinks as we welcome everyone to Austin at Geraldine’s located in Hotel VanZandt.
Kick-off Reception: Welcome to Austin
This reception will be held at the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center on the Tejas Patio. Join us for dinner, drinks and great conversations!
Austin, TX 78705
Day 2 Agenda
8-9am Breakfast
9-10am Connections That Matter
10-11am CEO Workshops Session 1
• 1.1 – Impact Collaborative
• 1.2 – Raising Capital
• 1.3 – Building Brands & Movement
• 1.4 – Personal Integration
11:15am – 12:15pm CEO Workshops Session 2
• 1.1 – Impact Collaborative
• 1.2 – Raising Capital
• 1.3 – Building Brands & Movement
• 1.4 – Personal Integration
12:15-1:15pm Lunch Break
1:20pm Welcome & Opening Address
1:45 – 2:40pm Panel: Power of Partnerships
2:45 – 3:40pm Breakout Panels
• 2.1 – Lessons for Legacy
• 2.2 – Alternative Hiring
3:45 – 4:40pm Breakout Panels
• 3.1 – Psychedelics
• 3.2 – Faces of the Triple Botton Line
• 3.3 – Climate Finance
4:45 – 5:15pm Action for Impact: Move Your Money
5:30 – 6:30pm Networking Reception
6:45 – 7:30pm MO 100 Awards Ceremony
7:30-9pm Awards Dinner
Breakfast
Connections That Matter
CEO Workshops Session 1
1.1 – Impact Collaborative | CEO Small Group Experience
This session will be a “mock” CEO small group gathering – think Vistage or EO with an impact overlay. The session is meant to provide a “test drive” to see if the Impact Collaborative is a good fit for you. The session will provide an engaging forum opportunity for CEOs to receive the immediate value of the experience of the others in the room by way of a “mock session”. This session fosters trust, sharing insights without revealing identities. Leaders reflect, prioritize, and pledge tangible actions, translating introspection into purposeful change.
Kevin Edwards
President, Real Leaders
1.2 – Raising Capital NOT Your Blood Pressure
No matter what stage your company is in, raising capital can be stressful especially when you add the objective that you want your new capital partner to be mission-aligned. Come be part of the discussion that will be led by seasoned pros who have had successes and their fair share of learnings along the way.
Christie Lange
Director, Big Path Capital
Sergio Radovcic
Founder & CEO, DYPER
Travis Holoway
CEO, Solo Funds
Tyler Mayoras
Director, Portfolio Growth, Manna Tree
1.3 – Building Brands & Movements
Come be a part of a conversation on how to build an authentic mission-driven brand from the inside out. This is not about a product finding a mission, but will be an incredible opportunity to experience a methodology and live crafting of an authentic mission with a product.
Timothy Childs
Founder & Co-CEO, Treasure8
Gagan Levy
Founder, We Are Guru
1.4 – Values Alignment: The Ultimate Burnout Balm
The demands of leading an impact company are real and persistent and yet our personal growth and business success are intimately intertwined. How do we find the optimal alignment between who we are and what we do? This workshop will explore the interplay between the two through self-discovery, prioritization, and commitment to what matters in the here and now.
Adrianne Gordon
COO, Big Path Capital
Flip Brown
CEO, Business Culture Consultants
1.5 – Crucial Conversations for CEO Founders
CEO Founders hold a very important and unique role. Blair Kellison has been the first non-founder CEO in three different companies. He brings insight, wisdom, humor and practicality to help guide CEO Founders realize their company’s full potential.
Blair Kellison
CEO
CEO Workshops Session 2
11:15 AM - 12:15
Lunch Break
Welcome & Opening Keynote: 1:15 – 1:45 PM
Jorge Fontanez
CEO, B Lab U.S. & Canada
Panel: Power of Partnerships
Panel: Power of Partnerships
Our current world calls for a different future – one of inclusion, stakeholder primacy, and balance with the natural world. The new path will not be forged by one industry, one company, or one person but rather by a committed collective focused on our common good. This panel will engage on how to leverage partnerships to build a bigger future.
Meeta Kothare
Managing Director, Global Sustainability Leadership Institute, University of Texas
Katrina Tolentino
Executive Director, Naturally Network
Mike Rowlands
Founding Champion, Canadian Purpose Economy
David Gray
CEO, Fed Up Foods
Breakout Panels
2.1 Lessons for Legacy
For purpose-led companies, legacy is the ongoing life of the company’s mission beyond the founder’s direct participation. There are many strategies for leaders to ensure the impact of the company will outlive themselves. Come be part of this insightful and intentional conversation.
Beverly Murray
Founder & CEO, R+M Agency
Peggy Shell
Founder & CEO, Creative Alignments
Blair Kellison
CEO
Gabriela Vilaro
Executive Director, Camino Partners
2.2 Alternative, Second Chance Hiring
Second chance hiring is based on the simple principle that a person’s past does not define them, and those who have served their time should have a fair shot at employment and a place in their communities. Given that 1 in 3 U.S. adults has a criminal record that would appear on a routine background screening, this is a social impact almost all companies can participate in. Come here how to get this started at your company.
Kristin Carroll
CEO, Rescue Agency
Duane Peterson
Co-Founder & Former Co-President, SunCommon
Tony Bedard
CEO, Frontier Coop
2.3 Sharpening Your Leadership Edge
The call for new leadership capabilities in our complex, changing, and uncertain world is growing. In this session, Roy Notowitz and the panelists will share key data and insights from Noto Group’s 2024 Leadership & Talent Trends Survey of over 100 consumer brand executives. The concluding Q&A group discussion will dive deeper into shared experiences to spark ideas for driving people and business performance with the future in mind.
Roy Notowitz
CEO, Noto Group
Alison Whritenour
CEO, Seventh Generation
Ted Freeman
Principal Leadership Advisor, Noto Group
Breakout Panels
3.1 Psychedelics: Therapeutics & Human Performance and Creativity
Psychedelics can cause profound, intense changes-not only in what we experience but how we think, how we feel, and what we do. There are major implications for therapeutics, human performance, creativity and problem solving. Some of the promises are mind-bending in themselves. Come hear about the health, hope and hearsay.
Marcus Capone
Founder, Tara Mind &VETS (Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions)
Simon Tankel
Founder & CEO, Heading Health
Manoj Doss
Research Fellow, UT's Dell Medical Psychedelic Research Center
3.2 The Faces of the Triple Bottom Line
We desire that all companies have a strong triple bottom line – financial, social, and environmental returns. As business leaders, we understand that this ‘holy grail’ can be difficult in achieving all three returns within one company. This session will be led by business leaders who are running organizations that exhibit this 360-degree impact.
Erika Whitmore
Partner, KPMG
Dickey Comeaux
Co-Founder & COO, b/suite
Omar Blayton
CFO, sunwealth
Tom Sellars
Chairman & CEO, Sellars Absorbent Materials
3.3 Bank On It | Your Finances Are Your Climate Power
As business leaders, we have influence over transforming the financial sector into a powerful force for creating a more climate-safe, just world. Come hear how to make your vision and future bigger.
Kate Williams
CEO, 1% for the Planet
Ravi Mikkelsen
Co-Founder & CEO, Atmos Financial
Steve McDougal
CEO, Co-Founder & Board Member, 3Degrees
Jim Vivenzio
Partner, Perkins Coie
Ken LaRoe
CEO, Chairman of the Board & Founder, Climate First Bank
Paul Moinester
Founder & Executive Director, Topo Finance
Action for Impact: Move Your Money
5:00 PM
Ken LaRoe
CEO, Chairman of the Board & Founder, Climate First Bank
Networking Reception
MO Keynote & Awards
6:45 PM – 7:30 PM
Matt O'Hayer
Founder, Executive Chairman & Director, Vital Farms
MO 100 Awards Dinner
After Party at Arena Hall
Day 3 Agenda
8-9am Breakfast
9:15am Welcome
9:30:-10am Action for Impact
• 1% for the Planet
10:10-11:10am Breakout Panels
• 4.1 – Alternative Exits
• 4.2 – Leadership in Difficult Times
• 4.3 – TBA
11:15am Closing Session
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:30pm Wrap up
Breakfast
Welcome & Action for Impact: 1% for the Planet
with Kate Williams
Breakout Panels
4.1 – Exit with Purpose: A Fireside Chat with a Business Owner Who Sold to His Employees
Historically, ensuring mission lock upon exiting has been a hit-or-miss outcome for purpose-led founders exiting their business. Come here a CEO who exited and accomplished this illusive goal.
Zoe Schlag
Partner, Common Trust
Brad Herrmann
CEO, Text-Em-All
4.2 – Measuring what Matters: Leveraging ESG for Sustainable Value Creation
This session helps impact-minded companies understand how sustainability can be integrated into strategic planning and budgeting cycles to create long-term enterprise value. This broader thinking creates a roadmap for action, provides key insights to operationalize and execute on a concrete sustainability strategy, and prepares companies for upcoming ESG disclosure requests or public-facing reporting. Attendees will participate in a working session to identify industry-specific sustainability issues, metrics and KPIs as defined by leading global ESG reporting frameworks.
Karen Burns
Partner, Sensiba LLP
Julien Gervreau
ESG Services Director, Sensiba LLP
4.3 – Beyond Sustainability | Regenerative Thinking In Business
Regenerative thinking is a mindset and approach that goes beyond traditional sustainability efforts. It emphasizes nurturing and restoring the health and vitality of ecological and social systems We know that being a regenerative business is shifting the dial from doing “less harm” to adopting a more systems-based approach, focused on the creation of value across whole value chains. Or, put more simply, it is about actively replenishing natural resources, social and economic capitals. Come here how to incorporate this thinking into your business.
Dax Henson
Partner, Perkins Coie
Valeska Pederson Hintz
Partner, Perkins Coie
Ryan Pintado-Vertner
Founder & CEO, Smoketown
Russell Diez Canseco
President & CEO, Vital Farms
Craig Swanson
President, r.world
Break
Closing Session with Nathan Stuck
Wrap Up
Lunch
Meeting Space Available
Past Keynotes
Past Speakers
The Renaissance Asheville
The Renaissance Asheville Downtown Hotel is in the heart of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. Asheville is a mountain hub for the arts, beer culture, outdoor activities, culinary, and entertainment. All of this is within walking distance of the Renaissance Asheville.
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Renaissance Asheville Downtown Hotel, Asheville, NC
No, registration closes Friday, April 17, 2025
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Yes, the suggested event attire is Business Casual.
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Ballroom Foyer
Grand Ballroom
See you April 21, 2025!
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