Kali Hailegiorgis is an experienced business and partnerships professional dedicated to sustainable growth with strategies that prioritize people and the planet. She combines research, data-driven decision-making, and empathetic people skills to create effective strategies and partnerships that drive organizations forward.

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Kali's career has spanned e-commerce, SaaS, FinTech, consulting and nonprofit. In her roles, she implemented strategies to increase donations to housing nonprofits and democratize startups’ access to intellectual property in climate tech. Kali oversaw business operations and strategic partnerships at an e-commerce company that streamlined in-kind donations to housing nonprofits. She led partnerships with corporate social responsibility teams, resulting in impactful corporate giving campaigns that supported local communities. Kali also implemented a supplier diversity program that increased the participation of small, diverse-owned businesses in procurement and engaged domestic suppliers to reduce emissions and plastic waste in the supply chain. During her time in patent tech, Kali implemented patent-sharing pools in climate tech and impacted 200+ startups.

Kali is passionate about ethics and inclusive governance and holds a bachelor’s degree in Ethics and Leadership with a track in Public Policy from Duke University. While at Duke, Kali contributed to a book on global inclusive governance practices and published a study on effective stakeholder engagement in social intervention programs through case studies on economic, political, and social empowerment programs of women cocoa farmers in rural Ghana. Today, Kali continues to leverage her interdisciplinary background in ethics, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and economics in her strategy and communication.

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