The Nature of Work: How Ecosystems Can Teach Us to Build Lasting and Fulfilling Businesses - Matt Stinchcomb

Matt Stinchcomb is Executive Director at the Good Work Institute, a nonprofit organization whose primary focus is on cultivating communities of local change makers living and working in and around the Hudson Valley. Their programs support these leaders as they develop and implement projects that aim to have net-positive benefit in the region and beyond.

Before heading up the Good Work Institute, Stinchcomb was the VP of Values and Impact at Etsy.com. In that role he oversaw the stewardship of the company’s mission, and worked to give all employees the means and the desire to maximize the benefit their work has on people and the planet. In 2013, he was named a GOOD Magazine ‘Figure of Progress’. The next year he was named as one of the Purpose Economy 100.

He delivered this speech at the 34th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures on November 15, 2014.

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