Adam Braun is a 3x award-winning entrepreneur, renowned innovation keynote speaker, and NY Times bestselling author. He is the CEO & Co-Founder of Clarasight, the leader in Carbon Planning & Intelligence software that powers emissions forecasting, planning, analytics and data management for companies including AstraZeneca, Bain & Company, Okta and Meta. He is also the Founder of Pencils of Promise, the acclaimed organization he started with $25 that has now built more than 600 schools around the world. The businesses he has started have gone on to raise over $100M, and he has delivered hundreds of keynote talks to the world's leading companies and associations about how to create teams that bravely navigate uncertainty to successfully build for where the world is headed next. In recent years he has been named to Business Insider's 40 Under 40, Wired Magazine’s “50 People Who Will Change the World,” and received the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award. Braun's book "The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change" debuted at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list before going on to become a #1 national bestseller.