
Chrissa Pagitsas keynote speaker
- Building Resilience: Businesses and Teams that Drive Lasting Value Creation
- Commercializing Sustainability: Creating Value, Accelerating Impact
- The Art of the Calculated Leap: How Visionary Leaders Take Risks for Success
- Thriving in the Disruptive 21st Century: How Successful Businesses Innovate and Grow
Chrissa Pagitsas is the CEO of Pagitsas Advisors, an author, and board member. She and her team advise senior executives and boards at global companies on meeting growth targets and driving results through transformation strategies. Her leadership and expertise are rooted in seizing the opportunity to build Fannie Mae’s Green Bond business from zero to $51 billion—an industry-defining achievement at a Fortune 50 company. Her best-selling book, Chief Sustainability Officers at Work, provides leaders of any business a roadmap on how to navigate disruptive innovations and markets successfully.
Chrissa has received multiple recognitions for her market-transforming enterprises including the first commercial Green Mortgage-Backed Security in the US. She serves on the Board of Global Impact and the Advisory Council of International Well Building Institute.
Ms. Pagitsas holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.