Short Bio

Marcy Twete the CEO of B Corp boutique sustainability consulting firm Veerless and a recognized leader in corporate responsibility with two decades in the rooms where corporations make decisions and consequences are managed. At Veerless, she advises executives, boards, and Chief Sustainability Officers at companies ranging form $100 million growth-stage firms to $40 billion global leaders. Together, they bring capitalism and conscience to the same boardroom.

Before launching Veerless in 2018, March led corporate responsibility and sustainability at ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining company with a footprint of more than 200,000 employees in 60+ countries. She often jokes “if you can lead sustainability in steel, you can lead it anywhere.”

Marcy holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is a seasoned author and speaker whose stages include The Conference Board, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, University of Chicago, Points of Light, Society of Women Engineers , among many others. She is currently completing her second book a narrative nonfiction examination of the systemic forces that drive corporate ethical failures, and what leaders at every level can do to stop them.

Marcy is also the author of You Know Everybody! A Guide to Building a Network That Works, the founder of a women’s career development platform that reached more than one million readers, and the host of the Table Stakes Podcast. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Charlie and dogs Pearl and Opal, and takes her most important meetings from a pontoon in Detroit Lakes during the approximately eleven minutes of Minnesota summer.

Long Bio

Marcy Twete has spent two decades working in, advising, and occasionally arguing with some of the largest corporations in the world. As the CEO and founder of Veerless, a boutique sustainability and ESG consulting firm, she works with executives, boards, and Chief Sustainability Officers at companies across industries including technology, healthcare, data center management, financial services, manufacturing, and defense on the full spectrum of corporate responsibility, from ESG strategy and reporting to risk management, ethics frameworks, and stakeholder engagement.

Marcy’s consulting work at Veerless is grounded in deep experience working inside corporate sustainability at scale. Before launching Veerless, Marcy served as Head of Corporate Responsibility for ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining company, leading sustainability, community engagement, environmental risk, and governance for a global footprint of 220,000 employees across more than 60 countries. That experience, working on the hardest ESG challenges in one of the world’s most scrutinized industries, is what gives her both the framework and the frankness that her clients value most.

Marcy is currently completing her second book, combining the examination of corporate ethical crises with practical frameworks for the leaders inside companies who want to make better decisions before those decisions make the front page.

Her first book, You Know Everybody! A Career Girl’s Guide to Building a Network That Works, grew out of Career Girl Network, a women’s career development platform she founded that attracted more than one million readers between 2012 and 2014. Marcy also hosts the Table Stakes Podcast, where she brings together sustainability practitioners and business leaders to talk about the future of responsible business without the usual corporate spin.

A sought-after speaker, Marcy brings her no-nonsense, deeply researched, and occasionally funny perspective to stages including The Conference Board, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Points of Light, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, AICPA, Kellogg School of Management, and the University of Chicago, among others. She has been featured in Newsweek, the Chicago Sun-Times, and WBEZ Chicago, among others.