Jessica Yinka Thomas
Director of Business Sustainability Collaborative and Assistant Professor of Practice at North Carolina State University
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Biography
Jessica Yinka Thomas has over fifteen years of experience working domestically and internationally in sustainable enterprise, social innovation and business development. She currently serves as Director of the Business Sustainability Collaborative at the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University.
Jessica previously was managing director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and program director of that center’s Business Accelerator for Sustainable Entrepreneurship.
She also has held leadership roles at Duke University’s Competition for Underserved and Resource-poor Economies (CUREs); CFED, an economic development corporation in Durham, N.C.; and new product development roles in educational toy and communications industries.
Before focusing on academic sustainability programs, she held positions in engineering and new product development.
Education
- MBA Duke University Fuqua School of Business 2004
- B.S. Engineering Stanford 1995
Area(s) of Expertise
Social Innovation, Sustainable Business, Sustainability, B Corps/B Corporations
Videos
12) IWC 2020 | Using Business as a Force for Good
Jessica Yinka Thomas, NC State
2021 Teaching Roundtable Session 1 - Experiential Learning and B Impact Teams Panel
Women's History Month: Jessica Yinka Thomas
Jessica Yinka Thomas
2021 Teaching Roundtable Welcome Session
Startup Stories Episode 6: Bee Downtown
The Evolution of Business: Understanding the Certified B Corp Model | Jessica Yinka Thomas
Redesigning Capitalism: Business as a Force for Good (Jessica Yinka Thomas)
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2020 B Academics Workshop - 1. Welcome from President of B Academics Jessica Yinka Thomas
B Academics interview for B Corps month
Business Sustainability Collaborative
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