Why Social And Environmental Impact Should Be a Business Imperative

by Jeff Bond

At the core of Jeff's work is helping servant leaders use their influence as a force for good. As the Co-Founder of Chat With Leaders Media and Executive Partner at People First Elevation Team, he empowers organizational leaders with media solutions that spark collaboration and shared purpose with their teams and customers.

Together with his team, Jeff delivers event production, podcast production, content creation, cross-cultural training, and strategic advisory solutions. They are committed to unlocking the power of inclusive storytelling, shared experiences, leadership development, and feedback integration to ensure their media solutions meet the needs of their clients' stakeholder groups.

Their core values—Partnership, Inclusion, and Empowerment—guide everything they do. By fostering strong partnerships, embracing diverse perspectives, and equipping leaders with the tools to succeed, they aim to transform the way people engage while getting meaningful work done.

Outside of work, Jeff cherishes time with his wife and three kiddos, balancing his roles as a husband and father with his professional life in Atlanta, GA. Connect with Jeff to explore how impactful media solutions can drive success and engagement.

In today’s episode, Jeff Bond chats with Cathryn Peirce, Founder, and CEO of Carbon Zero Financial, a fintech company working to make a carbon-neutral living as simple as swiping a credit card. Carbon Zero provides white-label climate technology for the automatic measurement, monitoring, and offsetting of cardholders’ carbon footprints as they spend.

Cathryn talks to Jeff about putting dignity back into dollars, how we can see the “entitlement” of future generations as an opportunity, and the importance of making sustainability a business imperative.

More About Cathryn Peirce

Cathryn Peirce is the Founder and CEO of Carbon Zero Financial, a B2B fintech providing white label climate technology for the automatic measurement, monitoring, and offsetting of cardholders’ carbon footprints as they spend. Carbon Zero works with banks, credit unions, fintechs, and startups to implement plug-in climate impact and ESG technology across financial products and services.

To her role as CEO, Cathryn brings a deep passion for distilling complex dynamics into understandable and actionable frameworks. Cathryn is a social innovator with over 8 years in behavioral change education, marketing, social impact, media, community mobilization, and sales. Prior to Carbon Zero, Cathryn was a Director of Marketing at New York-based real estate technology firm, Compass, Co-Founder of Share the Wealth Workshops, which provides free financial and investment education to women and marginalized communities, and an interpersonal violence reduction educator.

Cathryn is a 2016 Fulbright Fellow, summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and intrepid solo backpacker (44 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North & South America).

She leads by the motto: “When values aren’t at the beginning of our decision-making, integrity is rarely at the end-point of our actions.”