Art Stewart, MPM
Let’s give that a little thought…
Current Program:
Now What? Conscious Leadership From Here
A Facilitated Half-Day Deep Dive
- Leadership Workshop and Community Immersion
- War Stories, Emerging Market Openings/Opps
- Next Horizon In-Gear Win Strategies
- Roadmapping and Actionable Change
Current Program:
Reclaiming Connection in a Trust Recession
Modeling a Leadership of radical transparency and candor.
- Mapping out of Current Leadership, Brand, Organization Trust Barometer
- New Definitions of Risk, Reputation Value, Brand Equity, Leadership Liability-Responsibility
- Post Mid-Term Landscape: People, Market Currents, Leadership Headwinds, Gap Opportunities, Early Entrants on New Leadership Modeling
From there to here…
“Follow the grain in your own wood…”
Howard Thurman
Art’s perspective has been acquired from thirty years of experience living and working in the vibrant innovation community of Boston’s Route 128 tech beltway as well as in Washington, DC. Many of his clients have been central players in the business, technology, and nonprofit advancements seen across a wide range of industries.
Art has been involved in the global corporate and social responsiblity movement since its seeding years, originating and collaborating on industry research and thought leadership as well as business processes and trainings. As a strategist, advisor, developer and implementer, he has worked with a diverse range of CEOs, senior executives, public and other organization leaders.
Art earned a Master’s in Policy Management from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, a postgraduate certificate in Senior Executive Leadership also from Georgetown, an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from Emerson College, and has completed “Dealing with an Angry Public,” with the MIT-Harvard Law School Public Disputes and Negotiation Program.
Speaker, Writer, Futurist, Disrupter
Art and the Strategic Impact (SIP) partners are operating at the AI horizon, implementing both agentic-level tools platforms to custom LLM/PLM development for enterprise-wide business value transformation.
He is a Founding Partner-Director-Shareholder in a groundbreaking healthcare-IT AI solution for American Veterans.
Art is ranked as a Top Thought Leader in multiple categories with Thinkers360 including Corporate Social Responsibility (#4); Change Management (Top 50); Business-Strategy-Management-Leadership & Culture (Top 100).
He is an “Expert on Call” in the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Alliance and during his long Boston years served in the invited, vetted community of the Boston World Partnerships, an initiative of Mayor Thomas Menino for the City to partner with Boston leaders in growing its international links.
Most recently he was a Finalist Candidate for the Vacancy Appointment of the Tredyffrin Easttown School District Board. Earlier he served as an Appointed Alternate Member of the Tredyffrin Township Zoning Hearing Board. In his recent second era in Boston, he served on the Winchester Arts Council and as an elected Delegate from Cohasset to the Massachusetts State Democratic Convention.
Art has a life-time of memories in volunteer service as a Board director and other contributions, particularly in the institutional and arts sectors. Most recently he was on the Board of Singing City, Philadelphia, and on the Carillon Commission at the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge. He has contributed a range of original content projects at the national and global level in B2B publishing; CSR-ethics-ESG strategy, scholarship, speaking, bylined articles, blogs, web panels and media productions.
Into 2027 we advance the next generation of smarter conscious leadership. For this time, now.
Art writes and speaks on the transformation of business and institutions into agents of change for solving our most significant global challenges.
As an educator, Art developed the “New Responsibility Paradigm” multi-level curriculum and content platform, launching for undergraduates at Emerson College.
He was one of five faculty members at Emerson invited to teach a visiting delegation in a summer residency from the Communications University of China.
For eight years he was a Research Fellow (Honorary) at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. Art has also taught graduate students at Northeastern University.
Art has/been published in Washington Business Journal, the Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, New England Family Business, Private Company Director magazine; World Future Society; FFI multimedia and publications; and other trade-business media.
Art partnered with the Private Directors Association on a five-part podcast series “ESG Insights”. 
In Summer 2023, he produced a webinar on private markets ESG in a collaboration with Blank Rome, and recently partnered with the Board Risk Committee on a panel webinar addressing the new risk management and Corporate Impact 2.0.
As a blogger for the Corporate Responsibility Association, one of his posts became the fourth most-read in their content program that regularly reached 120K+ business leaders.
He was the first author to publish a work on Corporate Social Responsibility in the annual “Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications” (JIMC) for the Medill School, Northwestern University.
Impact
“Art offers a wealth of experience across both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. His writing and research in the areas of leadership, branding, marketing, strategic planning and change management are exemplary and qualify in my view as true thought leadership. He has been instrumental in the strategic positioning, competitive advantage analysis and marketing approach for Peregrine’s nonprofit arts consulting practice.”
Thaddeus Squire
Founder, CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia; President, Hidden City Philadelphia; Former Artistic Executive Director, Peregrine Arts
“Art Stewart was a Research Fellow at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics (HCBE) at Bentley University, which I founded in 1976. Art is a very creative and insightful thinker. He is also a highly skilled business entrepreneur and strategist, with accomplished consulting success stories to his credit. Art impresses me as a proactive initiator of quality leadership consulting, with solid research skills. I recommend Art Stewart; you will be pleased with his performance outcomes.”
(The Late) Michael Hoffman, PhD
Executive Director, HCBE; Hieken Professor of Business and Professional Ethics, Bentley University
“Art Stewart’s thought-leading analyses of leadership and organizational culture provide vision and direction for companies as well as practical – and extremely valuable – advice for business executives who aspire to be more effective leaders. These qualities are also reflected in Art’s work as a speaker and teacher. He understands what’s happening at the intersection of business and society and he does a great job of explaining what it means for all of us.”
Michael Connor
Publisher, Business Ethics magazine; CSR, television and new media executive; Award-winning journalist for ABC News and the Wall Street Journal
Art Works: Board Risk Webinar
Art Stewart is joined by co-panelists from Starbucks and Walgreens along with the Board Risk Committee for a lively discussion on the changing risk terrain and the emergence of a Corporate Impact 2.0 that moves beyond the worn out debate of ESG terminology.
Go here to the BRC for on-demand replay of this webinar.
Art Works
Writings/Academic Papers: Georgetown; Northwestern
Policy Commons
Additional published pieces, a selection of Art’s graduate program papers, and his curriculum for Emerson College.
Developer of the First CSR Course at Emerson College
Teacher-Convener
One semester’s guest speaker roster from Art’s Emerson College course, illustrating his work as educator and convener.
Private Company Director Magazine Online
Latest Article
The debate in private company Board rooms and C-suites over the appropriate application of ESG in private market contexts continues.
Art Works on Slideshare
An archive of some decks for major IP/content, stemming from Art’s curriculum and training facilitations. Includes Art’s launch platform from 2004, “The New Responsibility Paradigm.”
Decks include CRA (Corporate Responsibility Association), Emerson College, one edition of TNRP, annual conference of ILA (International Leadership Association), World Future Society.