Art Stewart, MPM
A journey committed to innovation and leadership at the next horizon…
Art’s perspective has been acquired from thirty years of experience across the spectrum of his profession, many of those years living and working in the vibrant innovation community of Boston’s Route 128 tech beltway as well as in Washington, DC. Together with his pioneering clients, who were eager to re-order many of the old paradigms, they navigated through the swings of dramatic change for the U.S. tech world and the global business landscape.
Having been involved in sustainability/”CSR” since its seeding years, Art has originated and/or collaborated on groundbreaking industry research and thought leadership as well as business processes and trainings. His clients have been central players in the business, technology, and nonprofit advancements seen across a wide range of industries.
He has served as a strategist and program developer, advisor-counselor, and implementer to a diverse range of CEOs, senior executives, public and other organization leaders. His C-suite work includes supporting the M&A process, providing guidance during business or industry upheaval, tackling the dramatically changed risk terrain, managing clients’ reputational risk liabilities, and complementing the work of corporate counsel during escalations and legal disputes.
As Management Consultant
Art headed Corporate Development for a Boston-based management consulting firm focused on global supply chain transformation for Fortune 1000 market leaders. Working with the CEO he conceptualized and built out a new functional unit, playing a key leadership role in the firm’s turnaround. He co-led development of a next-generation supply chain methodology, framed within sustainability principles, that helped double sales revenue. That IP then became the firm’s brand moniker and market identity, enabling the CEO to later exit at an exceptional multiple.
Prior to that opportunity, Art was founder of an independent firm that developed integrated, multi-disciplinary capabilities grounded in robust analysis that redefined strategic marketing practice into broader organizational contexts. The firm consistently attracted pioneers or disruptive innovators as clients with a track record for exceptional quality and rapid response service.
As Public Relations and Media Executive
Art held posts with New England’s third-largest communications agency Mullen, assigned to their largest PR account Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group as well as Sheldon Adelson’s The Interface Group – a conference industry leader and creator of COMDEX, the largest technology event in the world. He also served in Account Management roles for two of New England’s largest television/film/multi-media production companies.
Art’s early career in classical music radio earned him two Excellence in Broadcasting awards from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters: one for an investigative report on Acid Rain, the other for a two-hour documentary on Washington National Cathedral.
As Educator, Trainer, and Facilitator
Art has led a range of organizational development facilitations. As an educator, he researched and developed a multi-level curriculum and content platform on the “New Responsibility Paradigm” – launching the undergraduate edition at Emerson College. Art was also one of only five faculty members at Emerson invited to teach a visiting delegation in a summer residency from the Communications University of China. He has held an honorary role as a Research Fellow at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University and taught graduate students at Northeastern University.
As Futurist, Speaker, and Writer
Art writes and speaks on the transformation of business and institutions into agents of change for solving our most significant global challenges. He partnered with the Private Directors Association on a five-part podcast series “ESG Insights” and in Summer 2023 produced a webinar on private markets ESG in a collaboration with AM Law 100 firm, Blank Rome. 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.
Art earned a mid-career 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.
In 2011, Art was invited into the vetted community of the Boston World Partnerships, an initiative of then-Mayor Thomas Menino to leverage the resources of Boston leaders to grow the city’s international links. Since the 1990s he has been included in various Marquis’ Who’s Who editions, including Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Media and Communications. SIP
Corporate
Social
Responsibility
(#3)
Change Management
Business Strategy
Management
Leadership and
Culture
“Art is an ambitious and proactive professional. He is full of energy and has the ability to deep dive into the intricacies of any potential professional engagement. I found him to be transparent with very high ethical standards. He is someone with whom I thoroughly enjoy working. Brilliant at corporate messaging, strategic definition, and direction.”
Steven Koinis
Managing Director, Private Equity, Catalyft; Former Private Equity Practice/Investment Executive at Maine Pointe, Huron Consulting Group, Washington Gas Venture Group, Owens-Corning Fiberglass.
Why Work With Us
Exceptional value delivered, from values-driven ambitions…
Our Values Differentiators
- Be opportunity oriented, not opportunistic
- Exercise integrity, don’t preach it
- Pursue excellence every day – not as an act but a habit
- Make innovation an innate imperative
- Achieve objectives by building sustainable advantage
- Operationalize values into the business agenda
- Don’t abdicate passion to the easy cynicism of our times
- Resist the fear in division; compete by bringing people together
- Embrace diversity beyond the obvious: contrarian people and uncommon sense are competitive assets
How We Operate
- Achieve breakthroughs from an orientation of open-minded pragmatism, rather than the box of categorical
or conditional assumptions - Identify and navigate the most efficient path to an opportunity
- Practice a high touch, rapid-response service model: unlayered, accessible, and accountable
- Approach the challenging circumstances of organizational transformation with skill and sensitivity
- Translate the intelligence and proven best practices of other industries to the assignment
- Build consensus among divergent groups and mitigate opposition forces that can impact your agenda
- Build the confidence and earn the trust you require for success
- Practice the kind of due diligence (research, analysis, impact assessment) that caters to what C-suite leaders need for better decision-making
Art Works
Getting real at the new convergence of business and profitability, conscious leadership, stakeholder empowerment, and public interest values.
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.
“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