Art Stewart, MPM

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 since its seeding years in the global corporate responsiblity and conscious leadership movements, Art has originated and/or collaborated on groundbreaking industry research and thought leadership as well as business processes and trainings.

He has served as a strategist and IP/program developer, advisor-counselor, and implementer to a diverse range of CEOs, senior executives, public and other organization leaders. His clients have been central players in the business, technology, and nonprofit advancements seen across a wide range of industries.

Art headed Corporate Development for a Boston-based operations consulting firm that is a recognized leader in business process and global supply chain transformation for Fortune 1000 companies as well as top private equity firms. He co-led the productization and commercialization of a next-generation sustainability-framed supply chain methodology. That IP and strategic pivot helped double revenue in 24 months, serving as the firm’s breakout brand moniker that later enabled the CEO to exit at an exceptional multiple.

As Founder of his own independent firm, Art developed its multi-disciplinary capabilities from robust analysis and strategy acumen that redeployed marketing practice into broader strategic contexts. The firm rode many national business waves out of Boston’s 128 tech beltway involving B2B publishing; medical device manufacturing and healthcare IT; dotcom; online business and consumer travel; professional services and trusted advisories; faith-based institutions; and web, SaaS, and cloud-based technology.

Art held posts at Mullen, assigned to their largest PR account Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group as well as Sheldon Adelson’s The Interface Group – the creator of COMDEX, the largest technology event in the world. He also spent time in marketing, sales, and executive production roles at two of New England’s largest television and media production companies.

Art’s early career in classical music radio management 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 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 and has also taught graduate students at Northeastern University.

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”. In Summer 2023, he produced a webinar on private markets ESG in a collaboration with Blank Rome, and 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.

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.

He is an “Expert on Call” in the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Alliance and served in the invited, vetted community of the Boston World Partnerships, an initiative of Mayor Thomas Menino to leverage the resources of Boston leaders to grow the city’s international links.