Steve Schmida
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Resonance
Sessions: Private Sector Engagement (Day 2, Afternoon)
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Resonance
Sessions: Private Sector Engagement (Day 2, Afternoon)

Steve Schmida is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Resonance, an award-winning global development and corporate sustainability consulting firm with more than 100 consultants and offices in Vermont, Washington, D.C. and Seattle. Resonance clients include leading Fortune 500 companies, international donor agencies, and leading nonprofits and foundations.
For two decades, Steve has been at the forefront of corporate sustainability and global development, helping clients develop and implement cross-sector partnerships to tackle wicked problems from climate change to human trafficking. He is the author of Partner with Purpose: Solving 21st century business problems through cross-sector collaboration, which Kirkus Reviews declared, “authoritative, all-encompassing, and richly detailed; a highly valuable partnership playbook.”
In addition to his work at Resonance, Steve sits on the Leadership Group of the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and on the Sustainable Innovation Executive Council of the Grossman School of Business at UVM. Fluent in Russian, he holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Nazgul (who is CEO of Resonance), and their two children.
For two decades, Steve has been at the forefront of corporate sustainability and global development, helping clients develop and implement cross-sector partnerships to tackle wicked problems from climate change to human trafficking. He is the author of Partner with Purpose: Solving 21st century business problems through cross-sector collaboration, which Kirkus Reviews declared, “authoritative, all-encompassing, and richly detailed; a highly valuable partnership playbook.”
In addition to his work at Resonance, Steve sits on the Leadership Group of the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and on the Sustainable Innovation Executive Council of the Grossman School of Business at UVM. Fluent in Russian, he holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Nazgul (who is CEO of Resonance), and their two children.