Mark Tercek: The Nature Conservancy CEO

Mark Tercek is the CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental organization. He is a former Managing Director and Partner at Goldman Sachs and is the author of the bestselling book Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature.   Some interesting insights from this episode:  We all have an inner environmentalist inside of us.  His executive coach taught him some valuable lessons early on including how to listen better and how to not sweat out the details.  In the nonprofit world, he had to learn how to understand employees' psychic income and use that as motivation to drive behavior.  Saving nature isn't just the morally right thing to do, it's also the smartest investment we can make.  Learn how he pivoted his 4,000 employee organization from pure land conservation toward embracing climate change as a top priority.  "Excellence is matching ambition with a good dose of reality."  We all have a tendency to overestimate risks in our lives. The returns are greater than perceived and the risks less that perceived.  More of us should just go for it.