MiniTrends 2013 Conference Speaker – Amy George

  Amy is a results-oriented leader with more than twenty years of experience growing successful companies and organizations. Amy brings vision, practical business leadership, communication skills and a deep commitment to social responsibility that enables her to deliver impact.

As Founder and CEO at Blue Avocado, George has been instrumental in creating an impact-driven business from inception, creating the company’s “One Planet” stakeholder model, product level impact label, and annual sustainability report and metrics. She has forged partnerships with leading retailers from Whole Foods, The Container Store, Amazon to JCPenney and BedBath&Beyond. Under George’s leadership, the company has doubled its top-line growth year-over-year and more than tripled its enviromental impact.

BlueAvocado creates lifestyle products that make it easy reduce and recycle waste. Since inception, BlueAvocado has helped millions reduce their consumption of natural resources and avoid landfilling 128 million disposables and 3 million plastic bottles. In addition, through contribution of 1% of sales, BlueAvocado has created opportunity for more than 450 (mostly women) miro-entrpreneurs around the world.