Carol Cone Named to Fast Company’s Impact Council

Carol Cone has joined Fast Company’s exclusive Impact Council.

The Fast Company Impact Council is a collective of the most innovative leaders in business. Members meet several times a year for invitation-only live events, roundtable discussions, and virtual sessions on some of the most promising opportunities and most pressing challenges of our time. These gatherings focus on the role companies and council members can play in shaping the future. Fast Company amplifies members’ impact by publishing their thought-leadership and tapping their expertise to inform the publication’s coverage of innovation across the business world.

"I am honored to join the Impact Council and stand alongside such a distinguished group of leaders who understand that business's greatest opportunities lie in solving society's greatest challenges,” said Cone. “For four decades, I've worked with companies to prove that purpose and profit are not competing priorities but complementary drivers of growth. As we enter an era where AI is reshaping how businesses operate and engage with the world, I'm eager to bring that lens to this year's conversation on AI and social impact, and to learn from the extraordinary community Fast Company has assembled."

Carol Cone is founder and CEO of Carol Cone ON PURPOSE, a strategic consultancy that helps companies and nonprofits build, activate, and communicate purpose-driven strategies that create measurable business and social value. A pioneer in corporate social responsibility and cause branding, Carol has spent her career advising Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofits on how to embed purpose into their core strategy, culture, and stakeholder engagement. She is widely recognized as one of the founders of the cause-marketing movement and continues to shape the conversation around rigorous measurement, authentic storytelling, and the evolving role of business in society.

“The Impact Council represents the ideal version of Fast Company’s readers,” says editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “These are some of the more creative, mission-driven people in business, with some of the most original ideas about how to solve big problems and build the future. It is our great pleasure and privilege to bring this community together.”

ABOUT CAROL CONE ON PURPOSE

Carol Cone ON PURPOSE (CCOP) is the pioneering social impact and sustainability communications agency that helped create the modern purpose field. For more than four decades, the team at CCOP has helped companies, brands, nonprofits, and foundations discover, activate, and measure purpose through social impact strategy, sustainability communications, employee engagement, strategic partnerships, thought leadership, and creative content development. CCOP continues to lead and advance the field through groundbreaking research, books, Harvard Business School case studies, the award-winning Purpose 360 podcast, and the Purpose Collaborative, a network of more than 40 specialized firms and subject matter experts that provides clients with deep expertise and geographic reach.

ABOUT FAST COMPANY

Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.