Joan Michelson

ESG Consultant & Host of Electric Ladies Podcast Electric Ladies Podcast & Green Connections Media

Joan Bryna Michelson, MBA is a highly-accomplished journalist, business executive and thought leader focused on climate, energy, sustainability and environment, social, and governance (ESG) issues who previously served as a leader in Fortune 100 companies, Chrysler, Deloitte and American Express. She consults with organizations on these issues and is the host of the acclaimed Electric Ladies Podcast about them, with 400+ episodes featuring women experts. Joan writes extensively on these issues in Forbes and has been published in the Harvard Business Review, New Thinking magazine, HuffPost, Greenbiz, TheAtlantic.com, WTOP, The New Economy magazine (distributed at the World Economic Forum) and many other media outlets. Her work has also appeared on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” ABC News, and NBC specials and news shows.

A dynamic public speaker, Joan has addressed a wide range of events and conferences, including: ChangeNow Summit, SXSW (Eco), The Newseum, COP26, the U.S. Defense Department, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Naval Academy, and many other corporate, professional and university events and conferences in the U.S. and around the world.
She is especially proud of her great-great uncle, Albert Abraham Michelson, the first scientist from the U.S. to win the Nobel Prize (speed of light, 1907), and her great-great aunt, Miriam Michelson, a prominent reporter of the same era who played a pivotal role in securing women in the U.S. the right to vote and whose fiction is considered source material for “Wonder Woman” comics.