Valerie is a visionary entrepreneur and recognised expert in accelerating leaders to use their power for good. She is co-founder and CEO of IMAGINE, a global leadership community for impact.
She was an architect of The Fashion Pact launched at the G7 and cofounded The Food Collective of CEOs across the food and agriculture value chain. Now with MAGINE’s curated community of corporate executives, disruptive innovators, investors & policy makers, she is taking the “team up to scale up” model to even greater impact. The growing community of IMAGINE Leaders, convening biannually at Oxford, is a marketplace for system transformation, accelerating solutions in food, fashion, health & beauty and packaging & materials.
Valerie is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL) , an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), the White Oak Impact Fund Advisory Committee, and has been a long-serving member on the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board, and Associate Fellow of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School where she obtained her MBA.

She served as EY’s Global Markets Executive Director, Global Strategy Business Development Leader and Global Leader of the Beacon Institute. Valerie cofounded IMAGINE’s consultancy working with CEOs and top leadership teams to move sustainability from the sidelines to the heart of strategy and business models, solving key problems for corporates (e.g. eliminating sachets in a CPG company) before successfully selling the consultancy in 2022.
She has served as CEO of mental health & drug treatment centres, a network of homeless shelters and was a pioneering developer of mixed-use, mixed-income housing developments in the US.

She’s the oldest of 7 girls,  fluent in 3 languages (American, Southern and Christianese), and divides her time between London and NYC when not diving in Papua or getting lost in the Masai Mara.