MarthaPiper

  • Senior Advisor at World Wildlife Fund
  • Board Vice Chair

An explorer at heart, Martha has been lucky to combine her love of travel with a commitment to helping people and nature thrive together. Piper was the Chief Operating Officer at the World Wildlife Fund and now works part-time on selected projects with the Chief Conservation Officer. Prior to that, she worked for nine years at Rare, an international conservation organization that empowers community members to participate in local decision-making and natural resource management.

Martha has combined her strong sense of social mission with her corporate experience. She spent nearly 20 years at companies including Ernst & Young, The Corporate Executive Board, and a social venture capital organization called New Profit. These experiences taught her how to grow and scale both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

As a current mentor in the BCLP for the CFL she advises students to,

“Focus on skills not titles. Think of your career as building a portfolio of competencies. Look at where you want to go and think about the skills needed and take opportunities that allow you to develop those skills,” and to, “Be a “solutionologist”. Anyone can name a problem. A solutionologist takes what’s working, builds on it and helps create a path forward.”