Innovera builds on decades of leadership in innovation, sustainable business, and systems change, envisioned by co-founders Gifford Pinchot III and Libba Pinchot. Their work is rooted in a simple and powerful idea: lasting change happens when people and institutions innovate together.

This perspective was shaped early through hands-on stewardship of a biodynamic farm in upstate New York, where they explored regenerative agriculture, community enterprise, and values-based business. These formative experiences informed a lifelong commitment to aligning economic systems with environmental and social outcomes.

Building on this experience, they co-developed the concept of intrapreneurship, redefining how innovation can take hold inside established organizations. Their books Intrapreneuring, a New York Times bestseller, along with The Intelligent Organization, helped spark a global movement centered on purpose-driven leadership and innovation within.

Through Pinchot & Company, they advised leading institutions, including more than half of the Fortune 100, supporting the launch of new products and ventures while advancing cultures of innovation and accountability. Their work demonstrates that meaningful transformation is possible when individuals are empowered to lead.

In 2002, the Pinchots extended this vision into education by co-founding Bainbridge Graduate Institute, the first school to offer an MBA in Sustainable Business. The program trained a new generation of leaders to build enterprises that serve both people and planet. In 2016, the Presidio Graduate School (now, the Presidio Center for Sustainable Solutions), acquired BGI continuing and expanding this impactful work.

Climate Unbound was established in 2023 as a Washington nonprofit, supported by an inaugural governing Board of industry leaders: Libba Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot III, Doug Hendren, and Sabrina Watkins, chaired by Glenn Hallam.

In 2026, Climate Unbound was rebranded as Innovera, and gained the fiscal sponsorship of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Today, the organization focuses on three interconnected pillars: Wildfire Risk Mitigation, Agrivoltaics Advancement and Climate Intrapreneuring.