We strengthen communities
VISION AND MISSION
Mission:
Novatera aligns communities, collaborators, and capital to build resilience from the ground up. We integrate energy, water, food, forest, and economic systems to unlock proven solutions that deliver community resilience and financial return as a single durable outcome.
Vision:
We envision thriving communities and restored ecosystems, where energy, water, food, and forest systems work together to sustain life and generate enduring value.
LEADERSHIP
Glenn Hallam, Ph.D.
CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Glenn Hallam spent 20 years in the executive development industry before shifting to a focus on environmental leadership and running a series of conferences called Green Wave. A connector and facilitator, he has introduced thousands of leaders to one another, while helping them explore ways to accelerate change when faced with limited budgets and influence. His forte is getting people talking, finding synergies and building relationships.
Doug Hendren, MD, MBA
TREASURER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Douglas H. Hendren is a retired surgeon in Harrisonburg, Virginia. After graduating from Harvard College and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (MD 1982), he returned to Harvard for postgraduate orthopaedic surgery training, followed by a joint replacement fellowship at the Institute for Bone & Joint Disorders in Phoenix, Arizona (1989). He is a fellow emeritus of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons the American College of Surgeons.
Sabrina Watkins, MBA
MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sabrina Watkins works with organizations interested in delivering more powerful financial, social and environmental results. Her interest in conservation began camping as a young child, continued through her Gold Award in Girl Scouting, her choice of groundwater focus for her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, and her long-term work on business sustainability. She currently lives and hikes in the national parks and forests of North Carolina and serves on the board of Balsam Mountain Trust to fulfill their mission in environmental education.
Libba Pinchot, Ph.D,
SECRETARY, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AND CO-FOUNDER
Libba Pinchot is an educator, entrepreneur, consultant, and author who is dedicated to helping people and teams shape innovative approaches to a better future—at work, in communities, and with nature.
Stephanie Glazer
MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Stephanie Glazer specializes in building the data standards, governance frameworks, and verification systems that translate local action into credible, scalable climate solutions, creating the foundation for greater trust, investment, and coordinated action across insurers, public agencies, and funders. Her work spans engagement with 250+ local chapters, accelerating climate resilience, energy transition strategies, and nature-based solutions aligned with global targets and regional priorities.
Gifford Pinchot III
MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CO-FOUNDER
Gifford Pinchot III works at the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation and the environment. A global leader in intrapreneurship and organizational change, he is an author, consultant, social entrepreneur, and thought leader. Over the years, he’s co-founded six companies—both for-profit and nonprofit. He has sold or merged three of them and three are still thriving.
PARTNERS
HISTORY
Novtera 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. [NOTE: Link each name to Bios].
In 2026, Climate Unbound was rebranded as Novatera, and gained the fiscal sponsorship of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Today, the organization focuses on three interconnected pillars:
Wildfire Risk Mitigation
Agrivoltaics Advancement
Coastal Resilience