Join us to hear from GSB founder Jenna Nicholas, MBA '17, on the launch of her book Enlightened Bottom Line, exploring how purpose and spirituality can transform business and investing. Open and free to participate.

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What if business and investing could be rooted in the deepest values of the human spirit?

In her groundbreaking book, Enlightened Bottom Line, Jenna Nicholas explores the powerful intersection of spirituality, business, and investing—an intersection too often overlooked in a world driven by profit alone. Drawing on moving stories of entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders who are living out this integration, along with cutting-edge research, Nicholas reveals how spiritual wisdom can guide ethical choices in finance and business.

Unlike other books on business or investing, Enlightened Bottom Line is not just about strategies, numbers, or policies. It is about reimagining what wealth, success, and leadership can truly mean when guided by purpose, compassion, and integrity. It offers readers concrete frameworks and real-world examples to align their financial decisions with their deepest beliefs.

This book is for leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, changemakers, and anyone seeking to make their work and money matter—people who feel the tension between striving for success and yearning for meaning. Readers will walk away not only with tools and insights, but also with a renewed sense of hope: that business and investing can serve as vehicles for healing, justice, and spiritual growth.

At its heart, this is more than a book about money or management—it is an invitation to transform how we live, work, and lead.

About the Speaker

Jenna Nicholas is an investor, entrepreneur, advisor, author, coach and speaker. She is the president of LightPost Capital, an investment and acquisition firm, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Experience, which advances equity across climate, healthcare, education, and investments. Jenna is the author of Enlightened Bottom Line: Exploring the intersection of spirituality, business and investing.

An active angel investor, Jenna has backed over three unicorns. She previously served as Investment Partner at One Planet Group, where she also led corporate development and acquired four companies. Prior, she worked with the World Bank Treasury on green bonds and sustainability projects, with Toniic supporting its global impact community, and with the Calvert Special Equities team investing in education technology, financial inclusion, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. As Project Manager of Divest-Invest Philanthropy, she led a coalition of foundations of over 170 foundations representing $50 billion in assets under management shifting capital from fossil fuels into impact solutions, which she shared on the TEDx Portland stage.

Jenna serves as an advisor to Ethic and the Nexus Global Youth Summit and previously sat on Apollo Global Management's Impact Advisory Committee. She co-chaired the Emerging Leaders Council of LISC, co-taught at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, and is Vice President of Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs. She holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BA in International Relations from Stanford with study at Oxford University, and has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, PDSoros Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and is a Council on Foreign Relations member. Jenna serves on the board and investment committee of the Oakland Museum of California. Jenna has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, amongst other publications. Jenna is an active member of the Bahá’í Faith.