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Accelerate Your [Impact + Talent] AdvantageThe best organizations are built on a clear and compelling mission, and great people who are inspired by it. -
Aspen Event to Support 100 Billion Meals Challenge5th Element Helps Rally Major Donors, Brands and Foundations to Meet Global Food Security Crisis -
Street Child World Cup Shines in QatarAgainst the backdrop of the World's Biggest Sporting Event, 5th Element helps Street Kids Find Their Voice -
National Women's History Museum + 5th Element5th Element team is engaged to identify and recruit the CEO to help lead the Museum to its inspiring mission
5th Element has been described by Forbes as “an outstanding global braintrust network,” with the capacity to create unprecedented omniwin partnerships that grow your enterprise, attract top talent, and create a positive impact on society and the environment.
The 5th team has experience, expertise and trust relationships with leaders across sectors and geographies who help us deliver creativity, strategy, process-driven agility and scale. We partner alongside corporate brand executives, impact investors, institutional donors and non-profit leaders to help lead strategic global impact initiatives, and produce KPI-focused results for our client-partners.
5th Element uniquely engages with clients on the connection between Impact and Talent, and how they work in harmony not just to build an enterprise that can endure — but one that is worthy of enduring.
Executive Search
Elevating the Human Element
5th Element partners with Leaders Who Care® to attract and retain ‘right fit, culture add’ talent in their organization, while helping optimize employee wellbeing, DEI and psychological safety.
Impact Partnering
BizDev Program Activation and Referral Services
5th Element leverages its global braintrust network to provide management consulting that connects performance with purpose, as well as success-based referral services to activate sustainable business development.
FACILITATING WORKFORCE REALIGNMENT
5TH ELEMENT SUPPORTING SECTOR LEADERS
5th Element Group PBC has engaged with leader brands in the workforce realignment space to help provide enhanced and equal access to economic opportunity for all. It’s a reflection of the shared core values of our team.
5th Element Group PBC has engaged with leader brands in the workforce realignment space to help provide enhanced and equal access to economic opportunity for all. It’s a reflection of the shared core values of our team.
5th Element client-partners include Mentor Spaces, Workbay, Major Clarity, Kingsland University and New Apprenticeship.
LATEST NEWS
Updates about “Traffic on the Bridge” between KPI-Driven Performance and SDG-Aligned Impact
March 10, 2023
Inaugural Fire and Ice Gala in Aspen Supports 100 Billion Meals Challenge and Future of Food Initiatives
February 1, 2023
Denmark Tech President Dr. Willie Todd Shares Impact of New Initiative With Cisco, Fusion Cyber and 5th Element
December 17, 2022
YouTube Phenom MrBeast features Street Child World Cup in collaboration with Street Child United and 5th Element
October 31, 2022
5th Element Client-Partner Fusion Cyber teams up with Cisco and HBCU Denmark Tech To Diversify Cybersecurity
BRAND COLLABORATION SPOTLIGHT
PEPSICO | MRBEAST | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FORUM | BOSS BEAUTIES | SAP | THE STARBUCKS FOUNDATION | SODEXO | STREET CHILD UNITED | FORBES 400 | ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | 5IRE | WINTOGETHER.ORG | RECKITT | CHARITY: WATER
PEPSICO | MRBEAST | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FORUM | BOSS BEAUTIES | SAP | THE STARBUCKS FOUNDATION | SODEXO | STREET CHILD UNITED | FORBES 400 | ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | 5IRE | WINTOGETHER.ORG | RECKITT | CHARITY: WATER
“5th Element is an outstanding global braintrust network.”
“Working with the team at 5th Element on Some Good News with John Krasinski is a case study of how to make the impossible, possible. I’m eternally grateful….”
“Would I recommend [5th’s Executive Search] practice? Absolutely. The track record has been 100% with us”
“5th has emerged as a flagship brand called “a Maestro of the Omniwin” for corporations, investors, donors and SDG solution-makers who want to collaborate to get things done with leverage, speed and scale.”
“Our appreciation and gratitude for all you and your team have done for Boss Beauties….”
“Working with the team at 5th Element on Some Good News with John Krasinski is a case study of how to make the impossible, possible. I’m eternally grateful….”
LEADERS WHO CARE®
Leaders Who Care® are people who build organizations that can endure, and are worthy of enduring!
Meg Bear
Paul Breloff
Karen Korponai
EXECUTIVE SEARCH SECTOR EXPERTISE
RECRUITING AND RETAINING THE HUMAN ELEMENT
SOME GOOD NEWS
WITH HOST JOHN KRASINSKI
5th Element worked with the amazing people at SGN to connect the top-trending, highly-awarded COVID-era YouTube series to purpose-driven brands, like PepsiCo and Starbucks. Watch this clip to better understand the link between purpose and performance.
A FIFTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
According to Aristotle, the fifth element, distinct from earth, fire, air and water, is exempt from change and decay, and found only in celestial bodies.
5th Element Founding Partner Jim Van Eerden, in an article published by the World Economic Forum and syndicated worldwide, contrasts the focus of the 5th Industrial Revolution in relation to the 4th Industrial Revolution and explains why it matters. And it has something to do with quintessence.
FLOATING IN DARKNESS
Ron Garan, former NASA Astronaut and Co-founder of 5th Element, builds on the success of his first book Orbital Perspective with a powerful new book called Floating In Darkness. Ron’s new book inspires collective action from the perspective of awe and wonder, versus the perspective of fear and divisiveness. Contact us to request a copy of one of Ron’s books, or to schedule his epic multi-media presentation at your next event!
Spotlight
THE SDG CIRCLE COMMUNITY
We believe that relational, cross-silo collaboration is essential to building omniwin partnerships to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. To facilitate that, we created a community of the like-minded, called The SDG Circle.
As a community of brand leaders, institutional donors, impact investors and SDG solution-makers, we participate in some of the world’s most celebrated events relating to socio-economic and environmental impact; and we even help host events all our own. We also work to serve each SDG Circle member with services and experiences personalized to them and their lifework agenda.
RECENT EVENTS
ASPENX FIRE & ICE
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
UN SUSTAINABLE SUMMITS
WHAT 5TH ELEMENT CLIENTS ARE SAYING
Sharing excitement from the intersection of leading edge performance and world-changing purpose.
William Kennedy
Senior Programme Officer, UN Office for Partnerships
The principals of 5th Element Group PBC have been friends of the United Nations for years and are global champions for the Sustainable Development Goals in numerous ways. 5th Element champions the SDG framework at UN events and events around the world, as well as with their investor, donor, NGO, and brand clients. I recommend them wholeheartedly.
Lisa Mayer
CEO of Boss Beauties
Our appreciation and gratitude for all you and your team have done for Boss Beauties.
Kavita Gupta
Founding Managing Partner, FinTech TV
The world needs the 5th Element! Your work is important and inspiring, for people in India and all around the world, including your steadfast promotion of the emergence of women in governance and economic stakeholder roles.
Gina Judge
Senior Director of Communications, PepsiCo
5th Element worked with me and my executive team with the insight and on the PepsiCo activation with John Krasinski's "Some Good News" episodic YouTube series. Our team was appreciative and impressed with their passion for the connection between purpose and performance. 5th even took it one step further to connect us with other partners who could help us engage people in the movement to fundraise for the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.
Bart Myers
CEO, Causes.com
5th can see the transformative potential of bringing together people from different walks of life and backgrounds, in profound ways that we may have never seen or known on our own.
Sukhleen Aneja
CMO, Reckitt Benckiser/India
Thanks for your fantastic partnership with RB. It's been amazing working with the 5th Element team. The credit truly belongs to your leadership in helping lift our brands, advancing our goals and impact. I'm cheering for 5th!
Mitch Berman
Former CEO BioIDX
5th's meticulous due-diligence and care for identifying quality candidates that not only fit the profile, but also match the spirit of leadership required, is unmatched.
Scott Harrison
Founder and CEO, charity: water
Huge thanks! The 5th Element Group's campaign with charity: water put a spotlight on the particular impact of the clean water access for women and girls.
Brianne Bayer
Marketing Director, Arbor Day Foundation
I had the pleasure of working with 5th on a global digital activation for the Arbor Day Foundation and the campaign engaged nearly 5,000 donors from more than 200 countries. 5th really made the campaign hum. They provided strategic ideation and direction for activation as well as valuable insights on results.
Lars Bengston
John Krasinski's "Some Good News" Show
Working with the team at 5th Element us a case study to make the impossible, possible. I'm grateful for their smarts, their guts, and their heart helping us identify and spotlight purpose-driven brands through our episodic show, Some Good News with John Krasinski. I look forward to keeping the good news rolling side-by-side with 5th Element for years to come.
Pari Ibrahim
Founder, Free Yezidi Foundation
We are so grateful for 5th Element's support to share our cause. The capital their campaign provided is changing our impact dramatically.
Jakob Trollbäck
CEO, The New Division, Architect of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
5th Element is a great connector; they make good things happen. Their support for The Climate Action Playbook was instrumental in getting the project launched at Davos 2020. 5th is creating leadership in brand communication around the UN Sustainable Development Goals. I highly recommend working with my friends at 5th!
Meena Narula
India Country Director, Water for People & Women of Change Award Recipient
5th Element brings four forces together, from the corporate, investor, donor and NGO communities, and then adds the fifth element to trigger new opportunities for more effective collaborations.
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