11th Annual SEER Symposium
The SEER (Socially, Environmentally, and Ethically Responsible) Symposium explores the next generation of business strategy, focusing on entrepreneurship, values, and innovation.
The 11th Annual SEER Symposium will explore how tackling system-level challenges requires system-level solutions.
Today’s most pressing issues are complex, multi-stakeholder challenges with interconnected
variables that resist simple solutions. This year’s speakers and visionary change
agents will share how they are driving meaningful, system-wide impact through their
work at both local and global levels.
Parks Project | Culver City, CA
Friday, March 14, 2025 | 1 - 6 PM (PDT)
Symposium Speakers
Rob Bikel, DBA
Director of SEER
Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Dr. Bonnie Nixon, PhD
Director of Sustainability
Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT)
Gretchen Peters
Executive Director
Alliance to Counter Crime Online
Keith Eshelman
Founder and CEO
Parks Project
Matt Petersen
President and CEO
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)
What is SEER?
What Makes the SEER Symposium Unique?
Hear Inspiring Ideas with Disruptive Solutions
Because of the power of technology and global connectivity, entrepreneurs have unprecedented resources at their disposal to target challenges both locally and globally.
Connect with Others Interested in Sustainability
An intimate venue cultivates one-on-one interaction with sustainability trailblazers from a variety of different industries.
Explore Values-Based Innovation
Examine the crossroads between values and business as world-changing innovators, thought-leaders, and entrepreneurs share their journeys in creating profitable companies that help make the world a better place.
Network With Top Industry Thought Leaders
Engage and connect with leaders who are changing the trajectory of business during this uniquely targeted opportunity for collaboration.
"Companies must integrate social and environmental values into strategies that create long-term competitive advantage."
Robert Bikel
Director of the SEER Program
Practitioner of SEER Business and Management
"Business and social-environmental responsibility are not mutually exclusive. To have an event like this - that embodies environmental principles - is an opportunity to drive that forward."
Marci Zaroff
ECOlifestyle Entrepreneur, Educator and Innovator
2016 SEER Symposium Speaker
"This is perhaps the best single-day program I have attended, ever. 2016 was the fourth time I have participated and each time I walk out blown away."
Andrew Basmajian
Santa Monica Office of Sustainability and the Environment
SEER Symposium Attendee
The SEER Certificate
The Socially, Environmentally, and Ethically Responsible (SEER) Business Strategy certificate, led by Director of the SEER Program, Rob Bikel, allows full- and part-time MBA students to take courses that prepare them to:
- Incorporate values and ethics into a successful career in 21st-century business
- Apply SEER values to companies large or small and across a diverse range of industries
- Lead the next wave of great organizations