# Worth Magazine dubs Tensie Whelan "The Pragmatist"

Center for Sustainable Business

December 13, 2016 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/worth_192x144_3.jpg?itok=iFs1zi5C) [Worth Magazine](http://www.worth.com/the-pragmatist/) talks to [Tensie Whelan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan), Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, about her time as President of Rainforest Alliance and her shift to academics to found the Center. "'We \[Rainforest Alliance\] really mainstreamed sustainability,' Whelan says, and now the Center's goal is to "influence the way future generations of executives think about business and the environment."

[Read more.](http://www.worth.com/the-pragmatist/)