Amy Skoczlas Cole

Biography

Amy Skoczlas Cole joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Clinical Professor of Business and Society and Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business in January 2026.

Over the course of a 30-year career advancing sustainable business, Skoczlas Cole has worked to reimagine the economic systems that provide sustainable food, clean energy, and healthy communities. From executive positions across leading companies, non-profits, and foundations, she has helped hundreds of organizations design and execute strategies that unlock growth and profitability, access new markets, enhance productivity, and reduce shareholder risk.

Working at the intersection of quantitative business analysis, behavioral data, and AI, Skoczlas Cole develops data-driven insights to harness the power of private sector innovation. Before joining NYU Stern, Skoczlas Cole served as president of intelligence and influence at the Farm Journal Company, where she led triple-digit profitable growth by creating predictive products and services that bridged critical knowledge gaps in the sustainable agricultural-food-energy-supply chain. During her tenure, she secured more than $50M in federal grant funding and helped create one of the largest and most diverse public-private partnerships in regenerative agriculture.

Previously, Skoczlas Cole led sustainability and corporate responsibility efforts for Fortune 500 companies eBay Inc. and Pentair, where she spearheaded award-winning efforts to harness corporate ingenuity to accelerate the transition to more resilient consumer demand and business supply chains. She also created The Water Main, a first of its kind media impact initiative at American Public Media.

She began her career at Conservation International, where she forged some of the first partnerships between environmental organizations and companies, including in the agriculture, forestry, energy, finance, and consumer goods sectors.

Skoczlas Cole is a frequent speaker and author on integrating data streams for improving the ROI of sustainability efforts, regenerative agriculture, carbon markets, the science of behavioral change, and sustainable development, including co-editor of Footprints in the Jungle, published by Oxford University Press.

She received her BA in public policy with a specialization in the environment from Vanderbilt University and MBA from George Washington University.

Research Interests

• Data-driven sustainability strategy
• Behavioral science and consumer behavior
• Sustainable and regenerative agriculture
• Resilient food-energy systems
• Change management and systems transformation

Courses Taught

• Sustainability for Competitive Advantage

Academic Background

MBA
George Washington University

BA, Public Policy
Vanderbilt University