Maria Acebal

Executive Vice President for Strategy and Corporate Secretary at the Aspen Institute, where she guides institute-wide strategic planning, develops initiatives and partnerships, and supports the Board of Trustees. She previously held nonprofit leadership roles at Ashoka and the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, and earlier worked at McKinsey & Company, Cvent, and Williams & Connolly.

The Aspen Institute Frames Leadership as Dialogue Across Difference

In a 75th-anniversary institutional statement, the Aspen Institute presents leadership as a discipline of listening, convening and acting across difference. Its executives argue that progress begins with people: dialogue builds common ground and trust, and that trust can be turned toward work on economic opportunity, energy and climate challenges, institutions and rising generations. President and chief executive Dan Porterfield closes the case as an invitation to “ignite human potential” and create new possibilities for a better world.

The Aspen InstituteJun 8, 20265 min read