Art Stewart is a futurist and consulting strategist who focuses on the political, cultural, economic, and sociological dynamics at the convergence of traditional business, new stakeholder empowerment, and public interest values. He has over twenty-five years of experience across the spectrum of his profession, including eighteen years heading his own independent consulting firm based in Boston, Mass.

Art is the purveyor of the ‘New Responsibility Paradigm’, a strategic analytical framework he developed from two years of graduate research at Georgetown University, which focuses on the transformation to greater accountability, transparency, competency, and leadership integrity across society.

Art’s expertise as a transformation strategist extends across several key management disciplines and is strengthened by uncommon exposure to a diversity of organizations, industries and ‘publics’. His consulting experience runs the gamut - from innovative technology based start-ups and early stage ventures to mature bricks and mortar leaders as well as venerable non-profit and cause related institutions.

His professional endeavors have taken him to the forefront of the corporate responsibility and sustainability movement, and in the management of stakeholder issues, since the early 1990’s. He has developed a multi-level curriculum on corporate and social responsibility, and presently teaches a custom undergraduate course at Emerson College in Boston.

Art consistently identifies the unanticipated upside in client business challenges and responds with creative initiative that produces greater competitiveness for clients via new service or market opportunities. He ‘breaks the code’ of complex issues, concepts, and organization dynamics to translate them into clear, differentiated behavioral strategies and communication.

With an innate understanding of how marketplace dynamics (culture, trends, paradigms and perceptions) impact organization success, as well as the challenges leaders face, his programs achieve sustainable competitiveness because they are built upon realistic, long-view implications. He is an effective and trustworthy counselor to senior executives, as well as facilitator to leadership teams. Art writes and speaks widely on the ‘New Responsibility Paradigm’. Recent articles include the 2011 edition of the Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications for The Medill School at Northwestern University.

As a corporate communicator, Art held posts with New England’s third-largest communications agency, Mullen (assigned to their largest PR account, Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group), and The Interface Group (COMDEX, the world’s preeminent technology event and ETEX, the environmental technology conference in Washington).

His media experience includes posts at two Boston television/film production companies and management positions at classical music radio stations. He was a news reporter/anchor covering state government in Pennsylvania as well as an award-winning documentary and investigative reports producer. Early on, Art was a pollster for Pat Caddell’s Cambridge Survey Research on a variety of projects, including for their principal client the DNC and then-President Jimmy Carter.

Art earned a mid-career (2008) Master’s in Policy Management from Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute as well as a postgraduate certificate in Senior Executive Leadership, also from Georgetown. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from Emerson College and has completed “Dealing with an Angry Public,” with the MIT-Harvard Law School Public Disputes and Negotiation Program.

His professional achievements have earned Art inclusion in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Business & Finance, and Who's Who in the Media & Communications.