Kathy Baughman McLeod leads the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center’s work to reach one billion people worldwide with climate resilience solutions by 2030. She also chairs the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance that is helping appoint chief heat officers and she is spearheading the global push to name and categorize heat waves. She was formerly global executive for environmental and social risk at Bank of America, managing director for climate resilience at the Nature Conservancy, and a Florida climate commissioner. She is the recipient of the Fuqua School of Business 2021 Leader of Consequence Award from Duke University.