About

Palak Forbes is an independent Strategy, Innovation, Business Development, and Partnerships executive with over 20 years of experience at world renowned public and private companies. As founder and managing director of One Sphere Advisory, she works with clients to develop business solutions that create value for their organizations, for the environment, and for people on our one sphere: Earth.

 

Palak has held successive strategy and business development roles focused on internal innovation and growth within the media industry, leading to an Executive operating role with P&L Accountability. She has launched revenue-generating and award-winning businesses like Virtual Reality and Podcasts as VP at The New York Times, and new purpose-driven business models like a preschool for underserved children in India as VP at Sesame Workshop. She has forged strategic and commercial partnerships and generated over $100 million in value and bringing to life opportunities in blockchain, machine learning, 5G, and more. Her diverse professional experiences span Corporate Development and M&A, Sales Strategy, and Marketing and she has worked for and with C-suites for over a decade. She is now bringing all her skills and competencies to bear to help change-makers achieve a vision for a sustainable and just future. 

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Palak is a “deep generalist.” With a learner's mindset, she had the benefit of studying the full climate landscape: from science, policy, justice, finance, to various technology- and nature-based solutions. She pursued formal study--completing a Climate Fellowship at Terra.do and an ESG Investing course--and discussions with 100+ practitioners globally and locally.

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Palak earned her MBA at Columbia Business School and BS at NYU Stern School of Business. She serves on the Board of a nonprofit charter school in The Bronx, NY. 

 

Outside of work, she enjoys traveling with husband and two sons, hiking, and dancing. Her guilty pleasure is tsundoku (which is not a puzzle game, but a habit of buying more books than she can finish).