Vanessa Coronado has spent over 15 years building a career at the intersection of public policy, sustainable development, and social impact. With deep experience across the Amazon Basin and Colombia’s environmental, agricultural, and energy sector, she’s worked from public-private partnerships and stakeholder engagement to Indigenous consultations and strategic risk management.

Throughout her journey, from teaching social project design at her hometown University to leading complex sustainability initiatives, Vanessa has been focused on driving real, lasting change by bringing people together and designing solutions that work for both communities and ecosystems.

She led a powerful global initiative, The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action or Alianza para los Paisajes in Spanish, at the Rainforest Alliance, to scale-up reductions in commodity-driven deforestation, reduce GHG emissions, and maintain natural capital while boosting livelihoods through implementing collective landscape action.

In this session, Vanessa will share key tools and lessons learned from her journey from project-based approaches to driving impact at the landscape level. She’ll also explore how she’s helping reimagine what climate action looks like, on the ground and in boardrooms.