What Gets Measured Gets Changed
Turning Data into Better Decisions
The world’s biggest challenges aren’t always the hardest: they’re the hardest to understand. In this engaging keynote, Michelle Li makes complex topics simple, relatable, and actionable. Using carbon as a case study, she shows how better understanding leads to better decisions: for individuals, organizations, and industries.
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Financial institutions play a critical role in helping businesses and communities navigate risk, opportunity, and long-term value creation.
Translating complexity into clarity
Michelle Li has built her career translating complexity into clarity.
She began in the world of science, earning a Bachelor’s in Biology and Chemistry and a Master’s in Cancer Genetics, where she helped advance research on one of medicine’s most complex challenges. She then spent nearly a decade in Silicon Valley with Salesforce and DocuSign, helping organizations understand sophisticated technologies and translate technical capabilities into real business value.
Today, as Founder of Clever Carbon, Michelle applies that same gift to one of the world’s most important, and often misunderstood, topics: climate change.
Whether explaining cancer genetics, enterprise software, or carbon emissions, Michelle has a unique ability to make complex ideas simple, relatable, and actionable. Her engaging style has inspired audiences around the world, helping Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, governments, and global brands build understanding, spark curiosity, and turn knowledge into meaningful action.
Michelle is known for making the invisible visible. Through storytelling, pop culture, and unexpected connections, she turns complex topics into memorable “aha” moments. From Taylor Swift to coffee to everyday products, Michelle connects familiar experiences to hidden systems, making ideas easy to understand and impossible to forget.
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What Gets Measured Gets Changed: Turning Data into Better Decisions
Financial services runs on measurement: risk, return, and long-term value. Yet one of the most consequential numbers in the modern economy, carbon, remains invisible to most employees and clients.
In this engaging keynote, Michelle Li uses her signature blend of creative storytelling, pop culture, interactive learning, and unexpected connections to break down complex topics and make them understandable, memorable, and actionable.
What do Taylor Swift concerts, Beatles records, your morning coffee, and every transaction moving through your systems have in common? They all reveal hidden systems (energy, consumption, and carbon) in ways that people instantly understand.
The keynote concludes by exploring how financial institutions can use data to uncover sustainability opportunities across the business: from responsible investing and lending to operations, procurement, employee engagement, client education, insurance products, and branch operations. Audiences leave seeing carbon not as a reporting obligation, but as data that drives better decisions, deeper client trust, and long-term value creation.
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“What truly set her presentation apart was its fun, light, and unexpectedly different approach, making a complex topic engaging and memorable.”
“Her unwavering professionalism, dedication, and inventive ideas have significantly elevated the quality of our conferences. We consider ourselves fortunate to have crossed paths with Michelle.”
“Michelle is a master of group engagement! As one student said "who knew that learning about something so dire could be so fun."”
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