Humanitarian & Award-Winning Founder of Plastic Bank
David Katz Biography
David Katz is the Founder and CEO of Plastic Bank, an internationally recognized social fintech powering the global movement of #Us that stands against the extractive “buy-more machine” and replaces it with shared prosperity for the people and restoration for the planet.
His movement has enlivened an opportunity for progressive and purpose-led businesses to support over 62,000 collector families across 500+ underserved communities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, Egypt, and Thailand with income and social benefits in exchange for plastic gathered from the environment.
Under his leadership, Plastic Bank has enabled the collection of over 185 million kilograms of plastic from the environment, making it the largest volume of hand-gathered plastic in the world. With end-to-end traceability, Katz’s idea unlocks verified social and environmental impact for businesses, and opens pathways to prosperity for humans fighting poverty.
Katz is widely recognized as one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs. His honors include the the Prix Voltaire, the United Nations Lighthouse Award for Planetary Health, the Paris Climate Conference Sustainia Community Award, the Ernst and Young Lifetime Achievement Award, The Globe and Mail’s Changemakers Award, The Global Presence Humanitarian Award, and the Entrepreneur Organizations’ Global Citizen Award.
He has also been featured in hundreds of global media and investigative outlets, including BBC, CNN, TIME magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Week, and National Geographic. An acclaimed TED speaker, Katz has also appeared in award-winning documentaries and starred in an international reality television series.
Often described as a steward of the Earth, a champion for the underserved, and a thought leader on the prosperity effect, Katz challenges audiences to rethink value, redesign systems, regenerate the planet, and unlock human potential.
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David Katz Speaking Topics
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Sharing Prosperity: Humanity’s Richest Opportunity
We have misunderstood plastic. It is not the villain. Our relationship with it is.
In this transformative keynote, David Katz will challenge audiences to rethink discarded plastic not as waste, but as a currency to share prosperity. He will share how this paradigm shift has already proven possible through the movement of #Us, with Plastic Bank enabling the exchange of over 185 million kilograms of hand gathered plastic and opening pathways to prosperity for more than 62,000 families across Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Katz will demonstrate how circular systems can both prevent plastic from entering the environment and restore dignity through economic inclusion. He will invite audiences to embrace perpetual behavioral change by standing against the “buy-more machine” and becoming more conscious of our purchases, usage and disposal of “things”.
He will leave audiences with a bold proposition: sharing prosperity is humanity’s richest opportunity.
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Unleashing Human-Centric Regeneration
Can we regenerate ecosystems while ignoring human suffering? David Katz argues we cannot.
Ending poverty is not separate from solving environmental degradation. It is foundational to it. In this powerful talk, David will demonstrate how poverty and pollution are intertwined systems, and how addressing one unlocks progress across the Sustainable Development Goals.
Katz will move audiences beyond the green façade of sustainability and toward a new paradigm: regeneration that is inherently human. He will reveal how organizations can embed dignity, inclusion, and economic opportunity into their environmental strategies, proving that human-centric regeneration is not only possible but imperative.
This talk will challenge leaders to move beyond green optics and toward human-centered regeneration, calling on brands to redefine success, not only by profit, but by the shared prosperity they create for people and the planet.
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David Katz is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Sharing Prosperity: Humanity’s Richest Opportunity, Unleashing Human-Centric Regeneration, Beyond Sustainability: The Regenerative Imperative, The Prosperity Effect: Why Doing Good Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy and Nobody Is Coming: Leadership in an Era of Urgency. The estimated speaking fee range to book David Katz for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. David Katz generally travels from Vancouver, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Zack Kass, Eric Boles, Daymond John, Jelly Roll and Rocky Bleier. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling David Katz for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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