Chris Jarvis is the Co-Founder and Senior Consultant for RealizedWorth, a leading employee volunteering and CSR consulting firm. Chris provides training and hands-on involvement in the design and implementation of outstanding and sustainable employee volunteer programs for businesses interested in leveraging their CSR programs and differentiating their corporate culture.
Over the past 20 years, Chris has worked alongside nonprofit organizations ranging from urban centers in North America to the slums of Kibera, Kenya to develop their volunteer programs.
Recently, Chris has consulted with companies around the world such as the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, Text 100 in Hong Kong, as well as numerous Canadian and US companies on the topics of employee engagement through volunteering and social media.
Chris and his partner Angela write extensively on issues of employee engagement and CR programs. Recently, they collaborated with Elaine Cohen on the writing of her new book ‘CSR for HR’ which provides Human Resources Managers a practical step by step guide to the way CSR interfaces with every HR function. Also, Chris and Angela are proud to have worked with Bea Boccalandro in her writing of Mapping Success in Employee Volunteering and of The End of Employee Volunteering. Angela and Chris also produce a widely followed blog on employee volunteering, http://realizedworth.blogspot.com/, as well as contribute to FastCompany’s blog, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship's blog, Stanford’s Social Innovation Review, BusinessFightsPoverty.com and 3BL Media.
Chris also conducts training workshops and public presentations across the US and Canada on the topic of employee engagement through volunteer programs and social media such as: Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, VolunteerMatch, NATIONAL Public Relations, University of Toronto, Humber College, the International Association of Business Communicators, AstraZeneca, Toronto Green Business Strategy Summit, Entrepreneur Foundation, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, City of Edmonton, and others.
