Cory Connolly owns and runs Connolly Strategies, providing strategic support, policy guidance, convening expertise, and general change-making services to non-profits, government, and philanthropy. Cory is a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, an advisor to the Michigan Clean Energy Leaders Project, and on the board of the Michigan Institute for Growth and Opportunity.
Cory previously served as Chief Climate Officer for the State of Michigan, Vice President of the Michigan-based Institute for Energy Innovation, Chief Operating Officer for Lean & Green Michigan, clean energy financing, and Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Law Institute.
2024 Crains Detroit Notable Leaders in Sustainability
2023 Change Collective Fellow
2022 Governor’s Council on Climate Solutions
2018 Midwest Energy News, 40 Under 40
2017 Natural Resources Defense Fund/Environmental Entrepreneurs, 1 Hotels Fellow,
2012 Forbes, 30 Under 30 for Law and Policy
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