ENLIGHTENED BOTTOM LINE | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Date and Time
Jul 20, 2026 6:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jul 20, 2026 6:00 pm
14th & V
In her best selling book, Enlightened Bottom Line, Jenna Nicholas explores the powerful intersection of spirituality, business, and investing—an intersection too often overlooked in a world driven by profit alone. Drawing on moving stories of entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders who are living out this integration, along with cutting-edge research, Nicholas reveals how spiritual wisdom can guide ethical choices in finance and business. Unlike other books on business or investing, Enlightened Bottom Line is not just about strategies, numbers, or policies. It is about reimagining what wealth, success, and leadership can truly mean when guided by purpose, compassion, and integrity. It offers readers concrete frameworks and real-world examples to align their financial decisions with their deepest beliefs.
This book is for leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, changemakers, and anyone seeking to make their work and money matter—people who feel the tension between striving for success and yearning for meaning. Readers will walk away not only with tools and insights, but also with a renewed sense of hope: that business and investing can serve as vehicles for healing, justice, and spiritual growth.
At its heart, this is more than a book about money or management—it is an invitation to transform how we live, work, and lead.
Jenna Nicholas is joining us on the Busboys stage alongside Rosita Najmi, Executive Director of Micron Foundation, to share more about “how spirituality can inform and elevate our financial and business choices” (Rainn Wilson, actor, philanthropist and NYT bestselling author of Soul Boom). Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Nicholas will be signing following the program.
This event is free and open to all. Doors open to guests at 5:30pm. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of ENLIGHTENED BOTTOM LINE will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person.
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Jenna Nicholas is an investor, entrepreneur, advisor, author, coach and speaker. She is the President of LightPost Capital, an investment and acquisition firm, and the Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Experience, which advances equity across climate, healthcare, education, and investments. Jenna is the author of Enlightened Bottom Line: Exploring the intersection of spirituality, business and investing.
An active angel investor, Jenna has backed over three unicorns. She previously served as Investment Partner at One Planet Group, where she also led corporate development and acquired four companies. Prior, she worked with the World Bank Treasury on green bonds and sustainability projects, with Toniic supporting its global impact community, and with the Calvert Special Equities team investing in education technology, financial inclusion, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. As Project Manager of Divest-Invest Philanthropy, she led a coalition of foundations of over 170 foundations representing $50 billion in assets under management shifting capital from fossil fuels into impact solutions, which she shared on the TEDx Portland stage.
Jenna serves as an advisor to Ethic and the Nexus Global Youth Summit and previously sat on Apollo Global Management's Impact Advisory Committee. She co-chaired the Emerging Leaders Council of LISC, co-taught at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, and is Vice President of Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs.
She holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BA in International Relations from Stanford with study at Oxford University, and has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, PDSoros Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and is a Council on Foreign Relations member. Jenna serves on the board and investment committee of the Oakland Museum of California. Jenna has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, amongst other publications. Jenna is an active member of the Bahá’í Faith.
Rosita Najmi is a development finance leader and driver of global social, environmental, and economic development innovations and outcomes since 2001 and across 30 countries. Rosita began her career as a social entrepreneur and co- founded a public health international NGO in West Africa.
She has gone on to be a digitally fluent global executive and intrapreneur in the corporate world (Micron, PayPal, and UPS), philanthropy (Gates Foundation and Omidyar Network), international development (World Bank), and civil society (Mercy Corps, Accion, and America’s Promise). She brings topical expertise in digital financial inclusion and economic empowerment, gender equality, and climate adaptation and resilience. Her track record includes leading strategy, impact measurement, grantmaking, data and tech for good, impact investing, ESG, humanitarian response, CSR, market-based approaches, policy advocacy, learning, knowledge management, and field building. She has advised and led multi-stakeholder collaborations with governments, the private sector, civil society, and multilateral organizations, including the G7 and G20.
She is a champion of collective action and has co-founded and led several groundbreaking global partnerships, coalitions, networks, and alliances, including FinEquity, Climate Innovation for Adaptation and Resilience Alliance (CIFAR), Data2X Women’s Financial Inclusion Data Partnership, among others. Rosita earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics, French, and politics from Wake Forest University. Her TED talk on multilingual leadership has been translated into 13 languages. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is based in Washington, D.C.
BOOK DETAILS
Enlightened Bottom Line
Exploring the Intersection of Spirituality, Business, and Investing
By Jenna Nicholas
May 26, 2026 | Hardcover, 216 pages, $30
