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Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world."
MIT University Professor and Founder of Tissue Engineering. He is the most cited engineer in history.
An experienced entrepreneur, CEO and the creator of Holacracy, a management system for governing and running organizations without a typical management hierarchy.
Carol Dweck is an American psychologist. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on mindset.
Dr. Gregory Schmidt has a longstanding interest in healthcare system design, and the critical role of technology to scale healthcare delivery systems, while making care more human for patients and providers. He graduated from General Internal Medicine Fellowship in Vancouver Canada, and completed prior training in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2018 - 2019 Gregory worked in Eldoret, Kenya with AMPATH on designing electronic health record systems in partnership with OpenMRS that will enable new care delivery systems. In 2020 Gregory founded www.BodoHealth.com - a virtual Canadian healthcare clinic specializing in the delivery of longitudinal goal-directed patient care.
Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, and media proprietor whose net worth is an estimated $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, and ranked #177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team of the National Basketball Association and the co-owner of 2929 Entertainment. He is also one of the main "shark" investors on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.
An American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1968
Matt Gavin is a member of the marketing team at Harvard Business School Online. Prior to returning to his home state of Massachusetts and joining HBS Online, he lived in North Carolina, where he held roles in news and content marketing. He has a background in video production and previously worked on several documentary films for Boston’s PBS station, WGBH. In his spare time, he enjoys running, exploring New England, and spending time with his family.
Mike has been continuously active in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, human-centric design and digital marketing since earning his Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree. He went on to earn his MBA degree with distinction at Yale. He began his career in Silicon Valley and has spent his entire career in the world’s leading innovation clusters of Silicon Valley / San Francisco, Boston / Cambridge, Austin, TX and Tel Aviv, Israel. He’s a successful serial tech entrepreneur, multi-award-winning professor, innovation consultant, angel investor, board member, hackathon & design sprint leader, popular keynote speaker, podcast author, and in-demand startup mentor.”
“Our Changing Climate (OCC) seeks to fill a void I have noticed recently in the media: a lack of coverage of all things environmental. For me, our rapidly changing natural environment is one of the most crucial issues this generation faces, yet it is often dwarfed by other political and social issues. I started Our Changing Climate to not only analyze the various ways in which the natural world affects our lives, but also to spark much-needed discussion on environmental topics.”
Designer of outdoor clothing and gear for the silent sports: climbing, surfing, skiing and snowboarding, fly fishing, and trail running
CEO & Co-founder of HoopCare (a Cornell Tech Runway Startup), and found of the CoVent 19 Challenge. Anesthesiologist at Weill Cornell Medicine.
A British-American author and inspirational speaker. He is the author of five books, including Start With Why (2009) and The Infinite Game (2019).
The Dennis Thompson Chair & Professor of Leadership at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte, where he also serves as the Director of the Office of Leadership Initiatives. His research is focused on self-actualization and leadership