Privileged to have served (by invitation, with a group of amazing peers) as a mentor to the 150 top, young social entrepreneurs in the world at the annual Kairos Global Summit.
Chief Architect and Director of Operations of the largest, global online platform for university students interested in improving the world. Upgraded an annual, university business plan competition into an online platform that attracts students of all academic disciplines from over 100 countries. The platform design challenges students everywhere to collaborate on ideas, create viable social enterprises and increase their potentials for delivering impacts that improve the lives of others all over the world. The platform is now a year-round, online environment offering cash prizes, global prestige and project services that support university students all the way through their social enterprise evolution--from idea to scale impacts. Validated the platform design value by duplicating a separate, online instance for the University of San Diego. They're using it to upgrade their own campus-wide social innovation challenge. Great fun framing work as a results challenge, turning ideas into valued products and working with great people at all levels.
Focused on developing social impact value of early stage company as Board Member of international atmospheric data company. GeoOptics' data can improve local weather forecasts, global climate science and commercial abilities to affordably forecast and mitigate risk of vulnerabilities from emerging severe weather conditions for NOAA, DoD, NASA and other nations' lead agencies and ministries. The global value of providing improved operational weather data and product services will significantly improve global climate research and weather science product innovation cycles.
Appointed Commissioner for City of Austin, Community Development Commission. Received City of Austin Distinguished Service Award, awarded from Mayor Will Wynn and City Council, 2008
Proposed and sold the largest homeless services collaborative of local government and non-profits and multiple statewide associations of community action agencies in the country on social service outcome software systems. Joined with Adsystech as the vendor of choice to deliver.
The Rensselaerville Institute an internationally renowned, private educational think tank with an 100+ year legacy. I joined to deliver consultations on public innovation interventions and established the longest duration fee customer relationships in Institute history through public/private partnerships and community outcome projects. Enjoyed doubling government, non-profit organization and private philanthropic customer performance; increasing self-reliance for hundreds of thousands of poor and rural residents across the nation by improving their clean drinking water and community quality of life; establishing money-back warranties on better results in the social impact sector for all work delivered--and succeeding without claim or complaint. Loved creating and hosting the first international venture philanthropy workshops for social venture partners. Proud to have earned the following awards: -Virginia Community Self Help, Statewide Project Award from Jim Gilmore, Governor, 1999; -Texas Community Self Help, Statewide Project Award from George W. Bush, Governor, 1995; -Maryland Community Self Help, Statewide Project Award from William Donald Schaefer, Governor, 1994 Also had a great deal of fun guiding many others to achieve their highest-performing results to date. And still do.
Served as partner, part-time executive director and philanthropy consultant to second oldest Social Venture Partners affiliate in their international network.
Participated in formation of a top-rate, international organization of incredibly talented Board Members established to guide a network of 1,500 philanthropy partners in a multitude of cities. Worked with Board and staff to evolve a comprehensive vision of introducing individuals and couples to engaged philanthropy and effective grant making.
Co-creation and underwriting of German corporation providing managed account services and offshore structured products to high net worth individuals for eight foreign national corporate offices.
Youngest corporate president of merchant bank and brokerage subsidiary for oldest member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. Development and sales of proprietary offshore investment products, managed services and private placements for high net worth, foreign nationals.
Sales leader to high-net worth individuals of offshore limited partnerships and managed account investment services; marketing director Dominick & Dominick Futures, Inc. as domestic sales leader of broker/dealer affiliates and corporate office product and limited partnership sales; leader of international private placement sales production and creation of new revenue streams from product offerings.
Improved performance and wellness insights for masters level and retired professional athletes. Ideal clients are mature adults interested in reclaiming their previous performance levels and/or enduring wellness through my methods. These include intermittent fasting, eating raw foods omnivorously and cultivating a simple practice to rejuvenate their joints and spine. No drugs, no supplements, no expensive technologies, no woo woo or cultish observances--just methodical, daily practices and progressive results. I screen individual clients based on their capacity and readiness potentials for achieving whatever vitality levels they desire to reclaim and our mutual fit in working together. All my client relationships are confidential, one-to-one consultations with an 100% guarantee on results.
HOPE is "Helping Other People Everywhere" by bringing together talented entertainment professionals and celebrity artists to do two things: --achieve effective impacts and full expression of their philanthropy in supporting charitable causes; --guiding charitable causes to achieve greater results because of artists' contributed support... Come make HOPE real around the world. It's pretty darn exciting and fun!
Private investment fund focused on high-performing, social innovation ventures. We invest in social entrepreneurs able to achieve financial returns on investment (ROI) and significant social returns on investment (SROI). We also lead syndication with other social innovation angels and impact investors. We put our own capital at risk along with our advice. How about you?
Our clients hire us to guide leaders, teams, organizations and communities to scaled social impacts of significance. We design human gain baselines then lead others to innovate and accelerate progress through proven examples. We offer a warranty to clients on achieving measurable success. One measurable success example: a $99M public investment fund hired us to create a community innovation investment platform. We developed criteria, due diligence and project progress methodologies that engaged poor and rural communities on public infrastructure projects and delivered a platform that saved the fund and communities $28M in project costs, doubled baseline social impacts and increased the number of project communities engaged annually. Our platform and tools continue to deliver success a decade after our initial engagement. We guide our clients to shift from being good at growing operations to being great at growing the better social impacts that should continually result from them. Our platforms, tools and operating models drive net positive change into greater wealth that endures for society--that's social wealth. Come and partner with us!
Certificate
BA
Concentration: Political Science; International Business
With good company: preparing and sharing sumptuous meals, offshore sailing, playing soccer, mountain biking. With myself: being idly happy enjoying my own thoughts, writing, lazy afternoons as a flaneur.
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