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Greg Van Kirk.

Greg is a two-time Ashoka Globalizer Fellow and a World Economic Forum "Social Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012 (Latin America)." He was recently the North American leader of StartEmpathy at Ashoka. Over the course of 20+ years, he’s founded, led and/ or consulted for dozens of organizations, teams, and communities in 25+ countries.

Consulting engagements include organizations such as Levi Strauss Foundation, Visa Foundation, Warby Parker, Deloitte, USAID, Chemonics, Inter-American Development Bank, and IFC, amongst others.  In addition, Greg has designed and led student programming for universities, including Columbia University, Duke University, Fordham University, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, Georgetown University, and Stanford University amongst others. He has designed (social) entrepreneurial experiences, taught courses, and led workshops for thousands of students and professionals. He also contributes time as “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” at universities and has taught at Columbia University, NYU, Miami University, UNH, Fordham University, and the University of Wisconsin. He was recently a senior advisor for the Miami University Institute for Entrepreneurship.

Greg worked in rural small business development as a Guatemala Peace Corps volunteer in 2001. He worked in investment banking for five years before arriving in Guatemala. Two deals he led at UBS during this time won “Deal of the Year” honors from Structured Finance International magazine.

Greg recently published It’s What You Set In Motion: A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking.

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