“Will You Greet or Great the Future?”: Closing Keynote Features Pamela Hartigan

 

The SEWF 2013 Closing Keynote will feature Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School. Her topic will be “Will You Greet or Great the Future: The Power of Unreasonable People.”

Dan Overall

“Attendees will have spent two and a half days listening to experts talk about the key trends and making their own plans for the future” said Dan Overall, Executive Director of SEWF 2013. “As they leave we want to remind them that no matter what predictions they make, surprises and bumps in the road will happen, and, when they do, they should never underestimate – never give up on – their power to influence how the future unfolds.”

“From her work as the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship to her leadership at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Pamela has one of the most impressive social impact CV’s in the world” added Overall. “Her book The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World and the insights in her many articles and interviews on exactly this topic make her the ideal candidate for this closing keynote.”

An additional bonus, it was announced that Pamela will also be participating in the breakout session “From the Top: Leadership Skills to Promote Social Innovation”.

Pamela Hartigan

Pamela Hartigan is Executive Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School and Founding Partner of Volans launched in 2008 to support innovative scalable solutions to global challenges. From 2000-2008, she was the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. She has held leadership positions in multilateral organizations, educational institutions and entrepreneurial ventures, conceptualizing and creating new organizations, departments or programs. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, she also holds Masters’ degrees in Economics and Public Health and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology.

Dr. Hartigan is on numerous Boards of entrepreneurial ventures around the world and is a frequent lecturer on social entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate schools of business around the world. In addition to her position at Oxford, she is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School. Her latest book, co-authored with John Elkington and published by Harvard University Press, is entitled The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World.

About SEWF:

The Social Enterprise World Forum is a global gathering to hear inspiring speakers, connect, share ideas, and advance a movement dedicated to a powerful idea – that working together we can use markets and innovations to solve the world’s most complex and confounding social, economic, and environmental challenges.

Each year SEWF gives a different host country an incredible opportunity to celebrate and nurture its own social enterprise movement. 2013 is Canada’s chance to shine. Event host, TRICO Charitable Foundation, is partnering with the Social Enterprise Council of Canada, the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, Social Innovation Generation, and the Canadian Community Economic Development Network to make this a watershed moment for social enterprise, for

Canada and for the world.

SEWF 2013 by the numbers:

• Attendees: 1,200 from 30 countries
• 6 Program Tracks: Social Finance/Impact Investing, Indigenous Social Enterprise, Social Enterprise Skills Building, Research and Public Policy, Cross-Boundary Collaboration, Social Innovation
• Breakout Sessions: 36, featuring 120 speakers from 20 countries
• Main Stage Speakers: 17
• 1st time in Canada
• October 2-4, 2013, Calgary, Canada

Click here to register.