Team

Founders

Abby Falik

CEO

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Travel, Vipassana, my kids, and Rumi.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How we learn, launch, and lead.

How did you learn to fly?

By inviting my fear to join me.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

There's power in the pause.

Abby Falik

CEO

Chalon Bridges

CXO

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Thich Nhat Hanh, the ocean, and trees.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How to lead.

How did you learn to fly?

By leaving a really awesome nest and heading into the unknown.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

It's ok not to know and use questions that animate you as your compass.

Chalon Bridges

CXO

Reimagined Faculty

Andrew Youn

Co-Founder, One Acre Fund

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

East African farmers.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How we pursue bigger social change.

How did you learn to fly?

By crashing a lot.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

I would one day be less uncool :)

Andrew Youn

Co-Founder, One Acre Fund

Angel Pérez

CEO, The National Association for College Admission Counseling

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Traveling the world and meeting people who are very different from me.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

Who gets access to college and how we fund it.

How did you learn to fly?

I literally jumped out of an airplane.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

Joy and Peace begins with me.

Angel Pérez

CEO, The National Association for College Admission Counseling

Aria Florant

Co-Founder & CEO, Liberation Ventures

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

The duality of my identity.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How we build a culture of repair.

How did you learn to fly?

By doing what I know is right.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

You must belong to, and make a home for, yourself.

Aria Florant

Co-Founder & CEO, Liberation Ventures

Ashanti Branch

Founder & Director, The Ever Forward Club

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Leaving engineering to become an educator.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

Creating a world of freedom by teaching people to unlock their chains.

How did you learn to fly?

Trading a life of working for money to living on purpose.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

You will loose money playing around with stocks in 2002 but when you hear about this new company named after a big number (google)...buy as much as you can.

Ashanti Branch

Founder & Director, The Ever Forward Club

Casper ter Kuile

Co-Founder, Sacred Design Lab and Nearness

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Singing together, Harvard Divinity School, and covenant groups.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How we’ll make meaning, deepen our relationships, and experience beauty.

How did you learn to fly?

By holding hands and jumping together.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

Sacred is an act, not a thing.

Casper ter Kuile

Co-Founder, Sacred Design Lab and Nearness

Cecilia Ann Conrad

CEO, Lever for Change

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

I've met amazing people, starting with my parents.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

I work to elevate creative and passionate people.

How did you learn to fly?

I read the emergency information card on every flight.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

I should have taken art history.

Cecilia Ann Conrad

CEO, Lever for Change

Chip Conley

Founder & CEO, MEA

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Viktor Frankl.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

Our relationship with aging.

How did you learn to fly?

By not worrying about what other people think of me.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

To trust my intuition more.

Chip Conley

Founder & CEO, MEA

Chris Kasabach

Executive Director, Watson

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Time!

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How to expand the vision and develop the potential — personal, professional, and cultural — of remarkable young leaders.

How did you learn to fly?

By knowing no strangers.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

Life's long.

Chris Kasabach

Executive Director, Watson

David Bornstein

Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Learning how to ask good questions and listening.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

Transforming journalism to build "hope with teeth."

How did you learn to fly?

It's a constant re-learning.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

Don't trust your thoughts too much!

David Bornstein

Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network

Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro

Chair, UWC International

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Travel and encounters with local communities in more than 150 countries.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

Ways of giving back experience in leadership.

How did you learn to fly?

Embracing my dreams and opportunities.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

We are like butterflies: our behaviors impact the world!

Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro

Chair, UWC International

Dr. Shirley M. Collado

President & CEO, College Track; President Emerita, Ithaca College

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Mentors who enabled me to give myself permission to do the impossible and to not be afraid to lead as my full self.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

An understanding of equity as a practice that honors both our shared humanity and our individual agency.

How did you learn to fly?

Embracing the necessity that transformative leaders do not join organizations to mobilize the status quo.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

Your authenticity and curiosity are your greatest assets.

Dr. Shirley M. Collado

President & CEO, College Track; President Emerita, Ithaca College

Eddie Ndopu

Champion for Disability Justice

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

The wisdom of my own intuition.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

Access, inclusivity (and joy!) for people with marginalized identities.

How did you learn to fly?

Allowing my spirit transcend the space I currently occupy.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

I am not my accomplishments. How my life feels matters more than how it looks.

Eddie Ndopu

Champion for Disability Justice

Jenny Odell

Author

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

The Santa Cruz Mountains.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

How we make meaning for ourselves.

How did you learn to fly?

By trusting my curiosity.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

Mistakes are the only way you learn.

Jenny Odell

Author

Jeremy Heimans

Chairman, Purpose

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Starting things.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

LGBT connection and solidarity.

How did you learn to fly?

A sense of idealism.

One thing you wish you'd known at 18?

That the personal is as important as the rest.

Jeremy Heimans

Chairman, Purpose

John Wood

Founder & CEO, U-Go; Founder Emeritus, Room to Read

Who (or what) has been your most formative teacher?

Books — I read 50 a year.

What are you working to re-imagine in the world?

U-Go will help 100,000 ambitious and promising young women in low income countries to graduate from university by 2040 as a result of our long-term scholarship program.