We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Gabriel Grant. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Gabriel below.
Hi Gabriel, thanks for joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.
Shareholder Democracy is transforming corporate governance by empowering civil society organizations to represent owners of publicly traded companies, giving voice to owners’ values.
https://www.shareholderdemocracy.org/
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
Gabriel helps catalysts working toward systems transformation, including impact network leaders, organizational leaders, and families. He is an international bestselling author, social entrepreneur, facilitator, and coach, whose pedagogy for change agents is taught at Cambridge, Cornell, MIT and other universities. Today, he is building a Shareholder Democracy movement to create a market signal for love and care.
Through his work with Weaving Futures, formerly Converge, he supports people building impact networks, groups of organizations and/or families working together to take on challenges greater than they could navigate alone. Gabriel has provided coaching, facilitation, development and strategy advising for several impact networks including Evolutionary Leaders, The ImPact, Owning Impact at MIT, Climate Safe Lending Network, Clean Electronics Production Network, and the Soil and Climate Alliance. He has supported networks in a diversity of areas, such as impact investing, financial systems transformation, corporate sustainability, corporate governance, human rights, and human consciousness development. Together they navigate the personal, organizational, and institutional transformations inherent in shifting systems.
Over the past 20 years, Gabriel has provided leadership coaching and training for more than one thousand purpose-led leaders and world-class change agents, including: founders, board members, c-suite executives, and directors from more than 150 major brands such as Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Whole Foods. He has worked with students and educational leaders at institutions like Stanford, Columbia, Cambridge, and Dalton. He is a co-founder of Jagra Foundation and Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation and serves on the board of Green America. Together w/ Jason Jay, Gabriel released “Breaking Through Gridlock – The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World” to support people in sharing about what matters most. The book is an international bestseller, with over 160,000 copies sold in five languages.
Gabriel’s PhD research at Yale illuminates when and how purposeful work contributes to the flourishing of people and organizations. His master’s thesis at Purdue explores how people use knowledge networks to build living systems. And, his B.S. research in Physics at Purdue focused on renewable energy systems. Gabriel lives in Seattle with his wife, Sarah, and daughters, Ariana and Madeleine—with whom he shares a mission of creating unconditional love and powerfully contributing to others.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.shareholderdemocracy.org/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/gabrielgrant/