Jerr Boschee has spent the past 20 years as an advisor to social entrepreneurs in the United States and abroad. To date he has delivered seminars or conducted workshops in 41 states and ten countries, and he has long been recognized as one of the founders of the social enterprise movement worldwide.  He is currently Executive Director of The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, which he founded in 1999 after serving for the nine previous years as President and CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs.

Jerr has also been the catalyst and co-founder of The Forum for Nonprofit Leadership (1987), The Affirmative Business Alliance of North America (1989), The National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs (1997) and The Red River Academy for Social Entrepreneurs (2001). The Alliance and the Gathering were the first two membership organizations created for entrepreneurs in the field of social enterprise.

During the past 35 years, he has also been an executive for a Fortune 100 company, an executive for both regional and national nonprofits, managing editor for a chain of newspapers, a Peace Corps volunteer, and a frequent writer, speaker and trainer in the social service and public policy arenas.

Jerr is currently a member of the national advisory councils for the Social Enterprise Alliance and the National Peace Corps Association, and is also the founder and one of three senior partners in The Social Enterprise Fund, a private operating foundation currently under development that will provide unsecured mezzanine financing for double bottom line companies in need of working capital. His recent publications include The Social Enterprise Sourcebook (2001), which contains profiles of 14 nonprofits that have successfully started business ventures.

An internationally recognized speaker, author, and practitioner in the fields of Systems Thinking, Organizational Learning, and Leadership, Michael Goodman has pioneered many innovations in the field of system dynamics that have made it more accessible to business and organizational leaders.

He has published widely, authoring one of the first textbooks in the field, Study Notes in Systems Dynamics, and serving as the primary contributor to the Systems Thinking chapter in the acclaimed Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. He also led the development of a web-based Systems Thinking course, Systems Thinking: A Language for Learning & Action. Among his international clients are British Petroleum (Britain, Germany, Australia), Saudi Aramco Oil (Saudi Arabia), World Bank (USA, Philippines), Singapore Police Force (Singapore), Hyundai Corporation (South Korea), Gas Authority of India Limited (India) and Malaysian InfoSciences (Malaysia). His work on consulting projects has included the design and delivery of training sessions, individual coaching, side-by-side work with internal resources, and the engagement of strategic leadership teams to understand complex problems and identify the leverage points critical to their resolution. He is a charter member of the System Dynamics Society, and an initial member of the Society for Organizational Learning. He holds two Master’s Degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Michael is the Principal at Innovation Associates Organizational Learning.

Sara Schley and Joe Laur are founding partners of SEED Systems, a company dedicated to promoting sustainable development in business through the use of organizational learning and systems thinking disciplines in combination with scientific conditions for sustainability.

They employ a cutting edge approach that views sustainability strategies as a key to competitive advantage for business. Sara and Joe along with their colleague Peter Senge founded the SoL Sustainability Consortium, a group of industry leaders from BP, Shell, Nike, Ford, Harley Davidson, Interface, Worldbank, Xerox, DTE, Northeast Utilities and others who are active in organizational learning and systems thinking for sustainable business.

Sara and Joe are co-authors of "The Sustainability Challenge," published in The Systems Thinker and "Creating Sustainable Organizations." published in the Pegasus' Innovations in Management Series. Participants in their work in organizational learning and sustainable business have included AT&T, BP/Amoco, BSR, Burlington Chemical, California EPA, Chrysler, CERES, College of Notre Dame, Detroit Edison, Ford, Interface, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Missouri Botanical Gardens, MIT, Nike, Northeast Utilities, Ontario Hydro, SC Johnson, Shell Oil, United Technologies, Visteon, World Bank, Xerox, and more.

Sara was an organizational consultant with MIT Organizational Learning Center, SoL’s predecessor from 1992-1997. In that capacity she created, implemented and facilitated in-depth learning and organizational change process at such companies as Shell Oil, EDS, and Philips Electronics. She currently serves as an elected member on the Council of Trustees of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). Sara studied with Dr. Karl Henrik Robert in Sweden founder of The Natural Step (TNS), and was on the founding Steering Committee, responsible for bringing TNS to the United States. She has led team and community development experience for 18 years including as an instructor for Outward Bound, and through training with "Sherut LaAm," the Israeli analog to the Peace Corp. She has an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a BA from Brown University.

Joe was the Executive Director of the Inner Resource Development Corporation from 1992-1996, expanding the organization into Canada and Europe, doubling the number of training facilities and tripling revenues during his tenure. As a consultant to corporations, his work focuses on organizational learning, personal effectiveness skills and sustainable development. In this capacity, his clients have included Shell Oil, Bristol Meyers/Squibb, Northeast Utilities, Burlington Chemical, Nike, and Harley-Davidson. He studied with Dr. Robert of The Natural Step and applies these principles to his work in business. Joe has worked with whole systems change for over 20 years and is a certified practitioner of Structural Integration, an applied physiology practice invoking whole systems change in human body structures. He received his BFA in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin.

Steve focuses upon diverse issues and opportunities requiring large systems change through The Institute for Strategic Clarity. The issues may be as broad as issues of trade, poverty and sustainable development, or as specific as road-building, youth employment, banking, and provision of water and sanitation services. Usually the change strategy involves creating business-government-civil society collaborations and networks. These collaborations may be local, national, or global.

Steve has experience working as a practitioner, researcher, teacher and consultant. In the 1980s he was a leader in the Canadian labor movement and the credit union system, where among other accomplishments he co-founded what is now Canada’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds. More recently he founded the Global Action Network Net – a leading center for creating deep change globally through networks.

Steve’s research and consulting clients have included foundations and agencies such as the Ford, International Youth and MacArthur Foundations; the World Bank; and the United States Agency for International Development. He also works with business-government and civil society collaborations such as the Global Reporting Initiative, the Dialogue on Water and Climate, the Access Initiative and the Youth Employment Summit; with non-governmental organizations such as the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development and the Mvula Trust; and with government organizations such as the Government of Canada and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Steve is the founder and co-director of Global Action Network Net (www.gan-net.net),a professional association of innovative, integrative organizations working for the global public good. He is a faculty mem ber of the pioneering work-based program for leaders that he founded at Boston College. He also teaches as an Associate of the Center for Innovation in Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He is author of the book Societal Learning and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies (Greenleaf Publishing, 2005) and has published dozens of journal articles and book chapters. He has a doctorate in sociology and an MBA.