| SEA provides this listing of speakers on the topic of social enterprise as a resource for the field. SEA provides a quality check for qualified speakers based on recommendations from the field and is not responsible for the quality of any speaking engagement initiated through this directory.
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TOPICS: Social Enterprise – 101 and the Basics, Creating, managing, growing, and struggling (at times) with a social business venture, Earned Income strategies and planning, Thinking Entrepreneurial
Wendy Baumann is a creative leader in economic, business and microfinance development with experience in organization fund development, strategic planning, corporate partnerships, quality management and social enterprise. She currently serves on numerous national and local Boards including: The Association of Enterprise Opportunity, Consumer Federation of America – America Saves, Office Depot – National Women’s Advisory Committee, Johnson Bank – New Markets Tax Credit Board, The Institute of World Affairs and others. Her speaking style is entertaining and humorous combining real life experience and examples of work presented in a visual manner with hand-outs. She speaks to audiences of all sizes. Prior speaking engagements have included Social Enterprise Alliance Gatherings, Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Association of Women's Business Centers, National Business Incubation Association and international presentations at Rotary International Events, Opportunity International Board of Governors, Global Microcredit Summit. Contact: 414- 263-5450 or Wendy.Baumann@wwbic.com. www.wwbic.com
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TOPICS: Assessing Readiness for Social Enterprise, Social Enterprise Training Modules, Stakeholder Communication, Business Planning, Expedition™ and Road Trip™ Training
Jean Block has more than 45 years experience primarily in the nonprofit sector. As a principal in Social Enterprise Ventures, LLC, she trains nonprofits in the skills required to transition from charity-think to operating like a social service business. Her training and speaking style is positive and highly interactive, basing useful and practical new ideas on her experience. Jean and her partners Randy Gleason and Cindy Kane, speak to small or large audiences of nonprofits, funders/investors and boards of directors. She has presented at the SEA Gathering (06 and 07), and is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer in nonprofit management, Board development and social enterprise through Jean Block Consulting, Inc. Contact her at jean@socialenterpriseventures.com or 1-888-647-2392 for availability and fees.
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Founder & Executive Director The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs Dallas, TX TOPICS: Social Entrepreneurship, Marketing Strategies, Business Development and Growth Strategies
Jerr Boschee is Founder and Executive Director of The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and is one of the six co-founders of the Social Enterprise Alliance. By summer 2007, he had been a keynoter or conducted seminars and workshops in 42 states and 15 countries, and his audiences and sponsors have been drawn from every corner of the social enterprise sector, including nonprofits, Foundations, social investors, business schools, corporations and government agencies. Jerr’s inspirational and motivational presentations have been delivered in both intimate settings and to gatherings of more than 2,000 people, and have covered such topics as the basic principles and critical success factors associated with social entrepreneurship; positioning and marketing strategies for nonprofit entrepreneurs; business development strategies for social entrepreneurs; and growth strategies for established social enterprises. For information about available dates and fees, please call +01-214-866-0472 or send an e-mail to institute@orbis.net.
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Founder and Principal Enterprise Development Partners London, ON TOPICS: Launching and commercializing enterprise programs; with emphasis on creating and building the right organizational culture, blending private and public sector values, defining metrics and building the leadership team
Steve Cordes has been a leader in the field of social enterprise since 1996. He is a founder and principal of Enterprise Development Partners, a business based in London, Ontario that assists organizations in creating and developing social enterprise programs. As the executive director of Youth Opportunities Unlimited, he has created and continues to lead several ventures providing hands-on training to youth while they work within an enterprise area. These programs have received awards from Social Enterprise Alliance, and the Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres. Steve brings an engaging and interactive style suitable to groups of any size. He has delivered workshops at several conferences including Social Enterprise Alliance (Atlanta), Exploring Innovation (St Louis), Opportunities Conference (Toronto). Topics covered relate to launching and commercializing enterprise programs; with emphasis on creating and building the right organizational culture, blending private and public sector values, defining metrics and building the leadership team. Steve can be reached by phone at 519-878-1455 or email stephen.cordes@sympatico.ca
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Community Economic Development Manager Community Futures South Fraser Abbotsford BC TOPICS: Venture Selection, Feasibility Studies, Business Planning and Accounting
Stacey Corriveau is the Community Economic Development Manager at Community Futures South Fraser in Abbotsford BC, Canada and is the Director of the Fraser Valley Centre for Social Enterprise, www.centreforsocialenterprise.com. She holds a Masters degree in English, a professional certificate in Community Economic Development, and is an APEC-IBIZ Certified Business Counsellor. Serving on the BC Social Economy Roundtable, she has presented at past CCEDNet and Social Enterprise Alliance conferences, and that of the International Corrections and Prisons Association, plus the latest Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise, the 2007 Atlantic Canada Social Enterprise Symposium, and the Centre for the Study of Cooperatives (CASC) Co-Operative Innovation: Influencing the Social Economy 2007 Annual Meeting. She also created and manages an innovative inmate arts cooperative: visit the InsideArt Cooperative website at www.insideart.ca, and is advocating for a separate legal structure for social enterprise in Canada, based on the UK model. Other areas of specialization include venture selection, feasibility studies and business planning, and accounting. Stacey is comfortable speaking with any size group with a presentation style that is spontaneous, energetic, and casual. She can be reached at stacey@centreforsocialenterprise.com or 604-864-5770 ext 307.
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Tony Deifell Chief Strategist & founding board member, KaBOOM! TOPICS: Leadership, Innovation, Diversity, Leading a Purpose-driven Life, Why Do You Do What You Do?, Social Entrepreneurship
Tony Deifell is known for his creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. He has helped start and build many projects and organizations,
including KaBOOM!, APPLES, ISM (recognized by the White House as a national model of diversity education) and WDYDWYD.COM, which has inspired people worldwide to
answer, "Why Do You Do What You Do?" Tony was a fellow in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s National Leadership Program and earned an MBA from Harvard where he
started the Möbius Forum on Leadership and Spirituality. In 2007, Tony published a book of photography by blind teenagers called SEEING BEYOND SIGHT (Chronicle Books),
which the Shambhala Sun said "will make you look—and look again—at how you perceive and what you assume." Tony was a keynote speaker for SEA's 8th Gathering and has
spoken at conferences for LISC, AAC&U, Council on Foundations, SVN and Harvard among others. He has a very inspirational style utilizing visual art and
storytelling to inspire personal and professional reflection. "I can't begin to explain the impact that you truly had on our staff," noted a leader at Planned
Parenthood after a 500-person staff conference. Travel and speaking fees apply. Contact: tony@wdydwyd.com www.seeingbeyondsight.org
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TOPICS: Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology
A technology entrepreneur, Jim Fruchterman is a former rocket scientist who has founded two of the foremost optical character recognition companies and developed successful social enterprises. He was named an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur in 2003 by the Schwab Foundation and Benetech received the Skoll Award for social entrepreneurship under his leadership. Jim’s speaking style is dynamic, passionate and analytical. He speaks to audiences of 100 to 2000 at business conferences and business and engineering schools and to funders and investors. Prior speaking engagements have included keynote presentations for conferences such as the Social Enterprise Alliance, Global Social Venture Competition and UBS Philanthropy conference. He has also spoken several times at the World Economic Forum’s Davos conference and to multiple university and business school audiences, including Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, University of the Pacific, University of Washington, Harvard, Oxford and Geneva. Jim combines paid speaking engagements with speaking for free. Travel expenses expected. Contact: president@benetech.org. www.benetech.org
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 Kirsten GagnairePrincipal, Social Enterprise Group Board Co-chair, Social Enterprise Alliance Vashon Island, Washington (near Seattle) TOPICS: Business Planning, Marketing, Customer & Market Research, Culture Change, Sales, Risk Management, Financial, Feasibility Testing
Kirsten consistently receives high marks on post-speaking surveys. She is passionate and knowledgeable about social enterprise with a speaking style that is inspiring, relevant, strategic and tangible. Kirsten engages with her audience by making her points using information that comes straight from the group, in the moment. Her style and knowledge is broadly resonant and relevant to everyone involved in social enterprise from line staff social workers, board members, corporate executives, government workers and funders. Prior speaking engagements have included the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Gatherings of Social Enterprise Alliance, the Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise, the Federation of Alaska Natives Conference, the Net Impact Annual Conference and Yale School of Management Business Plan Competition. Travel and speaking fees apply. Contact: 206-903-8578 or Kirsten@socialenterprisegroup.com. www.socialenterprisegroup.com
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 Chellie LisenbyChief Executive Officer, Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay Tampa, FL TOPICS: What, Why and How of Social Entrepreneurship
Chellie Lisenby is an educator, administrator and a social entrepreneur. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida, New York University and a Trinity College, Oxford University scholar. As a fellow in the Denali Initiative for social entrepreneurship, a national fellowship program developed through the Kauffman Foundation, she developed the concept for and launched the Auditory-Verbal Learning Institute as a nonprofit, social enterprise that delivers learning tools across the globe to help babies who are deaf or hard-of-hearing learn to listen and speak. Currently, she is the CEO of the Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay and an Adjunct Instructor at the John Sykes School of Business at the University of Tampa. Chellie has developed and presents “Communities of Innovators- Social Entrepreneurship at Work”. This workshop provides the what, why and how of social entrepreneurship to audiences of all sizes. Prior speaking engagements include the Social Enterprise Alliance Conference (Milwaukee), Tampa Bay Health Care Collaborative and the Florida Association of Healthy Start. She is willing to travel. Fees: $500 per session (Tampa Bay Area), State/National - $1,000 per day plus travel expenses. Contact: 813-287-8779 or clisenby@nlctb.org.
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Social Enterprise Alliance Seattle, WA TOPICS: Employee, Financial and Tax Issues, Leadership Training, Nonprofit Business Development, Culture Change, Capitalization
Jim McClurg is a seasoned social entrepreneur, having developed a network of earned income ventures for a Seattle-based nonprofit that together generated more than $40 million in commercial revenues in 2006. Jim now serves as Vice President of the Social Enterprise Alliance and helps develop membership products that promote best practices in the operation of social enterprises, including Business Plan Pro® Social Enterprise Edition. He also is an adjunct faculty member of Seattle Pacific University’s Graduate School of Business and Economics. Prior speaking engagements have included the Lousiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations, the 8th Gathering of Social Enterprise Alliance and the SW Funders Conference. His speaking style is interactive and informative with a bit of relevant humor. Contact: 206-713-7104 or jim@se-alliance.org.
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 Sally Reynolds Chief Executive and Co-founder, Social Firms UK Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom TOPICS: Social Firm Development, Sector Growth and Policy, Development of Quality Marks for Social Firms, UK Social Enterprise
Sally Reynolds is Chief Executive and Co-founder of Social Firms UK which aims to create employment opportunities for disadvantaged people through the development and support of Social Firms. Social Firms are market-led businesses that are set up specifically to create good quality jobs for people severely disadvantaged in the labour market. Sally serves on the board of the Social Enterprise Coalition, the board of Social Firms Wales and Social Firms Scotland and is the chair of two local Social Firms in Surrey. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the European Confederation of Social Firms and Co-operatives (CEFEC) and represents Social Firms UK within the European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE). Sally has consulted on Social Firm development in Serbia and Finland, and Social Firms UK has worked with organizations in Korea, Japan, Australia and Iceland. She holds degrees in French and German from Aston University. Sally's speaking style is enthusiastic, energetic and clear. She is comfortable speaking to any size group. Prior speaking engagements have included the 6th, and 8th Gatherings of Social Enterprise Alliance, and multiple conferences across the UK. Travel and speaking fees apply. sreynolds@socialfirms.co.uk. www.socialfirms.co.uk
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 Michael Whitehead-Bust Partner, Foxhall Consulting Services Denver, CO TOPICS: Finance and Accounting systems for Social Enterprises, Market Research, Business Planning, Identification of Business Opportunities, Strategic Planning
Michael Whitehead-Bust speaks on topics such as: finance and accounting systems for social enterprises, market research, business planning, identification of business opportunities and strategic planning. His audiences include non-profits, funders/investors, employees and boards. Prior speaking engagements have included the 5th, 6th and 8th Gatherings of the Social Enterprise Alliance; TGCI Earned Income Strategies Trainer; the Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise; Olin School of Management Babson College and the Colorado Association of Nonprofits. Michael’s speaking style is engaging and interactive while case-based and action-oriented. Travel and speaking fees apply. Contact: 303-355-7995 or michael@foxhallconsulting.com. www.foxhallconsulting.com
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Wendy K. Baumann
Jean Block
Jerr Boschee 
Gail S. Bower 
Steve Cordes 
Stacey Corriveau 
Jim Fruchterman
Jim McClurg
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