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Adam Butler

Co-Founder, Strategic Chief

The Butler Bros

Husband. Father. Co-founder @TheButlerBros, @WeWaveOrg, @FarmshareATX.

The Butler Bros refine and redefine brands for people pursuing growth.

Boo Fagan

Visual Designer, Innovation Strategist

TJOKEEFE / LOOKCAST

Passion for the larger design community and has a greater goal to promote American design on a global scale.

Corban Baxter

Co-Founder, CTO

Barbershop

Designer. Co-Founder, CTO @barbershopio by day, instructor @bdwcu by night and mentor for @boomtownBoulder. These are my words.

Barbershop is a creative technology studio

Alex Diaz

Founder And President

COMMON Future

COMMON Future is a content studio and communications strategy consultancy that digs deep for pathways that make climate adaptation irresistible and indispensable for cities that must mobilize citizens and companies that must promote life-saving brands.

Elijah Szasz

Partner

Spark6

Eli lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children. His exceptionally weird background includes nutrition, fitness, investment banking, robotics and user experience design. Now he is a serial entrepreneur whose mission is to leverage technology for the reduction of human suffering.

Julia Dopp

Lead Insurgent, Writer, Researcher, Social Media Strategist

COMMON

Books, cheese, glitter, ponies, and a fine mug of wine...all the things that fit nicely into your backpack, basically.

Gerald Olson

Creative Director, ScreenWriter, Filmmaker

Screenwriter, filmmaker, uncle, Buddhist, curious.

Jeffery Garland

Director of Photography

Jeffery Garland Photography

Director of Photography, Jeffery Garland Photography.

Kae Erickson

COO, Co-Founder

NCompass International

Over 20 years experience in developing award-winning promotion and marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies.

Ezra Goldman

Founder

Upshift

Driven to turn parking into parks.

Keisha Banks

Architectural Consultant

Inscape Publico

An incurable wanderlust with a penchant for motorcycles and fast cars (driving not riding b*tch)! OH and a sick ❤ of DESIGN.

John Weiss

CDO / Co-Founder

HumanDesign

My work is guided by purpose, passion, simplicity, beauty, innovation and surprise. Live Deliberately.

Kristian Bye

Founder

Bright Products

Founder and Business Developer in Bright Products. Turning the world on to smart, simple and sustainable energy solutions.

Michelle Bove

Founder

designCASE

A lover of travel, yoga and design, this licensed architect has a passion for community and understands the impact of collaboration.

Marty Butler

CO-Founder, Creative Chief

The Butler Bros

Family is the center of all things / father of 2 / Co-founder & Dir of Creativity @thebutlerbros / Board Pres @AHBschool / native Austinite

Dr. Matthew King

President

The COMMON Foundation

Serving people, planet, and peace.

COMMON Foundation combines the power of an incubator with philanthropy and social entrepreneurship to support, promote, and develop non-profit ideas and organizations in the US and abroad for the benefit of people, planet, and peace.

We serve the members of the COMMON community, as well as the non-profit and philanthropic interests of external clients including individuals, families, companies, philanthropists, and social and environmental entrepreneurs.

We offer fiscal sponsorship for non-profit projects, donor-advised funds, conduct philanthropic advising, set up scholarship programs, conduct legacy research and development, develop non-profit strategies, and we offer a full suite of consultative services for people, planet, and peace.

Mitchell Toomey

Director of the UN Millennium Campaign

UNDP New York

Clearing space in the international conversation for social innovators, findings ways for larger and larger crowds to organize into effective, agile governance processes. I lead a team at the United Nations that helps governments, individuals and organizations find new solutions to long-standing development challenges by embracing the power of partnership.

Michael Etter

Creative Director, Co Founder

The Story Manufacturing Co.

Director, grant-writer, instructor and evangelist for a youth arts education organization that introduces students to communication design and job possibilities in the creative fields.

Tracie Dean Ponder

Founder AND Executive Director

B~STEM Project

Definitely born in the wrong century, most admire those who sacrifice for a greater cause, believes in the possibility of the impossible, fascinated with people, youngest of 11 children, love Korean Dramas and in another life would like to be a Monk living in Meteora monastery -- Greece.

Larry Olson

Creative Director, Screenwriter, Filmmaker

Larry Olson

Founder, Studio Designer, Art Bio: I enjoy sneezing and opening jars for old people.

Michelle Lin

Business Strategist

Avid Crossfitter, has an undying love for all things food, and takes all opportunities to be outdoors.

Ryan Fiorentino

Director of Design

Fathom/Carnival/

Why: We need renewal (is exciting). How: Create moments that spark change and inspire new perceptions.

Sarah Zobel

Psychologist, Author, Speaker

B for bio. Sounds boring. I’ll do it quick. Psychologist. Bestselling Writer. Speaker. Mother of two. Commitment. Courage. Love. My values. My focus. Enjoy!

Scott McDonald

CEO and Founder

Lumenati

Designer. Dog Owner. Humorist.

Stefanie Hermsdorf

Creative

Champion of less is more, maker and doer, polyglot, can sew up a storm.

Toby Krout

Managing Director

Boomtown Accelerator

Former startup founder, operator and now accelerator. Optimist. Seeks to have mind blown by renegade innovators.

Mark Aink

Founder

COMMON, NATIVE Circles

Father, son, brother, husband, lover, singer, dreamer, doer, but most of all Mark.

Rich Adams

CEO

Pure3d, Inc.

Product Innovation, Sustainability, Design, Manufacturing And Supply Chain

Matt Pretorius

Co Founder

Toilets For All

Health, dignity and well-being for all through sustainable dry toilets...Collect. Trade. Recycle.

Charles Harrison

Strategist, Market Researcher

Freelance

Chef. Mechanic. Marketing. Research. Strategy. Advertising.

Kyle Westway

Founder, Managing Partner

Westway

author @prof_purpose | attorney @westawayco | lecturer on law @harvard_law | editor @weekendbriefing.

We work with social entrepreneurs—people creating smart solutions to social and environmental problems. Our clients include non-profits and for-profits as well as benefit corporations and B Corps.

Michelle O'Grady

Founder, CEO

Team Friday

We're a creative agency focused on building purpose, furthering causes & creating impact through collaboration & innovation.

Kevin D. Wilhelm

CEO and Founder

Incline Solutions

Incline Solutions is a comprehensive corporate development firm based in Boulder, Colorado.

Kerrie Finch

Founder & CEO

FinchFactor

Founder of @FinchFactor Rep for Cannes Lions @OrangeLionsNL member of @CreativeSocial keeper of secrets @ADCN board member Derren Brown fan.

Aquiles La Grave

Founder + Dad

Brandzooka

Trying to make something entirely wrong, right again. Without the help of either religion or the police.

Brandzooka allows you to put your videos in front of your exact target audience on the biggest sites on the web.

Wesley Ter Harr

Co-Founder and COO

MediaMonks

The biggest creative digital production company on the planet. Fighting mediocrity and deadlines since 2001. Available for high-end production and high fives.

Jennifer Crews

Founder

Flock

Entrepreneur. Student of Life. Efficiency Geek. Lover of Communes. Currently laser-focused on reinventing the family as its own sharing economy.

Richard Averitt

CEO

Digital ReLab

Software company pioneering Open MDS technology— open Media, open Data, open Storage.

Seamus Matthews

CEO & Founder

PennyOwl

CEO & Founder of PennyOwl, a savings platform for families with young children. #AllowanceApp #SavingMoney #FinTech Family, friends & cycling - fortunate!

Kazia Jankowski

Culinary & Brand Innovator

Kazia Jankowski Consulting

Loves tequila, wrote a guide book of Peru, soul of a baker, always planning the next trip.

Gavin Anstey

COO

Cinebody

Kerry David

Founder

Over & Above Africa

Raising funds from a global community to conserve and protect Africa’s most vulnerable animals from extinction.

Contact Kerry at kerry@overandaboveafrica.com.

Kimberly Kortash

Storyteller

Brandekko

Documentary junkie + museum nerd with an insatiably curious mind. Frequent traveler + master packer of a carryon. Lover of laughter + seeker of joy for myself and others.

Brandekko is a creative group, yes. But we’re also a business partner, one that knows great design is only one element of developing a successful company. We help you think big about your brand, giving you a cohesive strategy centered around your goals.

Michelle Deane

Founder

eleveight

Entrepreneur, design techie & lover of fashion, film, photography, Daenerys & Tyrion #GoT & human resiliency.

Leslie Collin

Founder/Pricipal

GIV

Giv is a platform that celebrates the things that inspire the life around us: Music, Art, Design, Fashion, Technology and Education.

Marsh Mokhtari

Co Founder

Golden State Distillery

TV host | Distiller & Traveler #Adventure #CraftSpirits #Whisky #Travel #Cook #Gin http://marshm.com

Golden State Distillery is a small batch distillery. Sustainably made Californian spirits from local ingredients, inspiring a Golden State of mind.

Carmel Hagen

Founder & CEO

Supernatural Inc.

Supernatural, plant-based food color and sprinkle sets.

Supernatural is leading a parade for kitchen creativity, and reimagining the ingredients that help chefs shine with plant-based food colors and sprinkle sets. Supernatural is a new way to have fun with food, your hands and your heart. Because making stuff makes us happy. So if that’s your thing, too, then climb on board – this is going to be good.

Dr. Christine McDougall

Founder

2:23AM

Chief Steward at 2:23AM, Social Innovation for a more Beautiful World

Andrew Esau Weaver

Foudner

SHOPINV

SHOPINV is a company focused on informing, educating and giving opportunities to those who are economically disadvantaged. With our innovative economic system, the poor can now see a 401K in their future just by doing what they normally do…SHOP! All of this is possible via a free mobile app!

Alex Mondau

CFO

Starvation Alley

Local, Cold-Pressed, Unsweetened, Cranberry juice from Washington’s 1st Organic Cranberry Farm. Proud #PNW @BCorporation :: #GarnetGospel.

Bud Caddell

Founder

NOBL

NOBL (pronounced no-bell) was founded in 2014. Today, we operate from LA, NYC, London, and Vancouver. We’ve supported clients on five continents and across two-dozen industries.

Our teams are a potent mix of organizational psychologists, change management practitioners, strategists, and service designers. In addition to our dedicated teams, we maintain a large community of industry and regional experts that augment our teams when we need additional skills.

Our mission is to be the essential partner for ambitious and compassionate leaders everywhere. Our vision is to improve work and culture for more than a million people before we’re ten years old.

Catherine Yrisarri

Owner And Director

See Why Projects + LUCA Media Collective

See Why Projects builds out creative and innovative projects around the world for major media companies, brands and scientific agencies.

Adam Butler

Co-Founder, Strategic Chief

The Butler Bros

Boo Fagan

Visual Designer, Innovation Strategist

TJOKEEFE / LOOKCAST

Corban Baxter

Co-Founder, CTO

Barbershop

Alex Diaz

Founder And President

COMMON Future

Elijah Szasz

Partner

Spark6

Julia Dopp

Lead Insurgent, Writer, Researcher, Social Media Strategist

COMMON

Gerald Olson

Creative Director, ScreenWriter, Filmmaker

Jeffery Garland

Director of Photography

Jeffery Garland Photography

Kae Erickson

COO, Co-Founder

NCompass International

Ezra Goldman

Founder

Upshift

Keisha Banks

Architectural Consultant

Inscape Publico

John Weiss

CDO / Co-Founder

HumanDesign

Kristian Bye

Founder

Bright Products

Michelle Bove

Founder

designCASE

Marty Butler

CO-Founder, Creative Chief

The Butler Bros

Dr. Matthew King

President

The COMMON Foundation

Mitchell Toomey

Director of the UN Millennium Campaign

UNDP New York

Michael Etter

Creative Director, Co Founder

The Story Manufacturing Co.

Tracie Dean Ponder

Founder AND Executive Director

B~STEM Project

Larry Olson

Creative Director, Screenwriter, Filmmaker

Larry Olson

Michelle Lin

Business Strategist

Ryan Fiorentino

Director of Design

Fathom/Carnival/

Sarah Zobel

Psychologist, Author, Speaker

Scott McDonald

CEO and Founder

Lumenati

Stefanie Hermsdorf

Creative

Toby Krout

Managing Director

Boomtown Accelerator

Mark Aink

Founder

COMMON, NATIVE Circles

Rich Adams

CEO

Pure3d, Inc.

Matt Pretorius

Co Founder

Toilets For All

Charles Harrison

Strategist, Market Researcher

Freelance

Kyle Westway

Founder, Managing Partner

Westway

Michelle O'Grady

Founder, CEO

Team Friday

Kevin D. Wilhelm

CEO and Founder

Incline Solutions

Kerrie Finch

Founder & CEO

FinchFactor

Aquiles La Grave

Founder + Dad

Brandzooka

Wesley Ter Harr

Co-Founder and COO

MediaMonks

Jennifer Crews

Founder

Flock

Richard Averitt

CEO

Digital ReLab

Seamus Matthews

CEO & Founder

PennyOwl

Kazia Jankowski

Culinary & Brand Innovator

Kazia Jankowski Consulting

Gavin Anstey

COO

Cinebody

Kerry David

Founder

Over & Above Africa

Kimberly Kortash

Storyteller

Brandekko

Michelle Deane

Founder

eleveight

Leslie Collin

Founder/Pricipal

GIV

Marsh Mokhtari

Co Founder

Golden State Distillery

Carmel Hagen

Founder & CEO

Supernatural Inc.

Dr. Christine McDougall

Founder

2:23AM

Andrew Esau Weaver

Foudner

SHOPINV

Alex Mondau

CFO

Starvation Alley

Bud Caddell

Founder

NOBL

Catherine Yrisarri

Owner And Director

See Why Projects + LUCA Media Collective

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Yakima Valley Farm MBA

The Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic partnered with COMMON to re-articulate the Clinic's vision, resulting in a new marketing and communications strategy that increased their business by 76,00 new patients in 6 months.

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Pitch Chile

The first urban festival dedicated to unlocking the potential of Chile’s most valuable human resource: human innovation. The 3.5-day event attracted thousands of entrepreneurs, fans, investors and supporters, dedicated to redefining Chile as a global leader in sustainable innovation.

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Our network includes some of the best thinkers, storytellers, and business builders who know how turn raw ideas into vehicles for growth and impact.

FOCUS

Change is the only constant in today's world. How you work is more important than your idea. We train social entrepreneurs to build cultures that are fit for the market.

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