Social Impact – Advice from Experts

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Social Impact

BT Irwin

Greater Detroit Area

$120.0/min 5.0 34 $2/min

Built brands, developed organizations, raised millions, and recruited thousands over 20 years in community and nonprofit leadership.

sundeep ahuja

San Francisco Bay Area

$1000.0/min 5.0 9 $16.67/min

Co-founder: RichRelevance (~$96m raised; acq), Sparked (acq), blissmo (acq); Investor: 100+ incl Good Eggs, SandboxVR, Notable Labs, Lively & The Flex Company; Advisor: 15+ incl IndieGoGo, Hooked, Change.org, Counsyl, Mosaic & AngelList; BD @ AWS focused on startups @ top accelerators (eg YC); OpenAI & other AI/ML efforts; Product @ MySpace & eBay; marketing @ Kiva.org; banking @ JPMorgan; Stanford BS CS

Scott Overpeck

Orange County, California Area

$120.0/min 4.3 8 $2/min

Creative leader with a heart for contextualizing movements of justice, advocacy and compassion to his surroundings. Helping non profits, social enterprises and businesses increase their impact.

Dalia Katan

$150.0/min 5.0 3 $2.5/min

Innovation & Growth Strategist, formerly a Management Consultant at Deloitte and Doblin. Human-centered design enthusiast. Diversity & Inclusion Specialist, focusing on refugees and minorities. Small business owner.

Scot Chisholm

San Diego, California

$200.0/min 5.0 3 $3.33/min

Founder/CEO of StayClassy. Hosts of the Classy Awards. Board of Team Rubicon. Investor in Lean Startup Machine, Puddle, PopExpert, Change.org, CaseText. Passionate about the Social Sector & impact investing.

Virginia Campo

Bogota, Colombia

$60.0/min 5.0 1 $1/min

Founder of Inn3 Consultores & Hecha y Derecha & Project Coordinator for LittleBigMoney. Work experience in the UN, banking at HSBC and Start-ups like Kiva.

TiYanna Long, MPA

California/New York

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

Cannabis Industry Insider. Business Coach. Social Impact Advisor. Accountability Partner. I spot the holes and create long term solutions for the success of you and your business.

Bob Cirino

Pennsylvania

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

Impact Director at The Biochar Company, Biochar Bob (industry spokesperson), Co-founder of Dive mobile app. Thought Leader/Creative Guru. Whole-systems thinker-- I put together ecosystems of value.

Marie-Anne JAILLOT

Spain

$100.0/min 5.0 1 $1.67/min

Associate & Impact Business Advisor @ Saven Consulting House. Sustainable Product Strategist & Social entrepreneur. Founder of 2 sustainable projects. +10 startups mentored/supported over the last 4 years in business development, management, CSR and product strategies (FinTech, CleanTech, Recycling, Tourism and Circular Economy). +15 years of experience in management, business development, partnerships and product strategy. I help entrepreneurs and startups to set up their strategy and build a purpose driven project no matter the problem they want to solve (waste, ocean, biodiversity, environment etc). I own several certifications (impact investing, circular economy, sustainable business model) and I have a holistic approach and I focus on the big picture. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marieannejaillot

Carra Santos MSc

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

Carra is a cross-sector sustainable futures educator and interpreter, supporting creative leaders, cities and communities to co-design the transition to sustainable futures.

Hannah Gay

Denver, CO

$200.0/min 5.0 1 $3.33/min

I remove the barriers to maximum social impact and rock hard business models for social entrepreneurs like you: the gamechanging bosses within small nonprofits, social enterprises, and impact-focused funds. Find more at hannahgay.com.

Caterina Rindi

San Francisco, CA

$120.0/min 4.5 2 $2/min

International consultant & multilingual speaker; TEDx, SXSW; education background; ex-Swarm; focus on social impact & sustainability.

Rik Turner

Brighton, UK

$200.0/min 5.0 1 $3.33/min

Altruistic marketing strategist and trainer. On a mission to make the world a happier place through purposeful business. Former strategist @Propellernet. Founder @WeAreHAPS

Gauri Misra-Deshpande

Atlanta, GA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Creative strategy development Creative team management Design Thinking Insight Translation Educator Cultural entrepreneurship

Iván Pasarín

Vancouver, BC

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Human + Physics PhD + Martial Arts Coach + Interdisciplinary Facilitator + Sustainability Analyst + Process Designer => I'm here to help impact-focused teams to build and communicate actionable insight by designing research, performing analysis, creating visualisations and developing narratives. — https://www.linkedin.com/in/ispasarin/

David Babington-Smith

London, England

$350.0/min N/A 0 $5.83/min

Multiple entrepreneur. Gifted at turning ventures with a social impact into successful $$ businesses. Passionate about helping new entrepreneurs grow their business into ones worth a 7-8 figure value.

Moulsari Jain

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Founder, B-A-D for GOOD, Plant Rich, PWRFAM & The PWRTRIP. Artist, entrepreneur & "there-is-no-box" thinker using courageous creativity to solve problems effectively with long term vision, and help people & organisations exceed their limitations.

Lars Ling

Sundsvall

$400.0/min N/A 0 $6.67/min

I am a disruptive entrepreneur and Global CleanTech Enterprise promoter, exploring, identifying and delivering Green Innovative Sustainable Solutions and Financing from Sweden & Nordics saving our Climate, creating jobs and building bridges.

Jeffrey Cherry

Baltimore, MD

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Jeff is the Founder and Executive Director of the Conscious Venture Lab, an accelerator and VC fund for conscious entrepreneurship. He is an evangelist for the transformation of capitalism, attempting to bring whole brain thinking the realm of business creation and a more human-centered form of investing.

Kachina Gosselin

San Francisco, CA, United States

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Kachina Gosselin wants to live in a world where open source technology can be utilized for conservation. Her latest project is starting, The Artifactory, a makerspace community in the heart of San Francisco. She is also working with Maker Corps a community that teaches maker skills while advancing technologies with a social impact.

Babou Olengha-Aaby

Global

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Female founder. Tech 4 good startup. Oslo based. Women’s Economic Empowerment, Diversity, Social Impact & Crowdfunding advocate. Startup / Enterprise Mentor. Strategic Thinker. Tedx speaker. Virgin Media contributor. Passionate about female entrepreneurship, innovation and leveraging the power of the Crowd to enable female entrepreneurs/founders with Access to growth opportunities as well as raise more visibility for women-led and founded companies worldwide via www.globallyspotted.com

Muhammad Omer

Melbourne Area, Australia

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Social Enterprise Consultant, Impact Investor & Mentor. Founder of Impact Investors and Social Startups

Judith Martinez

Los Angeles, CA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Founder and Chief Catalyst @InHerShoesMVMT. Ringleader of @OrendaCollective. Certified Social Impact strategist. Social entrepreneur, author, renegade, avid lip syncer. Passionate about giving back.

Ondine Hogeboom

Toronto

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Social Entrepreneur, founded 5 businesses in emerging markets, mentors early stage social enterprise.. Specialist in Lean Start-up, business model development and strategy.

Lindsey Jones-Renaud

Washington, DC

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Owner of Cynara Development Services LLC. I developed a self-assessment tool for agribusinesses in Mexico to assess gender equity and inclusion in their business operations and supply chains. I'm a trainer and workshop facilitator on topics including sexual harassment prevention and response in the workplace, gender bias, social inclusion, strategic planning, teambuilding, and more. I led the women's economic empowerment unit at a multimillion dollar international organization, where we worked with businesses to build the business case for investing in gender equity and women's empowerment.

Marc Eno

Los Angeles, CA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Certified Coach in Training (CTI, CPCC ): https://coactive.com/ Hong Kong qualified lawyer. MBA in Sustainable Business, Presidio Graduate School: https://www.presidio.edu/ Worked as a corporate lawyer and in corporate governance with top firms. Advised Fortune 100 clients.

Carlos Saba

Brighton

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

With over 100,000 followers and having bootstrapped a global community from nothing I've been through the startup mill. I've built an online membership program, designed and sold online courses, organised retreats, regularly run startup workshops and host an annual startup festival on a farm. Prior to this I spent 12 years running a digital agency in the role of business owner, technical architect and project manager. I've helped launch dozens of startups and know a lot about what it takes to fail. I can help you avoid that!

Graeme Barlow

Ottawa, ON

$120.0/min N/A 2 $2/min

Founder & CEO at RocketOwl Inc. Serial Entrepreneur, Gamer, Game Designer & Marketing Lead.

Odette Laurie

Toronto, Ontario Canada

$500.0/min N/A 0 $8.33/min

Clarity & Impact Strategist, Professional Speaker, Author of 2 books, 2 time multiple 7+ figure business owner, tenacious, dream maker, mother, black belt in Karate. Life long learner.

Justin Cain-Clancy

ON, Canada

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Business Developer, Network Operator for Alchemy Employment. @Steadygaininc on Twitter #CSR #CLP #ImpactPhilanthropy

Erin Mcclarty

Houston, Tx

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

Writer, business owner, creative, and attorney specializing in social impact, social enterprise, & public sector

Antal Karolyi

Budapest

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

President emeritus at Hungarian Business Angel Network. Traction Tribe co-founder. Commsignia early stage investor. Social entrepreneurship and impact investing evangelist.

Anastasia Shcherbakova

Worldwide

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Multi passionate Entrepreneur, Strategy Consultant, Service Design & UX Research. 7+ years in digital marketing and personal branding. Passionate about ideas, impact, and innovation.

Hunter Foote

Worcester, MA

$600.0/min N/A 0 $10/min

Deeply intuitive strategist. Talented and seasoned serial entrepreneur and private equity investor. Experience in impact entrepreneurship, real estate, and aerospace. $24MM assets under management, of which $10MM is real estate assets. Current ventures include www.vanderburghhouse.com, www.soberhousedirectory.com, and www.vanderburghcommunities.com. Exited ventures include www.GreenRater.com. Helped dozens of startups reach new heights. Consulted for Bacardi Limited, Hamilton Sundstrand, Re-Stream, and others. I'm really good at really big problems. I draw from an immense experience base and professional network to drive tangible solutions to complex problems. I teach entrepreneurship at Harvard University and have lectured at Boston College, Springfield College, and Hult International Business School.

Elle DiLorenzo

New York

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Lasting Global Impact | Organizational Development | Sustainable Program Development | Design Thinking | Facilitation | Coaching | I am the Founder & Lead Advisor at Enduring Impact, which is the culmination of nearly 20 years working in the international affairs and social impact space. I consult with organizations across this sector to help them create long-lasting results. I also coach fellow founders, emerging social impact leaders and aspiring international professionals on realizing their goals. Learn more about me at www.enduringimpact.org.

Mike Sherbakov

San Diego, CA

$500.0/min N/A 0 $8.33/min

Social Entrepreneur. Founder: The Greatness Foundation. Consulting and advising: Fitbit, Equionx, lululemon athletica.

Gabriel Mangabeira

Miami, FL

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Olympic Athlete now turned into Crowdfunding Expert, helped more than 30 athletes to raise funds online. With a serious passion for social business, solving real world problems.

Nathanael Foo

Perth, Australia

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Founder of threeonesix. All things social enterprise, social impact strategy+measurement and impact investment.

Imene Maharzi

Paris, France

$400.0/min N/A 0 $6.67/min

Seasoned investor, senior advisor, mentor, founder and social business CEO. 20 y in Private Equity. Mentor at Techstars, HEC Paris Alumni (France top business school), ESSEC social impact startup club, Startup week-end jury, NUMA (Paris first accelerator) etc. Involved into impact investing and the reduction of gender equity gap. Happy supporter of small businesses - startups are not the only way!

Michael Dendinger

Denver, CO

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Founder of Bergden Data Consulting. Using data analytics to make your organization run better and reach your customers more efficiently.

Hassan Zulfiqar

Pakistan

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Entrepreneur and Ecosystem builder. Mentor startup events like Startup weekend, civic hackathon, Hult prize competition jury member and more. Founder of Founders PUSH (a platform dedicated to provide international opportunities to tech Founders) Global partner of Startup World Cup (startup competition for $1 Million) Director of Startup Grind chapter (an international tech startup community, partnered with Google) Alumni of Founder Institute (startup accelrator program) Have experience of running a software company for 5 years.

Cassandra Shuck

Charlotte, NC

$250.0/min N/A 0 $4.17/min

Cassandra Shuck is a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur and business mentor empowering female entrepreneurs to live the life they want to live. She is the founder of Tola Marketing + Creative, a full-service creative, digital marketing agency, the co-founder of Milkin’ Cookie, a lactation support cookie company for breastfeeding women around the country and host of the Align. Profit. Impact. Podcast. She has been featured in CEO Blog Nation, AdAge and Hearpreneur. Cassandra’s love and expertise for finding creative and intuitive solutions has led her to build and grow eight successful businesses, four of which are operational today, and to help hundreds of entrepreneurs around the globe grow their own empire in the process. She currently runs all of her businesses from her home just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, only working about 25 hours a week while raising her 1.5-year-old daughter Diana. To learn more about Cassandra and her story, go to www.CassandraShuck.com.

Jared Campbell

Fresno, CA

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Social analysis expert, childhood development & healthy parenting practice adviser, alcohol & other drug treatment counsel, program advocate.

Eli Adler

Jerusalem, Israel

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

CTO Watercomms, A social impact startup to generate quality technical services in developing countries. 30 years software development experience on many platforms and in many sectors Mentor in multiple startup communities specializing in Security, Data, Machine Learning and Social Impact

Camden Brieden

Holland, MI

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Camden is an experienced and accomplished social impact entrepreneur, investor, and executive leader. He has a passion for solving the world’s biggest and most complex problems through creative business strategy. • At age 19, Camden co-founded and built Michigan’s largest wood pellet manufacturing facility providing biomass fuel for the alternative heating market, which was sold a few years later to an international boutique private equity office. • After graduating with a degree in Economics and spending a few years in commercial banking, Camden worked as the Senior Analyst of Global Private Equity for the DeVos family office (RDV Corp.) with a focus on direct fund investments and co-investment deals across North America and Europe. • Based on family experiences with addiction - Camden founded a 501c3 Non-Profit (NewWayRecovery.org) and created an innovative youth addiction prevention curriculum (Crave21.org) and scholarship pledge program (Wait21.org). These programs have since reached over 100,000 youth and has been recognized across the United States and used by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore and Scholastic, Inc. • Camden is the co-founder of Better Drinking Culture, a leading national grassroots organization focused on reducing alcohol abuse through healthier lifestyle choices. The company collaborates with the top alcohol producers in the world in providing educational resources, training and campaign messaging around moderate and mindful consumption. • Most recently, Camden helped to build and scale a national real estate photography business that is now the world’s largest indirect employer of survivors from human trafficking. He currently remains an active investor in the organization.

Yvonne Siow

Singapore

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

-Entrepreneur and social entrepreneur -Founder of 2 large corporate charity foundations -Board member at 4 non-profit organizations -Public speaker -Co-Founder of a China e-commerce site -Creator of a webinar series -Passionate about cause marketing, giving culture and community building

Lauren Duffield

Victoria, British Columbia

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

SALES IS MY SUPERPOWER. Founder of TEIM Consulting - Sales, Marketing & Impact Strategy. Certified B Corporation Strategist. Global Citizen @ Remote Year. Strategic Partnerships @ xocial. Certified in Corporate Social Innovation / Tony Robbins Business Mastery.

Jody R Weiss

New York City

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

I have launched or grown multiple businesses or brands including a publishing company that was sold, and a beauty brand by the name of PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics that sold in 500+ stores. This brand was funded with angel and VC investors. I have experience in infusing deep meaning and social impact into the core and ethos of a brand or product. I also work with thought-leaders on their voice and message while they grow their business to make sure they are packaged correctly as an "intellectual property" in their own right. The founder's voice along with a powerful product or brand is a winning formula.

Hector Mujica

Miami, FL

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Tech Philanthropy. Social Impact + Innovation. Latino Inclusion and Equity. Venture. Workforce. Community Building. Trained at Google, Dept of State, Berkeley, Stanford and FIU.

Zecki Dossal

Greater New York City Area

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Practice Leader for Gerson Lehrman Group's private equity & venture capital business, and the company's 35th employee (now nearly 900). Advisor on Social Impact. Passionate about bridging the expertise gap between the haves and have-nots.