I have a lifelong love of purpose and social innovation, and have dedicated my professional life to leadership, systems change, and the art of connection. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to work with hundreds of remarkable social entrepreneurs, supported the launch and growth of 250+ path-breaking organizations across 70+ countries, co-authored two books on purpose and career pathing, and partnered across sectors to turn bold ideas into durable impact.

A core throughline in my work is building partnerships and networks as living systems. I’ve designed and led cross-sector collaborations, and have founded and grown numerous networks that enable shared learning, trust-building, and collective action at scale.

As the founder of The Genuine, I serve as an executive coach and advisor to founders, CEOs, and senior leaders navigating growth, transition, and complexity. My work blends rigor and reflection, helping leaders clarify purpose, strengthen judgment, and align culture, systems, and strategy with the futures they are trying to build.

Zoe Kalar (formerly known as Sue Fennessy) is a serial tech entrepreneur who has spent 35 years building four transformational companies.
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At WeAre8, she is transforming social media by eliminating anonymity and hate, transforming social media in a way that inspires and mobilizes hundreds of millions of people to make positive change in the world. WeAre8’s social technology and centralized wallet has restructured the capital flows, so that the money from advertisers is shared with people, publishers, non-profits and planet projects rather than into the pockets of a few social tech giants.

Source: We Are 8 website

Faisal M. Lalani is a global community organizer with a background in building international coalitions, advising policymakers, and preserving human rights and democracy. He has worked all over the world — including in Nepal, South Africa, India, the UK, Sri Lanka, and the US — and has expertise in digital rights, education reform, public health, climate and energy transitions, clinical psychology, foreign policy, and social movements.

Source: CIP Website

Kevin O’Leary, known to millions as Shark Tank’s “Mr. Wonderful,” has helped shepherd countless businesses and start-ups to success, including O’Leary Funds and O’Leary Ventures.

A celebrated entrepreneur and financial expert, he has authored multiple best-selling books on business and investing, sharing his hard-earned wisdom with audiences around the world. O’Leary has over 10 million social media followers across multiple platforms including 1.4 million on TikTok, many of them entrepreneurial small business owners.

Earlier this year, O’Leary expressed interest in working with other investors to purchase TikTok, highlighting his belief in the need for change on the platform and its potential to drive meaningful social and economic impact for many Americans. O’Leary’s crowdfunding effort for individuals to register interest at WonderfulTikTok.com will now be folded into The People’s Bid, which will help ensure individuals and small businesses have a stake in the future of TikTok.

Overview: Matthew Prewitt is RadicalxChange Foundation’s president, a writer and blockchain industry advisor, and a former plaintiff’s side antitrust and consumer class action litigator and federal law clerk.

Source: RadicalXChange Website

David Ryan Polgar is the Founder and President of All Tech Is Human, an organization that has become synonymous with the Responsible Tech movement. His work building a large and diverse community of individuals coming together to tackle wicked problems was recently covered in the MIT Technology Review and also a chapter in Greg Epstein’s recent book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. With All Tech Is Human, David has built a global community of over 55k individuals working towards a better tech future, a Slack community of 14k members across 115 countries, spearheaded the popular Responsible Tech Guide, and put together dozens of convenings in NYC, SF, DC, and London.

David is also an international speaker and regular commentator on increasing ethical considerations regarding emerging technology, improving social media platforms, and the need for a collaborative, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary approach to building a tech future aligned with the public interest. His commentary has been featured in The Guardian, TODAY show, BBC World News, MSNBC, Fast Company, Associated Press, LA Times, USA Today, and many more. He has been on stage at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Columbia Business School, Princeton University, NATO’s Stratcom Summit (Istanbul), TechChill (Latvia), The Next Web (Amsterdam), FutureNow (Slovakia), Infoshare (Poland), and more.

His work with All Tech Is Human is focused on creating a better approach to tackling the thorniest issues in tech and society. This approach involves leveraging the community’s collective intelligence, diversifying the underlying tech pipeline, and moving at the speed of tech. All Tech Is Human provides a unique sandbox that unites stakeholders to surface values, tensions, tradeoffs, and best practices. David has served on multiple advisory boards, including TikTok’s Content Advisory Council (US) and Teleperformance’s Trust & Safety Council.

Source: LinkedIn

Divya Siddarth is the executive director and co-founder of CIP. Previously, she has been a political economist and social technologist in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, the AI and Democracy lead at the U.K.’s AI Safety Institute, and held positions at the Ethics in AI Institute at Oxford, the Ostrom Workshop, and the Harvard Safra Center. She graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Computational Decision Analysis in 2018.

Source: CIP Website