Elizabeth Isele

About Elizabeth Isele

Recognized globally - from the hallowed halls of Congress, the domes of Istanbul, the golden spires of Oxford University, and the cockpit of a vintage biplane - as a pioneering senior entrepreneurship expert, Elizabeth is leading the transformation of the culture of aging and retirement. Her passion to ignite an \"experienced economy\"​ by unleashing the potential of cross-generational experience to drive social and economic impact is grounded in data and metrics. She is successfully busting the prevailing gloom and doom myth that this huge demographic wave is a \"silver tsunami\"​ by demonstrating how the \"experienced economy\"​ is a \"silver lining,\"​ yielding golden dividends locally and globally. Since January 2012, she has been the go-to person for all things regarding senior and intergenerational entrepreneurship (programs, policy, capitalization and research), including the Obama White House, US Congress, Clinton Global Initiative (CGI-America), EU Commission on Entrepreneurship, OECD, the Federal Reserve, the UN, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and global firms such as EY, among many others. She is currently advising the W-20, G-7 and G-20 world summit committees on the social and economic impact of an \"experienced economy.\"​Creator and producer with Jeff Skoll\'s Participant Media of a top-level, 10-city, Global Summit Series to spearhead the 2015 social action campaign for their new movie,\"The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.\"​ London, Dublin, Washington, DC, New York City, Phoenix, St. Louis, Sydney, Auckland and Santiago hosted the successful, cross-sector summits. Co-designer and key witness at the first ever US Senate Hearing on Senior Entrepreneurship in February, 2014, which was broadcast on C-span. Elizabeth is a sought after digital trans-media storytelling expert author and speaker and is quoted often in major news outlets worldwide.

Experience

1. Associate Fellow, Global Economics and Finance

   Chatham House

   Jun 2015 — Present · London, GB

Education

• Mills College

  BA, English

• Yale University

  Graduate Studies, English

• Wesleyan University

  MALS

Skills

• Fundraising
• Editing
• Impact Philanthropy and Investing
• Public Policy
• Research
• Strategic Planning
• Creating Social Movements
• Social Media Marketing
• Intergenerational Solidarity
• Social Enterprise
• Writing
• Sustainability
• Start-Ups
• Grants
• Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®
• Public Speaking
• Web Design and Content Creation
• Microenterprise and Microfinance
• Business Startups and Capitalization
• Journalism
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Blogging
• Nonprofits
• Non-Profits
• Operational Management and Talent Development
• Leadership
• Strategic Public/Private Partnerships
• Social Innovation
• Entrepreneurship