Gabriel Grant

About Gabriel Grant

Gabriel helps catalysts working toward systems transformation, including impact network leaders, organizational leaders, and families. He is an international bestselling author, social entrepreneur, facilitator, and coach, whose pedagogy for change agents is taught at Cambridge, Cornell, MIT and other universities. Today, he is building a Shareholder Democracy movement to create a market signal for love and care.Through his work with Weaving Futures, formerly Converge, he supports people building impact networks, groups of organizations and/or families working together to take on challenges greater than they could navigate alone. Gabriel has provided coaching, facilitation, development and strategy advising for several impact networks including Evolutionary Leaders, The ImPact, Owning Impact at MIT, Climate Safe Lending Network, Clean Electronics Production Network, and the Soil and Climate Alliance. He has supported networks in a diversity of areas, such as impact investing, financial systems transformation, corporate sustainability, corporate governance, human rights, and human consciousness development. Together they navigate the personal, organizational, and institutional transformations inherent in shifting systems.Over the past 20 years, Gabriel has provided leadership coaching and training for more than one thousand purpose-led leaders and world-class change agents, including: founders, board members, c-suite executives, and directors from more than 150 major brands such as Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Whole Foods. He has worked with students and educational leaders at institutions like Stanford, Columbia, Cambridge, and Dalton. He is a co-founder of Jagra Foundation and Byron Fellowship Educational Foundation and serves on the board of Green America. Together w/ Jason Jay, Gabriel released \"Breaking Through Gridlock - The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World\" to support people in sharing about what matters most. The book is an international bestseller, with over copies sold in five languages.Gabriel’s PhD research at Yale illuminates when and how purposeful work contributes to the flourishing of people and organizations. His master’s thesis at Purdue explores how people use knowledge networks to build living systems. And, his B.S. research in Physics at Purdue focused on renewable energy systems. Gabriel lives in Seattle with his wife, Sarah, and daughters, Ariana and Madeleine—with whom he shares a mission of creating unconditional love and powerfully contributing to others.

Experience

1. Advisor, Owning Impact Program

   Mit Sloan School Of Management

   Nov 2020 — Present

   Owning Impact helps families 1) build alignment on the topics of impact investing, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and political engagement, 2) learn how to navigate the tensions of family social impact, and 3) move from fragmented activities by individual family members toward a cohesive family social impact strategy, animated by shared values, informed by systems thinking, and drawing on the full capability of the family.

Education

• Yale University

  Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Leadership and Sustainability

  2008 — 2011

• Yale University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Leadership and Sustainability

  2011 — 2017

• Purdue University

  Physics

  1999 — 2001

• Indiana University Indianapolis

  B.S., Physics

  2001 — 2004

• Purdue University

  M.S., Ecological Systems Engineering

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Program Management
• Research
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Personal Transformation
• Grants
• Sustainability Strategy
• Renewable Energy
• Visioneering
• Business Transformation
• Manufacturing
• Energy
• Change Management
• Strategy
• Cultural Transformation
• Project Management
• Data Analysis
• Analysis
• Sustainable Development
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Non-Profits
• Leadership Development
• Industrial Ecology
• Organisational Transformation
• Sustainability Coaching
• Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Teaching
• Entrepreneurship
• Business Strategy
• Start-Ups
• Management Consulting
• Business Intelligence
• Sustainability
• Organizational Development
• Training
• New Business Development
• Environmental Management Systems