Hon. Henry F. De Sio, Jr. is known as the global ambassador for changemakers. A leadership advisor, campaign and organizational strategist, and keynote speaker, he has served as the executive of both startups and large, complex organizations. As the 2008 Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and then serving as Deputy Assistant to the President in the Obama White House for two-and-a-half years, De Sio came to be intimately acquainted with a new emerging pattern of societal change. He has since followed his campaign-driven passion for hope and change to make changemaking a global phenomenon. De Sio has engaged with the world's leading social and business entrepreneurs, and he has brought the powerful framework of new leadership and team-of-teams organization described in Changemaker Playbook to board rooms, newsrooms, community forums, university institutions, and governmental halls all over the world. De Sio holds a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School, and he earned his B.A. in political science from the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Moderated by:

Stephen Lewis | President, Forum for Theological Exploration

Stephen Lewis is the President of the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE), which focuses on cultivating a new generation of Christian leaders. He is an organizational change strategist and facilitator, and a leadership development specialist, focused on helping leaders to discover their purpose, passion and calling in life. Stephen is also the creator of DO GOOD X, a start-up accelerator for diverse, Christian social entrepreneurs. In 2020, Stephen co-authored Another Way: Living and Leading Change on Purpose.

Rabbi Elan Babchuck | Founding Director, Glean Network / Director of Innovation, Clal

Elan is a rabbi and entrepreneur who spends much of his time exploring the rich intersections between these two traditions, and the abundant possibilities therein. He is the Founding Director of Glean Network, an incubator, and network for entrepreneurs who are building new models of faith in action, and Director of Innovation at Clal, a think-tank focused on the future of faith in America.

Danielle Goldstone | Founder, innoFaith

Danielle is a social impact consultant and founder of innoFaith, an initiative building bridges between faith communities and the world of social innovation. She has two decades of experience in the global social entrepreneurship field. She is Senior Advisor to Ashoka, where she was the founding director of Ashoka’s global Empathy Initiative. She serves on the board of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington.

Anne Evans | Leadership Group Member, Ashoka

Anne has been part of the leadership group of Ashoka for over ten years. In 2017, she started the Faith and Changemaking initiative at Ashoka and has been working to build a community of faith-inspired changemakers who can support and learn from each other and create a new story about the importance of faith as a source of motivation for putting love and respect into action.