At its heart social innovation is driven by limitation. Greg Van Kirk uses his 15 years of experience as a social entrepreneur to dissect how we can only truly transcend our limitations as leaders seeking to create social change by embracing the limitations before us. We live in a dynamic and rapidly changing world that requires us to not view limitations as problems, but rather opportunities to build high-impact social innovations.

Greg Van Kirk has been practicing and teaching social entrepreneurship for 15 years. He as well is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of sister organization Community Enterprise Solutions. Greg is an Ashoka Lemelson Fellow, Ashoka Globalizer and was recently recognized as Schwab Foundation “Social Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012 (Latin America)” at the World Economic Forum. Greg is the innovator who designed the MicroConsignment Model. He has served as a consultant for organizations such as USAID, Chemonics, VisionSpring, Soros Foundation, Church World Service, Inter-American Development Bank, IFC, Water For People and Fundacion Paraguaya in the US, Latin America and Africa. Greg also contributes time as “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” and has recently worked with Columbia University, NYU, Marquette University, Indiana University, University of San Diego and Arizona State University. He is a senior advisor for AshokaU.

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