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Those in the business of addressing significant challenges that affect societies across the world—disrupters, entrepreneurs, visionaries—are indeed change agents in every sense of the word. But large-scale problem-solving, the kind that address highly complex if not wicked problems, requires transformative thinking. What are the lessons these foundation leaders are learning about building a better world?
Speakers
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Peggy ClarkExecutive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group
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Xavier de Souza BriggsVice President, Economic Opportunity and Markets, Ford Foundation
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Risa Lavizzo-MoureyPresident and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Festival Underwrite...
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Sally OsbergPresident and CEO, Skoll Foundation
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