Rebuilders: Leaders for the Decade Ahead

Shoemaker talks to socially-conscious and civically-active leaders that are already starting to redefine the leader they need to be for an unequal, siloed America and are hungry for clarity, stories, and direction.

If you’re out to change the world, Paul Shoemaker is there to connect you to the people, ideas, and organizations that matter. His career brings together a unique breadth and depth of experiences. He has —-

Worked extensively with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors

Learned from and worked with global CEO’s, national social sector leaders, and local community activators

Brought all of those career vectors together in Taking Charge of Change and his belief in Rebuilders as vital leaders for the 20’s

Shoemaker is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International—a global network of thousands of social innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and business and community leaders that support social change agents in over 40 cities and 8 countries. With insights from over 17 years of this unique vantage point, as well as a decade prior at Microsoft and Nestlé and 5 years as a cross-sector consultant, he is a global thought leader and consultant on activating social change agents and increasing impact.

In 2011 and 2012, Shoemaker was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential People in the Nonprofit Sector” by The Non Profit Times, and in 2013, was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Future in Review. In 2015, he received the 2015 Microsoft Alumni Integral Fellow Award.

Over the last 5 years, he has consulted with a wide range of private, nonprofit and public sector entities on a range of challenges from leadership development to business modeling to long-term strategy.

And he has spoken at TEDx and United Nations events and has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Huffington Post.