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Corporate Responsibility: Susanne Goldstein, Founder, The Accelerator

Date & Time:10 March 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location:Sachar International Center
Room:International Hall
 

The title of her talk is:  "Careers in Social Change." 

 

Susanne Goldstein is an engineer-designer-filmmaker-business strategist who
uses people-centric creative collaboration to accelerate business momentum
and to create and build world-changing solutions. Her diverse Hollywood,
dot-com and social sector experience provide her with a unique framework for
addressing pressing corporate and social issues. With over 20 years
consulting experience for organizations as diverse as Microsoft, The US
Marine Corps, The Museum of Science - Boston, Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government, Walt Disney Studios and Evite, Susanne's specialties include
creative problem-solving, brand differentiation, experience architecture,
social networking and web-based technology solutions.

Susanne has taught graduate course work in "Interactive Product Design and
Development" at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and, as a
Fellow at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership a class in "Leadership for
Social Entrepreneurs". She is a founding partner in Social Venture Partners
- Bay Area, where she led the effort to start an after-school program for
low-income families in San Francisco, and founded Social Enterprise in
Action, a social enterprise advocacy group at Harvard. She serves on the
Boston Board for Peace Games, a Boston-based non-profit that teaches
tolerance and peace in public schools around the country, and on the
Advisory Board for WorldBlu Inc, a company that promotes organization
democracy and freedom-centered leadership in companies.

Susanne, who has worked on over three dozen startups, holds a Masters in
Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School as well as a B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering and an A.B. in Theatre and Film Studies, both from
Cornell University. In a former life, she was a movie producer and
screenwriter in Hollywood.