Innovation Leadership for Social Impact

Faith leadership is changing. As clergy, lay leaders, and non-profit leaders in the 21st century, we face leading our organizations through rapidly emerging complexity, with significant challenges and opportunities. Our organizations are also rooted in communities experiencing that same complexity through new and evolving social challenges - climate change, gun violence, housing affordability, economic disparity, racial injustice, mental health, and more. As we seek to lead evolving organizations, serve evolving communities, and address evolving challenges, we need some new strategies and mindsets. We need to be able to innovate - to think about problems differently, to see new opportunities, to build new solutions. Leaders who serve with an innovation mindset stand to contribute exponentially – both in their organizations and in the community at large. Join us to learn some innovation mindsets and strategies to level up your ability to innovate for the good of humanity. 

Danielle Goldstone is Founder and Director of innoFaith, a multi-faith network and platform for social innovation that supports leaders in the faith sector to innovate and collaborate for social change. In collaboration with NYU, she launched and co-facilitates an NYU Certificate Course in Faith, Innovation, and Social Impact. She is also a social impact consultant with over 25 years of experience in the global social change and social innovation fields. As Senior Advisor to Ashoka, the world's largest network of leading social entrepreneurs, she helps select new Ashoka Fellows around the world. She was the founding director of Ashoka’s global Empathy Initiative and the associated Changemaker Schools network, which grew to over 25 countries on five continents. Her background additionally includes policy advocacy, as well as human rights analysis related to the U.S. war on terrorism. She serves as Chair of the Board of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington. Danielle has a B.A. in economics and international relations from Stanford University, and a Juris Doctor, Master of Theological Studies, and Graduate Certificate in Human Rights from Emory University, where she was Editor in Chief of the Emory International Law Review. She is an attorney, admitted to the New York Bar.