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Reinventing the Social Change Formula: An Overview (Part 1) socialchange2 177 views David Gershon, founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute and author of Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World talks about the limits of our tools for large...
Reinventing the Social Change Formula: An Overview (Part 2) socialchange2 45 views In Part 2 of this video series on reinventing the social change formula, David Gershon describes the gold standard of social change—changing behavior in ways that help soci...
Reinventing the Social Change Formula: An Overview (Part 3) socialchange2 35 views David describes the third and fourth qualities of this social change formula in part 3 of this video series—empowerment and replicability. David calls empowerment his core ...
Reinventing the Social Change Formula: An Overview (Part 4) socialchange2 32 views David Gershon concludes his video series on reinventing the social change formula by describing the fifth quality—creating change leadership capacity. David talks about the...
All Together Now (Part 1) socialchange2 46 views New York City residents talk about All Together Now, a neighbor-to-neighbor emergency preparedness program developed by David Gershon and the Empowerment Institute after th...
Track 3: A Profound Innovation in Education socialchange2 32 views In 2003, the Rhinebeck School District in New York, began sending teachers through Track 3 of the Empowerment Institute Certification Program. The result has been nothing l...
Track 3: A Profound Innovation in Education (Part 2) socialchange2 9 views Track 3: A Profound Innovation in Education
All Together Now (Part 2) socialchange2 164 views In Part 2, of All Together Now participants describe their emergency preparedness strategies including: stocking food, creating heat, light, and phone back-ups, developing ...
Track 3: A Profound Innovation in Education (Part 1) socialchange2 13 views Track 3: A Profound Innovation in Education
Good Morning America First Earth Run (Part 4) socialchange2 135 views Good Morning America broadcast of the First Earth Run, 1986. In this final segment, the torch of peace visits Australia, Brazil, and the western US and then returns to New ...

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David Gershon, founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the worlds foremost authorities on behavior-change and large-system transformation, and applies this expertise to issues requiring community, organizational, and societal change. His clients include cities, government agencies, large organizations, and social entrepreneurs. He has addressed a wide diversity of issues, ranging from low carbon lifestyles, livable neighborhoods, and sustainable communities to organizational talent development and cultural transformation. Over the past thirty years the empowerment programs he has designed have won many awards, and a major academic research study described them as unsurpassed in changing behavior.

David used this empowerment proficiency to organize at the height of the cold war, in partnership with the United Nations Childrens Fund and ABC Television, one of the planets first major global consciousness-raising initiatives—the First Earth Run. Building on his background as the Director of the Lake Placid Olympic Torch Relay, he used the mythic power of relaying a torch of peace around the world to engage the participation of twenty-five million people in sixty-two countries, the worlds political leadership and, through the media, an estimated 20 percent of the planets population in an act of global unity. Millions of dollars were also raised as part of this event to help UNICEF provide care for the neediest children of the world.

Gershon is the author of eleven books, including his recently published Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World, winner of the 2009 National Best Books Award, and Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds, winner of the 2007 Most Likely to Save the Planet Independent Publisher Book Award. He co-directs Empowerment Institutes School for Transformative Social Change which empowers social entrepreneurs and change agents from around the world to design and implement cutting edge social innovations. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on behavior change, community empowerment and sustainability issues.