TEDxTeen - Jeremy Heimans - Aim Higher Than President

Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, a social enterprise that builds movements to help solve major global problems. Jeremy has been building movements since he was a precocious little brat in his native Australia, running media campaigns and lobbying politicians from the age of eight on issues like environmental degradation and nuclear proliferation.

His voice has since broken but those global problems persist, so Jeremy co-founded Avaaz.org, the world's largest online political movement, and GetUp.org, the Australian political movement with more members than all Australia's political parties combined.

Jeremy now leads the team at Purpose, which has built movements to fight cancer with LIVESTRONG, to eliminate nuclear weapons with Global Zero, launched AllOut.org to promote LGBT rights around the world, and is working with Jamie Oliver on a national movement to transform our food culture.

Jeremy's career began with strategy consultants McKinsey and Company, he attended Harvard University and University of Sydney, and is a citizen of Australia and the Netherlands. The World Economic Forum at Davos has named Jeremy a 2011 Young Global Leader.

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[jasonlhaas]

Go 'head, Jeremy!