TEDxTriangleNC - Christopher Gergen - Life Entrepreneurs

Christopher is a Founding Partner of New Mountain Ventures, LLC, a national leadership development company, and co-author of Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Additionally, Christopher is the co-founder and Board Chairman of SMARTHINKING, the leading online tutoring provider in the United States. Other entrepreneurial ventures include starting the first coffeehouse/bar dedicated to promoting the arts and music in Santiago, Chile and helping to launch the "Entrepreneur Corps" — a national service initiative sponsored by AmeriCorps*VISTA that placed 400 full-time business volunteers for a year of service in over 90 non-profit organizations across the country. Christopher is also a visiting lecturer and director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at Duke University. Most recently, he is co-creating Bull City Forward, an organization that will draw support from the city's political, business and nonprofit sectors, will grow and support social entrepreneurs in a 30,000-square-foot "social innovation campus," to be located downtown.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

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