 So I mean that should echoing green is amazing. It's like 27 years has graduated cohort after cohort through their through their programs And I can't think of another entrepreneur network and and support system that is as long-tenured and six. Oh wait Actually, I can it's Ashoka Ha Ashoka Bill Drayton has been running Ashoka for more than 30 years They are a global entity on so many Cuts you want to go geography sector Etc. Etc. They are everywhere and so we thought it would be amazing to get Bill up here to get into conversation with Eric Brandham who's actually the CEO of Mission hub which runs so cap and a bunch of impact hubs around the United States to really go deep on what they are Plumbing in terms of learning so I want to turn it over to Eric Brandham and Bill Drayton and please join me in welcoming them Thanks so much. Thank you, Tim Thank you everyone I know the question has been asked a number of times in terms of folks first so cap But again, raise your hand if this is your first so cap ever And it is mine as well. I feel a little bit like Stephen Colbert on the late show. I sort of like the new gig I feel like I need like a band and about dancing or something like that. That's amazing I am thrilled to be here I joined as CEO of mission hub seven months ago and I'll talk a little bit about mission hub before bringing Bill on to the stage But um, you know, I'm in my mid 40s And this is the world of impact and social entrepreneurship is relatively new for me You know folks in the mid 40s is that classic kind of midlife crisis time, you know, some people find God I like to think that I found good and get to join you here on stage so I Did start life as a climate scientist I was a carbon dioxide researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography working in the lab of dr. David Keeling And worked on the famous Keeling curve both an atmospheric and in seawater carbon dioxide so It has been really fun to move through the technology industry through the worlds of startups and entrepreneurship and eventually working on platforms for innovation which has actually brought me here to mission hub What is mission hub you say? How many of you actually know what who mission hub is actually it'd be like four people in the audience mission hub One of our objectives and goals actually here at Socap was to talk about mission hub and actually raise the awareness of the mission of mission hub We are the parent company of Socap We actually are the a network of campuses impact hub co-working campuses here in the United States and in your program books on the sort of the second and third pages it talks a bit about who mission hub is and with this notion that Socap is really powered by mission hub I view mission hub as a marketplace a Marketplace that is building the future of social innovation with you all as parts of that We are a marketplace of ideas like the Socap conference We are a marketplace for skills in learning one of the new programs that we're launching at Socap 15 is Socap 365 which is actually bringing the content the rich content from this conference out to our five campuses into Weekly programming so that we can inspire and teach the next generation of impact investors and social entrepreneurs We are a physical marketplace for the goods and services that social entrepreneurs need to launch and grow Yesterday Samutney Sam out here. I know it was in the back there Sam is a managing director of impact hub New York City Which is a mission hub company and talked about the impact bizarre Which is this physical marketplace for these goods and services? Hey, Brian Brian Breckenridge from box.org. Thank you for joining us We are a marketplace for financial capital our Philadelphia campus We are going to be building a world-leading center of expertise around impact investing and continue to take this amazing fabric that we are weaving together and bring it to market and Lastly and ultimately we are a marketplace that transcends place You may have seen Socap TV which we're launching at Socap this year so cap 15 which is recordings much of the content and Snippets and bringing it online to a worldwide audience so that they can view and interact with what we're doing So first off, thank you for being here. Thank you for letting me share the stage with you this morning And I am thrilled to bring on to the stage a man who probably needs no introduction to the vast majority of people in this room But I will introduce him nonetheless Bill Drayton is the CEO and founder of Ashoka innovators for the public whose vision is in everyone a changemaker world Or anyone can apply the skills of changemaking to solve complex social problems Bill pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship as a Harvard undergrad as a Yale Student at Yale Law School a management consultant at McKinsey at the US Environmental Protection Agency and as in a MacArthur fellow He's taught law and management at Stanford Law School and at Harvey Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and serves on the boards of Get America working in youth venture. Please join me in giving a very very warm. Socap welcome to mr. Bill Drayton Thank you so much So we're talking actually before this bill and this is your first socap as well in terms of physically being here But I've interacted and seen some of our great content to date. So thank you for joining us Bill you're a lifetime social entrepreneur and have been at the helm of Ashoka since you founded it in 1980 After more than 35 years, what is unique about this moment for Ashoka? Well, I think everyone here knows the answer to that We know The way that we are a transition point the most amazing transition point ever That's why socap is so important. It's a key part of that transition and Ashoka is very privileged To be able to see the patterns because of the three thousand fellows because of our many other partners and In brief summary The world has been organized for millenia for efficiency and repetition. So think assembly line law firm But since 1700 the rate of change after being static has been escalating exponentially it's just a fact and so a World of giving people a skill which they will then repeat for their life doesn't work anymore and That way of organizing doesn't work anymore Instead we are living in a world of change Which is the opposite of repetition and we have to organize differently and everyone has to have different skills so Seeing this and realizing that we're at the turning point I think we all everyone here has a Responsibility to help the world through that transition and the key part is helping people see it Once you see it, then you know what to do especially when the people around you also see it So it's a frame change moment and thank you to socap and everyone here for being a key part of that Thank you you mentioned build the the scale of the Ashoka Fellows program 3,300 fellows across 85 countries with with now An organization of that scale and size. What are some of the patterns that you see you're seeing to emerge from from the fellows themselves? Well, I've just mentioned the most important one, but First of all, let me introduce who the fellows are Over half of them have changed national policy within five years of launch and three-quarters the pattern in the field. So these are Extraordinary people organizations and movements and we would be blind if we didn't see the patterns And that is really really important It's not only seeing where we're going but how to get there and So let me just give you an example of the largest single group of Ashoka fellows Focuses on children and young people which is probably true for everyone here in our personal lives And there's a Extremely obvious pattern 95% of them put kids in charge Which is not what the schools do It's not what most parents do It's a very different model And they're also You can see that pattern in another way because over 80% of the Ashoka fellows Started something when they were in their teens We're usually early teens And so if I just summarize this pattern you can see immediately how it fits a world where everyone has to be a changemaker The new definition of success in growing up and Therefore education is Every young child must master empathy and guide their lives by that and then when they become a young person around 12 And they have to practice and practice being a change maker Now what I've just said is Coming from the reality of a world where everything's changing and where you need everyone to be a change maker Any young person who doesn't have these skills is not going to make it Any society any city any group? It doesn't make sure that this generation of children and young people have those skills is in deep deep and fast trouble So that is a This is like just this is like 100 years ago saying we needed everyone to be literate and written language We needed people to read street signs and manuals No one's ever agreed about how to do that But that's just a fact and we're now at a moment where these other skills cognitive empathy Sophisticated teamwork a completely opposite type of leadership and changemaking is necessary so that is a pattern and The final point about it. It's it fits the everyone a change maker world and you can see that in field after field fellows dealing with health put patients Friends family neighbors peers in charge. Oh, that fits so okay As a part of that as a shoka shifted from just supporting individual Entrepreneurs to this notion of the world right everyone a change maker How did that open up new possibilities for a shoka as an organization of the way that you were organized? so We've historically been organized as a series of Individual entrepreneurs with a team Finding the best ideas entrepreneurs helping them get started building a community in Nigeria or Poland or whatever When you have to take on How are we going to change the framework of thinking for example about growing up Well, then all the pieces have to work together We have to become a fluid open team of teams just as much as everyone else and that's a very different way of organizing Over the last I'd say a couple of years we've learned Something very profoundly powerful Which is collaborative? entrepreneurship to Jiu Jitsu So, okay, we see this new pattern Every young person must practice and practice being a change maker And that means that schools have to be in everyone a change maker culture Well, how do we and in that fits the everyone a change maker world? You have to do that Well, then how do we get people to see it? Well entrepreneurs are always a small force tipping the system How do we do that together and so This is amazing That we're actually succeeding at this and we've there are four stages the first is the trigger What's the least number of forces you need to set in motion? That will create a self-multiplying dynamic leadership teams in a few schools a few writers and publishers and Leadership from some fellows that has already led in the US to 12 graduate schools of education to ministers of education We're looking to Bring on teachers unions Hall sale partners have to pick up in the next stage and you have to make it open The third stage once millions of people see it and are talking and it's the subject of conversation How do you make sure that the conversation is as sharply focused as? Intelligent as possible. How do you provide the flow of anecdotes and then finally institutionalization? That's a completely new thing and it's incredibly powerful and In a world where you have to have fluid open teams of teams This is a really important one whenever there's a critical mess of Social entrepreneurs entrepreneurs bringing major change for the good of all They need to be able to get together to be as powerful as possible And that's what collaborative entrepreneurship. You just who does one of the things we talked about before coming up is Talking about that that 12 year old So I have three kids an eight-year-old boy a 10-year-old girl and a 12 year-old 10 year-old girl and a 12 year-old girl Who was super fun and amazing what what is your message to my 12-year-old daughter Sophie? Who's out there trying to find her own sort of identity in the universe and frankly part of my motivation of coming into this role? Is is trying to be an inspiring person for her and to engage her with this universe of change? What is your message to Sophie? well Given this framework change We have something called Ashoka youth venture and the goal is to help any young person anywhere Have their own dream build their own team and change their school or neighborhood anyone who's done that has There are change makers, so let me tell you a story that I found very powerful in a meeting of about 350 us youth ventures I sit down at lunch and this very tiny young woman comes down and sits to my right No, I turned to and she introduces herself and says I'm 12 because she's sick of people thinking she's a probably And so I asked her what's your venture and she said oh well my brother is autistic and All through school I would cry When he was mistreated But now we fix that. Oh, well, how did you do that? Well, we get together Whenever we see a special student not being treated well and we figure out what to do and then we go and do it and we're very persistent now that's 90% her words word for word and If you were there you would not have one cell of doubt that she is a change maker that she knows it But she's never going to be afraid in her life and she's going to get better and better at this She is able to express love and respect in action in a powerful way and she knows it He's also brought a whole bunch of kids along with her She has her PhD in the most important skills. She has to have to contribute in a world of change There is huge demand for people with those skills the people in this room don't understand because we all have that gift What it's like not to have it. It's terrifying. It's the worst Now I asked you one other question How many student groups are there in Shirley Middle School, which is a poor rural school Which has flight of talent from the community as fast as possible. It's an Appalachian like environment. Oh over 50 Well, if there's one tenth of one percent of all the middle and high schools in the world that have 50 student groups I'd be surprised One guy in that community eight years ago took the youth venture idea and said this is how we turn it around if we've got a Community of change makers were a magnet people aren't fleeing He made it happen. So when she at 11 went into Shirley Middle School She had a problem and everybody said to her You got a problem you solve it you build a team look around. That's the way it's done and she did now What we all have to do is Make sure that every middle and high school in the world is in everyone a change maker world So it is the norm It's not Exceptional to be a change maker because the world needs everyone to be change makers and it's cruel It's awful to allow any person not to have those skills. So there's very direct action here Everyone here knows a young person The next time she says something is a mess put your book down and Quietly say well, how do you think you could solve that problem? Who well, why don't you get your friends together and fix it me? Yeah, you can do this and This is the most important thing you can do and here's why and it's okay to drop piano practice You know anyone can do that and we need to do that for ourselves For our friends for our co-workers and we also have to do it for the organizations we care about This is a very challenging transition from hierarchy and stovepipes and repetition To an everyone a change maker organization and just think about this strategic environment Everyone is bumping everyone else. Everyone is a change maker They're better and better because of so cap in the web that the amplitude of bumping is accelerating. That's why the change Curve is going up exponentially There's just a fact so you need everyone in your organization Whatever it is to understand the environment they're dealing with To see the changes to understand them to change to help the people around you change and to see the Opportunities and then everyone has to come together quickly. Oh, there's a big new value creating opportunity over here And we have to create a new team of teams a different Constellation because it's a new opportunity and oh by the way you don't get to repeat that for 10 or 20 years That's a so this is a different environment. You have to have everyone a change maker and That affects every part of your life And so I just urge you give yourself permission to recognize this is the strategic change This is a historic moment and those who give themselves permission To have the courage to say yes, this is happening and this is really good. This is a much better world That's a great opportunity to serve Thank you so much Bill and thank you for taking the time with us today