VISIONARY TALK - Key Persons
Christina Economos is a researcher and activist. She led the research in 2001 that documented 10 key attributes of a national movement (documented in this paper). Her city-wide intervention, Shape Up Somerville, was studied as a key success and helped form the Collective Impact model.
Today she directs ChildObesity180, with a mission to reverse the trend of childhood obesity in America. Engaging collaboration across sectors, Christina blends scientific evidence and business innovation for a fresh approach to this serious epidemic.
Job Titles:
- President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Donald Berwick is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). One of the Grand Challenge initiatives Don and the IHI have spearheaded is the 5 Million Lives Campaign, which aims to support the improvement of medical care in the United States.
Don conveys the powerful impact of the 5 Million Lives Campaign in his address at IHI's 16th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care (December 2004): "The names of the patients whose lives we save can never be known. Our contribution will be what did not happen to them. And, though they are unknown, we will know that mothers and fathers are at graduations and weddings they would have missed, and that grandchildren will know grandparents they might never have known, and holidays will be taken, and work completed, and books read, and symphonies heard, and gardens tended that, without our work, would never have been."
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders" - by Fortune Magazine. Dr. Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation set up to bring about exponential change by incentivizing Grand Challenges through the Xprize award. Dr Diamandis' personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."
Job Titles:
- Executive Advisor
- Visionary CEO
Job Titles:
- Founder of Visionary Leadership