Saul Garlick, CEO

Saul Garlick is a social entrepreneur with a long history in public service. Saul is Founder and CEO of ThinkImpact (www.thinkimpact.org), a global social enterprise that hosts the Innovation Institute, a summer full immersion opportunity for US students to live and work in rural Africa to end poverty through market-based solutions. He is best known for his leadership on poverty alleviation in Kenya and South Africa where he has played a direct role in the implementation of over 50 development projects including schools, sports fields, sanitation projects and community halls. Saul has led over 150 people to live and work in rural Africa in the past 4 years and President Nelson Mandela has endorsed his work.

Saul founded a non-profit organization at the age of 17 called Student Movement for Real Change, which rebranded to ThinkImpact in 2009. From his original organization, Saul spun out a new social enterprise, by the same name, which is now his primary focus.

Saul serves on the Board of Directors for Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, an international organization with 8,000 members worldwide as well as the Board of Stakeholders for the University of the Pacific’s Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, the Education Advisory Board of Opportunity Collaboration, and the Advisory Board of IonPoverty.

In 2011, Saul was recognized as a top 9 Young Foreign Policy Leader under 33 by the Diplomatic Courier and is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. He is a US Speaker for the Bureau of International Information Programs at the Department of State. He blogs regularly for The Huffington Post and Social Edge and his work has been featured in Inc., Entrepreneur, and The Washington Post. A Truman Scholar, Saul graduated from Johns Hopkins University and John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). An avid runner, skier and Broncos fan, Saul gets back to Denver, his hometown, whenever someone provides an excuse to go.

Videos from speaking engagements

Saul on Huffington Post

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    • An Ecosystem for Innovation in Higher Education
      What is the force moving this mountain? After all, universities are decentralized, lumbering bureaucracies that don't exactly embrace monolithic approaches to anything, especially if it is primarily focused on practical application. […]
    • Introducing Your Dream Job
      In 2011, a young man from Richmond, CA named Philip Johnson applied for an opportunity to live and work in rural Kenya. The program he was hoping to join was called the Innovation Institute. […]
    • Business and Poverty Alleviation, Meeting of the Minds
      I just got off the phone with Topher Wilkins, COO of Opportunity Collaboration. I always enjoy catching up... […]
    • How to Launch a Social Enterprise
      My social enterprise has gone through many changes and iterations over the years and would better be described as having evolved. At some point in time, it did get started. How does one start? […]
    • Hydros Bottle Is Gift Of 2010
      Hydros is more than a company -- it is an investor in solving the global water crisis. We should all take the extra step and buy bottles that provide an extra layer of safety and health. […]

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