Hildy Gottlieb is a social scientist and asker of powerful questions. She is the co-founder of Creating the Future, where she teaches people how to change the systems they find themselves in, all by changing the questions they ask.

Hildy is a TEDx speaker, as well as a contributor to the Stanford Social Innovation Review and a blogger at //medium.com/@HildyGottlieb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medium.com. She was the creator and host of the Making Change podcast, where she interviewed dozens of leaders from around the world about the factors that create powerful, positive change. Hildy has lectured at universities around the world, including the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, and at both the Haas School of Business and the Masters in Development Practice program at UC Berkeley.

All Hildy's work is rooted in a combination of research and practical experience, built upon her decades as a consultant, a social change researcher and theorist, and a serial social entrepreneur. Hildy helped develop (and then taught) the current Masters degree program in Community Leadership at Duquesne University (pron. Dew-cáyne). She and her partner, Dimitri Petropolis, also co-founded the world’s first Diaper Bank, sparking the diaper banking movement across North America, and garnering them a Points of Light Citation from President Bill Clinton. 

Hildy’s best-selling books on the nuts and bolts of social change have all become industry standards and are used as texts in both undergraduate and graduate programs around the world. 

When not working, Hildy can be found in the garden, at the movies, shooting photos, or traveling the world in search of a quiet cafe to write.

Read personal stories about the difference Hildy has made in people's lives here.

Jitske Kramer, Corporate Anthropologist, believes in a world that is safe for diversity. She is committed to helping leaders and organizations create environments with the right rhythm of power and love.

Jitske is an expert in the fields of diversity, international teamwork and corporate culture. As a trained ethnographer, she did research in Botswana, Uganda before becoming an organizational consultant. Jitske is dedicated to cracking the code to powerful leadership, while teaching and championing inclusive decision-making processes. It is her desire to fix human fragmentation by (re)connecting people through their differences. She seeks to build strong tribes, safe for diversity and ready for change.

A highly sought after speaker who energizes audiences to really make an impact, Jitske is co-founder and director of the Culture Academy. In 2013 she received the “Trainer of the Year” award from the Association of Dutch Training Professionals (NOBTRA). She is the best-selling author of Deep Democracy (Dutch), Managing Cultural Dynamics and Wow! What a Difference, and is co-author of The Corporate Tribe (Dutch Management Book of the Year 2016).