Play by Play: Scaling Impact
by Gary Bolles
Once you’ve learned about having impact, here’s your chance to understand proven techniques for scaling your impact - solving even greater challenges of our time.
What you'll learn
There are many challenges in our world today, and you have the ability to generate lasting impact. In the course Having Impact, Saving Lives, you learned the basics of problem-solving to help people and the planet. In Scaling Impact, we’ll go deep - exploring proven approaches like developing a breathtaking vision of the changes you can make in the world, to creating sustainable initiatives that can truly move the needle. You’ll gain an understanding of complex problems, see how you can use your technical and other skills to do more good in the world, expand your thinking on the scale of the impact you can have, and learn how to make those initiatives last.
About the author
Gary A. Bolles is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, consultant and entrepreneur focused on initiatives with impact, especially related to the future of work & learning.
As adjunct Chair for the Future of Work for Singularity University, he leads the organization?s efforts to empower a global community to create an abundant future of work and learning. As a partner in the consulting firm Charrette LLC, he helps clients to identify and understand trends affecting organizations and markets, t... morehrough lectures and strategy consulting. And as co-founder of eParachute.com, he helps job-hunters & career changers, from youth to 50+, with online and in-person programs inspired by ?What Color Is Your Parachute??, the best-selling career book of all time. He also chairs FulcrumConference.com, an event focused on actionable strategies for the future of work and learning.
Throughout the years, Bolles has produced a variety of impact-related strategic initiatives, conferences and events. He is a co-founder of SoCap, SocialCapitalMarkets.net, the premier gathering for impact entrepreneurs and investors. He was the co-producer of DGREE.org, a 2010 conference focused on the future of higher education; Silicon Valley Meets the U.N.; the US Broadband Coalition; and of Closing The Gap: Strategies for an Inclusive Economy. And he is the catalyst for Fulcrum, the Conference on Solutions for the Future of Work, November 2019, fulcrumconference.com.
Bolles is the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and the former editorial director for six technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life.