Sally Osberg
Sally Osberg has led entrepreneurial organizations and been an agent for social change throughout her career. As President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, she partners with Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and heads the organization’s team in identifying and supporting innovators pioneering scalable solutions to global challenges. She is a well-known proponent of thought leadership, research, and alliances that advance the work of social entrepreneurs solving the world’s most pressing problems.
Currently, Sally serves on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, the Oracle Education Foundation and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She was founding Executive Director of Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, guiding that institution to international recognition for its cutting edge work in the museum field, and formerly active as a director on the boards of the American Association of Museums, the American Leadership Forum, and Women and Philanthropy, among others. Sally has received the John Gardner Leadership Award from the American Leadership Forum, been inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame, and been named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the “Millennium 100” for her role in shaping and leading Silicon Valley.
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Speeches and Publications:
- Sally Osberg: Results at Scale, Duke Divinity School Interview in Faith and Leadership, March 29, 2011
- Huffington Post: An In-depth Interview With Sally Osberg, President And CEO Of The Skoll Foundation, March 22, 2011
- “Partners in Possibility,” Sally Osberg at the USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy Distinguished Speakers Series, Oct. 28, 2010
- Sally Osberg at the Commonwealth Club, July 2010: “Social Entrepreneurship and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
- Sally Osberg in Innovations, Sept. 2009: “Framing the Change and Changing the Frame: A New Role for Social Entrepreneurs”
- Sally Osberg at the Yale Club of New York, March 2009: “New Directions in Philanthropy“
- Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2007: “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition”
- “Building the Field of Social Entrepreneurship,” Sept. 2006: Interview with Sally Osberg by Mitch Nauffts, PND News
- Sally Osberg Address on “Starting Skoll,” Sept. 2001: Delivered to the Associazione fra le Casse di Risparmio Italiane (Rome, Italy)