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:
- Solving Problems, Generating Opportunities: Our JobRaising Challenge, Jan. 28, 2013
- “Philanthropy: Collaboration is key to getting more from less,” Financial Times, Jan. 22, 2013
- How social entrepreneurs tap Africa’s greatest resource, Financial Times’ “This is Africa” magazine, Dec. 20, 2012
- The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, interview, New York Times, Nov. 13, 2012
- “Ambition: The Great Disruptor”, The Atlantic, Nov. 12, 2012
- “It started with Sally and her vision,” Arianna said, Huffington Post Live interview, Oct. 5, 2012
- Key panelist at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (video), Sept. 24, 2012
- Born Free: Delivering on the Promise of the Global Plan Towards EMTCT, Huffington Post, July 24, 2012
- The Innovator’s Intent: Skoll Foundation Evolves Strategy, Drives Change, Forbes.com interview, June 25, 2012
- Sally Osberg’s Blog After the Elders Meeting in Oslo, May 15, 2012
- Philanthropy Forum Lecture Series, Sally Osberg talk: video, April 6, 2012
- Sally Osberg called “one to watch,” April 5, 2012
- Social Entrepreneurs “Refreshingly Uncynical” – But Not at All Delusional, April 20, 2012
- “Social Entrepreneurship: Why it Matters,” March 28, 2012
- Moderating Sundance Stories of Change panel (video), January 25, 2012
- “Why are social entrepreneurs like Ginger Rogers?”, Stanford School of Business, Dec. 15, 2011
- 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, “Social Entrepreneurship and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” July 2010
- Sally Osberg in Innovations, ”Framing the Change and Changing the Frame: A New Role for Social Entrepreneurs,” Sept. 2009
- Sally Osberg at the Yale Club of New York: “New Directions in Philanthropy,” March 2009
- Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg in Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition,” Spring 2007
- “Building the Field of Social Entrepreneurship,” Interview with Sally Osberg by Mitch Nauffts, PND News, Sept. 2006
- Sally Osberg Address on “Starting Skoll,” Delivered to the Associazione fra le Casse di Risparmio Italiane (Rome, Italy), Sept. 2001