Steve Waddell 

Responding to the 21st century’s enormous global challenges and realizing its unsurpassed opportunities require fundamental change – transformation – in our mental models, structures and institutions, cultures and values, and relationship with the natural environment. For over 40 years Steve has been supporting this through community organizing, consultations, education, research, and personal leadership.

This includes the field of finance, where Steve is Lead Steward for global community of finance innovators and thought leaders who have formed FEST. They are developing the field of “financing systemic transformation.” This builds Steve’s leadership role for a decade with the world’s largest community credit union, co-founder of what is now Canada’s largest family of socially responsible investment funds, lead of the Global Finance Initiative and work with the Global Knowledge Partnership, the UN Global Compact, World Bank, Global Reporting Initiative, Ford Foundation, Humanity United, Civicus, International Youth Foundation, USAID, International Development and Research Centre, Forest Stewardship Council, and Future Earth.

Dozens of publications include the books Societal Learning and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies (2005); Global Action Networks: Creating our future together (2011); and Change for the Audacious: a doers’ guide to large systems change for a flourishing future (2016). Steve has a Ph.D. in sociology and an MBA. He a Canadian-American living in Boston. More can be found on LinkedIn. 

Steve's Bounce Beyond Role

Steve is Co-Lead Steward in Bounce Beyond, along with Lesley Southwick-Trask.