To all entrepreneurs, innovators, and impact junkies around the world… Let’s go live out our passion, purpose, and calling.
Go with Philip Harding, cofounder of IMPACTJUNKIE, serial social entrepreneur, impact investor, global speaker, and adventurous doer.
His unique speaking, methods, and training have been sought out by international organizations, governments, universities, and media around the world. His work has been featured across the United States, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Guatemala, Belize, Central America, and the Caribbean.
A former senior advisor in the US federal government, he served from the Pentagon to the White House and launched The Great Pitch, which has invested over $16M in good-for-government ideas.
He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University, where was elected university-wide student president and gave the graduate commencement speech to "go serve the world with passion." He was the first distance student elected a Harvard student president while living in California over 3,000 miles away.
He made the leap from a six figure career to the adventurous path of doing more with what he was given - and helping passionate entrepreneurs and investors around the world. He speaks around the globe with the US State Department and teaches a master's course on innovation and impact entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University.
Short bio
Philip Harding is the cofounder of IMPACTJUNKIE, an organization that inspires and empowers entrepreneurs and investors around the world. Philip’s life intertwined social entrepreneurship, innovation, ministry, and youth participation from the start. He was previously a senior advisor at the Pentagon and White House and was co-founder of The Great Pitch, which has awarded over $16 million for innovative ideas to improve government digital services. While serving as the university-wide student body president at Harvard University, he played a key role in the Harvard Innovation Lab and delivered a commencement speech. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard, is currently a mentor at the Harvard Innovation Lab, and teaches innovation and social entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University. He has been asked by the U.S. State Department, along with international universities and companies to develop and deliver innovative training programs. Harding currently trains aspiring entrepreneurs while traveling the world to foster startup initiatives.
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Philip is helping entrepreneurs and investors solve the biggest, hairiest, most audacious problems in the world as co-founder and CEO of IMPACTJUNKIE. IMPACTJUNKIE empowers adventurous doers to “go change some lives today” through creative impact projects, investment deals, and support with a global network of entrepreneurs and investors. Philip is an impact-driven entrepreneur, international speaker, and has worked with change makers at over 20 universities and in the jungles of Central America. He designed and teaches a masters-level required course on innovation and problem-solving as a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a judge for Startup Istanbul, Harvard President’s Challenge, and keynote speaker at Innovation Week in Uzbekistan.