Community Consulting for Young Changemakers

June 23-27, 2025 Rose Hill

Non-Credit Course

In this hands-on workshop series, participants will work in consulting teams to co-create a solution for a real world nonprofit organization or social enterprise. Prior to the start of the workshops, the instructor will secure engagement with an organization seeking community consulting support. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with leadership from this organization.

Participants will learn and use proven community consulting tools from Greg Van Kirk’s book, It’s What You Set in Motion: A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking, and build toolkits that they can use in the future.

Skills/Learning Outcomes

Overall, participants will build their changemaking mindsets and skill sets while building
and enhancing crucial 21st century skills including the following:
     ● Team building and teamwork
     ● Active listening
     ● Adaptive leadership
     ● Empathy
     ● Community engagement
     ● Problem prioritization and identification
     ● Collaborative problem solving
     ● Equitable design
     ● Creativity
     ● Professional communication

Instructor Bio

Greg Van Kirk is a practicing social entrepreneur, educator, facilitator, and consultant. He’s a World Economic Forum "Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2012)" and an Ashoka Fellow. He's a former Ashoka Leadership Group Member where he led the Changemaker Schools initiative.

Over the course of over 20+ years, Greg’s founded, led, and/or consulted for dozens organizations in 20+ countries. He's designed (social) entrepreneurial experiences, taught courses, and led workshops for thousands of high school students, university students, and professionals. Apart from Fordham, he’s designed and taught social innovation courses at Columbia University, New York University, University of Maryland, Miami University, University of Wisconsin, and University of New Hampshire. Greg's led partnerships with universities including Cornell University, Duke University, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, and Stanford University. He's designed and led professional development/ experiential learning programs for organizations including Deloitte, Levi Strauss & Co., and Warby Parker. Greg recently published It’s What You Set in Motion: A Toolbox for Collaborative Changemaking.