If you’re out to change the world, Paul Shoemaker is there to connect you to the people, ideas, and organizations that matter.
Shoemaker is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International—the first-of-its-kind and still-largest global network of thousands of social innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and business leaders supporting social change agents in over 40 cities and 8 countries. He is a global thought leader and consultant on activating social change agents and increasing civic impact.
Shoemaker was twice named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential People in the Nonprofit Sector” by The Non Profit Times. He was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Future in Review. Awarded the Red-Winged Leadership Award by Seattle University. And in 2015, he received the Microsoft Alumni Integral Fellow Award, the only MSFT alum to ever be the sole recipient in a year of this prestigious award.
His career brings together a unique breadth and depth of experiences -
Worked extensively across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, i.e. he is truly cross-sector in a way that few leaders are
Learned from and worked closely with a wide range of global CEO’s, national social sector leaders, and local community activators
Brought all of those career vectors together in Taking Charge of Change and his belief in Rebuilders as vital leaders for the ’20s
Authored Can’t Not Do, about the compelling social drive that changes our world.
He has -
Appeared on CNN, CBS w/ Richard Schlesinger, Rainmakers TV, Dent The Future, and at Town Hall Seattle w/ NFL All-Pro, Doug Baldwin
Spoken at TEDx in 3 cities, at United Nations events, the Mashable Social Good Summit, Ignite Seattle, and the Social Innovation Summit,
Written for Thrive Global, the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Huffington Post, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, and the Puget Sound Business Journal.
And over the last 5 years, he has consulted with a wide range of private, nonprofit and public sector entities - the Ballmer Group, Raikes Foundation, Microsoft, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, U.W. Medicine, MudBay, etc. - on a range of challenges from leadership development to business modeling to long-term strategy.