Jacqueline Way is a dedicated world changer. Her soul purpose is to inspire and educate the hearts and minds of people globally to create a happy, meaningful life. She expresses her purpose through her charitable organization 365give created and inspired by her son with a simple vision to “Change the World 1 give, 1 day at time.” She is a world-renowned keynote speaker with one of the most watch TEDx Talks “How to Be Happy Every Day – It Will Change the World” Every day she is committed to living the highest expression of who she is as a human being through her work and by touching the lives of others.

Content creator, TV writer,

Owner of the content and consulting brand 25 Hours a Day, for time managing and life-architecture

I was born in Kibbutz Givat Brenner, to a seven children family. Before the age of twenty I started to work for Haaretz newspaper, and began an exciting media career.

Until the age of 40, I edited, managed and created in almost all worlds of content - news and economics editing in Ha’aretz, news producing in Channel 2, channels managing in Ananey communication and director of development in Keshet broadcasting.

I specialized in digital content in my VP roles at Nana10 and in McCann-Erickson advertising agency.

In recent years I have focused mainly on writing for television. Clues, a drama I created for Keshet Broadcasting, has been sold to CBS.

I am married to the TV producer and presenter Guy Pines, and we are parents to three children.

In 2020 I established 25 Hours a Day, a content and consulting brand around life fulfillment and time management.

Irad Eichler, lives in a kibbutz, married +4, a Serial social entrepreneur, was announced by the world economic forum as a social entrepreneur of the year, Winner of the Bar Ilan social leadership award, and social impact hero by Medium magazine. Founder and chairperson of "Shekulo Tov", Israeli leading organization for vocational recovery, founder of "Circles", an online platform for coping circles in life crises, founder of "Israeli social business school", Israeli third age festival, and a podcaster.

Asha Curran is CEO of GivingTuesday, and co-founder of the global generosity movement. She was formerly Chief Innovation Officer and director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92nd Street Y, where GivingTuesday was founded. Asha serves as Chair of the board of directors of Guardian.org, and on the board of directors of the Scout Film Festival. She is a Fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab within the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. She was named to the Nonprofit Times’ Top Fifty Power and Influence list in 2019.

Keren currently manage three main pillars in sustainability: building HP Indigo sustainability strategy and content for customers (Go-To-Market), sites carbon footprint reduction project management, and internal and  external training and communications, including  close collaboration with governmental and academic bodies and international sustainability organizations. Keren is also an experienced product manager,implementing dozens of products from the planning stage, quality testing, field implementation and customers support.  She holds a B.Sc in Chemistry and M.Sc in Food Science from the Hebrew University.

Natalye Paquin is the president and chief executive officer of Points of Light. She is a visionary and results-oriented leader with a strong track record of performance and transformation in turnaround and high-paced organizations. Prior to joining Points of Light in 2017, Natalye served as chief transformation officer at Girl Scouts of the USA, where she was responsible for strategy integration and was the key face and spokesperson for aligning and unifying the Girl Scouts federation of 112 councils around the strategy. Natalye also served five years as chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, the state’s largest girl-serving organization and among the largest Girl Scouts councils in the nation. She began her career in the nonprofit sector as chief operating officer of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, after having been a volunteer, helping the center think through its education and new audience development programs.

An attorney by training, Natalye spent more than 15 years in the education sector in legal and executive leadership roles. First as a civil rights attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, and with two of the nation’s largest school districts, Chicago Public Schools and the School District of Philadelphia. She began her legal career in private practice as a litigation attorney.

For more than a decade, Natalye has been a director on a corporate board. She currently serves as director of UNIVEST Corporation of Pennsylvania, and is a former director of National Penn Bancshares, which was acquired by BB&T. A philanthropist and committed volunteer, Natalye has served on several nonprofit boards in the arts and education, and is past board chair of the Philadelphia Award Foundation. Recognized for her leadership and commitment to community, she has received numerous awards and has been profiled in several professional magazines.

Natalye Paquin earned a juris doctor from DePaul University College of Law and an undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University. A lifelong learner, she was a national fellow of the Eli Broad Urban Superintendents Academy, has completed executive education programs at Harvard and Loyola University Business Schools, attended the Aspen Ideas Festival as a scholar, and was a distinguished guest of the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General Civic Leaders Tour.

Hubert is one of the founders of EFDN and is an international CSR and football for development consultant. In his position at EFDN and as a consultant, he supports clubs and other football organisations with the setup and development of their CSR policy, M&E protocols, community projects and fundraising activities. Hubert has been active in the football for development sector since 2007 and has gained his experience as CEO of the Community Foundation of NAC Breda and as the national project manager of the Dutch “More than Football” Foundation. Since 2014, he has grown EFDN to over 100 professional clubs, leagues and FA’s from 30 European countries. Additionally, Hubert is the Chair of Show Racism the Red Card the Netherlands, a Dutch organisation focussed on educating children and adults on anti-racism.

Gidi Grinstein is an Israeli serial societal entrepreneur, who currently resides in NYC in order to scale globally an Israeli-Jewish-turned-global humanitarian venture called Tikkun Olam Makers. The mission of TOM is to support the design and dissemination of highly affordable solutions to neglected social problems around the world, primarily of people living with disabilities. TOM was launched by Israel’s Reut Group, which Gidi founded and led since 2004. In 2014, Gidi published his first book Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and of Tel-Aviv University Schools of Law and Economics. Gidi is married to Betty and they are parents to five children. In his spare time, Gidi is an avid long-distance runner.  

Mrs. Kissling devotes a significant amount of time and effort to lead several non-governmental organizations in Costa Rica. She believes in transforming society by investing in a person´s potential leadership to ensure economic and social development. It also increases inclusion resulting in a better society in general.  She is the Founder and President of Vital Voices Costa Rica, local chapter of Vital Voices Global Partnership.

Alexandra is a Board member of the INCAE Business School and is a fellow and moderator of the Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI) from the Aspen Institute.

As of 2015, Kissling is the supervisor of Plan Maestro national programs and member of the Board of Directors. Plan Maestro is a social enterprise that seeks to transform leadership through behavioral changes in order to reach optimal performance. 

From 2001 up to 2015, Alexandra was the Vice President of the Business Association for Development. Currently she is still a Board member and head of the Social Committee for this organization.

From 1987 through 1992 she was a member of the Board of Directors for Corporación Rostipollos, a major restaurant chain corporation in Costa Rica. She is the former sub-director of PRANA Institute for the Promotion of Health. She was the Vice President for the Rasur Foundation and its main project, The Academy for Peace of Costa Rica.

Alexandra holds a Psychology Degree from the Central America University for Social Sciences.  Since 1996 she has been a Meditation Instructor from the Chopra Center for Well Being and also was trained by the Heartmath Institute in California. In 2016, she was certified as ontological coach validated by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the International Coaching Federation of Professional Ontological coaches (FICOP).  Last year she became an executive coach from Incae Business School.

Professor of bioethics at Princeton University, Peter has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, including Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Most Good You Can Do and, most recently Why Vegan? His writings have inspired both the animal rights movement and effective altruism, and he is the founder of the charity The Life You Can Save.

photo by Alletta Vaandering

Establishing Paratrek:

• A venture promotes social equality for people with disabilities by hikes and outdoor activity for people w/without disabilities and educational programs.
• Developed a unique product that allows people with disabilities to hike in non-accessible terrain.
• Leading a delegation of people w/without disabilities to mt. Kilimanjaro cooperates with FAISR association.
• Access Israel commendation awarded.
• in 2008 I went with my paralyzed father on a trip to Turkey. For this trip, we developed the Trekker - an all-terrain wheelchair. This journey set the foundations for Paratrek.

Extras:

• Married, father to 4, lives in Hanaton, tour-guide.
• Teach about people with disabilities guidance in tour-guide studies.
• Entrepreneurs programs alumni: A3I accelerator by presenters, Ruderman fund, Beit Issie Shapiro, and more.

CEO of the NGO "Yeladim - Fair Chance for Children" since 2009. Yeladim specializes in 4 areas: Initiation and operation of educational, rehabilitative, and therapeutic programs for 7,000 children and youth, living in 110 welfare residential care facilities; Operation a unique court-appointed guardianship model; Running a program that combines housing and counseling aimed at supporting residential care graduates who have no family backing; and Lobbying for the rights of children and young adults at risk. Yeladim won the President's Award for Outstanding Volunteer program in 2012.

Yaron is married to Sandra, director of the Vertigo dance troupe, a father of 4 sons, holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of Haifa and worked for 25 years in the field of communications in senior management positions, including as VP of marketing and subscriptions at the business newspaper Globes, Owner of an advertising agency and a senior partner in the campaign that led to the election of the late Yitzhak Rabin as Prime Minister of Israel in 1992.

Mother of Nili, Mika, and Keshet.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Management and Sociology from the Open University and an MA (cum laude) in Conflict Resolution, Management, and Negotiation from the Bar Ilan University.

Social mission and action have always guided my professional choices. In the past, I worked as an aliyah emissary and as the director of a Jewish Agency's Canada delegation. I was the director of community relations at the Adler Institute for about a decade. Since the outbreak of the global coronavirus crisis, I have been serving as the Institute's Executive Director. The Institute promotes individual welfare in Israel while emphasizing each person’s ability to influence his or her own life as well as that of their community.

Founder and President of Proyecto Daniel

Barak Sella, 35, is an activist and entrepreneur in the fields of community organizing, education, culture, and media. Barak is currently the Director for the "Neighborhoods for Change" urban renewal initiative in Haifa. Barak also works as a Community Consultant for Jewish communities in Europe and North America and runs the "Sister Communities Global Project" connecting intentional communities around the word. Barak start his activism in HaNoar HaOved VeHalomed (The Working and Studying Youth Movement). Barak took on several roles in the movement from a counselor, to regional director to eventually becoming the spokesperson for the national movement. From 2017-2019, Barak served as the Central Israeli Emissary for Habonim Dror North America out of the New York office

Barak an educator and member of "Dror Israel", a movement that envisions Israel is a society of democracy, equality, and peace created through education and community Barak currently lives in an Urban Kibbutz in Haifa.