Jacqueline Novogratz
Keynote Speaker: Social Entrepreneur Fighting Poverty, Founder & CEO of Acumen Fund; Author, "The Blue Sweater" & "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution"
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Categories:Non-Profit, Entrepreneurship, Government, Economy, Inspirational, Disruptive Thinking, Ethics & Integrity, Sustainability, Executive Leadership, World Affairs, Women in Business, Female Leadership, Personal Growth, Storytelling, Motivational, Innovation, Business Leadership, Technology, Environment, Business, Influential Women, Psychology, Social Sciences, Authors, College, Education, Poetry, Culture, Leadership, Finance, Women in Tech, Women's History Month, Women, Futurism
Jacqueline Novogratz Biography
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a nonprofit global venture capital fund turned global organization dedicated to fighting poverty and building dignity through patient investment in companies and leaders. Under her leadership, Acumen has impacted over 650 million individuals worldwide and trained over 1,800 social enterprise builders through Acumen Academy. This initiative has given her a deep understanding of the power of social entrepreneurship, which is highlighted in her books, "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World" and "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World".
Novogratz has been involved in significant initiatives like a $250 million solar plan for Africa’s poorest nations in partnership with the world’s biggest climate fund. Acumen has committed $300 million to climate adaptation for smallholder farmers in developing countries. Her insight has been shared through various memberships in prestigious councils and boards, including the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, UNICEF, the Aspen Institute, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, she has also appeared in interviews and articles in prominent publications such as Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, and Financial Times. She discusses topics like moral imagination in entrepreneurship, the role of impact investors and moral leadership, emphasizing the importance of storytelling in investing to achieve better business outcomes.
Novogratz's work has not gone unnoticed. She was recognized by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers and by Forbes as one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds. Forbes also honored her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2023, she delivered the valedictory address at the University of Virginia, adding to her list of academic accomplishments which include honorary degrees from several institutions such as the University of Toronto, Bard College, Fordham University, the University of Notre Dame. She advocates for integrating social responsibility into business school curricula, as highlighted in her op-ed in the Financial Times. Her insights and activities are frequently featured in major media outlets like Bloomberg and Stanford Business.
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Jacqueline Novogratz Speaking Topics
What does it mean to be a "patient capitalist"? For Jacqueline Novogratz, it means using an entrepreneurial approach in the fight against global poverty. While traditional development aid can meet immediate needs, Novogratz believes that long-term change requires empowering local communities to solve their own problems. Charitable dollars eventually run out, but market-based approaches can continue to create jobs and economic growth over the long term. As founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, Novogratz has invested over $62 million in 60 companies that have provided 45 million low-income individuals with critical goods and services in the developing world. Acumen Fund's portfolio companies include everything from an operator of low-cost maternity hospitals to a manufacturer of anti-malarial bed nets.
Acumen bills itself as a nonprofit global venture fund—but one that seeks to provide the poor with access to the critical goods and services they need so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and unleash their full human potential. The fund starts with donations from philanthropists. But instead of making charitable grants, it uses that capital to make disciplined, patient investments in companies that offer vital services at affordable prices to low-income customers. It also applies rigorous benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of its investments. It's an idea that has turned heads and sparked new debate in traditional development agencies. Acumen's success lies not only in funding life-changing services (such as clean drinking water systems in rural India) but in changing how the world addresses poverty. Jacqueline Novogratz shares with audiences how her own personal experiences inspired her to develop Acumen's innovative business model. She also shares several examples from Acumen Fund's portfolio of investments and the lessons they have learned about how markets can act as a listening device for the needs of the poor.
Jacqueline Novogratz started her career in international banking and has since worked across Asia and Africa finding new ways to use business as a tool to create a world beyond poverty. In 2001 she founded the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture capital fund that invests patient capital—loans or equity instead of grants—in social enterprises that provide critical goods and services to low-income people. Rather than treat the poor as passive recipients of charity, Novogratz sees them as active participants with the dignity to make choices for themselves. Acumen has since grown to invest $73 million in 65 enterprises that have delivered affordable healthcare, safe housing, clean water, sustainable energy, and agricultural inputs to more than 86 million low-income individuals. Novogratz shares with audiences several examples from Acumen Fund's portfolio of investments and the lessons they have learned about how markets can act as a listening device for the needs of the poor.
Jacqueline Novogratz's memoir, The Blue Sweater, tells the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to tackle global poverty. By sharing her experiences in Africa and around the world, she teaches audiences how traditional charity often fails and how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient. Novogratz challenges audiences to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink their engagement with the world.
Jacqueline's memoir, The Blue Sweater tells the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and to find powerful new ways of tackling it. She shares with audiences her experience in Africa and elsewhere that proved to be the starting point for a career focused on radically changing the way problems of the developing world are approached. Jacqueline shows how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and change millions of lives. She challenges audiences to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink their engagement with the world. Rather than seeing the world divided between different civilizations or classes, she puts forth that our collective future rests on embracing a new vision of a single world in which all are connected.
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What topics does Jacqueline Novogratz speak about?
Jacqueline Novogratz is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Non-Profit, Entrepreneurship, Government, Economy, Inspirational, Disruptive Thinking, Ethics & Integrity, Sustainability, Executive Leadership, World Affairs, Women in Business, Female Leadership, Personal Growth, Storytelling, Motivational, Innovation, Business Leadership, Technology, Environment, Business, Influential Women, Psychology, Social Sciences, Authors, College, Education, Poetry, Culture, Leadership, Finance, Women in Tech, Women's History Month, Women and Futurism.
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Jacqueline Novogratz generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
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AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Jacqueline Novogratz for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Jacqueline Novogratz for your next private or corporate function.
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Jacqueline Novogratz is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Non-Profit, Entrepreneurship and Government. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jacqueline Novogratz for live events is $50,000 - $100,000, and for virtual events $50,000 - $100,000. Jacqueline Novogratz generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Sallie Krawcheck, Randi Zuckerberg and Peter Diamandis. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jacqueline Novogratz for an upcoming event.
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Entrepreneurial Approaches to the Challenges of Poverty
What does it mean to be a "patient capitalist"? For Jacqueline Novogratz, it means using an entrepreneurial approach in the fight against global poverty. While traditional development aid can meet immediate needs, Novogratz believes that long-term change requires empowering local communities to solve their own problems. Charitable dollars eventually run out, but market-based approaches can continue to create jobs and economic growth over the long term. As founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, Novogratz has invested over $62 million in 60 companies that have provided 45 million low-income individuals with critical goods and services in the developing world. Acumen Fund's portfolio companies include everything from an operator of low-cost maternity hospitals to a manufacturer of anti-malarial bed nets.
Acumen bills itself as a nonprofit global venture fund—but one that seeks to provide the poor with access to the critical goods and services they need so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and unleash their full human potential. The fund starts with donations from philanthropists. But instead of making charitable grants, it uses that capital to make disciplined, patient investments in companies that offer vital services at affordable prices to low-income customers. It also applies rigorous benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of its investments. It's an idea that has turned heads and sparked new debate in traditional development agencies. Acumen's success lies not only in funding life-changing services (such as clean drinking water systems in rural India) but in changing how the world addresses poverty. Jacqueline Novogratz shares with audiences how her own personal experiences inspired her to develop Acumen's innovative business model. She also shares several examples from Acumen Fund's portfolio of investments and the lessons they have learned about how markets can act as a listening device for the needs of the poor.
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Patient Capital for an Impatient World
Jacqueline Novogratz started her career in international banking and has since worked across Asia and Africa finding new ways to use business as a tool to create a world beyond poverty. In 2001 she founded the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture capital fund that invests patient capital—loans or equity instead of grants—in social enterprises that provide critical goods and services to low-income people. Rather than treat the poor as passive recipients of charity, Novogratz sees them as active participants with the dignity to make choices for themselves. Acumen has since grown to invest $73 million in 65 enterprises that have delivered affordable healthcare, safe housing, clean water, sustainable energy, and agricultural inputs to more than 86 million low-income individuals. Novogratz shares with audiences several examples from Acumen Fund's portfolio of investments and the lessons they have learned about how markets can act as a listening device for the needs of the poor.
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich & Poor in an Interconnected World
Jacqueline Novogratz's memoir, The Blue Sweater, tells the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to tackle global poverty. By sharing her experiences in Africa and around the world, she teaches audiences how traditional charity often fails and how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient. Novogratz challenges audiences to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink their engagement with the world.
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Jacqueline's memoir, The Blue Sweater tells the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and to find powerful new ways of tackling it. She shares with audiences her experience in Africa and elsewhere that proved to be the starting point for a career focused on radically changing the way problems of the developing world are approached. Jacqueline shows how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and change millions of lives. She challenges audiences to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink their engagement with the world. Rather than seeing the world divided between different civilizations or classes, she puts forth that our collective future rests on embracing a new vision of a single world in which all are connected.
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Speaking fees for Jacqueline Novogratz, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Jacqueline Novogratz are $50,000 - $100,000 for live events and $50,000 - $100,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Jacqueline Novogratz, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent. -
What topics does Jacqueline Novogratz speak about?
Jacqueline Novogratz is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Non-Profit, Entrepreneurship, Government, Economy, Inspirational, Disruptive Thinking, Ethics & Integrity, Sustainability, Executive Leadership, World Affairs, Women in Business, Female Leadership, Personal Growth, Storytelling, Motivational, Innovation, Business Leadership, Technology, Environment, Business, Influential Women, Psychology, Social Sciences, Authors, College, Education, Poetry, Culture, Leadership, Finance, Women in Tech, Women's History Month, Women and Futurism. -
Where does Jacqueline Novogratz travel from?
Jacqueline Novogratz generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. -
Who is the agent for Jacqueline Novogratz?
AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Jacqueline Novogratz for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Jacqueline Novogratz for your next private or corporate function. -
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?
AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Jacqueline Novogratz or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us. -
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?
If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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