Leaders from all sectors—nonprofit, philanthropy, business and policy—can learn to apply the six practices of high-impact nonprofits to their own work. Forces for Good authors Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant are experienced speakers, consultants, and workshop facilitators.

Leslie Crutchfield is an author, speaker, and advisor to leading nonprofits and philanthropies. She serves as a Changeleader of Ashoka and is co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Wiley, 2008). Ashoka is the world’s oldest and largest organization supporting social entrepreneurs, including the “global greats” of social entrepreneurship such as Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. For the past decade, Leslie has advised a range of foundations, and she currently serves as philanthropic advisor to the Goldhirsh Foundation. In the 1990s, she co-founded and ran Who Cares: The Tool Kit for Social Change, a national magazine for young activists (circulation 50,000). Leslie is a frequent public speaker and university lecturer, and has been featured as one of America’s top leaders under 40 by Newsweek. She volunteered with Crossroads Africa in the Gambia, and serves on the boards of the SEED Foundation, Kiva, and Little Kids Rock. Leslie holds an MBA and an AB from Harvard University, and resides in the Washington, D.C. area with her family.

Heather McLeod Grant is a published author, speaker and consultant to high-impact organizations. She is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Wiley, 2008), which was named a Top Ten Book of 2007 by the Economist. Additionally, she serves as an advisor to the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and to leading nonprofits and foundations. She is a former McKinsey & Company consultant and a co-founder of Who Cares, a national magazine for young social entrepreneurs published from 1993-1999. Heather teaches at Stanford, and speaks and presents widely at industry conferences on Forces for Good, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership, and strategic philanthropy. She has been published in the New York Times, Inc., the American Prospect, and Alliance, and has appeared on CNN and NPR. Heather serves on the Advisory Boards of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the National Civic League. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and an AB from Harvard University, and resides in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.