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 leading authority on scaling social innovation and high-impact philanthropy. She coauthored Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Wiley 2008), recognized by The Economist on its Best Books of the Year list. Leslie serves as a senior advisor with FSG Social Impact Advisors, a nonprofit strategy firm cofounded in 1999 by managing director Mark Kramer and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. Leslie is jointly writing with FSG principals John Kania and Mark Kramer a book on effective giving, combining FSG’s research on catalytic philanthropy with the best practices from Forces for Good that highly-effective donors use to leverage greater social change. For the past decade Leslie has guided a range of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations across North America as an independent advisor, including family foundations such as the Goldhirsh Foundation. Leslie serves as Changeleader at Ashoka, the oldest and largest venture philanthropy organization supporting thousands of social entrepreneurs worldwide. She is a recent Ashoka managing director and a former director of Ashoka in the USA and Canada. In the 1990s, Leslie cofounded and ran a nonprofit social enterprise, Who Cares: The Tool Kit for Social Change, a national magazine for social entrepreneurs and growing nonprofits. Leslie is a frequent media contributor whose work has been featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She has appeared on programs such as ABC News Now, NPR and PBS. Leslie serves on the boards of the SEED Foundation, Kiva, and Little Kids Rock. She holds an MBA and a BA from Harvard University, and resides in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and young family.

Heather McLeod Grant is a Senior Consultant at the Monitor Institute in their San Francisco offices. She is a 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.