Wednesday, 12 May 2010, Noon
Pearl Studio
Full Goods building, Suite 115
Grayson Street, San Antonio
Vegetarian lunch to be provided
Space is limited so please RSVP by Friday May 7, 2010 to Ms. Sonia Hernandez, phone 207-6103 or email sonia.hernandez@sanantonio.gov
Mr. Gershon will be available to sign his latest book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World at this event.
David Gershon is the founder and CEO of the Empowerment Institute, one of the world’s foremost authorities on behavior-change and large-system transformation, and applies this expertise to issues requiring community, organizational, and societal change. His clients include cities, government agencies, large organizations, and social entrepreneurs. He has addressed a wide diversity of issues, ranging from low carbon lifestyles, livable neighborhoods, and sustainable communities to organizational talent development and cultural transformation. Over the past thirty years the empowerment programs he has designed have won many awards, and a major academic research study described them as "unsurpassed in changing behavior."
Gershon is the author of eleven books, including his recently published Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World, winner of the 2009 National Best Books Award, and Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds, winner of the 2007 "Most Likely to Save the Planet" Independent Publisher Book Award. His Green Living Handbook won the EPA Environmental Quality Award.
He co-directs Empowerment Institute’s School for Transformative Social Change which empowers social entrepreneurs and change agents from around the world to design and implement cutting edge social innovations. He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Duke and served as an advisor to the Clinton White House and the United Nations on behavior change, community empowerment and sustainability issues.
The City of San Antonio’s Office of Environmental Policy has retained David Gershon to help train and empower the entire City staff in sustainability and to use his strategies to "ramp-up" energy efficiency retrofits throughout the community.
