The Change School was born from personal change experiences of founders Grace Clapham and Solonia Teodros, who grew up as Third Culture Kids, products of an all-encompassing global culture that never stops evolving; citizens of a world where social disruptions and sea changes are the norm.

Grace and Solonia yearned for a space in which transformation was encouraged; a space in which individuals could grow in this unique, shifting moment; a space in which to connect themselves, their work, and a community.

This world cannot be neatly labeled. With that in mind. The Change School founders hope to connect the dots between learning, entrepreneurship and wellness in a way that truly embraces today's global realities. read more..

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Born in Zimbabwe, Patrick was brought up in South Africa, the US and London. Over the past 15 years he has lived and worked in multiple cities across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In his professional life as a consumer marketing strategist, startup founder and Angel Investor he learnt quickly that the world is never static and constant adaptation is essential for success.

Currently based in Singapore, Patrick is the local Community Connector for 9others, a global network helping entrepreneurs and founders solve the problems that keep them awake at night. He passionately believes that connecting individuals across diverse geographies, industries, backgrounds and beliefs has the potential to both spark extraordinary insights and inspire positive change to make the world a happier, smarter, more tolerant place.

Patrick is presently engaged on a building a new venture designed to support the eco-system and startup community in a pivotal frontier market.

A total travel geek, Patrick is happiest on an airplane and would gladly live in an airport if it were possible.

Born in the South of France, Aurélie currently lives in Barcelona, where she is Lead curator of TEDxBarcelonaWomen and TEDxBarcelonaChange and the founder of The A Factor where she organises various inspiring events and innovation tours to emerging countries, to help connect changemakers with themselves. A member of the +Social Good and a Global Connector, she is also part of the Speakers Academy, one of the world’s premier institute of professional speakers. To top it off she is also the Vice President of W4 (Women’s World Wide Web), a crowdfunding platform dedicated to women empowerment projects around the globe.

Aurélie’s past collaborations include Oxfam Spain, Ashoka France and Unreasonable Institute.

In her spare time she loves to dive and travel to remote places such as Uzbekistan or Eritrea and sharing her experiences through her personal blog. Her prized possession is her library full of books from all over the world.

Titania Veda works as a journalist and media consultant for nonprofits and social enterprises.

With a background in journalism and documentary filmmaking, she was the associate editor and journalist at the Jakarta Globe newspaper. She has worked with arts, media, nonprofits and social enterprises in Asia, Africa, Europe and the US.

Over the years, she has been increasingly involved with the social enterprise sector, working with them in the Asian region and the US, as well as partaking in the INSEAD social entrepreneurship program. She helped set-up an international social enterprise in New York, coordinated regional conferences as well as trained and managed junior staff and interns in organizations. Her last official stint was as the Associate Director of Endeavor Indonesia, building the pipeline of mentors and high-impact entrepreneurs in Indonesia. After her sojourn as a cook in NYC, she is back in the exciting minefield of Asia, raring to continue creating impactful programs for women entrepreneurs in Indonesia and worldwide.

Born in Melbourne Australia, Shane has found himself working in Education where he is passionate about creating future leaders and exploring the opportunities for young people. Shane’s current role sees him share his passion in Science at Frankston High School where he explores the prospects to integrate creativity and technology through opportunities such as the Maker Movement.

Shane is continually shares his passion for education and as a result has spoken at a number of key education conferences around Australia. Delivering talks from creativity in science to empowering students to curate their own learning, Shane has shown that he is a passionate and energetic presenter who wishes to challenge and address the future of Australian education.

With an understanding of the changing opportunities for today’s students, Shane understands that key competencies and skills required for the 21st century are changing and is pleased to be leading a new and innovative subject in 2015 promoting entrepreneurship and social innovation to 15 and 16 year olds.

Outside of School, Shane continues his passion in developing young people as the license holder and curator of TEDxYouth@Frankston. Always looking for opportunities to connect with new people and explore new ideas he is excited to be considered a Change Amplifier for the Change School and looks forward to creating and promoting CHANGE.

Iris van den Berg is a passionate facilitator and coach for conscious business, creative confidence and societal impact. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Management & Organisations at Groningen University and is an alumni of THNK’s executive program on creative leadership. Iris is committed to making a difference to the world and the people she interacts with.

With over ten years of professional and international experience in political, corporate and social environments she is able to connect these different big players of our complex world. Iris started her career as an executive assistant to a member of the Dutch Parliament for the liberal party. From there she joined British Telecom Global Services where she held multiple management and customer facing roles, based both in Amsterdam and Singapore. In Asia Iris developed the conviction that the future lies in the hands of organisations who create a better world with their products and services. To contribute to this better world she set up her own business: Option-22. Here she helps people to focus on having, seeing and creating options that empower individuals and organisations to make conscious choices ideally promoting a triple bottom line impact.

Currently based in the Netherlands, she happily calls Amsterdam home and the world her playground.

Matt Rickard is originally from the UK, and now spends his time between Northern Thailand and Singapore. The majority of his corporate career has been spent working with technology startups in various management and business development positions, exposing Matt to all areas of establishing and scaling a small business.

After a visit to a tsunami orphanage in 2007, Matt’s life took a new direction and he got involved in the nonprofit sector, mostly with fund-raising and humanitarian work. Applying his experience working with startups, he went on to launch a number of programs that leveraged socially innovative business models, to achieve their outcomes.

Matt is passionate about human development & social enterprise and enjoys working with others who are developing their own ideas in to projects or businesses, with purpose. He is currently working with a startup in the NFP tech space as well as providing shared value consulting services to corporates.

Brian is passionate about harnessing smart leadership and technology practices to change the world. Applying entrepreneurial literacies he leads strategy execution inside lean startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Relocated from NYC to Melbourne, Australia, Brian drives disruption from inside the Chief Technology Office at Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications company. As Intrapreneur onboard the Business Development and Corporate Innovation team, he works to activate companywide conditions for social and technical innovation.

On the side he enjoys supporting and cultivating The League of Intrapreneurs Australia, which is a community of changemakers working to transform society from the inside out.

Before Telstra he co-led a high-performing team at Hub Australia, co-designing support infrastructure for the Australian social innovation movement. Impact Hubs are collaborative communities of innovators from thousands of startups, social enterprises, corporations, universities, and governments across 50+ cities around the world. Hubs host and incubate cross-sector collaborations addressing complex international development challenges. Visit your local Hub today!

Previously he has worked inside Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Global Affairs teams at several multinationals like Mars, Inc., Fonterra, and P&G and startups like TerraCycle, INTTRA, and FreeAssociation (formerly Coolbirth). He graduated Ramapo College with an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree focused on entrepreneurship, interactive media design, and behavioral psychology. Besides NYC and Melbourne, Australia, he has lived in Barcelona, Spain.

Jeffrey Paine is the founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology seed fund based in Singapore. Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Singapore where he is currently overseeing its expansion in Southeast Asia, and Japan. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore has graduated over 70 companies. He has been Founder Institute Director Award 2012 for "Greatest Ecosystem Impact" Worldwide (Singapore).

Jeff spent the first eight years of his career in early stage venture and private equity in the US, North and South Asia. He co-founded a China market entry advisory firm which was then merged with a China mid-market private equity firm. He is currently an investor/advisor to Redmart, Nitrous.io, Tradegecko, Coda Payments, Ayannah, PopApp, Waygo, Noonswoon, Lenddo, Carousell, AtticTV, Angellist, PT Bilna, monoco.jp, TheBridge.jp, Darma, Sydney Seed Fund, China Axlr8r, and Startup Chile.

He is a Singapore native and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Lizi is currently enjoying her forth life. The first found her as a budding photographer in the UK. The second took her to the shores of Australia, where she cut her teeth in the Advertising industry, picking up a Digital Cannes Lion in her first year. Over the last 9 years she paved the way for global product launches, disrupted the norm on a budget of pennies, changed laws & excited the social sphere. It was at Saatchi & Saatchi she met Yasmin Quemard and became instrumental in the Australian arm of SheSays, a voluntary run program to inspire more women into the creative industry.

Identified as emerging talent in Australia 2013, Lizi was invited to attend the Google +20 collaboration, working with the best Google minds and top Australian industry mentors. 2013 also saw Lizi collect several industry awards, for her work with Greenpeace, OPSM and RSPCA. But more than that she change Australian Law in support of saving animal lives.

As a problem solver, Lizi’s third life, took her in to the entrepreneurial community in Sydney where she became a vital ingredient in setting up Fusion Labs Innovation Business. Today Lizi finds herself in Singapore, a Creative Director at SapientNitro, moonlighting as a storyteller, excited by the tipping point of Asia, keen to learn & eager to make her mark.

Tara was born in India and raised in Singapore; she holds degrees in Creative Advertising from the UK, Drama and English from Canda. Tara has written for the best agencies in Singapore and trend watched across China. She’s an inspiring firecracker, with a brilliant strength to her and knowing wit. Currently Tara is a Senior Consultant at The Futures Company.

Previously Tara was the Lead Trend and Insight Strategist of TrendWatching.com’s Asia Pacific Trend Report and launched the office’s APAC Monthly Trend Bulletins. She has also presented on Asian consumer trends across the globe including SXSW Interactive 2014, TedXWomen Singapore, Mashable Social Good Summit Singapore, Creative Mornings and SheSays Singapore!

Joseph is based in Bali, Indonesia, as Managing Director of the Annika Linden Centre, a social enterprise and first-of-its-kind regional incubator for impact. Joseph is also an active Director of the Inspirasia Foundation, a private foundation investing in health and education across Asia.

In 2008, Joseph worked on the Obama presidential campaign, and was later appointed by the White House as a spokesman for White House priority reform issues - health care, auto industry, Wall St. regulations, and immigration reform. In 2010, Joseph moved onto the cutting edge of how business and philanthropy are being alloyed, joining Dasra in Mumbai.

Joseph has travelled, studied, and worked in 29 countries on five continents, including more than five formative years experience inside emerging market countries.

Joseph, 29, is from Oakland, California.

Olivier is an innovator at heart, passionate about design thinking, who sees opportunities in changing everything around us.

His first years were spent creating phones for emerging markets in an adventure that took him around the world, from the slums of Nairobi to the streets of Bombay, into his consumers' homes and lives, as he worked to better understand their most pressing mobile needs.

He then started the Interactive innovation team at SingTel, exploring the way technology will disrupt design in the next 3 years, and building large scale installations mixing bleeding edge technologies and art.

If you want to get him excited, talk to him about the future of communication or connected washing machines.

Olivier has lived in 7 countries, and is now based in the tropical, food heaven, Singapore.

Richard Korff is the founder of SolidModels, a Singapore-based consultancy for start-ups and small businesses. With more than 14 years in Fuji Xerox and Hewlett Packard as a Solution Architect, Richard has built large financial models for a significant number of projects, to obtain clarity on cost and revenue structures.

He believes that entrepreneurs should benefit from the same power of financial modelling to achieve strong financial sustainability. Richard has always believed that starting a new job or venture, should start with understanding the underlying numbers, and then build a model of that business.

• What cost items are impacting the bottom line?

• What drives these cost items?  

• What are the revenue streams?

• What are the dependencies?  

Applying What-If scenarios and Break-Even analysis on these models can give enormous insights in the potential as well as the limits of the business. These insights are especially important when talking to potential investors, who would want to understand the underlying financials and evaluating best- and worst-case scenarios.

Besides consulting, Richard is also a co-organizer of community platforms like TEDxSingapore and Creative Mornings where he contributes with his passion for technology and A/V related matters.

Co-Founder of Appetite Labs, a F&B/Retail-focused start-up in Southeast Asia, Paul Meyers is an digital media pioneer, having built and led groundbreaking companies across Asia for over 20 years. Some of Paul’s roles have included:

Founder and General Manager of MTVAsia.com; COO of FantasticOne, Asia’s first regional broadband entertainment company; Co-Founder and VP of Business Development of Asiacontent.com, bringing global brands such as CNET, MTV, E! Online, Sports.com, DoubleClick and FashionTV to the Asian Internet; Paul was also part of the management team that took Asiacontent.com public on NASDAQ in 2000.

Paul was Founder and CEO of Acme Mobile, Southeast Asia’s leading distributor of mobile games and entertainment content, which he sold to Binbit in 2009.

Currently Paul consults and advises in the Asian TMT space while serving as a mentor with Founder Institute, Golden Gate Ventures, the Co-Foundry, The Change School and Singapore Management University.

A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, Paul is a great cook and a terrible golfer. He lives in Singapore with his three children.

Lydia Isnanto is a professional photographer, film maker & designer based in Singapore. She’s also the founder and the owner of an international multimedia production team, dzignforyou.com based out of Singapore, and covering projects in Paris, Australia, Japan and Indonesia. With over 12 years professional experience in the industry, she has been dedicating that passion to her greatest masterpiece all the time. Right after her 5 years full time job as web and multimedia designer, she took the courage to do her own business. For the past 7 years, her business venture becoming more popular and goes international. Inevitably her love affair with traveling began there along with an understanding of capturing some beautiful stories of culture, through photo & video.

Her works have been featured by Blisful Brides Magazine, simplywedding.com, National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Traveler Magazine Editor’s Pick, Photo District News Magazine from United States, City News, Extraordinary Wedding Online Magazine, My Paper Newspaper, Aussie Photos, Pier One Sydney and Instagramer Community.

Her works awarded by Photo District News (PDN TOP KNOTS). First Prize Awards from Samaritans of Singapore and AsiaOne. She was selected as finalist as well in Cathay Motion Picture, CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Creative Video Awards by Mediacorp & The Singapore Media Academy.

Sameer is a founding partner at August Capital Partners, based in Singapore. Prior to ACP, he was the founder-MD of an engineering, design and planning firm, Indigo Design & Engineering Associates.

His previous experience includes strategic planning, operational management and M&A roles in the US (PRTM now PWC), UK (Accenture) and Japan (MCI WorldCom) within the Telecom Media & High Technology industries. Sameer has an engineering degree from the University of Virginia and attended HEC, Paris and Columbia Business School for his MBA.

Martin embodies the fact that social and mobile came to the world together. A long-time traveller, he began tweaking with online communities for election engineering and then, the corporate world. He's also waging social experiments to live through social media, not only for it, as he survived a week on social media alone far from home or raised enough money through crowdfunding to wander a month in the US linking back to France with a team of journalists. He's now running his own agency in Paris and Singapore, Agence Tesla, in memory of Nikola Tesla, "the forefathers of all geeks" whose Wikipedia page must be a source of inspiration for anyone willing to innovate and keep open-minded in the same time. Martin will share insights and creative ideas from the social media world, and will be available to empower your projects though the power of crowds & communities.

Sulis obtained a PhD in Human Factors and Ergonomics from NTU, Singapore and has worked 9 years in user experience (UX) research, strategy and design. She is now a consultant in her own firm, Somia Consulting, based in Indonesia. Sulis previously was a UX Specialist at Reading Room, Senior UX Designer at Hewlett-Packard and UX Designer at Dell.

Epi is the Founder and CEO of Crowdsourcing Week, the first global initiative designed to bring together leaders and best practices in crowdsourcing and open innovation. In 2008, he created Ludvik + Partners - one of New Yorks hottest virtual ad agencies built on a 100% crowdsourcing model. Ep is a pioneer, industry expert and thought leader in entertainment advertising.

Scott is a self-proclaimed extrovert who has meshed his fascination with people and what motivates them, with a raw enthusiasm for technology. Scott is a founding member of Moven, the mobile-centric payments business that helps customers to spend, save and live smarter. He is a founder at Next Bank, a mentor to Entrepreneurs throughout the world with Lean Startup Machine, sits on the Board of Care Pakistan and holds advisory positions at FastaCash, Our Better World, HUB Singapore and CDI Apps 4 Good. Scott's energy transfers to the stage as a globally recognised speaker on Digital Consumers, Mobility and Innovation.

When not in a boardroom or on centre stage, you’re likely to find Scott devouring, tweeting, and blogging on the latest and greatest in the world of mobility, serendipity, user experience and entrepreneurial leadership. An outlet that landed him a contribution to Brett King’s best-selling book, Bank 3.0, and Korean best-seller, Beyond Startup.