Lara Galinsky

Lara Galinsky is an author, career expert and senior vice president of Echoing Green—the perfect laboratory in which to study meaningful work. With the mission to unleash the next generation of talent to solve the world's biggest problems, Echoing Green offers seed funding fellowships to the world's most promising social entrepreneurs. Over the last two decades, Echoing Green has invested $30 million in funding to 500 visionaries from around the world.

Galinsky is the co-author of Work on Purpose, which provides readers with a framework for aligning their passions with their talents to achieve personal fulfillment and societal impact through their careers—and the co-author of Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact (2007). She also serves as board chair of StartingBloc.

Before joining Echoing Green, Galinsky served as Do Something's national program director, working with 20,000 educators and 4 million young people to get involved in service learning and community service projects. There, she created the BRICK Award (now called the Do Something Award) to identify and financially support these young leaders.

Galinsky received her Masters in Communications from Columbia University and her Bachelors from Wesleyan University. She is a graduate of the Institute for Nonprofit Management Leadership Development Program at Columbia University, the Public Policy Institute Nonprofit Executive Program at Georgetown and Coro Leadership New York.