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Recording of PCDN webinar Hiring for Social Impact with Bob Spoer, Chief Entrepreneur for People at Ashoka

Author:
Craig Zelizer

March 31, 2017

For our March 2017 Webinar we were joined by joined by Bob Spoer, Chief Entrepreneur for People at Ashoka, the world’s leading network of social entrepreneurs (his bio is below).

He shared strategies and lessons for how the social sector can radically changes the approach to recruiting talent through his work at Linkedin, Ashoka and the effort he is leading with partners to build a collaboration ecosystem for scaling the talent pipeline and fostering greater collaboration to better address key challenges facing the world. He also discussed concrete strategies how organizations can better develop networks for change as well as tips for individuals seeking to advance a career in change.

Webinar Speaker

Bob Spoer is Chief Entrepreneur for People at Ashoka, the world’s leading network of social entrepreneurs. 

A veteran of Silicon Valley search Spoer has recruited business and technical innovators globally for a number of Silicon Valley companies.  In addition to LinkedIn, he led global recruiting at Trimble and Teknekron.  He began his search career with Spencer Stuart based in Hong Kong.   Bob is the co -founder of “Recruiting for Good” (RFG)at Linkedin, which does probono searches for ngos globally, leveraging the Linkedin platform.  Pro bono clients have included the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows (RFG was the primary outside recruiting partner), Playworks,  Global Network Initiative and Ashoka.    Thanks in part to RFG’s recruiting success at the outset of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, President Obama signed the bipartisan Talent Act making the Presidential Innovation Fellows program permanent.

A veteran of Silicon Valley search Spoer has recruited business and technical innovators globally for a number of Silicon Valley companies.  In addition to LinkedIn, he led global recruiting at Trimble and Teknekron.  He began his search career with Spencer Stuart based in Hong Kong.   Bob is the co -founder of “Recruiting for Good” (RFG)at Linkedin, which does probono searches for ngos globally, leveraging the Linkedin platform.  Pro bono clients have included the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows (RFG was the primary outside recruiting partner), Playworks,  Global Network Initiative and Ashoka.    Thanks in part to RFG’s recruiting success at the outset of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, President Obama signed the bipartisan Talent Act making the Presidential Innovation Fellows program permanent.

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