Ron Schultz

Ron Schultz has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, emergence, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. His books include: The Complex Buddhist – Doing Good in a Challenging World, (Emergent Publications 2015); Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) featuring chapters from the world’s leading social entrepreneurs; Adjacent Opportunities – Sparking Emergent Social Action (Emergent Publications, 2010); The Mindful Corporation: Liberating the Human Spirit at Work, (with Paul Nakai) (Leadership Press, 2000); Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity, (with Howard Sherman) (Perseus Books, 1998); and Unconventional Wisdom (HarperCollins, 1994).

Ron is the co-founder of Waterman Aylsworth, LLC and founder of Red Tiger & Associates, and Entrepreneurs4Change. All these organizations combine mindfulness, social innovation and entrepreneurship. Today, his efforts have focused these elements within the arena of mindfulness-based emotional intelligence.

Ron has spoken and lectured at such places as: The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, the World CSR Congress, the Social Enterprise World Forum, the Oxford Jam and numerous Social Enterprise Alliance Summits. The universities at which he has spoken include: Trinity College, Dublin, Oxford University, MIT, UCLA, Adelphi University, and the Academy of Management’s National Conference.

His current columns, Adjacent Opportunities and Creating Good Work, appear in the Journal, Emergence: Complexity and Organization and on CSRwire, respectfully.

Ron has also an extensive career in television and film, with dozens of TV credits that include one of the finest movies of the week produced to date, as well as internationally renowned children’s television programs that are still playing around the world.