About Rich Harwood
Author, speaker, innovator
Rich Harwood’s perspective is unique – and urgently needed today. For nearly 35 years, he has dedicated his career to revitalizing the nation’s hardest-hit communities, transforming the world’s largest organizations, and reconnecting institutions like newsrooms and schools to their role in society. He has been recruited to solve some of the most difficult problems of our time, including being called into Newtown, Connecticut after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Rich has innovated and developed a new philosophy of Civic Faith and the practice of Turning Outward, helping communities bridge divides to solve problems and create a civic culture of shared responsibility. Thousands of community leaders, public officeholders, foundation and corporate executives, clergy, journalists, and government officials in all 50 states and 40 countries around the globe are using his approaches.
He is an inspiring, sought-after speaker who regularly keynotes major conferences. He appears regularly on major media outlets, such as MSNBC’s Meet the Press Daily, NPR’s All Things Considered, CNN, and Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and has written six books and numerous groundbreaking reports.
Rich can talk about how we can find real, actionable solutions to the overwhelming challenges we face today, including:
the conditions that lead to mass gun violence.
contentious education debates.
growing disparities.
a vacuum in our civic life.
Rich is the Founder and President of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, located in Bethesda, Maryland.
“Fascinating. [Rich Harwood’s report] examines what might be at the heart of what drives today’s toxic politics.”
“For nearly 30 years, Rich Harwood has traveled around the country to help communities solve problems together…He’s been doing this work for a long time, well before the current political environment.”
“Rich’s talk was one of the most hopeful, inspirational, and forward-looking talks I’ve heard in at least a decade.”
MEDIA REQUESTS
If you are a writer, editor, or producer and would like to request an interview for a story, podcast, or video with Rich, please contact Emnet Sisay, Media and Network Engagement Manager at esisay@theharwoodinstitute.org or 301.656.3669 ext. 1003.
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