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About Rich Harwood
Author, speaker, innovator
Rich Harwood has dedicated his nearly 40-year 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’s innovative philosophy of Civic Faith and the Turning Outward practice have spread to all 50 states and 40 countries worldwide, helping communities bridge divides to solve problems and create a civic culture of shared responsibility.
An inspiring, sought-after speaker, Rich regularly keynotes major conferences and has appeared in numerous major media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, CNN, Forbes, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Rich is the author of nine books. His latest, The New Civic Path: Restoring Our Belief in One Another and Our Nation, makes the case for why we need a new civic path, not more divisive politics, to address the fundamental challenges we face in America today.
Rich regularly speaks on these and other topics:
Why we need a real alternative to politics to address the deeper challenges we face in society
What it takes to catalyze change in society today
Why polarization is a misdiagnosis
Rich is the Founder and President of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, located in Bethesda, Maryland.
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“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.”
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