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Gregg Vanourek is an award-winning author and entrepreneurial leader who teaches and speaks on life design and leadership. He’s worked at market-leading ventures across industries and sectors. He runs Gregg Vanourek LLC (a training and development venture), co-founded the Vail Alliance for Purposeful Living and teaches at the University of Denver and Stockholm Business School.

Vanourek was a tech startup executive at K12 Inc. (now a market leader with $1 billion in sales) and co-founded New Mountain Ventures. He’s co-author of three influential books, including “LIFE Entrepreneurs” (a clarion call for infusing our life and work with purpose and passion) and “Triple Crown Leadership” (a winner of the International Book Awards). His writing has appeared in or been reviewed by Fast Company, BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, New York Times, Entrepreneur, Inc., Harvard Business blogs, and more.

Vanourek has given talks in many countries, including a TEDx talk. Vanourek was Vice Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Program at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Vice Center Director for the award-winning Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship at KTH. He served as Chairman of the Board of SE Forum (a global social entrepreneurship accelerator). He was a senior vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (which he helped to launch) and research fellow at the Hudson Institute. Gregg graduated from the Yale School of Management (M.B.A.), London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc.), and Claremont McKenna College (B.A., magna cum laude), where he was an Academic All American soccer player.