Jacqueline Novogratz — Founder & CEO of Acumen. Author of "The Blue Sweater" and "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution." Builder for human dignity. Solving the tough problems of poverty.
Founder & CEO of Acumen. Author of "The Blue Sweater" and "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution." Builder for human dignity. Solving the tough problems of poverty.
Jacqueline Novogratz ranks #404 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Financial Services, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 147.7K followers and published 13 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.
- 147.7K followers
- 13 posts / 30d
- 0.1% avg engagement
- — follower growth / 30d
The roast
Jacqueline claims she has impacted 800 million lives, yet she manages an engagement rate of 0.10 percent. Apparently, solving global poverty is easier than getting a single one of your followers to care enough to hit like.
About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a global organization that fights poverty and builds dignity through patient investment in companies and leaders. She pioneered the concept of patient capital and, through Acumen, has impacted nearly 800 million lives across Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the United States. Under her leadership, Acumen manages $500 million in investments and has trained 2,000 social innovators through Acumen Academy.A serial social entrepreneur, Jacqueline co-founded Rwanda’s first microfinance bank and founded the Philanthropy Workshop and Next Generation Leaders program while at the Rockefeller Foundation. She began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank. She is the author of "The Blue Sweater" and "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution," and has been recognized by Forbes as one of the “100 Greatest Living Business Minds.” She holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from the University of Virginia.
Highlights
- Big Audience — 147,662 followers · top 1%
- Top 5% in Financial Services — Ranked #27 of 547 creators
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #297 of 5940 creators
- Consistent Creator — 11 posts in 30d · top 10%
Recent posts
Years ago in Nairobi, a young man named Alex told me, "I don't want to be a nobody. I want to be a somebody." When I asked what that meant, he said: “to be seen, to be respected, to be recognized as someone who can contribute.” That is dignity — the most fundamental of human yearnings. When we build systems that treat dignity as the starting point rather than the prize, individuals and whole communities begin to transform. Dignity isn't at the top of our hierarchy of needs. It's the foundation of it. This is what I talk about in my chapter in Leading for Tomorrow: a collection of essays fro
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A group of INSEAD MBA students recently visited the Acumen office for a conversation on social impact. Their questions were thoughtful, direct, and full of the kind of hunger to build something better that our world needs from their generation.
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I love the Declaration of Independence. Written by flawed, idealistic people — like all of us -some of whom didn't live by their own words, yet who aspired to be, and be part of, something better. And those words and the promise of a nation built on a big idea would change the world. It would take two centuries, punctuated by wars, amendments, movements, you name it, for "all men" to begin to mean "all people. And we still have a very long way to go. But the dream is real. And just as there are no perfect people neither are there perfect nations. The debates we have regarding what freedo
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