Gretchen Ki Steidle

Gretchen Ki Steidle currently serves as Senior Advisor, Spiritual Civilization at Synergos. She is the Founder & President of Circles for Conscious Change, LLC, a transformative education firm working with social entrepreneurs, non-profits, and academic institutions on Conscious Social Change – a body of work and methodology for using inner work and mindfulness as design tools for social innovation. Gretchen is author of Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation (MIT Press, 2017), and lectures and teaches globally on inner work and social change. Gretchen is the founder of Global Grassroots, an international organization that for 18 years operated a mindfulness-based social venture incubator, launching the ideas of more than 900 women and girls across East Africa, benefiting 250,000 others. She also currently serves as the Director of the Garrison Institute’s Spirituality & Social Change Program. She has an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. A certified Integrative Breathworker, Gretchen has been delivering breath-based therapeutic practices since 2002 to a range of individuals globally, including war survivors, mass disaster survivors, change agents, and first responders. In 2007, Gretchen was honored by World Business Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35. In 2010 she was honored as a CNN Hero volunteering in Haiti after the earthquake. In 2011 she was chosen one of seven Remarkable Women of the World by New Hampshire Magazine. In 2018 Gretchen was named one of Inc.’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers.