An entrepreneur, author and adviser, Mehrdad co-founded High Resolves with his wife Roya in order to create a highly participatory leadership experience that transforms the way high school students see their place in the world. Students are engaged through a three-year curriculum consisting of innovative simulations that imprint learning that is far more visceral and lasting than that generated by scholarly discussion. The program gives students the skills and confidence they need to design and lead projects to improve their schools and to serve their communities. To date, High Resolves has engaged over 10,000 students in high schools across Australia and is expanding rapidly.

Bhatia left a successful career as a CEO of NYSE-listed WNS Knowledge Services, to focus full-time on India's severe job-talent disparity. India is the youngest nation on the planet, with 500 million new job seekers entering the job market in the next 15 years and only a small percentage of them actually considered "skilled" enough to be employed. Aspire provides training to college -age students and the unemployed, partnering with corporations to ensure that students learn skills needed now in the workplace. Aspire is scaling quickly across India's semi-urban and rural areas, with over 30,000 students currently enrolled across 8 Indian states.

De Sola believes that individuals should be involved, take action, and give back to their communities. A real estate development CEO, de Sola began Glasswing, an innovative volunteering initiative designed to leverage individuals', communities', and companies' financial and material resources together for the betterment of society. Serving as a convening agent and catalyst, Glasswing has mobilized over 12,000 volunteers from various sectors and more than $2m to strengthen health, education and other causes in El Salvador. The independent non-profit sees itself as a "zipper" for society, breaking paradigms and leaving a sense of common purpose in its wake.

Novogratz is seeding the next generation of leadership for the social sector by training young people with a combination of business and nonprofit skills. To date, the Fellows program has trained 24 individuals of 16 different nationalities; all of them furthering the vision of patient capital of the Acumen Fund - the successful nonprofit venture capital fund that invests patient capital in businesses providing critical goods and services to the poor, where Novogratz is founder and CEO. The Fellows Program will launch its first regional program in Kenya in 2011 with the aim of developing thousands of leaders around the world in years to come.