Founder of We the Planet and Chief Impact Officer of The Chopra Foundation - Kunal Sood

Kunal Sood is a world-renowned social entrepreneur and thought leader in the field of innovation, impact, and leadership. Currently serving as the Chief Impact Officer at the Chopra Foundation and as a Partner at ChopraX, he focuses on unlocking humanity’s limitless potential through inner transformation to drive individual and collective global impact. As the founder of We The Planet, X Fellows, and NOVUS he has made it his life’s purpose to make the impossible possible through service, fellowship, and personal mastery.

From working in the trenches of the slums in Mumbai with Harvard to building global movements with the United Nations in New York with heads of state and iconic global leaders during the General Assembly, Kunal has dedicated his life towards transforming our world for a better future in service of something larger than himself. Over the last decade alone Kunal has curated over 75 high-level summits, originally started out bringing TED to the United Nations. As a high-impact strategist and philanthropist, Kunal works tirelessly to guide and lead others in their search for meaning and purpose through curating extraordinary experiences and hosting iconic leaders to inspire a better way of life. He recently launched #WeTheFuture a global initiative focused on uniting the youth and elders at the nexus of the inner sciences, technological innovation, and human consciousness to help create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

Forbes named Kunal an Icon of Impact as an award-winning disruptive innovator and pioneer in his field. He is a TED Resident, Tribeca Film Festival Disruptor Honoree, Nonviolence Global Ambassador, and Global Innovation Fellow at Columbia University, and has forged successful public-private partnerships with top-tier international organizations, such as Google, SAP, LinkedIn and Meta alongside the United Nations, NASA, X Prize and Singularity University.

Kunal has a lifelong love for learning, earning his MBA from Kellogg School of Management, MSc in Global Health from UCSF, and MAPP in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He started his journey in fashion with a Bachelor’s degree in Design Management from Parsons School of Design. Currently, Kunal is an Executive Fellow at the Indian School of Business (ISB) completing his doctoral training focused on creating a new leadership theory and model he has titled the ‘Theory of Audacity’, where he is conducting groundbreaking evidence-based research in the field helping individuals, teams and organizations worldwide understand and apply the science of Audacious Leadership for a brave new world.

 

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