Speaker Bio - James Stauch

James Stauch is the Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University, where he has led the creation of non-credit, co-curricular and credit-based and programs for students and practitioners in social innovation, systems leadership, community investment and the economics of social change. He also co-founded the Trico Changemakers Studio, an on-campus community co-working and social R&D space.

Previously, he served as a philanthropy executive and consultant, including as a senior executive with the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation in Toronto. He has chaired four national and international networks of philanthropic funders, is a leadership faculty member for the Conference Board of Canada’s Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Institute, and a a regular contributor to Future of Good and KCI Philanthropy Trends.

James is the lead researcher / author of an annual scan of trends and issues, produced in partnership with the Calgary Foundation. He recently co-authored a Students’ Guide to Mapping a System, published by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, In Search of the Althruithm: AI and the Future of Social Good, The Problem Solver’s Companion: A Practitioner’s Guide to Starting a Social Enterprise in Canada, and a chapter on the role of business in the community, as part of a forthcoming textbook on the nonprofit sector in Canada, produced by the Muttart Foundation and Carleton University.