Gretchen Ki Steidle is the Founder & President of Circles for Conscious Change, a transformative education firm working with social entrepreneurs, non-profits, and corporations on the use of mindfulness as a design tool for social innovation. Gretchen is also the founder and President of Global Grassroots, an international organization that leads a social venture incubator and mindful-leadership program for women and girls in East Africa. She is author of Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation (MIT Press, 2017), and facilitates experiential programs on mindfulness and social change worldwide. She is also a certified Integrative Breathwork Practitioner and Level-4 Breath-Body-MindTM Practitioner, which she has utilized for trauma-healing among natural disaster and violence survivors globally. Gretchen has an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.