Elizabeth Isele
Recognized globally - from the hallowed halls of Congress, the domes of Istanbul, the golden spires of Oxford University, and the cockpit of a vintage biplane - as a pioneering senior entrepreneurship expert, Elizabeth is leading the transformation of the culture of aging and retirement. She has created a comprehensive system designed to unleash the potential of seniors age 50+ to create and drive economic markets and generate social and environmental impact. Her passion (grounded in data and metrics) is contagious as she strives to eliminate the prevailing gloom and doom scenario that describes this huge demographic wave as a "silver tsunami" and replace it with the image of a "silver lining," yielding golden dividends.
Since January 2012, she has become the go-to person for all things regarding senior entrepreneurship (programs, policy, capitalization and research) for the White House, the US Congress, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI-America), the EU Commission on Entrepreneurship, the Federal Reserve, the CDFI Fund, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly Cities initiative, Ashoka, and AARP, among many others.
Co-designer and key witness at the first ever US Senate Hearing on Senior Entrepreneurship in February, 2014, Elizabeth also designed with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) the first "50+ Entrepreneurs: New Engines for a New Economy Summit" in Washington, DC, 2012. She also helped design and lead the first ever Senior Entrepreneurship Summit in Puerto Rico in May 2014.
Elizabeth is a sought after speaker at major national and international government, philanthropic, academic, economic and positive aging convenings - in person and online through webinars such as the one she created for the Federal Reserve. Often quoted in publications such as the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, PBS, NPR and Bloomberg Newsweek, Elizabeth also writes on 50+ entrepreneurship for Forbes.com, PBS Next Avenue.org and on her blog at SavvySeniorsWork.com.
As a serial senior social entrepreneur, Elizabeth has dedicated her life to making social change happen: helping individuals find their voices and celebrate their cultures; creating innovative programs for those living at the edges of society so that they could become more self-reliant and active participants in their communities; and building innovative cross-sector collaborations to maximize social impact. She continually researches new, solution-based strategies, purposefully networking innovators, ideas, and values to generate new strategies for creating system change and social capital. Elizabeth believes we need to identify better ways for the social, policy, academic and private sectors to leverage each other's knowledge and build upon each other's success to increase our collective ability to positively impact the world.
Since January 2012, she has become the go-to person for all things regarding senior entrepreneurship (programs, policy, capitalization and research) for the White House, the US Congress, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI-America), the EU Commission on Entrepreneurship, the Federal Reserve, the CDFI Fund, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly Cities initiative, Ashoka, and AARP, among many others.
Co-designer and key witness at the first ever US Senate Hearing on Senior Entrepreneurship in February, 2014, Elizabeth also designed with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) the first "50+ Entrepreneurs: New Engines for a New Economy Summit" in Washington, DC, 2012. She also helped design and lead the first ever Senior Entrepreneurship Summit in Puerto Rico in May 2014.
Elizabeth is a sought after speaker at major national and international government, philanthropic, academic, economic and positive aging convenings - in person and online through webinars such as the one she created for the Federal Reserve. Often quoted in publications such as the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, PBS, NPR and Bloomberg Newsweek, Elizabeth also writes on 50+ entrepreneurship for Forbes.com, PBS Next Avenue.org and on her blog at SavvySeniorsWork.com.
As a serial senior social entrepreneur, Elizabeth has dedicated her life to making social change happen: helping individuals find their voices and celebrate their cultures; creating innovative programs for those living at the edges of society so that they could become more self-reliant and active participants in their communities; and building innovative cross-sector collaborations to maximize social impact. She continually researches new, solution-based strategies, purposefully networking innovators, ideas, and values to generate new strategies for creating system change and social capital. Elizabeth believes we need to identify better ways for the social, policy, academic and private sectors to leverage each other's knowledge and build upon each other's success to increase our collective ability to positively impact the world.
