ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Nathan Chappell, MBA, MNA, CFRE
As a thought leader, public speaker, author and inventor, Nathan is one of the world’s foremost experts on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and philanthropy. Nathan serves as Senior Vice President of DonorSearch AI, where he leads AI deployments for some of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations.
Nathan’s subject matter expertise has been featured in several publications, including Fast Company, University of Notre Dame and the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy. In 2021, Nathan founded Fundraising.Ai as a member-centric collaboration of nonprofit professionals with a focus on data ethics, data equality, privacy and security, sustainability. Nathan presented the first TEDx on the topic of artificial intelligence and the future of generosity in 2018.
Nathan is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and holds a Masters in Nonprofit Administration from University of Notre Dame, an MBA from University of Redlands, a certificate in International Economics from University of Cambridge and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence from MIT.
Brian Crimmins, MBA
Brian Crimmins is a global leader in social impact, a popular public speaker on fundraising and philanthropy and Chief Executive Officer of Changing Our World, a trusted philanthropy and social impact consulting firm. Through service lines that include fundraising, corporate social engagement, research and analytics, and communications, Changing Our World raises billions in support of client causes, while counseling leading companies and brands to design and implement strategic corporate responsibility programs that deliver social impact while driving business strategy.
Brian is a frequent contributor to publications covering the sector and has been invited to speak around the world on topics touching corporate social responsibility, purpose, and social impact, emphasizing not just what mission-driven organizations can and should be doing in the nonprofit and CSR spaces, but how leaders might organize their inner and personal lives to expand the edges of their own potential.
Brian also serves as a purpose leader within Changing Our World’s parent company, Omnicom, helping it to understand the community impact of more than 200 agencies across its network and advancing its commitment to the SDGs. His expertise is tapped in service to some of the world’s largest and most influential corporations as they define their core reason for being and translate theory into action.
In response to the uncertainty in the purpose and nonprofit spaces brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Brian launched and is host of the popular virtual conference series, Forging Forward, which hosts global leaders from organizations such as Unilever, Comic Relief, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Operation Smile, USAA, TD Ameritrade, United Nations Global Compact, the Environmental Defense Fund, World Food Program USA, Interbrand and General Motors, to name just a few. Forging Forward covers a wide range of topics— corporate social responsibility, philanthropy, healthcare, education, economics—but generally focuses on how nonprofits can win the competition for connection and how business and social impact strategies can and should be authentically aligned.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Science from St. John’s University and an MBA in Marketing Management from St. John’s Tobin School of Business. He is a graduate of the Omnicom Advanced Management Program, a partnership between Harvard Business School and Babson College, and lives on Long Island with his wife and their four children.
Michael Ashley, MFA
Michael Ashley is a former Disney screenwriter and the author of more than 30 books on numerous subjects, including four bestsellers. He co-authored Own the A.I. Revolution (McGraw Hill) which launched at the United Nations and was named by Soundview as one of 2019's top business books. Fast Company Press recently published his latest co-authored book, Decoding Talent: How AI and Big Data Can Solve Your Company’s People Puzzle in Q1 of 2022.
A columnist for Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Becker’s Hospital Review, Michael is an in-demand speaker who keynotes 3-4 times monthly. He is also an official speaker for Vistage, an advisory group with 25,000 members. A former screenwriting professor at Chapman University, his writing has been featured in KTLA, Entertainment Weekly, HuffPost, Newsbase, Fast Company, The National Examiner, the UN’s ITU News, The Orange County Business Journal, Fox Sports Radio, and The Orange County Register.
