Dennis Whittle
Co-Founder
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Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Religious Studies
1983Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs
M.P.A., Development Studies
1986Harvard Business School
E.D.P.
1998Podcasts
0:30:3062: Feedback Labs & Philanthropy With Dennis Whittle, Feedback Labs [Main T4C Episode]
Dennis Whittle has worked for the past 30 years in philanthropy and aid. He is currently the co-founder and CEO at Feedback Labs a consortium that aims to change the norms in development, aid, and philanthropic policy to be more responsive to those in need. Dennis also co-founded and was..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“As you have more experience, you start to think about organizations as organisms and trying to change an organization is a very complex and difficult task.”
Best Career Advice
“You have to just go out in the world and do what makes sense.”
Career Challenge
“One of the things that you don’t see on my resume is long flat periods of excruciating boredom. And there’ve been times in my exciting career where nothing really interesting has been happening. You do have to go through long periods of boredom or working with uninteresting people and things to get to the peaks. Don’t be discouraged by that.”
Skills
International Development, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Non-profits, Start-ups, Philanthropy, Economic Development, Community Outreach, Grant Writing, Thought Leadership, Public Speaking, Policy Analysis
Professional Interests
Michael Moritz, Mike Bloomberg, Sara Blakely, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Crowdfunding for development, Harvard Business Review Discussion Group, Global Service Leaders, Princeton University, Harvard Business School
