Speaker’s Bio

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James is a serial social entrepreneur that works and plays in the space between personal change and social change. He is currently helping to build three startups: an open source personal growth platform, a sustainable fish farm, and a university for 10,000 young da Vincis. One day, James hopes to be known as an “angmohporean”. For more see www.jamesnorris.org.

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James works and plays in the space between personal change and social change.

James started as an entrepreneur at 6 years old while seeing firsthand the effects of injustice. Since then he’s founded or established 3 social enterprises, 8 organizations, 5 clubs, and 7 microbusinesses, many of which were focused on creating social good. He happily admits to being an enterprise addict.

He’s also a learning addict. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with 3 majors, 4 minors, and 2 programs.

James is currently growing Self Spark, a social enterprise that spreads open source personal growth events around the world. At its core, Self Spark is about self-actualization, something we rarely talk about. But perhaps should.

He’s also helping Polymath Foundation build a new type of university for 10,000 young Leonardo da Vinci’s. And he’s helping OnHand Agrarian invent a new type of sustainable, land-based fish farming.

For more see: www.jamesnorris.org.

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