Breakthrough Solutions: How to Improve Your Life and Change the World by Building on What Works
 
Eleanor LeCain, a leading expert in breakthrough solutions, is a dynamic speaker who gives people hope and inspiration, explaining what is happening now, and what we can do to build a new life for ourselves and to build a new world. With over 20 years experience in finding and building on breakthrough solutions in a variety of fields, Ms. LeCain speaks about leadership and social innovation to emerging and established leaders around the world from Harvard University to Kyoto, Japan, Oslo, Norway, and Penang, Malaysia among others.
 
Ms. LeCain's articles have been published widely from the New York Times to the Boston Business Journal to Le Monde in Paris, France. She profiles breakthrough solutions -- in green jobs, education, parenting, crime, marriage and relationships, conflict transformation, health and ending poverty -- in her forthcoming book, Breakthrough Solutions: How to Improve Your Life and Change the World by Building on What Works. The Introduction is written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She has been a guest commentator on numerous radio and television networks.
 
Ms. LeCain is currently President of NewWayUSA, dedicated to improving lives and saving money by identifying and building on breakthrough solutions. As a consultant, she shows organizational and government leaders the transformational programs, people and principles that can improve results, save money, and help build a new world. She draws on her twenty years of research and experience in social innovation, and her wide network of colleagues with expertise in the best of what's working in their fields. Ms. LeCain strengthens the capacity of emerging and current leaders to see new possibilities and increase effectiveness by understanding the opportunities in this historic moment and by learning from breakthrough solutions.
 
As Executive Director of Blueprint 2000, Ms. LeCain was hired by the Massachusetts state government to create a strategic plan for the future of the Commonwealth that addressed every area of public policy. She also served as the Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of State. Ms. LeCain served as an adviser to the Kyoto Businessman's Association in Japan on opportunities in environmental business. The National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy hired her as a strategic planner for their organization addressing the field of philanthropy and strategic giving. In 2003, Ms. LeCain designed and led a leadership seminar for women in Afghanistan, sponsored by Eve Ensler and the V-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women and Girls.
 
Ms. LeCain earned a degree in Economics from Yale University, and a degree in Law and Social Policy from the University of California Boalt Law School. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and daughter. To enroll Ms. LeCain as a speaker or consultant for your organization, email her at Eleanor@newwayusa.com or call 202-541-7898.
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