Dr. Angela Jackson

Dr. Angela Jackson is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Chief Executive Officer at Future Forward Strategies, a labor market intelligence, design thinking and strategy firm. An expert in impact investing and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), and a leading voice on the future of work, Dr. Jackson has deep knowledge of the technology trends that are transforming organizations, and the human capital infrastructure necessary to ensure long-term profitability and sustainability.

As a Managing Partner at New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy, she was the architect of the Future of Work Grand Challenge, an initiative that reskilled 25,000 workers impacted by COVID-19 and placed them in living wage jobs, and resulted in the development of an innovation ecosystem of over 60 employers, foundations and education operating partners. She is an advisor to Guild Education, Freedom Learning Group, and Education Design Lab, and serves on the boards of Beyond 12 and Summer Search.

Dr. Jackson is passionate about modernizing the public education to employment system, and advancing academic and professional opportunities for women, people of color, and veterans. Her work and writing has been featured in CNN, Forbes, Fortune, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Stanford Social Innovation Review and Harvard Business Review.

Having been a senior advisor to over 100 workforce EdTech startup organizations, Dr. Jackson uses her deep domain expertise to transform portfolio company's talent and sales functions in order to drive growth, scale and liquidity events. She works with executive teams to connect social impact outcomes to broader business goals, proving that business is a critical platform for change. Dr. Jackson holds a doctoral degree from Harvard University, where her research focused on using capital as a lever in service of systems change. She also holds business, marketing and journalism degrees, and certifications from University Missouri-Columbia and INSEAD Business School.