William Gibson
Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner
Dr. William Gibson is a culture geek, innovator, and entrepreneur with 25+ years of blended nonprofit and private sector executive management experience. He is a leader of innovation strategies, social entrepreneurship, and CBO collaboration who is known for solving ambiguous problems at scale.
In the private sector, Gibson spent more than 16 years in business startup and marketing, where his focus was strategy development, corporate communications, product development, and creating a culture where teams could thrive. He has led and collaborated on a number of new startups, supported by more than $5M of VC and angel investor funding and held two design patents. Gibson is also a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
He completed his doctorate at George Fox University (Portland, OR) focusing on semiotics/future studies, with an emphasis on social and technological advancement. He completed his master’s at Duke University (Durham, NC), with a focus on social entrepreneurship. He serves as an adjunct faculty member and dissertation advisor for doctoral candidates at George Fox University. Gibson also serves on the Advisory Board of the Tombolo Institute at Bellevue College for their Customer Experience (CX) Program and on the board of the Women-Sew Global Foundation.
He has presented and consulted internationally in Seoul, Korea; Belfast, Ireland; and London, England, and served in Central America and Japan.