The Foraker Group

Zaid Hassain, author of The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach To Solving Our Most Complex Challenges, will be presenting at this year’s Leadership Summit on the failure of planning based strategies and how we can be part of a new approach. Join us on April 20 -21 at the Hotel Captain Cook to explore his teachings!

Zaid Hassan is currently Acting Director of the Youth Solutions Lab, a start-up social lab looking for new solutions to the challenges of youth unemployment, mental health and justice. He also is the co-founder of Reos Partners, where he served as Managing Partner of the Oxford office from 2007-2014. Reos Partners is a social innovation consultancy that addresses complex, high-stakes challenges around the world. Zaid has over a decade of experience in developing strategic responses to complex social challenges, including community development, climate change, child malnutrition, employment, energy, financial systems, global food systems, and security issues. His clients have included organizations as diverse as The World Bank, The UN Foundation, various governments, as well as Oxfam, WWF and many more. Zaid has a background in technology and communications. He set up his own company, Anthropic, which focused on both the delivery of new media and the social implications of technology. He has extensive start-up experience, including serving for two years as Chief Technology Officer for smartchange, a dot-com nonprofit start-up. He is author of The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges (Berrett-Koehler, 2014). A native Londoner, Zaid grew up in Bombay, New Delhi, Abu Dhabi and London. He currently lives in Oxford.