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June 25 and 26, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark
Traci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc. A leading expert in organizational democracy, she has spent over a decade developing methods and tools for building world-class democratic organizations. A frequent speaker, Traci is recognized as one of the business thought-leaders of the next generation of business and has shared her insights with individuals from over 100 countries worldwide. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, US News & World Report and dozens of other media. She currently lives in Atlanta, GA
Traci Fenton
Founder/CEO + Designer
traci (at) worldblu.com
Traci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc., a leadership and business design studio specializing in organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership. As a leading expert in organizational democracy, she is recognized as one of the business thought-leaders of her generation as well as of the next generation of business.
Traci has spent over a decade pioneering methods and tools for designing and building democratic companies, including the WorldBlu Democratic Design System™. Traci's unique vision has created events like WorldBlu LIVE, a first-of-its kind conference on organizational democracy attended by hundreds of business thought-leaders from around the world. Traci also pioneered the groundbreaking WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™, an annual listing of the most democratic organizations in the world.
Drawing from over a decade of original research and hundreds of conversations with business executives and leading practitioners about how freedom, rather than fear and control, can be practiced within a business environment, Traci is currently working on her first book highlighting innovative case studies in organizational democracy. Traci's white papers, The Democratic Company and The Art of Freedom-Centered Leadership have been read by business leaders around the world. She has been published in the Christian Science Monitor newspaper and has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, US News and World Report (online edition) as well as several dozen other magazines, online journals, radio shows and blogs.
Business leaders have taken note of Traci's work, including Fast Company magazine, which has twice selected her into the second round of the annual Fast 50, the search for the "fastest 50 people and ideas." Traci frequently addresses audiences on organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership and has shared her message with individuals from over 100 countries and for organizations such as Yahoo!, Fox Interactive Media, and Harvard University.
Prior to becoming Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc., Traci founded the WorldBlu Foundation, a non-profit think-tank. Previously in her career she worked in public relations and advertising for a Fortune 500 company, was a social venture capitalist for the NASDAQ Stock Market's multi-million dollar educational foundation, and was a social entrepreneurial consultant for a national non-profit organization.
Traci has traveled throughout Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, North America, and Europe. She earned a BA in global studies and entrepreneurship from Principia College and a master's degree in international development from American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. In her free time Traci loves traveling, learning how to play the cello, running, yoga, spending time outdoors, and writing poetry.
