Systems-led Leadership:
Systems & Social Innovation Tools
for work, life, and these complex times

Daniela Papi-Thornton is an educator, facilitator, and author whose work focuses on systems-led leadership: an approach to social innovation that centers on systems understanding. Daniela is currently a lecturer at University of Colorado Boulder and a consultant with a range of education organizations, foundations, and for-profit companies looking to contribute to systems change. She previously served as a Lecturer at Yale School of Management, Watson Institute, and Oxford’s Saïd Business School where she was also the Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She has also been teaching a certificate courses for professionals through Chicago Booth’s Hong Kong Campus and a social entrepreneurship certificate course at Dartmouth College. She designed an educational tool called the Impact Gaps Canvas used at accelerator programs and social impact education initiatives around the world and launched Map the System, a contest now running at 50+ global institutions. Daniela’s work builds upon six years of emerging market entrepreneurial experience in Cambodia, running a hybrid social enterprise educational organization. She co-authored a book, "Learning Service" and an influential report on "Tackling Heropreneurship" and her TEDx talk on Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship highlights some of her thinking.