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Sally Osberg
President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
Sally Osberg has led entrepreneurial organizations and been an agent for social change throughout her career. As President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation she partners with Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and heads the organization’s team in identifying and supporting innovators pioneering scalable solutions to global challenges. She is a well-known proponent of thought leadership, research, and alliances that advance the work of social entrepreneurs solving the world’s most pressing problems.
Sally has more than 20 years of social sector leadership, with special expertise in organizational development, strategic positioning and innovative public programming. Her publications include Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition (with Roger Martin) in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Building the Field of Social Entrepreneurship in Philanthropy in the 21st Century, Wayfinding Without a Compass – Philanthropy's Changing Landscape and Its Implications for Social Entrepreneurs in Social Entrepreneurship - New Models of Sustainable Social Change, and Building the Field of Social Entrepreneurship in Philanthropy in the 21st Century: The Foundation Center's 50th Anniversary Interviews. Sally is a frequent speaker on the field including, recently, at the Commonwealth Club of California, Social Entrepreneurship and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which will be published in Social Entrepreneurship in America: Voices from the Frontlines, Lessons in the Field by Stanford University Press, and Partners in Possibility delivered at the University of Southern California Center for Philanthropy and Public Policy’s distinguished speaker series.
Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Sally was founding Executive Director of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, which she guided from its inception to national recognition. The museum received the National Award for Museum Service from the White House in 2001.
Sally earned her M.A. in literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In addition, Sally has held adjunct faculty positions at Hamilton College and Utica College of Syracuse University, where she was also co-director of the Writing Center. As managing editor for the Center for California Public Affairs, she oversaw the publication of reference works in the fields of consumer and environmental affairs.
Currently, Sally serves on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, the Oracle Education Foundation, the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development, the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, and on the advisory board of The Elders, a group of noted statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates, brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. Sally has also served as a member of the board and as President of the Association of Youth Museums, board member of the American Association of Museums, the American Leadership Forum, and Women and Philanthropy, among others. Sally has received the John Gardner Leadership Award from the American Leadership Forum, been inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame, and been named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the “Millennium 100” for her role in shaping and leading Silicon Valley.
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