Sree Sreenivasan is a leading consultant, speaker and trainer for nonprofits, corporations, startups and executives. This year, he’s doing more than 50 workshops in more than 25 cities in a dozen countries. One goal is to help journalists thrive in a digital economy.

In 2018, he and his best friend Andrew Lih launched Digimentors, a new kind of digital consultancy of strategists, trainers and coaches — and doers.

Their clients include UNHCR, the UN refugee agency; the Pulitzer Prizes; Louvre Abu Dhabi; Pratham-USA, the American arm of an Indian nonprofit; TheWrap entertainment news; and Global Teacher Prize, which gives one K-12 teacher in the world $1m (nominations open now).

Sreenivasan has previously served as Chief Digital Officer of the City of New York (working at City Hall); Columbia University; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (leading a 70-person team that helped keep the 150-year-old institution relevant in the smartphone age). Before joining the Met, he spent 20 years as a full-time professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2015; the world’s most influential Chief Digital Officer by CDO Club in 2016; and one of Poynter’s 35 most influential people in social media in 2010. He is a contributor to CNBC’s “Squawk Alley,” appearing monthly to talk tech.

For four years, he taught entrepreneurship at Columbia w/ Ken Lerer, cofounder of Huffington Post; chairman of Buzzfeed and cofounder of LererHippeau Ventures.

Part of Sree’s story, told by PBS Newshour video: http://bit.ly/sreenewshour
and by Quartz: http://bit.ly/sreeqz and by Forbes: http://bit.ly/forbesjoblost

New email newsletter: http://bit.ly/sreenewsletter

Sree’s NYT guide to social media: http://bit.ly/nyt2017

Five TEDx talks: http://bit.ly/sreetedxvideos

Twitter: @sree: http://twitter.com/sree
Instagram: @sreenet: http://instagram.com/sreenet
LinkedIn: /sreenivasan: http://linkedin.com/in/sreenivasan

Email: [email protected]