A Socio-Economic Development Summit · SED
You won’t have to explain
yourself here.
Three days in Orlando with people who are already doing the work — sustainability leads, social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs pushing change from inside, career-pivoters figuring it out as they go. Real stories, not lectures. Tools you can use Monday morning.
The room
Not another panel where everyone already agrees.
Service is what good business already is — but saying that out loud at work usually gets you a blank stare. Here, it doesn’t. This is a room built for people bringing their whole selves to the table: spiritual, professional, skeptical, hopeful, all at once.
Two questions we’ll actually sit with, not just gesture at:
- How do we become more conscious participants in our own business worlds?
- What practices make us better employees, better founders, better neighbors?
Who you’ll sit with
Meet some of the people you’ll sit with.
Founders, scholars, and practitioners on the future of business as a force for good.
Isabel Sawhill
Capitalism and the American Dream
Christopher Kai
Story-Based Leadership
Robert Atkinson
The Way of Unity: Building a Worldwide Enterprise for Flourishing Communities and Planetary Well-Being
Paul Hanley
Can Regenerative Agriculture Feed the World, Solve Poverty, and Address Climate Change?
Bruce Koerber
Divine Economy Theory
Adam Torres
Why Business Ecosystems Matter
Live performances
And on the stage.
Between three days of ideas, the room takes a breath and listens — a short program of live performance.
Watch the film
Two minutes on the world we mean to build.
What you’ll leave with.
Practical frameworks you can apply immediately, not just inspiration that fades by Monday.
A room of peers who get it without you having to explain yourself first.
Real conversations across sectors — energy, healthcare, agriculture, education, faith — all wrestling with the same core question.
The details
December 18–20, 2026
$200 general admission · $50 student · group discounts for teams
This isn’t a room to sit in the back of.
Seats are limited. If this is the work you’re already doing — or the work you’re trying to start — come be around people who won’t need it explained.