Henry F. De Sio Jr.

Hon. Henry F. De Sio, Jr., is known as the global ambassador for changemakers. A leadership advisor, campaign strategist, and keynote speaker, he has served as the executive of both startups and large, complex organizations. As the 2008 Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and then serving as Deputy Assistant to the President in the Obama White House, De Sio came to be intimately acquainted with a new emerging pattern of societal change. He has since followed his campaign-driven passion for hope and change to make changemaking a global phenomenon.

De Sio has engaged with the world’s leading social and business entrepreneurs, and he has brought the powerful framework of new leadership and team-of-teams organization described in Changemaker Playbook to board rooms, newsrooms, community forums, university institutions, and governmental halls all over the world.

Henry De Sio holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School. He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Sine, and their two sons.