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Abigail Falik

Founder & CEOFlight School

Biography

Abby Falik is a social entrepreneur, seeker, and speaker transforming how we learn, launch and lead.

Named one of the “Most Creative People in Business,” by Fast Company and one of Goldman Sachs’ “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs”, Abby has been profiled by the NYT, The Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. She has been recognized as an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Fellow, a Harvard Business School Fellow, and was chosen as one of America's “Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers” by the Business of Giving.

After winning Harvard’s Pitch for Change in 2008, Abby founded Global Citizen Year, an acclaimed Fellowship that used the transition after high school to help young adults find their people, purpose and power. In 2022 she joined the Emerson Collective as an Entrepreneur in Residence to design a blueprint for taking the model to scale.

Today, she’s designing a rebellious rite of passage to equip GenZ with the resilience, empathy and agency they’ll need to change the world....for good.