Jonathan Prosser is an executive leader and social entrepreneur. His track record is of delivering growth and impact through new asset creation, serial innovation, and by developing teams in both commercial and social impact settings: from Fortune 500s, to start-ups, and NGOs. Outside of his practice, he has contributed at leading universities (Cambridge, London School of Economics, Sydney, New South Wales); supports other with coaching (founders and portfolio companies in impact funds, accelerators and venture capital, as well as executives and students); and in public diplomacy where his efforts have focused on child centred nations, entrepreneurship diplomacy, peace innovation and PeaceTech, sport diplomacy, and advisory input into committees on domestic and foreign policy.
He is Director of Innovation Lab at Compassion UK, focused on scalable, sustainable solutions to address child poverty. His wider contributions are as the Founding Executive Director of peace innovation NGO PaxHax, which catalyses youth to solve barriers to peace, and serving on the Forbes Non-Profit Council, a by-invitation group of chief executives and senior leaders.
He has founded the innovation lab at Compassion UK, founded and taken to revenue an international development & entrepreneurship consultancy, an innovation agency, a social start-up / NGO, a charitable foundation, a corporate innovation department and its subsequent ventures, and a coaching business. In other leadership roles he has led teams to deliver a commercial turnaround and served as a Board member for non-profits in health and sport, and completed programmes with Clinton Global Initiative and the Institute for Economics & Peace. In consulting he worked on both strategy and delivery up to Fortune 10 companies. His work has been recognised with industry, academic, and community awards.
Jonathan holds an MA from the University of St Andrews where he majored in international relations, and an MS from Babson College Graduate School of Business in management – advanced entrepreneurial leadership. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Anthropological Institute in recognition of his work (FRSA, FRAI), and is an Associate Fellow of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology. LinkedIn.
