Carly James

Simply put, Carly believes in a world where every person is able to live a healthy, fulfilled life. She's spent the last 10+ years living and working all over the world as a strategic designer in a social impact consultancy. From the sands of Somalia to the shores of Fiji, Carly's spent time with low-resource communities to understand their challenges and co-design tailored solutions with and for them. These solutions ranged from service and product solutions, behavioural change interventions, process improvements, organisational strategies and more. Her clients have included UNICEF, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The World Bank and more. Carly's projects stretched across a variety of sectors, including but not limited to maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, sustainable agriculture, humanitarian innovation, financial inclusion and more. Through this work, Carly discovered firsthand the power of joining commercial success and social impact. She's since been leading a new venture, With & For, in which she works closely with businesses who are seeking to create or expand their impact in the world. Carly's a Harvard-educated designer, published anthropologist and proud TEDx alum. She's also an Alabama native, self-proclaimed Francophile, and taco enthusiast.