Cheryl Dahle
Entrepreneur and CEO
| Flip Labs
United States
Cheryl is an entrepreneur and journalist who works at the intersection of business and social change. She is co-founder and CEO of Flip Labs, a social innovation design firm. The company’s first foray into systems work was tackling the global problem of overfishing through its Future of Fish initiative, which Cheryl led for seven years. The project became a non-profit innovation hub that supports the collective impact of entrepreneurs whose ideas help end overfishing. Future of Fish was one of two national finalists in the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which recognizes insightful system approaches to complex problems.
Previously, Cheryl was a director at Ashoka, where she distilled knowledge from 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insight to foundations. She also spent a decade writing about technology, social entrepreneurship, and business for publications including The New York Times, CIO, and Fast Company, where she founded the Social Capitalist Awards. For her work with Future of Fish, Dahle was named a national “Eco-Innovator” by USA Today in 2013 and was a finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge in 2012. She has also been a Change Agent in Residence with Bainbridge Graduate Institute and is the board chair of Criterion Institute.