Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini is the CEO and Founder of Mighty Networks, where creators, entrepreneurs, and brands use cultural software to build digital communities. She’s also the creator of Community Design™, a proven strategy framework for understanding and growing communities online and in the real world.

Over 8,000 people have taken her Community Design™ Masterclass where they learn how to build a community so valuable you can charge for it, and so well-designed it essentially runs itself.

She led Ning as CEO from its inception in 2004 to March 2010 as an exponentially growing top 100 global website and one of the most valuable start-ups in Silicon Valley with close to 50 million registered users and touching 90 million people around the globe each month.

She has been featured in Fast Company, Wired, Vanity Fair, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has appeared on CNBC, CNN, and Charlie Rose. She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University, started her career in the High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and received her MBA from Stanford Business School.

Purpose: Design A Community & Change Your Life

What is your purpose and how do you make it matter in modern life?

In this thought-provoking and actionable speech, Silicon Valley social software pioneer and creator of the popular Community Design™ Masterclass, Gina Bianchini offers a step-by-step guide to finding your purpose and translating it into action through the power of community and new approaches to technology.

She offers a unique approach that has helped thousands of people crystalize their purpose and deliver impact— one community at a time.

How to use social media to drive action

For companies and brands, Gina believes the first generation of social technologies was about creating a conversation. The next generation will be about transforming talk into action.

The future of popular culture

When you look at how popular culture has been fundamentally changed by social technologies and media, it’s profound. How will arts, entertainment, politics, and even sports be transformed by social technologies over the next five years?

What your organization can learn from the next wave of social games and platforms

Why do people love social games and how can you take their principles and use them in your organization?

Taking an idea and turning it into a hit

In the case of Ning, she took it from an idea and turned it into one of the top 10 social platforms in the world. What does this take and how can you bring it into your organization?

The future of work

What do start-ups and technology companies who have been living with social technologies for six years know about how social media will change recruiting, training, teams, and how you treat your alumni?

It is through the influence process that we generate and manage change. Like most things, the process can be handled poorly or well. It can be employed to foster growth and to move people away from negative choices and in more positive directions, thereby creating the conditions for new change opportunities. Or, it can be used clumsily, reducing the chance for genuine movement and, in the worst of cases, boomeranging into conflict and resentment.