Empowerment Institute

The Empowerment Institute, founded in 1981 by David Gershon and Gail Straub, has been a global leader for four decades in applying behavior change, community empowerment and transformative social change methodologies to address humanity’s greatest challenges and opportunities.

Its empowerment methodology has been applied to achieve measurable and sustainable behavior change at the individual, community and organizational levels. A major academic research study described this methodology as “unsurpassed in changing behavior.

Empowerment Institute’s clients include cities, government agencies, nonprofits, and a wide array of organizations, societal institutions and social entrepreneurs interested in issues of behavior change, empowerment and large system transformation. Its clients have included American Express, Deloitte, New York City, Philadelphia, the White House, and the United Nations.

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Keywords

behaviour change; community empowerment; transformative social change