21 Years Of Communities: Cults, Meetups, Movements, Grass Roots Organizing, The Airbnb Community | Douglas Atkin

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Course level 301 - Douglas has 21 years of experience growing and engaging communities. He will share his journey and some meta, but practical tips about creating passionate communities that take action. This is one Closing Keynote on communties that you won't want to miss.

About the Speaker:
Douglas Atkin
Speaker and Former Global Head of Community
Airbnb
Douglas was ‘Global Head of Community’ at Airbnb, on its Leadership Team and was also ‘Architect of Purpose, Culture and Core Values’. He worked at Airbnb from 2012-2017 during its hyper-growth years. He led the development of Airbnb’s Purpose to ‘Create a world where Anyone can Belong Anywhere’. He also led all Community initiatives including grass-roots organizing and Movement-making techniques to mobilize Airbnb Hosts and Guests to take political action that changed laws to recognize home sharing.He was Co-Founder of ‘Peers’, a movement for the Peer-to-Peer economy.Douglas was the author of ‘The Culting of Brands: Turn your Customers into Believers’.He Co-Founded Purpose, an organization that creates Movements, and was on the Board of one of its creations: AllOut, the world’s first and largest LGBTQ rights Movement. He was Partner and Chief Community Officer at Meetup in 2007-8.Prior to all this Community, Purpose and Movement-making stuff he was a Branding expert and Strategic Planner at several leading London and New York firms.Chairman of the U.S. Account Planning Group for three years.