Hey, I'm Lucian!
San Francisco CA | Member since September 2018
About Lucian Tarnowski
Lucian is Founding Curator and Executive Director of Civana, an emerging community accelerator. Civana enables communities to pool financial and human capital in order to maximize their impact.
Lucian has a decade of experience in designing and powering online communities that connect diverse stakeholders around a shared purpose. For 10 years he worked on BraveNew which enables Fortune 1000 clients such as GE, and Lockheed Martin and collaboratives such as Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Geinsinger Health to cooperate and collaborate around a shared purpose.
Lucian lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco. He has been honoured as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. He has been an active attendee of Davos and other World Economic Forum meetings for 10 years. He has served on the Steering Board for the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Talent Mobility and has been Topic Champion for Education, Employment and Skills. He passionately believes in the need for society to return to communities.
Lucian is an active Advisor to Averon, the identity and cybersecurity company. Averon has created an identity authentication solution that turns the world's 5 billion smartphones into digital identity passports, securely authenticating users via mobile signaling data and SIM technology, with zero effort by users.
Since 2002, Lucian has run Take Heart India, a 55-year-old no overheads charity started by his father that provides blind and handicapped people in rural India with the vocational employment skills to required to get lifelong employment.
He has spoken at gatherings such as Davos, various World Economic Forum meetings, TEDx, The China Digital Summit, Impact Summit and for companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Coca-Cola, Oracle, Pearson, IBM and PWC. He speaks to audiences around the world about communities and the convergence of talent, knowledge and capital and the impact on society.