2022 PRESIDENT'S COUNCILLAGUNA NIGUEL, CA
June 1 – 6, 2022 (Directors)June 3 – 8, 2022 (Consultants)
David L. Bahnsenis the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The BahnsenGroup, a national private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, New York City, Nashville, and Minneapolis, managing over $3.5 billion in client assets.He is consistently named as one of the top financial advisors in America by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg. He appears weekly on The World and Everything in It, discussing the week’s economic and market news.He is the author of the book,There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths, released in November 2021.
Scott Harrison has helped to bring clean drinking water to millions of people around the world. The founder and CEO of charity: water, one of the most well-known philanthropic organizations in the world, shares how his approach to running a non-profit — from innovation to strategy to partnerships — can be applied to any business to help create outstanding success.
Harrison spent almost ten years as a nightclub promoter in New York City. When he was 28, he decided it was time for a drastic change, and left to spend a year volunteering as a photojournalist aboard a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, West Africa.
During this time, Harrison witnessed extreme levels of poverty and illness, and came to understand that many of the infections and diseases needing treatment were waterborne. With a newfound understanding of the importance of clean drinking water, Harrison returned to New York City in 2006 and established a small team to develop a non-profit dedicated to this cause.
Since then, with the help of more than 1 million donors worldwide, charity: water has raised more than $496 million and funded nearly 59,000 water projects in 29 countries. When completed, those projects will provide over 11.6 million people with clean, safe drinking water.
Harrison has been recognized on Fortune magazine’s list of 40 Under 40, Forbes’ Impact 30, and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, where he earned the #10 spot. He is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and author of the New York Times Bestselling book Thirst.
Re-think the Way You Do Business
Take a moment to think about the way you work. Is it the same as how those around you do it? Why? Because that's the way it's always been done? It's time for a re-think.
Scott Harrison will inspire you with his story of how he took a well-known cause, the worldwide water crisis, and founded charity:water using the innovative marketing techniques he honed as an event promoter in New York City to build it into a successful fundraising enterprise. His secret? Looking at his non-profit as a business, re-thinking the way things are done, and doing it all with a level of transparency.
Scott has single-handedly up-ended the business of fundraising and will inspire you to make the same bold changes in the way you do business.