Christopher Stawski is Senior Program Director and Senior Fellow at the Kern Family Foundation. He works to build relational networks and co-develop strategic directions to integrate the Foundation’s focus areas in character, entrepreneurial mindset, and creating value for others. Stawski has been a program and strategy consultant and previously served for ten years at the John Templeton Foundation, where he was a Vice President leading a high-energy, R&D philanthropic unit worth more than $100 million across the Foundation’s donor intent focused on proactively developing cross-disciplinary projects and initiatives. He is effective in working with opinion-leading experts, emerging talent, and colleagues in philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and academia who have the potential to advance breakthrough ideas to transform culture, knowledge, and society. Stawski is a High Honors graduate of Swarthmore College, with a master’s degree from Harvard University and a doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in the study of religion. He was a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he is working with a national network of leading medical schools to integrate character into medical education. Stawski serves on several non-profit boards, including as past Chairman of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN) and current Chairman of USPEN.