Debbi D. Brock

Biography

Debbi D. Brock is an internationally recognised expert on social entrepreneurship, as well as a trainer and consultant for various organisations focusing on social innovation and scaling social impact. Brock joined Catalyst 2030, a growing network of social change leaders, as the Systems Learning and Development Facilitator in 2021.

Brock previously held multiple posts in higher education, most recently as an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship for nine years. In 2011, she was awarded the “Distinguished Service to the Field of Social Entrepreneurship Education” by AshokaU and launched Social Change Innovators to assist educators with connecting and sharing resources in Social Entrepreneurship Education. Earlier, Brock served as the William and Kay Moore Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management and Director of the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program.

Her passion is social entrepreneurship and how students can identify and seize new opportunities to become agents of change. In 2003, she created the Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook for faculty interested in understanding and teaching the field of social entrepreneurship. Brock’s research includes over 300 courses that address social entrepreneurship, with over 246 specific courses in social entrepreneurship in over 35 countries.

Brock’s recent publications include “Multi-Disciplinary Involvement in Social Entrepreneurship Education: A Uniquely Threaded Ecosystem” and “Using the Social Entrepreneurship Model to Teach Engineering Students How to Create Lasting Change.” She has won the best practitioner paper and best social entrepreneurship paper at USASBE. As the former Director of the Entrepreneurial Resource Lab at Miami University in Ohio, Brock was responsible for building the Lab’s experiential learning programs.