Alan Webb

Location: Washington, DC, USA

Most of my time is spent spreading Citizen Circles- a method for peer groups to design and run their own local courses together as teams, without the usual division of teacher and student – and open, global courses for the P2PU School of Social Innovation, especially peer-led courses that launch at conferences.

When my projects or partners call for new tools or systems, I work with my long-time friend, business partner, and randomly-assigned first-year college roommate, Jeff Bordogna, together as Night Train Consulting. Night Train’s main current projects are building the Living Transcript, a tool for peer goal setting and accountability that helps you recognizes your strengths and character through accomplishments inside and out of formal work and education, and also a new collaborative songcrafting tool – Dylan’s Fridge.

My path has taken me to Tibet to organize the world’s first Tibetan Social Business Forum and to teach about social entrepreneurship; to Chicago and Australia to measure and help improve the environmental and social impact of a giant global Australian property company, Lend Lease; to the University of Virginia, where I studied economics and psychology and later got into behavioral economics; to the Highlander Center, Toronto, Berlin, or wherever I could connect with our popular education roots; to Charlotte, NC, my original home, where I probably acquired my love for sleeping under trees and bluegrass; and, for the last two years, to Washington DC, home of amazing group houses that are public venues as much as homes, and of so many amazing changemakers. 

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