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Susan Davis left a Division Administrator position for Harris Bank's Personal Trust Group after nine years to start Capital Missions Company (CMC), a social venture consulting firm, in June of 1990. From 1965 to 1979, Susan helped start five social ventures: Boston's black newspaper under publisher Melvin Miller (1965); an urban affairs publishing firm under John Naisbitt (1968); the country's first minority enterprise publication (1969); the first national publication for working women (1969); and ShoreBank Corp. under Ron Grzywinski (1973). Susan launched the Development Deposit Program at ShoreBank as one of country's first "cause-related marketing programs."
Ms. Davis used these experiences in business and finance to create a unique networking innovation method now proven successful through 19 networks created over a 29-year period. This method, called KINS (Key Initiator Network Strategy), uses nature as a model for innovation following a simple 9-step method anchored by 30 people from 30 diverse constituencies.
KINS has been used to create a social venture capital industry (Investors' Circle), a socially-responsible business industry (Social Venture Network) and a family office industry (Harris Family Office Management Conference). KINS has proved effective to target business parity for women (Committee of 200), to "make solar happen for the world" (Solar Circle) and to create a better mousetrap for venture capital (Solaria Investors' Circle).
It has been successful in catapulting women into top financial management spots (Chicago Finance Exchange), in catalyzing civic activity in a major city (The Chicago Network), in introducing microfinance into Nigeria (Growing Businesses Network) and in showcasing social investment products (Making A Profit While Making A Difference Conference).
It has been used to teach wealthy women finance (Financial Forum), teach social investing to institutional investors (Triple Bottom Line Simulation), teach women investors to invest in women-led businesses (Capital Circle) and teach business leaders "EarthCare" (Kindred Spirits Network).
In the above efforts, Susan Davis has either served as the Founding Organizer or a key founder and now shares the KINS method through her work. Currently she is founding the Tipping Point Network with the mission of catalyzing a globally sustainable economy.
Ms. Davis received a B.A. cum laude in Russian from Brown University in 1963 and did graduate work in anthropology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1965-66. Her entrepreneurial tutoring came from her father, who grew the Bancroft Racket Company from a small to a large enterprise. Susan has recently married Walter Moora. They live an ecovillage in Wisconsin and have daughters Eve, Blake and Julia and son David.
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