​​Abby Falik is a globally recognized social entrepreneur, speaker, and seeker.

Her work reimagines how we learn and lead in a world that's never changed this fast, but will never change this slowly again. She thrives at the interfaces — where fields cross-pollinate, where inner growth drives outer impact, and where ancient wisdom shapes future flourishing.

Named one of Fast Company's "Most Creative People" and to Goldman Sachs' list of "Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs," Abby's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, and PBS. She contributes regularly to global conversations at forums like the Aspen Institute, Milken Institute, and Obama Foundation.

Abby is insatiably curious about life's thresholds — the pivotal moments "on the cusp" when everything is possible and nothing is yet determined. For two decades, she's been drawn to perhaps the most powerful threshold of all: the transition to adulthood.

In 2008, after winning Harvard's Pitch for Change, Abby founded Global Citizen Year, an acclaimed Fellowship that reimagined the "gap year" through an accessible, global immersion.  As CEO, she raised and deployed over $65M in scholarships, shaping the trajectory of thousands of emerging leaders. 

In 2022, she joined the Emerson Collective as an Entrepreneur in Residence to create a blueprint for scaling this impact to the size of a generation. As part of her exploration, she spent the year practicing what she'd preached about learning on purpose from radical educational models around the world with her family (and just three carry-on bags) in tow.

These insights and experiences led her to found The Flight School in 2024 with her cofounder, Chalon Bridges.  Combining ancient wisdom with pioneering technologies, The Flight School reinvents the transition after high school as a rebellious rite of passage—connecting rising leaders to the people, power, and purpose they need to change the world, for good.

Abby currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Harvard Business School and People First, and is a visiting Fellow at Stanford University. She holds degrees from Stanford (BA/M.Ed) and Harvard Business School (MBA).

She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Joel and two young sons, Rio and Luca.

In another lifetime, she'd be a forest monk, a rabbi, or rockstar. In this one, she's committed to anything (and anyone) that helps her become more human in a world becoming less so.