Meredith Lobel

Meredith has a proven track record helping entrepreneurs realize their visions and catalyze their growth. Meredith’s expertise in business design stems from her commitment to innovation and ability to reveal customer needs.

Prior to High Start Group, Meredith was Director of Insights for consumer and business products at ShopWell, a Silicon Valley startup spun off from the global design firm, IDEO. She specialized in using human factors techniques to uncover customer insights. Meredith also worked with both medium-scale and Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods companies to develop a data analytics platform that harnessed the data from ShopWell’s health-focused web and mobile products. In addition to market research and product strategy, Meredith also co-led ShopWell’s business development and marketing.

A recognized leader in the field of social entrepreneurship, Meredith served as a Global Director at Ashoka and founded the first platform for open-sourced social innovation, Changemakers.com. She managed a team in 15 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, which provided business support to hundreds of entrepreneurs. In an effort to scale these services, Meredith pioneered the Changemakers web platform to help social entrepreneurs spread innovative practices about financial sustainability. Meredith has a great passion for sharing entrepreneurial lessons across sectors, countries, and industries.

Meredith holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Sociology from Wesleyan University.