Charles Vogl

Charles Vogl is a founding member of the Google Vitality Lab which works to innovate healing in our era. He is also a trusted thought leader for the Google School for Leaders, a program to develop 20,000 managers. His work is used develop leadership and programs worldwide within organizations including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, Dow Inc. and the US Army. Charles got his introduction in community building as a twenty-four-year-old full-time volunteer with a radical homeless shelter in Santa Ana, California. There he was stunned by the compassion and commitment of those doing thankless and nauseating work in the face of overwhelming need. All could only continue by serving in community. He went on to work on rural health care access and human rights as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, where he was mostly exhausted and overwhelmed. It was only later as a struggling documentary filmmaker in New York that new mentors taught him the importance and philosophy of building community for change. For the first time, his work and team achieved international success. His PBS documentary work touched on subjects from genocide education, school reform and civil rights advocacy. The training was critically important when he volunteered as a New York restaurant restaurant worker advocate after experiencing worker abuse himself. He holds a Master of Divinity from Yale where he studied spiritual traditions, philosophy, and business as a Jesse Ball duPont Scholar.