Bryan Molk has over 10 years of experience in the global development and social impact spaces, where he has co-designed solutions and trained local leaders to advance and scale programming in the sectors of public health, education, social inclusion, digital development, and climate change. He is an expert in design thinking and open innovation and specializes in the development and management of design sprints, co-creation workshops, scaling capabilities, and innovation lab roll-outs.

Before joining Spring Impact, Bryan worked at Chemonics International’s Impact Lab, where he managed innovation functions such as technical assistance capabilities, training and upskilling, and corporate enterprise strategy initiatives across the company’s global workforce of 10,000 staff in 90 countries, implementing over $1.7B in USAID projects. At Chemonics, he co-designed and launched the company’s Scale Accelerator program and Solutions Exchange platform, trained over 500 staff in design thinking methodologies, and led technical assignments for strategy initiatives in Colombia, Rwanda, Tunisia, South Africa, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Previously, Bryan worked with Population Services International in Ethiopia on the flagship “Smart Start” family planning service delivery program where he partnered with IDEO.org and local government officials to design and test a leaner package of services that went on to be scaled nationally by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, reaching over 1 million young married girls and counting with modern contraception. He began his career with the U.S. Peace Corps as a Community Development Educator in Ethiopia, implementing programming for English education and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, and then later working on localization and capacity building efforts for World Education’s Bantwana Initiative, supporting its entities in Zimbabwe, Eswatini, and Uganda transition to locally owned operations and business development processes.

Bryan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Gender Studies from Bloomsburg University and has served as a mentor and expert for the UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab and Schoolyard Ventures.