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Chris Foltz

Managing Director

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Responsible Solutions Ltd

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About

Chris Foltz is a narrative architect, startup advisor, and speaker who helps leaders redesign the stories, identities, and stakeholder ecosystems that shape organizations. He believes organizations don’t transform until their narratives do. Neither do the leaders who shape them.As Managing Director of Silicon Valley-based Responsible Solutions Ltd., Chris helps founders, executives, governments, universities, and innovation ecosystems navigate strategic pivots, align stakeholders, and build organizations that create lasting impact. His work combines narrative architecture, stakeholder strategy, AI, organizational transformation, entrepreneurship, and positioning to help leaders communicate complex ideas, earn trust, and turn ambitious visions into movements.Chris serves as a Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Founder Institute, the world's largest AI-native company builder, and is a top rated mentor to entrepreneurs on six continents. He is also Co-Founder of AI Alt Lab, leads Strategic Initiatives for the Human Intelligence Movement, chairs the Ugwumba Center for Leadership Development in Africa International Board, EIR for the Georgia Technology & Innovation Agency’s startup acc

Experience

Global Entrepreneur In ResidenceFounder Institute
Dec 2022
Entrepreneur in ResidenceFounder Institute
Dec 2021
MentorFounder Institute
Mar 2021
Director of Strategic InitiativesHuman Intelligence Movement
Aug 2025
Chief Operating OfficerThe Other Magazine
Jun 2025
AdvisorThe Other Magazine
Oct 2024
AdvisorNutty Ventures
Jan 2023
Mentorgener8tor
Sep 2026
Co-Founder & Entrepreneur-in-ResidenceAI Alt Lab
Oct 2024
Advisory Board MemberClover Leaf University™️
Jan 2023
Chairman, International Advisory CouncilUgwumba Leadership Center
Jul 2026
International Advisory CouncilUgwumba Leadership Center
Jun 2022
Vice Chair, International Advisory CouncilUgwumba Leadership Center
Jan 2025 to Jun 2026
Founding Board MemberWomenovate
Jan 2021
AdvisorLoyal VC
Feb 2022
AdvisorDream VC
Jan 2022 to Dec 2024
Board of DirectorsIndustrial Hemp Research Foundation
Feb 2021 to Oct 2024
Event Chairperson & Founder#WIUMEGAReunion
Jul 2019 to Oct 2023
AdvisorMyAlyce
Feb 2023 to Sep 2023
AdvisorEvergreen Fund
Feb 2023 to Sep 2023
AdvisorFive Discovery
Jan 2026
Startup MentorTechstars Startup Weekend
Apr 2022 to Apr 2023
AdvisorSensi
Aug 2021 to Dec 2022
Vice President of Global ReachSensi
Jun 2020 to Jul 2021
Director of CommunicationsSensi
May 2020 to Jun 2020
Director of Sensi Cares InitiativeSensi
Mar 2020 to May 2020
Associate PublisherSensi
Dec 2019 to Mar 2020
AdvisorSevenTrain Ventures
Jun 2021 to Jun 2022
AdvisorHouse of Puff Inc.
Jan 2021 to Jan 2022
National Policy DirectorLouisiana Hemp Alliance
Jan 2019 to Jan 2020
Research And DevelopmentPrivate R&D Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2015 to Jan 2020
Managing DirectorResponsible Solutions Ltd
Sep 2021
FounderResponsible Solutions Ltd
Nov 2013 to Nov 2016
Adjunct FacultyColumbia College Chicago
May 2013 to Mar 2016
Commissioner (Chairman)Village of Deerfield, Illinois
Sep 2009 to Mar 2016
Special Assistant/Senior Advisor to the PresidentNational Women's Political Caucus
Aug 2014 to Jul 2015
President, Associate Board of DirectorsA Safe Haven Foundation
Apr 2012 to Oct 2013
Co-FounderChristopher Foltz Collaborative, L3C
Jun 2010 to Oct 2013
Communications Director - Great Lakes RegionYoung Democrats of America
Jan 2009 to Jan 2010
Consultant and Staff - Major CampaignsThe ITOK Group Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 1999 to Jan 2007
Deputy Communication Director/Press SecretaryZinga for Congress Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2003 to Jan 2004

Education

Institute for Real Growth
IRG100 Leadership Program Humanized Growth
2020 to 2021
Founder Institute
2021 to 2021
The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
Internship Political Science and Government
2000 to 2000
Western Illinois University
115 Credits Political Rhetoric and Business Communication
1999 to 2004