Britt Yamamoto has developed and led a number of social enterprises and conducted extensive academic work in the fields of adult learning, international development, and food and agriculture. He is the co-founder and CEO of Perennial where he manages operations, builds partnerships, and facilitates leadership trainings for community-based leaders from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and a Founding Partner with Solutions for Online Integrated Learning (SOIL), which works to design, develop, and facilitate transformational learning at a distance.

From 2006-2016 he was Core Faculty in the Center for Creative Change at Antioch University Seattle. In 2008, Britt founded iLEAP, which was later recognized as a “leadership development pioneer” in the social sector by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

He has also been an organic farmer, created social businesses focused on food, and taught about leadership and change in the citizen sector since 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington and an M.S. in Community Development from the University of California at Davis.