Tyler Norris, MDiv, is a social entrepreneur and trusted advisor to philanthropies, partnerships, and government agencies working to improve the well-being of people and place.  For over four decades, he has shaped health and development initiatives in hundreds of communities in the U.S. and around the world, and built over a dozen business and social ventures.

Tyler is co-founder and director of the CEO Alliance for Mental Health; a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and CEO of Trendbenders LLC, He is a board member of the National Academies of Sciences’ Forum for Child Well Being and Mindful Philanthropy. Tyler also chairs the mental well-being initiative in his home community in Idaho and serves as a non-denominational chaplain.

From 2017- 2022, Tyler was founding CEO of Well Being Trust, which for its first 6 years was an impact philanthropy with a mission to advance mental, social and spiritual health of the United States. Previously, Tyler led Total Health at Kaiser Permanente, applying health system payroll, purchasing and investment portfolios to benefit the economic, social and environmental contributors to health. Over the decades Tyler helped start Step Denver; facilitated the opening of the Abraham Path through the heart of the Middle East; was founding president and CEO of Community Initiatives and founding board chair of IP3, the social enterprise that gave birth to the Community Commons, a GIS data mapping and stories platform. In the early 1990’s, Tyler led the Kuhiston Foundation to help establish the national park system and micro-finance in Tajikistan.

Tyler is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Executive Leadership Program, earned a Master of Divinity from Naropa University, and has a Bachelor’s degree in World Political Economy from Colorado College. He lives and serves in the communities of the Wood River Valley of Idaho and Oakland, California.

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