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.

Currently, Tyler is co-founder and senior advisor to the CEO Alliance for Mental Health; visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, CEO of Trendbenders LLC, and a board member of Mindful Philanthropy, the National Academies of Sciences’ Child Well Being Forum, and the Global Flourishing Study. From 2017- 2022, Tyler served as founding CEO of Well Being Trust, which for its first 6 years was a national-facing impact philanthropy with a mission to advance mental, social and spiritual health of the United States. Previously, Tyler led Total Health at Kaiser Permanente. Over the decades Tyler helped start Step Denver; the Abraham Path in the Middle East; was founding president and CEO of Community Initiatives and founding board chair of IP3/Community Commons. In the early 1990’s, Tyler led the Kuhiston Foundation to help establish the national park system and micro-finance in Tajikistan.