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Traci Fenton



pic_manTraci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc., an Austin based leadership and business design studio specializing in organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership. As a leading expert in organizational democracy, she is recognized as one of the business thought leaders of her generation as well as of the next generation of business.

Fenton has spent over a decade pioneering methods and tools for designing and building democratic companies, including the WorldBlu Democratic Design SystemTM. Her unique vision has created events like WorldBlu LIVETM, a first-of-its kind global conference on organizational democracy.
Fenton also pioneered the groundbreaking WorldBlu List of Most Democratic WorkplacesTM, an annual listing of the most democratic organizations in the world that premiered in 2007. She has been published in the Christian Science Monitor newspaper and has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, US News and World Report, Boston Magazine as well as dozens of other media.

Fenton also frequently addresses audiences in organizations ranging from Yahoo! to Fox Interactive Media to Harvard University on organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership and has shared her message with individuals from over 100 countries.
Drawing from over a decade of original research and hundreds of conversations with business executives and leading practitioners about how freedom, rather than fear and control, can be practiced within a business environment, Fenton is currently working on her first book highlighting innovative case studies in organizational democracy. Her white papers, The Democratic Company and The Art of Freedom-Centered Leadership have been read by business leaders around the world.

Prior to becoming Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc., Fenton founded the WorldBlu Foundation, a non-profit think-tank. Previously in her career she worked in public relations and advertising for a Fortune 500 company, was a social venture capitalist for the NASDAQ Stock Market’s multimillion dollar educational foundation, and was a social entrepreneurial consultant for a national non-profit organization.