Michael Strong co-founded FLOW with John Mackey in 2003. Radical Social Entrepreneurs, launched in 2012, is one of three “descendants” of FLOW, along with its siblings Conscious Capitalism and Peace through Commerce. He is lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems, co-authored with John Mackey, Mohammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto, Don Beck, and others. He is currently the co-founder of the Khabele Strong Incubator, a secondary school integrated with an entrepreneurial incubator for teens. Prior to FLOW he spent fifteen years as an educational entrepreneur. A charter school he created in New Mexico was ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S.