Marc Freedman is Founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate. He was  founding Faculty Director of the Yale Experienced Leaders Initiative (Yale ELI Fellows), has twice been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, and is the author of five books.

His most recent book — How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations (Basic Books Group/PublicAffairs) — was featured in The New York Times and named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the year’s best books on aging. He has been a speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, SXSW, World Economic Forum, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and many colleges and universities.

Originator of the encore career idea linking second acts to the greater good, Freedman co-founded Experience Corps to mobilize people over 50 to improve the school performance and prospects of low-income elementary school students in 22 U.S. cities. He also spearheaded the creation of the Encore Fellows program, a one-year fellowship helping individuals translate their midlife skills into second acts focused on social impact, and the Purpose Prize, an annual $100,000 prize for social entrepreneurs in the second half of life. (AARP now runs both Experience Corps and the Purpose Prize. The Fedcap Group now runs the Encore Fellows program.)

Freedman was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum/Schwab Foundation, was recognized as one of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs by Fast Company magazine three years in a row, was named an Ashoka Senior Fellow, and has been honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence. He has been a visiting research fellow King’s College, University of London, and served as Lecturer in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management.

Freedman is, or has been, on the boards and advisory councils of numerous groups, including The George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, and the Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging.

A high honors graduate of Swarthmore College, Freedman holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. In 2026 he received an honorary doctorate from Drew University.