BeSeeDo works with purposeful partners, chosen carefully.
If you are a philanthropist, policymaker, or educator wanting to help people flourish — let’s start a conversation.
Partnership unfolds over time. Every relationship begins with a short, defined season. What grows from there is decided together.
We listen carefully and pressure-test the intention behind the work — helping you clarify what you’re actually building.
For partners ready to build change that compounds over years, we help you design impact strategies worthy of your legacy.
The results framework. The campaigns we help build are designed to outlast everyone in the room.
We flourish together or not at all. From kitchen-table campaigns to global treaties, our work has rested on three requirements for flourishing — always linked, never optional. Connect. Protect. Create.
From the kitchen table to the public square to the cultures we share.
Physical safety and survival, the dignity and peace that belong to everyone.
Beauty in nature, arts and science, lifelong learning and storytelling.
What flourishing looks like when the work compounds.
164 treaty states and demining efforts have turned conflict zones back into places people can farm, walk, and raise children.
192 countries guarantee legal protection for the dignity and rights of 1.3 billion people living with disabilities — the direct result of a coalition we helped build.
Thousands of interfaith leaders are learning to treat violence as a contagious disease — inhibiting its viral spread.
A private conversation about your work — and the moves that compound results over time. Begin with a season; decide together whether to stay.
A field guide to flourishing — craft impact strategies that connect people, protect communities, and create a better world.
Keynotes, commencements, and convenings on humane leadership, resilience, and the next generation of changemakers.
A private 45 minutes. No deck, no pitch — just a first read of the work you’re trying to build and whether we’re the right partners for it.
A speaking practice built over three decades — keynotes, commencements, and private convenings on humane leadership, resilience, and how ordinary people build extraordinary movements.
For more than thirty-five years, Jerry White has partnered with survivors, statesmen, and philanthropists to turn conviction into international outcome. His work shaped three international treaties — the Mine Ban Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — and a shared 1997 Nobel Peace Prize with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Jerry teaches humane leadership, advises philanthropists and policymakers, and is the author of I Will Not Be Broken: 5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis (St. Martin’s Press, 2008; paperback Getting Up When Life Knocks You Down, 2009), co-author with Georgette F. Bennett of Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence (Post Hill Press, 2022), and author of the forthcoming BE SEE DO: The Art of Humane Leadership (Humane Leadership Academy, May 2026).
A working archive: at a podium, at the treaty table, in the classroom, in the field. New images added as engagements and fieldwork permit.
A field guide to flourishing — together or not at all. Drawn from 35 years of coalition-building, treaty work, and teaching, it names the craft plainly: be yourself, see what’s possible, do something useful.
Jerry White and Georgette Bennett
A field study of anti-religious violence and its deliberate destruction of faith communities — with a working framework for the diplomats, clergy, and coalition-builders working to end religicide.
Part memoir of surviving a landmine explosion as a young traveler, part working manual — the five steps the author distilled from a decade of walking alongside survivors of violence and disaster around the world.
No two engagements are the same. These are the themes Jerry returns to most often — each one shaped to the audience, occasion, and moment. The throughline: humane leadership, survivor-led change, and the craft of turning conviction into collective impact.
What hosts, curators, and audiences have said after Jerry left the podium.
“Jerry’s ability to captivate attention and inspire hundreds of people at once is remarkable. His storytelling is deeply personal, powerful, and on point, delivering a compelling call to action that everyone could relate to — entirely motivating and memorable.”
“People still talk about Jerry’s memorable commencement address in Glasgow, delivered with the passion of a prophetic preacher. He marched us through the five steps of resilience and survivorship on the day he was awarded an honorary degree by yet another Nobel Peace Laureate, Mohammed Yunus.”
“Jerry is one of the rare speakers whom I trust on any stage to deliver what the audience needs then and there. He weaves ideas, emotions, and stories that pack a punch — always with a clear call to action.”
“Jerry White moved people to tears. I think the standing ovation said it all.”
“As a global champion for disability rights, Jerry has won over fans across India. His speeches were so relatable, they resonated powerfully for our community. He makes us think beyond borders and ponder what it means to be human and humane.”
“One of the finest, most fluid communicators I have ever witnessed in action — able to move an audience to tears, laughter, and ultimately action. Truly a next-level speaker.”
Jerry speaks a few times each year to audiences of philanthropists, policymakers, and students.
All engagements are custom. Inquire early — the calendar is short by design.
Jerry White is an American entrepreneur, author, professor, diplomat, and nonprofit executive whose work over more than thirty-five years has centered on the craft of humane leadership — the slow, deliberate building of the coalitions, institutions, and movements that make dignity and safety possible at scale.
At twenty, Jerry lost his leg to a landmine while hiking in Israel. That experience became the ground of a life’s work in survivor-led change. He co-founded the Landmine Survivors Network, which helped lead the International Campaign to Ban Landmines — a coalition that produced the 1997 Ottawa Treaty and a shared Nobel Peace Prize. Jerry went on to deploy the BeSeeDo playbook to design and deliver two additional treaties: the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) and the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008).
He has since served as a senior U.S. State Department official working on conflict and stabilization, and as a Senior Ashoka Fellow and professor at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as Chair of MADE IMPACT, a global initiative to advance peace and prosperity through international education and exchange.
His first book, I Will Not Be Broken: 5 Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2008 and re-released in paperback as Getting Up When Life Knocks You Down (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009). His second, Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence, co-authored with Georgette F. Bennett, was published by Post Hill Press in 2022. His third, BE SEE DO: The Art of Humane Leadership, is being released in 2026 by the Humane Leadership Academy.
Jerry lives and works from Piscataway National Park in Maryland.
Tell us a little about the work you’re trying to build. Jerry reads every inquiry and responds personally.