Lou Bergholz

Lou Bergholz is the founder and managing partner of Edgework Consulting, a Boston-based firm he started in 2001 to design interventions for some of the world's most challenged children and youth. He has helped build and implement programs across four continents, addressing mental health and trauma, violence reduction, HIV prevention, and gender-based violence, and he has spent more than a decade at the leading edge of the sports-based youth development movement with organizations including Up2Us Sports, Grassroot Soccer, UNICEF, and Mercy Corps. In Vital Connections, he draws on decades of work with young people from Boston to Zimbabwe to show how caring adult relationships hold the key to helping them navigate the journey to adulthood.