Bryan Welch
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Bryan Welch

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Bryan Welch is a business executive, writer, farmer and entrepreneur. For 19 years, from its founding, he ran Ogden Publications., the owners of Mother Earth News, Mother Earth Living, Utne Reader and several other category-leading media brands focused on sustainability and natural health. More recently, he served as Co-CEO of Silk Grass Holdings, a family office developing 32,000 acres of regenerative organic farms and wildlife preserves in Belize. He was founder and CEO of B The Change Media, a multi-platform media company focused on business as a force for good in the world. He was also CEO of Mindful Communications, a media and corporate meditation-training company; Foster Care Technologies, a B Corporation that provides software that improves placements of children in foster care; and ran several community newspapers earlier in his career. Bryan has served on the boards of the Silk Grass Farms, the Magazine Publishers Association, the Social Venture Network, Down Home Ranch Foundation and several nonprofits. He also has served on corporate boards of directors and advisory boards of companies involved in natural foods, agriculture, food-processing, ecommerce, corporate training and the media. He was honored with the B Corporations’ 2014 Hal Taussig Lifetime-Achievement award for “using business as a force for good.” He holds a master’s degree from Harvard University where he studied at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School. He is a long-time meditator and advocate for mindfulness practices. Bryan’s award-winning book, Beautiful & Abundant: Building the World We Want, appeared in 2011. His book, The Gift of a Broken Heart, was published in 2024. He and his wife, Carolyn, raise organic, grass-fed cattle, sheep and goats on their farm near Lawrence, Kansas, with the help of their grandsons.
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