Josh Yates

Executive Director, Belmont Innovation Labs at Belmont University

Josh Yates is Executive Director of the Transformational Innovation Hub at Belmont University and Founder and CEO of the national nonprofit, Thriving Cities Group. Trained as a cultural and community sociologist, Dr. Yates weaves together two decades of academic research and socially-based practice in an on-going investigation of what it means and takes to thrive in contemporary community contexts.