African Women Can Transform The Continent
African women can and will be agents of change for the continent’s transformation at all levels. This was the message delivered by the African Development Bank’s Special Envoy on Gender (SEOG), Geraldine J. Fraser-Moleketi, during a Pre-Summit Ministerial Consultative Meeting on Gender that took place on January 20-22 ahead of the 24th Summit of the African Union […]
Emma Watson: Are You Man Enough For Equality?
Since the HeForShe launch in New York last September I think it would be fair to say that my colleagues and I have been stunned by the response. The HeForShe conference was watched over 11 million times, sparking 1.2 billion social media conversations, culminating in the HeForShe hashtag becoming so popular that Twitter painted it […]
Jessica Alba Talks Business and the Future of The Honest Company
I caught Jessica Alba on the phone just as she was about to jet off to Thailand to shoot a new movie. She explained how hard it was saying goodbye to her two children at home that morning — and then got down to business. These days the actress has a busy schedule behind the camera, but […]
Why 2015 Will See Global Development Leaders Support African Impact
There are interesting developments underway in Africa. The vast continent repeatedly made news in 2014 for being home to seven of the world’s fastest growing economies, and drew interest for having a large part of its growth driven by the Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. This latter tidbit is crucial. It signals a move […]
The Organization Working At Ebola’s Ground Zero
To combat the unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa, International Medical Corps has mobilized a comprehensive emergency response in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Mali, the epicenter of the humanitarian crisis. Led by President & CEO Nancy Aossey, International Medical Corps has responded to every major disaster of the last 30 years, delivering more than $1.8 […]
How to Grow from the Storms in Your Life
There is a common myth that we are all resistant to change. I nearly always hear this when I’m working with an organization to bring about a cultural change of beliefs and behaviors that are necessary to thrive in a challenging environment. But it’s wrong. Brain science and new advances in cognitive psychology reveal that […]
Business Takes a Decisive Leap: Breakthrough in Collaborating for Good
If Planet Earth were a business, no executive could look at the metrics — whether melting glaciers or widening income disparity, whether disappearing rainforests or the global economic crisis — and not come to the same conclusion: we need a turnaround. Assuming that NASA’s Mar. 2014 forecasting is right — or even half-right — we’ve got 20 […]
How is Ford Building Cars Sustainably?
Ford was voted Best Global Green Brand of 2014 by Interbrand. Check out this infographic on how they are recycling and saving valuable resources as they build their cars.
The X-Man
Peter Diamandis has a dream: to open up Earth’s final frontier to private enterprise. This is the story of how one man kick-started a disruptive new era of space exploration. In February 2012, Peter Diamandis took the stage at TED to talk about the subject that informs his new co-authored book, Abundance: The Future is […]
How To Reinvent Yourself And Change Your Life
Guy Spier started his finance career with the right pedigree, from Oxford to Harvard Business School. But when he took a job at what he soon discovered was an ethically challenged Wall Street firm (a number of its top leaders later pleaded guilty to fraud charges), he was ashamed. Spier didn’t participate in the malfeasance, but he felt embarrassed and […]
