Emma Watson

SPRING 2018 / REAL-LEADERS.COM 67 RECEIVE OUR FREE WEEKLY “WORDS OF WISDOM” EMAIL WITH INSPIRING STORIES FROM FAR-SIGHTED LEADERS. SIGN UP HERE: REAL-LEADERS.COM/SHOP “WE NEED TO THINK OF THE FUTURE AND THE PLANET WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE TO OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN.” - KOFI ANNAN 11 | « UNITED STATES MARYBETH CICHOCKI ANTI-ADDICTION ADVOCATE AND NURSE  Vision: For addiction to be treated with the same compassion and scientific evidence as any other chronic disease.   Action: Educates people on the stigma that continues to shadow the disease of addiction – addiction knows no socioeconomic class. Has been involved in the creation and passing of three bills into law in Delaware on how the disease is treated by insurance companies, the prosecution of overprescribing physicians and how to provide resources for patients that are fighting for treatment. “Make time for the quiet moments as God whispers and the world is loud.” 15 | « UNITED STATES JESS JACOBS COFOUNDER OF INVISIBLE PICTURES, ACTRESS/ACTIVIS T Vision: A world where woman are truly equal; where women’s stories are represented in the media as dimensional, authentic and told by women themselves. Action: Cofounded Invisible Pictures, a film and television production company dedicated to telling diverse and authentic stories not normally represented in mainstream culture. Helping with a program in West Africa for young women’s empowerment. WWW.JESSJACOBS.COM “We will see real change when every man, woman and child, of every color, religion and creed sees someone with whom they identify in positions of leadership, both on and off screen.” 17 | « UNITED STATES ROBERTA BASKIN FOUNDER, AIM2FLOURISH Vision: Every graduating business student a leader, who is prepared to achieve the United Nations’ 17 Global Goals by 2030. Action: Pioneered AIM2Flourish.com and launched the first higher education curriculum for the UN’s Global Goals. Business students find and write about an innovative business – one thousand student-written business stories so far worldwide. Awards “Flourish Prizes” that celebrate and scale solutions aligned with each Global Goal. WWW.AIM2FLOURISH.COM “We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.” - Barack Obama 18 | « SWITZERLAND ANDRÉ BORSCHBERG COFOUNDER/ EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, H55 Vision: Electric propulsion will make aviation clean, quiet and safer, changing the way we live and move for the better. Action: Cofounded Solar Impulse with Bertrand Piccard to demonstrate the potential of clean technologies by flying around the world with a solar powered electric airplane, capable of flying day and night.  WWW.ANDREBORSCHBERG.COM “Performance is about expanding your own territory.” 19 | « NIGERIA CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE WRITER Vision: A world of true gender equality, with happier women, and men allowed to be their truest selves. Action: Published two book-length essays, "We Should All Be Feminists" and "Dear Ijeawele, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions," which have started a global conversation about feminism and gender equality. Leads an annual workshop in Nigeria to support aspiring young writers. WWW.CHIMAMANDA.COM “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” - Rebecca West 20 | « CANADA SHAUN FRANKSON COFOUNDER AND CHIEF STRATEGIST, PLASTIC BANK Vision: A universal income for the world’s poor, earned through recycling. A world without ocean plastic. Action: Turning plastic waste into a currency in developing countries to stop ocean plastic. People are rewarded for collecting plastics, who then sort, recycle and sell it to large corporations to use in manufacturing, instead of using new plastics. Using a blockchain application they also provide savings to the world’s “unbankable.” WWW.PLASTICBANK.ORG “The hardest and most rewarding thing in life is the continuous journey of becoming the person capable of achieving what you are trying to achieve.” 12 | « UNITED KINGDOM TOBY MCCARTNEY COFOUNDER, MACREBUR Vision: Finding new ways to end problems caused by the world’s plastic waste epidemic. Action: Developed waste plastic additives that replaces bitumen in roads, and created an innovative, new type of plastic recycling technique by doing so. The company uses waste plastics to enhance the roads you drive on – making them stronger and more longerlasting than ones made with fossil fuel materials. WWW.MACREBUR.COM  “You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson 13 | « UNITED STATES REBECCA HOFFBERGER COFOUNDER, AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM Vision: Humans are in an awkward transition: From destructive fractures fed by the delusion of never having enough, to creative expression and gratitude for shared plenty unimaginable. Action: Established the ultimate healing center in the guise of a national museum - an urban wonderland, debt- free and wholly devoted to the creative power of intuition. The museum is a mothership for Nobel Laureate and small child alike, where people openly weep, laugh and think anew. WWW.AVAM.ORG “Creative acts of social justice constitute life's highest performance act.” 14 | « UNITED STATES FOREST WHITAKER FOUNDER, THE WHITAKER PEACE & DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE Vision: To help societies impacted by destructive conflicts transform into safer and more prosperous communities. Action: Founded an organization that provides educational tools to young men and women living in conflict areas within the United States, Mexico, South Sudan and Uganda. He’s a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation and believes that film can enlighten people and start dialogue around important social subjects. WWW.WPDI.ORG “We must plant the seed of hope. We must nurture the seed of peace. Together it’s possible.” 16 | « RUSSIA MIKHAIL GORBACHEV FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE USSR FOUNDER, THE GORBACHEV FOUNDATION Vision: To promote democratic values and moral and humanist principles. Action: Established one of the first independent think tanks in modern Russia. Initiated the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; a space for exchanging opinions and promoting international peace campaigns and initiatives to tackle the planet’s emergencies for a world without violence. WWW.GORBY.RU “The 21st century will be a century either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind.” “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.” Mikhail Gorbachev