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Ron Schultz, Karen Tse, Bart Weetjens | Mindful Action #SkollWF

Speakers

  • Co-Founder, Waterman Aylsworth - Centers for Creative Entrepreneurship
    Ron Schultz is the founder of Creating Good Work Media and the producer and co-host of Creating Good Work, Live, an Internet-based TV series about to begin its fourth season. Ron has written, co-written and edited 25 published books on social innovation, emergence, and entrepreneurship. In 2014, he received the Social Innovation Leadership Award from the World CSR Congress. His books include: Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) featuring chapters from the world’s leading social entrepreneurs; The Complex Buddhist – Doing Good in a Challenging World, (Emergent Publications 2015); The Mindful Corporation: Liberating the Human Spirit at Work, (with Paul Nakai) (Leadership Press, 2000); and Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity, (with Howard Sherman) (Perseus Books, 1998). Ron is also the co-founder of Waterman Aylsworth, LLC and Entrepreneurs4Change, both organizations that combine mindfulness, social innovation and entrepreneurship. Ron has spoken and lectured at: The Skoll World Forum, The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, the World CSR Congress, the Social Enterprise World Forum, the Oxford Jam and numerous Social Enterprise Alliance Summits. The universities at which he has spoken include: Trinity College, Dublin, Oxford University, MIT, UCLA, Adelphi University, and the Academy of Management’s National Conference. His current column, Adjacent Opportunities appears in the Journal, Emergence: Complexity and Organization. Ron has also an extensive career in television and film, with dozens of TV credits that include one of the finest movies of the week produced to date, as well as internationally renowned children’s television programs that are still playing around the world.
  • Co-Founder, APOPO
    Bart is a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur. He took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable detectors in response to the global landmine problem. What started in 1995 as a modest research initiative in detection rats technology, gradually grew into a global humanitarian operation through his organisation apopo.org which became one of the leading social enterprises in the world, recognised and awarded by networks like Ashoka, the Skoll Awards and the World Economic Forum. Bart transitioned from his executive role in 2015 to focus on the practice of Zen. In the same year he got involved in The Wellbeing Project which aims to catalyze a culture of inner wellbeing for all changemakers. While exploring the relationship between personal growth and social innovation, he recently co-founded a new initiative innerpreneurs.org which is a brave space for entrepreneurial leaders to fulfilll their noble life purpose.
  • An international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen founded IBJ in 2000 after witnessing hundreds of prisoners of all ages being held without trials, usually after being tortured into making 'confessions’. She realised that systematic early access to a lawyer can create global conditions for a “new normal” in which democracy is strengthened, people have access to justice, and we end the use of torture as an investigative tool. IBJ now has a presence in 52 countries and over 22 years, IBJ has supported more than 40,000+ lawyers and defenders who have represented more than 500,000 detainees. Karen is a recipient of awards from the Skoll Foundation, Echoing Green, Ashoka, and among others, the American Bar Association Human Rights Award, the Gleitsman International Award, Harvard Divinity School Gomes and Alumna awards. Karen is named as one of America’s best leaders by the US News and World Report.