Many young people today are eager to tackle the local, national, and global challenges standing in the way of a sustainable, prosperous, and just world but find that their educational experience doesn’t prepare them for the kind of leadership they aspire to. We’ll explore two cutting-edge approaches based on student-centered, experiential learning. These programs are flipping the script, emphasizing experience and responsibility as vehicles to build the character and capabilities required of ethical, innovative, purpose-driven leaders.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Thursday, April 6, 2017 BSTLocation:
Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
Speakers
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SpeakerFormer President, EARTH UniversityJosé A. Zaglul is the former President (1987–2016) of EARTH University, an international, private, non-profit institution located in Costa Rica’s humid tropics. EARTH is dedicated to the formation of leaders with ethical values who will contribute to sustainable development and to the construction of a…
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SpeakerStudent, EARTH UniversityJosé Carlos Rodríguez Mejías 29 years old Grew up in the countryside of Costa Rica in a small town called Hojancha, Guanacaste. Surrounded by forest, timber plantation, coffee plantation and small livestock activities. He Comes from a family dedicated to timber plantations and forest conservation as…
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SpeakerMBA Student, Stanford Graduate School of BusinessJihad is a graduate of the African Leadership Academy, and has been working on areas of social impact in Africa and the Middle East for the past five years. Her experience ranges from high-level interaction and fundraising with international organisms such as the United Nations Academic Impact…
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ModeratorDirector, Stanford UniversityDebra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African…
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SpeakerPresident, Morehead-CainChris is the President of the Morehead-Cain Foundation, which identifies, invests in, and empowers a global community of dynamic, purpose-driven leaders. Since 1945, Morehead-Cain has operated the preeminent merit scholarship program in the USA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…