Poetry: Sitawa Namwalie
Leadership in a time of Covid: what have we learned; what should we forget; what have we missed? If nothing else, the pandemic has tested us, as individuals and as leaders. There was no time for careful contemplation as the walls were collapsing on institutions and organizations, on established processes and regulations, on accepted ways of doing both the ordinary and the unusual. We had to learn to be alone, together; we had to lead remotely. Since the odds of returning to the status quo ante seem pretty low, how are we as leaders going to shape our futures?
Vishakha Desai (moderator), Educator and scholar, Columbia University
Chris Parker, UK Director for National Cyber Security with Fortinet
Mary Schneider Enriquez, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard University
Abshiro Halake, Senator of the Republic of Kenya
Daniel Martinez Valle, CEO, Orbia, Mexico-based multinational
Magical thinking by Mark Mitton, Magician
New Thinking for a New World. All ideas are not born equal—but they all need an equal opportunity to grow, to be tested, to succeed or to fail. Now more than ever it’s not thinking “out of the box” that’s needed—there is no box anymore—but thinking that is both unconstrained and concrete? How do we get beyond the vagueness of the “big picture” and find concrete, practical, actionable new ideas?
Introduction and video by Maarten Koets, NGO executive
Maarten Koets (moderator)
Rosemary Okello, Educator and media specialist Kenya’s Strathmore Business School
Alejandra Peralta, Educator and administrator, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Ellen Lust, Academic and social scientist
Close by Alan Stoga
