Galla Barrett is a Europe-bred, NYC-based senior cultural strategist with clark mcdowall, a design, branding and innovation firm that partners with progressive clients to transform brands and organizations into lasting cultural icons.
Galla will speak about the power of culture & 2019 innovations in cultural strategy. Going deeper into her own experience, she'll offer an insiders insight into the complicated misunderstandings of buzz words like "trending," and "branding." Together, we'll explore what creating a cultural brand with integrity means today.
Amer Jandali is the founder of Future Meets Present, a start-up innovation company that designs sustainable products, systems, and events.
Amer is blazing into creating globally unique zero-waste systems in commercial real estate and unique products to help regular people live sustainable lives.
His profound, accessible insights into the rocky and unprecedented challenge of causing behavior change in oneself and others is time sensitive.
As an environmental futurist, Amer will guide listeners to surprising, simple ways of acting into a global future we want in the present day.
Chelsea Simpson, Host; Kristen Bush, Director of Student and Alumni Affairs at NYU’s School of Global Public Health
So first and foremost, it's important to consider-- what even is "leadership"? There can be a lot of mixed associations with the word- as a formal position, or jockeying to be in charge.
We'll be basing our exploration on Brene Brown's definition of a leader, as "anyone who identifies the potential in people or systems and has the courage to develop that potential." In 2019, just being technically proficient or having the title is no longer enough. Leadership also speaks to a consistent attunement to the group, and a commitment to developing that.
Kristen Bush, Director of Student & Alumni Affairs at NYU's Graduate School of Public Health, has developed an expertise in counseling tomorrow's global leaders. And, in that and her own life, has been facing down some deep questions around the subject.
Join us for a vigorous and likely surprising exploration of what 2019-level leadership is, and is not.
Every level of society is experiencing rapid acceleration of the unknown – leading to uncertainty in global markets, and what effective organizational management looks like. Massive technology shifts, climate change & natural disasters, population growth, and much more are challenging what leaders need to succeed.