BE THE CHANGE IN 2019 !
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Dear friends,
Are you ready to change the world in 2019? How about changing yourself first? I compiled below a list of my recent talks and articles to inspire you to become the agents of change in both your professional and personal lives. Reflect on this content during the holiday season. Let’s join forces to reinvent ourselves and the world altogether. 2019 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Let’s honor Gandhiji by committing ourselves to BE THE CHANGE in 2019!
Happy holidays!
Navi
My *New* TED Talk on Finding Your True Self
Ten years ago, I decided to become the « Indiana Jones of consciousness » in a quest to find my true Self. In this new TEDx Talk, I explain how you can find answers to big questions like «Who am I?» «Why am I here?» «How can I give meaning to my life?» The answers lie within you. When you connect with your true self, you experience something far greater than happiness: you attain complete freedom.
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Before We Reinvent Our Economy, We Must Reinvent Ourselves
In this FastCompany article, I argue that the sharing and circular (bio) economy won’t mean much if we are still driven by a desire for unceasing consumption and mired in unhappiness and alienation. We must raise our consciousness first if we want to build a sustainable economy.
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Business As Nature: A Conscious Leap Towards Sustainability
To lead the fight against climate change, businesses need a radical shift in their consciousness — from “Business Vs. Nature” to “Business As Nature” (BAN)— so they can learn to engage with Nature in a symbiotic way.
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In the Age of AI, Schools Must Teach Wisdom to Kids
In this video interview with National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), I explain how schools can help students cultivate WISDOM, and help them become wise leaders. With the rise of AI, smartness (intelligence) will become a commodity. Wisdom is the new core capability that all kids must possess to thrive in today’s complex world.
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Frugal Innovation Will Revolutionize Healthcare
In this short video intro, I show how healthcare professionals can harness the power of frugal innovation to deliver high-quality care to more people at lower cost. I discuss how the biomedical sector can reinvent its products, processes, business models, and mindsets to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to everyone.
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Paris Is Building The World’s Greenest Business District
By 2050, nearly 70% of the world population will be living in urban areas. Cities must take the global lead in fighting — and reversing — climate change. Les Deux Rives in Paris offers key insights and practical lessons to city policy-makers on how to engage the private sector and civil society to co-build socially inclusive and ecologically sound neighborhoods.
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How The Hospitality Sector Can Benefit From Frugal Innovation
In this video interview with Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL) I explain how the hospitality sector can use frugal innovation to embrace digital disruption and reduce their carbon footprint by 66% by 2030. What if hotels became self-sufficient units which are able to produce their goods and services within the hotel itself? Hotels can also pioneer B2B sharing, thus outsmarting B2C sharing platforms like Airbnb
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Conscious Business: How Leaders Are Embedding Sustainability In Their Organizations
I moderated an inspiring panel discussion at the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California with sustainability leaders from Genentech, Impossible Foods, Levi Strauss & Co., Lyft who explained how they fight climate change, reduce social inequality, and promote health and well-being by embedding sustainability deep in their organizations and their entire value chains. The panel was sponsored by Presidio Graduate School
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How France and India Can Unleash the Power of Frugal Innovation
The Indo-French STEAM School brings together 100 Indian and French engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, artists and business leaders to co-create frugal solutions to what I call “problems without borders”: social inequality, global warming, chronic diseases, water and food scarcity. The STEAM School shows how we can address SDGs faster, better, cheaper.
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20,000 French Students Pledge to Not Work for Polluting Companies
Over 20,000 students from over 300 French colleges have signed a manifesto titled “Wake up call on the environment” pledging to not work for polluting firms. They want to capitalize on their collective power–as future employees–to compel French companies to embed sustainability deeply in all their activities. I hope American students will also sign this manifesto.
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Are You A Smart Or Wise Innovator?
I don’t believe smart Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are going to save Earth. Why would they when they are more interested in colonizing Mars? If we want to build an inclusive, safe, healthy, and sustainable world we need a new breed of wise innovators, who can lead with a business mind, social heart, and ecological soul. Learn how you can evolve into a wise innovator and enable #TechForGood.
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