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Leading Boldly into the Future Anne Pratt
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We are living in a pivotal global moment. The world is radically changing, are you? According to international scientists, 2030 is a point of no return, an unprecedented looming economic and existential threat to humanity - an inconvenient truth becomes an undeniable reality. In a world on fire, plagued by the worst global pandemic in over a century, we face unparalleled inequalities and menacing deep divides. Our Future hangs in the balance. If you are worried, you are not alone.
The latest research indicates that our current leadership models are not working. We need a sustainable planet, but there is Hope. Like Nelson Mandela did for South Africa and the world, we need a radical new approach to how we think, behave, and lead. We can do it again, but we must act NOW.
Welcome to Leading Boldly Into The Future, a videocast to meet this moment and inspire upcoming generations. It is for millennials to senior-level executives who want to build a hopeful tomorrow. Tune in to surround yourself with accomplished trailblazers who tap into the positive power of purpose, multiple intelligences, and moral courage.
Hear diverse conversations from multiple generations across continents: courageous, everyday heroes worldwide: a Supreme Court Judge, a UK Parliament Lord, and global top business executives. Be inspired by best-selling authors, vice-chancellors, and investment deal makers. Listen to a former Palestinian prisoner turned peacemaker, young disruptors, whistle-blowers, gender champions and media watchdogs, and gain wisdom from Harvard and Aspen Fellows. These leadership stories span successes, failures, and transformation. They illustrate how to create inclusive shared value and deliver sustainable impact.
The show host is multi-awarded businesswoman Anne Pratt, originally from South Africa, a Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative fellow, selected as one of 45 top leaders worldwide. An author, a world-class business executive and entrepreneur, she co-founded and ran a premier executive search firm working closely with multi-listed boards in the private, public, and civic sectors across the African continent and internationally. Growing up in an anti-apartheid family harassed by state police, celebrating racial harmony in a rural mission hospital, and meeting her icon, Nelson Mandela, inspired her leadership purpose. Over decades she worked closely with the Nelson Mandela Foundation Board and placed its CEO. At the forefront of executive leadership and transformation, she guided multiple Boards and advised South African Government Cabinet members during and after President Mandela's term. She has interviewed over 10,000 leaders on the African continent and beyond. Together with Harvard and Aspen colleagues, she co-founded the Global Mandela Leadership Movement for Change for bold leaders worldwide to join the ranks, reminding an older generation and inspiring the next.
In this show, Anne and her influential guests share meaningful life and leadership lessons called "Mandela Moments" for today's world. Listen, reflect, and learn from the collective wisdom, often inspired and fortified by the remarkable life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. Learn how to negotiate across differences, calm the rage, and bend the arc of change in favor of economic shared value, justice, truth, and dignity – from our corporate boardrooms, or corridors of Congress, to Hospital ERs, School Boards, and Police Departments. Develop your bold new way to think, act, and lead. Because if not you, then who? And if not now, then when?
2030 is imminent. Don't play it safe and maintain the status quo. It's time to cross the current leadership line, develop a Mandela mindset, embolden your moral courage, and heal the deep dark divides. Tune in today for pivotal conversations with pioneering change-makers and radical disruptors who overcame adversity to wake up, stand up and speak out. This is your blueprint to Lead Boldly into the Future. The real hero lies i
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"A West Point Military Academy Cadet” with Dr. Modupe Taylor-Pearce in Sierra Leone
You can only lead others to the extent that you can lead yourself. Self-discipline and leadership go hand-in-hand. This is something that every aspiring bold leader needs to understand if they are to lead effectively. Dr. Modupe Taylor-Pearce of Sierra Leone learned this important principle from his stay in West Point and his years of experience in wartime and peacetime leadership in his home country. In today’s episode, he joins Anne Pratt in a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the themes of servant leadership, the future of Africa and humanity, and the importance of self-discipline in leadership and in life. Tune in for more!
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"From A Cotton Field of Dreams to the White House" with Janis Kearney in the USA
Many times, what people really need to change their lives for the better is a sliver of hope, and that hope can come in many forms. As leaders, we can use the power of story to inspire hope in others. This is what Janis Kearney has been doing as an author and philanthropist. Janis is the author of the inspirational memoir, “Cotton Field of Dreams.” we listen and learn about some defining childhood moments and powerful moments in the White House, meeting multiple heads of states, including defining moments with President Bill Clinton and President Nelson Mandela, the little-known story and childhood pain of the late and great Maya Angelou and how she turned pain into purpose and her mute, voiceless period in her life into one of the most powerful voices of our time. Join in!
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“The Nelson Mandela University” with Amb. Nozipho January-Bardill in South Africa
Vulnerability is the new leadership superpower. Gone are the days when leadership meant winning at all cost. The great Nelson Mandela himself valued vulnerability, and he modeled it in his own leadership. Today’s guest, Amb. Nozipho January-Bardill strives to live by Mandela’s example as she leads the very organization that bears his name. She the current Chairperson of the Council of the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. She is also one of the first high profile board members of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. In this conversation with Anne Pratt, she shares her journey to leadership, her mission to make a sizeable impact on the world, and the treasures she got from learning from one of the world’s greatest leaders.
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“A World On Climate Red Alert” with Dr. Richard Munang in Kenya, Africa
The youth is our greatest untapped weapon to help solve the ongoing climate crisis. With the right tools and inspiration, we can leverage the youth to take unprecedented climate action that impacts not only the planet but also their own economic betterment. Dr. Richard Munang has been involved in this initiative in the past few decades, empowering Africa’s youth to engage in innovative volunteerism and climate entrepreneurship to help mitigate the negative impacts of climate change while putting food on the table. Exciting times are ahead of us if we can get our youth to care and take action. Tune in and learn how people like Dr. Munang are finally moving the needle in the right direction!
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“Apartheid’s Public Enemy No. 1” with UK Parliament's Lord Peter Hain
Nelson Mandela was the most iconic figure in South African history because of his heroic struggle against apartheid and racism, but he wouldn’t have done what he had done if not for the brave leaders who also took the stand against the oppressive establishment in their own ways. Decades before being a Lord in the UK Parliament, Peter Hain was one of those people. A young man at that time, Lord Hain started simply by opposing the all-White South African cricket team. You wouldn’t believe just how significant that was unless you heard the whole story. So much has his impact been that he was considered Public Enemy No. 1 by the ruling apartheid government. Decades later, Lord Hain has a powerful message to all world leaders and every one of us who’s aspiring for real change in the world. Stay tuned and learn what he has to say!
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“DEI – Adapt, Transform, or a Rigged Monopoly?” with former JSE Director Zeona Jacobs in Switzerland
Can you imagine what it must have been like in South African corporate board rooms when apartheid was lifted and a new political order started to rule over the country? Diversity, inclusion, and equity didn’t come about as if by magic. Brave, and sometimes unwilling activists have to take active steps to make it happen. Zeona Jacobs has seen her fair share of this DEI struggle in her corporate roles. In this episode, she shares how she and a small group of black African men and women bandied together and became unwilling activists in a conservative, large, white dominated corporate environment in a company still struggling to come to terms with a democratic, free South Africa. She also tells us why President Mandela called her courageous at a large televised public event. Tune in and learn a ton from today’s bold leader!
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