Dear Zimbabwe government: Please have heart this Valentine’s Day and set minimum wages that show you care for your people. ZWD 160 per month (about US$6) is heartbreaking. It can’t feed a single person let alone a family. The UN absolute poverty line is living on US$2 per day per person – at least US$62 per month. ZWD 160 per …
Wake up! It’s not about making billions!
Dear Davos Delegate, You think you can do it all by yourself, because you have resources, influence and power. Don’t be fooled – you need help. You are mucking it all up, you know. It’s not about making billions any more. Billions of dollars are just worthless bits of paper or collections of 1s and 0s floating around in the …
Meet Dawn. She’s a Superhero.
That’s why she’s my co-host at the Superhero Impact Training pop up event we’re leading in New York next week. It’s for leaders who’ve made their mark, and are ready to make a difference. If you want to uncover your superpowers, discover your mission, find and call in your allies, develop your rally cry and perfect your Superhero pose (and …
Day 1 of the Search for Superheroes
Hello!… Is it you I’m looking for? Are you a leader who has made your mark and are ready to make a difference? To step up and build your legacy for change in the world, be that righting a wrong, saving the environment, ending global poverty, supporting arts or music or supporting a cause that’s close to your heart? If …
Neo, where are you?!!
I am on a quest to assemble a legion of superhero leaders who have made their mark and are ready to make a difference. Is that you? And Neo who? Think Keanu Reeves. And also Malala, Think Angela Merkel. Think Richard Branson. Think Oprah. And Melinda Gates. And you. It’s time to hear the call! There is something in the …
Keep hope alive
⚡️The lull in the storm. ⚡️ You pick yourself up, dazed and bruised, after the storm. You feel bedraggled, drenched to the skin, shaken and sad after all that you’ve been through. You’ve made it so far, but you can see the threatening stormclouds regrouping for the next assault. You check that you still have all your limbs and your family. …
Remember who you are
I woke up this morning with these words burning inside of me: Remember who you are. In a world that’s apparently gone insane. In a world that’s filled with fear and anger and injustice and oppression. Do not get sucked in. Do not get pulled off course. Yes, you are angry – you have every right to be. Yes, you …
Connect women to the internet to end poverty
How much do you take internet access for granted? If your internet was suddenly disconnected for a period of over a week, would you start to feel anxious and uncomfortable. Feel you were missing out on things? Maybe even start to lose your sense of humour? Would you feel your rights were being violated if someone turned off free internet …
The shock that drove me to empower women in Africa
The shock felt like a glacial dagger plunged into my heart. OMG. This could never, ever, ever be allowed to happen again. I looked at the newspaper story again – it was four short paragraphs describing a recent court case. But what had led to it, was simply horrifying. How desperate could you be to resort to killing your own …
Growing women-owned SMEs in Africa: a new approach
What if we innovated the traditional “women-owned” business certification process to leverage consumers, not quotas, to help women-owned small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to grow? The traditional road to women’s economic empowerment is arduous: it takes decades of concerted efforts to reform policies, laws and statutes, not to mention generations of changing minds and prevailing cultural and social “norms.” But nowadays there …
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