We are in the midst of a massive global social experiment. The very nature of our regular day-to-day, face-to-face training, meetings and work is being challenged at a fundamental level.
When I was 14, I spent Take your Daughter to Work Day doing home visits with my dad, a medical social worker. At one crumbling low-rise in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we walked up urine-soake...
Over the past year, the world has dealt first hand with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic inequalities, discrepancies in our healthcare systems, economic downturns and educat...
International Women’s Month is dedicated to the social, economic, political, cultural and scientific achievements of women and girls. In my work with the World Economic Forum’s communitie...
In the summer of 2020, COVID-19 continued to ravage the United States. Cases spiked in southern states. Companies underwent rounds of layoffs as retail businesses either limped along or c...
The momentum towards greater inclusion is growing globally. Driven by human rights activists and social movements, we are increasingly aware of the harmful inequalities which result from ...
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, leadership has been put to the test. It is increasingly clear that to emerge from the crisis stronger and more resilient requires rethinking what...
The field of mental health has a lot to gain from young people as we think about the Great Reset, and how to build a better, kinder and fairer world. In keeping with the theme for World M...
COVID-19 has both exacerbated existing crises and challenged people and nations to overcome the biggest economical and societal issues faced in years. On both national and global scales, ...
One of the features of recent months to which we’ve all grown accustomed is daily news stories about the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on air quality in cities around the world.
The air we breathe is both precious and free. It sustains all life on the planet.
Back in the early 1970s, artist John Baldessari did The Pencil Story. As he explained, his pencil was producing blurry and indistinct lines, but he revived it by sharpening it. He paid cl...
La crisis sanitaria por COVID-19 ha obligado a más de 1 000 millones de estudiantes y jóvenes a abandonar sus clases presenciales y ha impulsado la implementación de tecnología educativa ...
A veteran explorer offered me the following thought before I raced to the South Pole in 2009: “When you’re at zero, just get to one”.
As we move further into the COVID-19 pandemic it is becoming increasingly clear that many of the tools and measures deployed by high-income countries against the virus are most probably n...
