With Each Challenge Comes Opportunity

We world-changers believe that ‘with each challenge comes opportunity’. In fact, it’s too overwhelming to be a world-changer if we take the business, sustainability, equality challenges too much to heart.

Consider the challenge of getting more diversity, more empowerment and more engagement within teams and companies and industries. (This post will not cover why this needs to happen or what the benefits are should it happen. Read further if you’d like to help make it happen.)

To get ‘All Aboard’ in tackling this challenge, we must all do the following:

1. Collect and Disseminate the Research on the Value of Diversity on Teams, in Companies, on Boards.
   • The data is out there. Compiling it and reporting on it will help drive momentum, facilitate change.
2. Build a Network of like-minded people, invested through thoughts, words and actions.
   • Speak up and align thoughts, words and actions with those who also want to make a difference and move the needle forward.
3. Expand the Candidate Base – focus on the children.
   • Focus on initiatives which would support the children. Help them think, dream, plan for a more open, more inclusive, more diverse future. Inspire, empower and engage them.
4. Expand the Candidate Base – focus on corporate professionals.
   • Help our young professionals succeed where they are now, and rise among the ranks and reach for new heights. Their success would influence all they touch.
5. Welcome Creative and Entrepreneurial Representatives.
   • Be open, warm and accepting of those who can’t/won’t ‘draw within the lines’. In thinking differently, these creatives, these entrepreneurs also hold a piece of the puzzle.
6. Challenge the Mindsets of Leaders and Innovators.
   • Often, ‘what got you here won’t get you to that next level’. A change in mind-set, a broader, more open perspective, a more inclusive network may help re-set and expand expectations and achievements. 
7. Connect People, Networks and Communities.
   • The more I learn, the more I grow, the more I see us all as ONE. Finding intersects which bring greater inclusion, broader perspectives, shared objectives will help each of us work collaboratively to serve as all.
8. Choose a Cause. Make a Stand.
   • We are in crisis mode. Don’t wait for an invitation to serve. We can all be knighted to serve the many opportunities to make a difference.
     
9. Communicate, Coordinate, Engage around a Cause.
   • Which specific problems will you tackle? Keep us posted on the what, the how, the who.
10. The Time is NOW. The Baton is Yours.
    • How will YOU lead through this crisis? 

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