Compassionate Business

Andrew was invited to deliver a keynote address to a global conference—the Worldwide Meeting on Human Values—in Monterrey, Mexico this autumn. There will be several thousand people in the arena, and a global livestreaming audience of over 200,000 people.

We are fortunate that Andrew will be previewing his presentation here at the Whidbey Institute in this community event on Sept 14, from 7 to 8:30 pm.

Compassionate Business: Activate networks to create value while changing the world

We face the jarring impact of unprecedented challenge and exponential change occurring at the same time. Climate change threatens our planetary future, while the global economy is undergoing its most rapid and radical transformation in the history of human society. Driven by human discontent, rampant technology, political turmoil, and resource depletion, we have arrived at a crossroads. Structural imperatives are driving our economy toward new business models, toward collaboration rather than competition, toward clean rather than carbon-based energy, and toward activating networks of prosumers rather than passive and atomized consumers. Our future as a civilzation—and the ability of business to make the difference—depends on the capacity of conscious business leaders to embed compassion in every leadership action, while building systems that embody this new consciousness.

Speaker bio:

Andrew Himes has been a business leader, social justice activist, writer, editor, filmmaker, and Internet pioneer. He was founding editor of Apple technology journal MacTech, founding editor of the Microsoft Developer Network, and led the first web team at Microsoft. He produced the documentary Voice in Wartime, authored The Sword of the Lord (a history of the relationship between fundamentalism and trauma), and was founding director of Charter for Compassion International. He has been coordinator of the Business Alliance for the Future, and is now working on a book that tells the story of compassion as the essential structural principle for sustainable global economy.

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