Changing The World We Create

Mark Drewell is an internationally recognised thought and action leader on the development of organisations and leadership for the 21st century. Oxford educated, at the age of 27 he co-created a business community forum in South Africa that was replicated over 4 000 times and became a vital component of the peaceful transition of power to Nelson Mandela. Prior to becoming a partner in the ForeSight Group he was the Founding Chairman and then CEO of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative - building a coalition of companies and business schools on all continents focused on developing the next generation of globally responsible business leaders. In his business career he served for a decade on the Executive Committee of Barloworld, a 35,000 employee industrial group with operations in 32 countries. He has also served as board member and chaired the global conferences of the IABC, the professional association of 13 000 business communicators. Björn Larsson has a background as an economist, journalist and diplomat with experience from Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. He is today CEO of the ForeSight Group, which was founded in 1979 and has worked with some 180 companies and offered 3.5 million employees opportunities to contribute to corporate innovation and renewal. ForeSight ́s entrepreneurial approach - to speed up and leverage the achievements of major ambitions relevant to our times - includes Passionate Investments, which was launched in partnership with the oldest bank in Scandinavia. Passionate Investments was recognized for its innovative approach by President Bill Clinton at a plenary closing of the Clinton Global Initiative AGM in New York. Björn is also a founding member of the Global Impact Investment Network, a member of the Global Advisory Board to SDGs Media for Impact- as well as Future Capital Summits (UN, New York), a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), UK, as well as the Aspen Institute, US. Since its inception, he has served as an International Ambassador for The World ́s Children ́s Prize helping it become the world ́s largest empowerment initiative on rights and democracy for the next generation active in over 100 countries. Five Nobel laureates including Nelson Mandela (posthumous) and Joseph Stiglitz are patrons.

"A must read for everyone seeking change in politics, business and civil society!" Richard Barrett: Founder, Barrett Academy for the Advancement of Human Values, former Values Co-ordinator, World Bank "Changing the World We Create, opens our eyes to a set of new perspectives from which we can start building the world we all would like to live in." Sergio Fernandez de Cordova, Chairman PVBLIC Foundation