Monday, January 20, 16:00 to 17:30 CET at Wisdom House — Davos

BERGLISTUTZ 3, 7270 DAVOS

Humankind faces unprecedented challenges. Only bold and smart transformative social change will do. This requires all hands-on-deck. Business, with all its resources, has a responsibility to play bigger and better. This session, hosted by Wisdom House, will describe two innovative initiatives to help businesses increase their social impact capacity.

It consists of talks by two thought leaders in this space: Michelle Breslauer who heads leadership and policy for the UN Global Compact and David Gershon, Co-Founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute. This will be followed by a fireside chat between them moderated by Marcelo Garcia, Founder and Executive Director of Wisdom House and then an audience Q&A.

About the Speakers:

Michelle Breslauer heads leadership and policy for the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative with over 20,000 companies in 160 countries. Her responsibilities include the governance and peace portfolio in which she develops programs to engage businesses in advancing peaceful, just and inclusive societies. Previously, Michelle spent eight years directing strategic partnerships and programs for the Institute for Economics and Peace and was on the leadership team for New York City’s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.

David Gershon, CEO of Empowerment Institute, has been called “the number one expert on social change.” In 1986 at the height of the Cold War, he conceived and organized in partnership with UNICEF, the passing of a torch of peace around the world that engaged a billion people. Based on this experience and subsequent decades designing and scaling business, city and country  empowerment solutions, David has architected a bold social innovation that weaves peace building into business to increase a company’s social impact capacity.