Trust Young People to Lead for Better Results
African leaders are recognizing that solving problems for young people isn't working as well as trusting young people to be leaders so that they can become the solution.
From Political Apathy to Engagement with German Fellow Gregor Hackmack
Have you ever felt your politicians don’t actually answer to you? That their rhetoric doesn’t match their behavior and no one holds them accountable? That the sound bites on TV and the form letters don’t get to the substance of the issues? In 2004, Ashoka Fellow Gregor Hackmack recognized that...
Leading Young: A New Framework for Navigating a World of Change
If your teenager doesn’t know how to add two numbers together, you would know there is a problem. Math, like reading, is generally understood to be an essential skill for functioning in the world. But what if your teenager doesn’t know how to read others’ emotions and act on that interpretation...
Ximena Abogabir: "If you are deeply convinced that your child is a changemaker, he or she will become one"
As part two of this two-part LeadYoung series, Ashoka asks Ashoka Fellow Ximena Abogabir, mother to Ashoka Fellow Gonzalo Muñoz, about her childhood, her role as a mother and her philosophy for parenting Gonzalo and her two other changemaker children.
Peter Eigen: fearless since 13, he's changed the world’s mindset about corruption
Corruption long was a taboo subject. Bribes in some countries were tax-deductible. That mindset changed when Peter, having seen the untold damage it was doing, especially in his earlier work in development, founded and built up Transparency International. Transparency built chapters in almost every...
Q&A with IBM’s Tony Tenicela: Empathy, Diversity, and the Keys to Corporate Turnaround
“In today's world, where everyone is so interconnected and interdependent, it is simply essential that we work for each other's success. If we're going to solve the biggest, thorniest, and most widespread problems in business and society, we have to innovate in ways that truly matter.” —Samuel...
Obama's Campaign Chief is Looking for Inspirational Leaders
Henry De Sio, Jr., former COO for the Obama campaign, is now looking for groundbreaking, inspirational leaders through Ashoka. “We’ve been in repetition for millennia, but in the last thirty or forty years, we’ve moved out of repetition and seen the rise of individual agency,” says Mr. De Sio. “We...
Ørestad Gymnasium
Ørestad Gymnasium aims to develop education that prepares young people to become changemakers in the local and global community. The school wants to show that education can and must change in order to prepare students for the future. It has organized team of teams for teachers to innovate around the...