Leadership Challenges: Balancing Creativity And Control
Video Description
Social entrepreneurs may have comparative advantage in generating new ideas or innovations, but may struggle with execution and control. Is it possible to build innovative institutions that are around for the long haul without crowding out the charismatic element of social entrepreneurship? Can visionaries build high-performing teams, and if so how? In a climate of increased expectation around legitimacy, transparency and measurement, how can one get the balance right? Join leading practitioners and thought leaders for a candid discussion on this vitally important success factor.
Speakers
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Founder and CEO, Ashoka,
AshokaBill Drayton is a social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service. As the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems-change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch.
As a student, he founded organizations ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an inter-disciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences. After graduation from Harvard, he received an M.A. from Balliol College in Oxford University. In 1970, he graduated from Yale Law School. He worked at McKinsey & Company for ten years and taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While serving the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, he launched many reforms including emissions trading, a fundamental change in regulation that is now the basis of much global as well as US regulatory law, including in fields beyond the environment.
Bill launched Ashoka in 1980; in 1984, he used the stipend he received when elected a MacArthur Fellow to devote himself fully to Ashoka. Bill is Ashoka’s Chief Executive Officer. He also chairs Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Community Greens, and Get America Working! Bill has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He has been selected one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award and, in 2019, Drayton was elected as member of the American Philosophical Society. Other awards include Honorary Doctorates from Yale, NYU and more.
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Founder and Director of Development and International Affairs, Unidos Lo Lograremos AC
Estela Villareal Junco, Ashoka Fellow in Mexico since 2002, is the Founder and Head of International Affairs of UNIDOS Lo Lograremos, A.C., a NGO dedicated to the social integration of people with disabilities, due to her personal experience with two siblings. For more than 20 years, she has been expanding it to many cities in Mexico. For her activity in Unidos, she has received many awards, distinctions, and nominations, among them INDESOL’s “1 of the 24 best national social practices,” Global Leaders for Tomorrow, and on several occasions Medal for Civic Merit.
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President, Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC, Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC
Gillian Caldwell is a Skoll Awardee consulting in the areas of strategic planning, organizational development, retreat design and facilitation, executive coaching and transition planning. She served as CEO of Global Witness from 2015-2019, during which time the team generated numerous systems-changing impacts, reshaped strategy to double down on the climate crisis, strengthened its governance, management team and communications capabilities, significantly increased its budget, financial reserves and staff size and opened a new office in Brussels to complement those in London, Washington DC and Beijing. She previously served as Campaign Director for 1Sky (now part of 350.org), which she helped build from inception. 1Sky grew within two years to become the largest collaborative climate and energy campaign in the US, combining over 640 allied organizations, organizers in 23 states, more than 200,000 climate advocates and 4000 “Climate Precinct Captains” across the country. Gillian was previously Executive Director of WITNESS, co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel, using the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. Gillian led WITNESS' rapid expansion over ten years and helped produce over 30 documentary shorts and films for use in systems-changing advocacy campaigns. Gillian also directed a global undercover investigation and campaign on the Russian mafia’s involvement in trafficking women for forced prostitution, and produced and directed an influential documentary film which was televised internationally and helped spur policy changes worldwide. She has received many awards and honors for social entrepreneurship, including an Echoing Green fellowship, the Skoll Award, the Schwab Foundation Award, an Ashoka Award. She was also honored as an MIT Directors Fellow and given a Next Generation Leadership Award by the Rockefeller Foundation. She serves on the board of EarthRights International and the Purpose Foundation.
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Global Head, Philanthropy Services, UBS
Maximilian Martin is Global Head and Managing Director of Philanthropy Services at UBS AG. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva. Previous engagements include serving as Head of Research at the Schwab Foundation, Senior Consultant with McKinsey & Company, instructor at Harvard’s Economics Department, and Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2003, he developed the first university course on social entrepreneurship in Europe for the University of Geneva and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2003-2004, he set up UBS Philanthropy Services and the UBS Philanthropy Forum. Dr. Martin holds a Master in Anthropology from Indiana University, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University, and a PhD in Economic Anthropology from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Chairman, Fundacion Futbol con Corazon
I am a social entrepreneur from Colombia, Founder and Chairman of Futbol con Corazon (FCC). FCC is dedicated to help children and young adults develop social and emotional skills using the sport of soccer as the pedagogical tool. Currently more than 50 thousand children in Colombia and Panama receive FCC curriculum.
I have an economics degree from Cornell University and a masters in public administration from Harvard University.
