The story of mankind is not only the sum of the stories of each and every human being that has been alive on this planet but of all beings that have been so too. And still are. And will. Remembering that story becomes thus an act of re-membering back as one the arms, legs, and …
NELIS global sustainability learning platform supporting on-the-ground sustainability practitioners and organizations seeking to transition towards more sustainable practices, will be launched the 21st of May in Tokyo. Local sustainability-practitioners from the entire world will be sharing innovative cases in themes such as cultural responsibility; compelling and artistic communication for sustainability; trash-less contexts & experimentation; circular …
NELIS co-creative ecosystem linking social innovators worldwide to corporations, will be launched the 21st of May in Tokyo.
To be held by the end of October 2020 (in Tokyo or in a virtual summit format! TBC). In collaboration with Waseda University. Details to come!
Welcome to this first edition of 4Revs Intelligence, which brings monthly updates on sustainability science and global policy. Here you will get summaries of new scientific findings relevant to corporate sustainability strategies and reports on major international meetings and agreements, allowing you to quickly grasp the main points of those event. The United Nations has declared 2020 …
At our global NELIS gathering in Japan, June 2018, a few of us discussed key elements/principles of social entrepreneurs/transformative leaders. After these discussions, I arrived at the 5Ps of transformative leadership, which I would like to introduce here. Looking at people like, for example, Nelson Mandela, it is quite clear how these 5Ps expressed themselves and …
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Thanks to the kind donations of six individuals, NELIS is supporting nine different “micro-projects” (USD 1,000 for each project) in Nigeria, Uganda, Liberia, Kenya and Rwanda. The aim it to act rapidly to help increase local resilience against the COVID-19 pandemic. Projects supported include, for example, purchasing of food, masks, soapand other hygienic materials; drilling …
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Next Leaders’ Summit Africa 2019, April 11-12 in Lagos Africa has a long list of socio-economic challenges hampering development and sustainability – with poverty and inequality to malaria and Ebola, from unemployment and migration to corruption and lack of essential infrastructures. But there is a new breed of social entrepreneurs who have given themselves a …
Next Leaders’ Summit 2018 – in collaboration with Sophia University and sponsored by more than 20 Japanese corporations – was successfully concluded in June 2018 with more than 500 participants over two days. Here is a link to a beautiful, 3 min. video clip with an overview of the Summit and short interviews with NELIS …
This year’s global Next Leaders’ Summit will be held in collaboration with Sophia University in Tokyo on June 9-10th, 2018! Again, 35 young sustainability leaders from six continents will gather and explore alternative paths to a better future! Servant leadership, empathy, communications, the trash economy, enabling ecosystems for young entrepreneurs, sustainability strategy, organic farmers’ networks, …