Featuring Guest Speaker: Jerry White
Jerry White has over twenty-five years’experience leading change-making campaigns to prevent mass destruction and increase civilian security worldwide. A social entrepreneur and senior Ashoka Fellow, White has helped train next generation leadership in scores of countries to transform highly contentious issues into opportunities to unify communities, generate jobs and build stability and hope.
White shares in the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. His 1997 trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina with Diana, Princess of Wales, was the event credited with putting the spotlight on the plight of hundreds of thousands of victims wounded by mines worldwide. White was pursuing a graduate degree in Theology and Religious Studies at Cambridge University when he was called to serve in the Obama administration.
In a 2012 article called, Explosive Wisdom: What Landmines Teach Us About Liberation and Leadership, White says: It is worth noting the four fundamental qualifications I now look for in leaders of liberation:
- Are you are a doer—a person of action? You don’t just talk or complain.
- Do you burn for justice and humanity? You long for a more humane world.
- Do you value inner space? You are not afraid of silence or spiritual practice.
- Do you retain hope and optimism? You are not cynical about the future.
Please join the final Deeper CEIO Change Forum of the season, featuring speaker Jerry White and followed by a community discussion about what it takes to lead liberation movements and to create greater wholeness for all.