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Informationen zum Autor CARRIE RICH is the co-founder and CEO of The Global Good Fund, a global nonprofit organization that has helped create thousands of jobs in underserved communities around the world. She is also the founder of the Global Impact Fund, a venture capital fund that invests in socially impactful businesses. Carrie serves on the Board of Directors of Trinity Health and the Atlas Health Foundation. She is the recipient of The Daily Record' s Most Admired CEO, the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, and POLITICO Women Who Rule award. Ms. Rich lives with her husband and three young children in Maryland where they enjoy spending time together as a family in the countryside. DEAN FEALK is an award-winning international attorney and civic leader and Northern California co-managing partner of a leading global law firm. Dean serves in leadership capacities to various civic organizations, including CEO business groups, NGOs and think tanks, and has advised and convened government leaders and politicians around the world on public policy issues. He is a co-founding member of the Halifax International Security Forum, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. Passionate about service and public policy, Dean has advised three presidential campaigns on foreign policy and has represented the State of California in trade and investment missions around the world. Dean lives with his wife and two children in Piedmont, California. Klappentext The world is navigating extraordinary times. Amid widespread loss of confidence in traditional institutions of power, there remain unprecedented opportunities to channel global impact thanks to a renewed civic spirit and new technologies empowering individuals at the local level. In Impact the World: Live Your Values and Drive Change as a Citizen Statesperson, authors Carrie Rich and Dean Fealk deliver a hands-on guide to harnessing the power of people, technology, and resources. This book provides readers with the tools to become citizen statespeople-superpowered individuals committed to improving their communities and the world-who are capable of solving pressing social, political, and economic challenges. Within this handbook, you'll discover how to grow into the role of a citizen statesperson and explore the new technologies to accelerate the impact of citizen statespeople on the world. Rich and Fealk present a practical treatment of self-directed expertise development and motivation building, along with strategies for leveraging established, powerful organizations to drive positive change. Impact the World belongs in the libraries of leaders, business executives, social entrepreneurs, social justice advocates, politicians, volunteers, public servants, and others seeking to amplify their influence. With a foreword by renowned author and speaker John C. Maxwell, this book is a blueprint for personal civic engagement in a complex and interconnected world. Zusammenfassung Supercharge your impact on global issues and drive transformative change in the world around youImpact the World: Live Your Values and Drive Change As a Citizen Statesperson is your motivational guide to becoming a superpowered individual committed to improving your community--and the world--through your values and actions. You'll discover why the intersection of a renewed civic spirit and new technologies empowering individuals at the local level equates to an unprecedented opportunity to channel global impact.From poverty and homelessness to violence and corruption, we often see challenges in the world around us and ask, "Why doesn't someone do something?" We look to people with more experience, or people with more influence, or people with more time or resources than ourselves to step up and find answers to some of our biggest problems. But what if we didn't wait for others? What if we stepped up, and looked for ways to employ our skills to solve the biggest and...
