Conference Presentation, Panel
Leadership Lessons from the Road Less Traveled
Milken InstituteLynn McDonald, Oriel Morrison, Naomi Campbell, Jeremy Coller, Mika Häkkinen, Joseph C. Tsai, John Wood
- The Government of Canada targets 95% of bilateral international assistance initiatives to focus on gender equality and women's empowerment by 2021.
- Canada is modernizing NAFTA with partners using terms comparable to its recent trade agreement with the European Union and has launched exploratory discussions for a Canada-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement to increase trade and investment flows in Asia.
- The stated objective is to build an open, rules-based international trading system founded on green growth, economic inclusion, and shared economic gains.
- Room to Read aims to reach 10 million children with its education program by 2020 and plans to open 20,000 libraries by the end of the current year.
- Room to Read intends to operate as a scalable, open-source initiative and identifies competition from apathy, misogyny, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS as significant threats to its mission.
- India is identified as a critical focus due to containing 35% of the world's illiterate population, with the projection that full national potential remains unattainable without universal literacy and secondary school completion for young women.
- Future education strategies are predicted to prioritize teaching children how to learn over rigid skill specialization, with a view that human intelligence must increase daily similar to machine learning.
- The global community is expected to address the rise of factory farming over the last 40 years as a destiny-driven objective without a middle path, distinct from speciesism issues.
- Healthcare improvement is deemed necessary in every country to accommodate continuous global population growth.
- Significant concerns are raised regarding climate change, current leadership quality, and the lack of security for future resources, contributing to a perceived state of global instability.
- Young people are expected to demonstrate accelerated maturity and higher intelligence capabilities than currently perceived, driven by technological access.