Comments on: BAWB: Imagining . . . and How to Get There http://aiconsulting.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/imagining-and-how-to-get-there/ Real-time ideas from the cutting edge of appreciative practice Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Keith Cox http://aiconsulting.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/imagining-and-how-to-get-there/#comment-9 Keith Cox Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:53:51 +0000 http://aiconsulting.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/imagining-and-how-to-get-there/#comment-9 Hi All, The 10/24 session of BAWB was very inspiring! Many highlights for me today! The first was listening to Patrick Cescau, Global Chief Executive of Unilever. He was passionate, full of purpose and embodied responsible leadership. You wouldn't believe the initiatives this company has taken on and the cross-sector collaboration and stakeholder engagement they undertake to get them all done is out of this world. Simply a GREAT story and I would recommend for those interested to look Unilever up on the web. The afternoon paper sessions were a treat as I got to co-present a paper with Phil Mirvis. Our paper "Profiles of Responsible Leadership: Purpose, Passion, and Transformative Practices” was well received and the conversation was very thought-provoking. However, there were so many fantastic session choices I was almost sorry I couldn’t have attended some of the others! :o) The final session of the day for me was a special NE OH sustainability planning session where about 50 or so of us locals discussed CSR & Sustainability in our backyard. I went to a meeting with Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact and we discussed how to make NE OH the shining exemplar of US participation. It is an exciting idea with many possibilities and I will be interested to see where this initiative takes off to tomorrow! Congressman Dennis Kucinich also was in attendance and he seemed impressed by the excitement, commitment, and great ideas generated by those in attendance. Lots of good stuff. Peace all, Keith Hi All,

The 10/24 session of BAWB was very inspiring! Many highlights for me today! The first was listening to Patrick Cescau, Global Chief Executive of Unilever. He was passionate, full of purpose and embodied responsible leadership. You wouldn’t believe the initiatives this company has taken on and the cross-sector collaboration and stakeholder engagement they undertake to get them all done is out of this world. Simply a GREAT story and I would recommend for those interested to look Unilever up on the web.

The afternoon paper sessions were a treat as I got to co-present a paper with Phil Mirvis. Our paper “Profiles of Responsible Leadership: Purpose, Passion, and Transformative Practices” was well received and the conversation was very thought-provoking. However, there were so many fantastic session choices I was almost sorry I couldn’t have attended some of the others! :o)

The final session of the day for me was a special NE OH sustainability planning session where about 50 or so of us locals discussed CSR & Sustainability in our backyard. I went to a meeting with Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact and we discussed how to make NE OH the shining exemplar of US participation. It is an exciting idea with many possibilities and I will be interested to see where this initiative takes off to tomorrow!

Congressman Dennis Kucinich also was in attendance and he seemed impressed by the excitement, commitment, and great ideas generated by those in attendance. Lots of good stuff.

Peace all,
Keith

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