Leadership Lessons

How do we listen even when we are the most hurt? How do we disagree without disappearing?

At the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, changemakers explored what it means — and what it takes — to stay at the table during the most difficult moments. This conversation turns toward clues in history, reminding us that the institutions of today were once the result of creative innovation.

Taking inspiration from youth and the artistic community as sources of “research and development,” this conversation invites us to wrestle with tension rather than treating conflict as failure, allowing us to remain in relationship through our differences. Whether operating in small towns in a single U.S. state like South Carolina, or across multiple nations in the Middle East, panelists discussed the conditions that we can create in ourselves and in our communities to design new ways forward.

Carly Zakin, Henry Crown Fellow, on leading through the unknown.

A conversation about finding and fostering leadership in rural places.

As the pandemic took hold of the world around her, Aviva Nassimi felt a deep urgency to find her role in helping communities who were being disproportionally impacted.

Maria Alejandra is leading the COVID-19 response for one of the largest public hospitals in Honduras.

Six weeks after Kofi Bruce was named Chief Financial Officer at General Mills, the pandemic changed the way the company worked. Now, having served in the role for more than a year, we asked him: What were your biggest learnings?

In late May, India was impacted by a severe second wave of the COVID-19. Neera Nundy, Co-founder of Dasra, sprung into action to get support to the most vulnerable communities in the country. 

David Hardy has focused his career on closing educational gaps in school districts across the United States. In years spent working with communities that had been underinvested in, he was always looking deeper at the ecosystem surrounding the children at the schools he was leading.