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Speaker // Elsie Maio
Special Guest // Mila Popovich
Elsie Maio
Founder of Humanity, Inc. and Creator of SoulBranding℠ New York
Mila Popovich
Founder, EVOLving Leadership; Chair, World Academy of Art and Science
In the words of this session’s presenter, Elsie Maio: “‘Fraught’ could qualify as the word of the year, if such a designation existed to describe the zeitgeist. Geopolitics, the biosphere, time-honored institutions, business systems, national populations, are heaving with increasing unrest. And each seems to be exacerbating the volatility of the other.
As educators, how can you know what you are even preparing your students for when the future is so murky? And, as a professional whose own livelihood and legacy assumptions are at risk, it’s difficult to see a generative path forward. Students, with a lighter backpack of ‘proven’ paradigms may be more agile, but they need you to help them discover the worldly relevance of the engineering talent and skills you cultivated so well in them so far”.
Elsie Maio has anticipated megatrends and guided leaders to the sweet spot in them for decades. These individuals and organizations include impact entrepreneurs, educators, global institutions and other listed companies in virtually all sectors of the world economy. Perhaps of most interest for this STEM community are IEEE, IBM, Raytheon and SustainAbility, Ltd. Starting on Wall Street, then the strategic consultancy McKinsey&Company, Elsie dedicated her own cross-functional advisory firm, Humanity, Inc, to promoting whole-systems wellbeing in 1997. Lately, the appetite of leaders to generate inclusive wellbeing for their stakeholders is accelerating as they are pressured by whole-system hyper-interdependencies. That in turn is accelerating the need to educate a workforce to meet those new requirements.
In this seminar, Elsie will touch on relevant forces at work and specific opportunities for engineers to help knit together our generative future. Her featured guest, Mila Popovich, will illustrate one of those with a topical update on the collaboration among ecosystem actors, IEEE and the World Academy of Art and Science. Mila Popovich is a leading voice for the emergent global standards of ethics in the fields of science and technology, education, the economy and democratic systems. She is a member of and advisor to the global boards of several meta-level policy and convening organizations. In that role, Mila represents the World Academy of Art and Science (founded by Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and Bertrand Russell) at the United Nations Economic and Social Council and she chairs two of its Board Committees. Mila is one of the select ‘Brain Trust’ of Ethical Markets and also lectures at the World University Consortium.
