About The Tour
Differencemakers Tour 2010
MASTERCLASS FEATURING
Ian Berry CSP FAIM & Alexander Blass MBA (Oxford)
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, INNOVATION AND
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
HOW DOING GOOD IS GREAT FOR BUSINESS AND YOUR LIFE
For the first time ever,in July, August and September of 2010, two of the world’s leading experts in the practical advantage of linking corporate responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and innovation, will be sharing the stage and their passion, insight, and fascinating experienceswith select audiences in major cities around the world.
You will leave this 8-hour high content, high value, hands on, practical, no nonsense, Master Class with insights and ideas you can implement immediately that will make a real difference in your life and work, and as a consequence make a difference to others.
You will take away strategies and tactics you can use immediately and in your own way.
Watch a Clip from Our 2009 Tour!
Waking up the world to the infinite possibilities for sustainable growth by combining true innovation (changing what is normal) with authentic corporate responsibility, and social entrepreneurship.
Stop doing what you don’t love, and start doing what you do love in theservice of people who love what you do. Imagine how much you would increase your productivity if you stopped doing what you don’t love to do! And, how much happier would you be?
Who should attend? If you
- are interested in learning about social entrepreneurship, authentic innovation, sustainability and corporate responsibility.
- own/lead a business that is for people, the planet, and for profit
- lead a corporate responsibility team in a corporation
- are, or aspire to be, a social entrepreneur or social intrapreneur
- work for or with a non-profit or charity
- want to be more engaged with your philanthropy
- or simply want to make a bigger difference in all that you do
then this Master Class is for you!
IN THIS 1-DAY MASTERCLASS, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
- Help other people achieve what is important to them through doing what you love and living your dream
- Identify the 3 paradigm shifts that are revolutionizing modern business
- Discover and fulfill your life’s work through 7 essential measures
- Live with passion, purpose, and turn possibility into reality
- Do today what others won’t be doing until tomorrow
- Understand what defining moments to look for in your life and for opportunities to improve our world
- Discover what opportunities are most in demand on the horizon, and how you can live more passionately and be more successful at what you love to do, and help others do the same time
- Identify how to convert a vision into a compelling story, and make a huge difference in your life by making a difference in the lives of other people
- Be a social entrepreneur or social intrapreneur, and change the world in your own way through the power of the Internet and even in your own backyard
- Reveal why businesses focused solely on profits are at risk and fast becoming antiquated .
- Understand the “double bottom line” (social and environmental) and “triple bottom line” (social, environmental, and economic)
- Study real-world case studies of innovative social enterprises and business models
- Identify key steps you must take to be a successful innovator
- Discover how to make money while making a difference by solving real problems in our society…and the ways in which technology is making it easier than ever
- Define your legacy, impact, and philanthropic footprint
YOUR 1-DAY MASTERCLASS PROGRAM
Several years ago Ian was embarrassed to discover that the vision, mission, and values statement he had assisted an executive team to create was totally disbelieved by
the majority of stakeholders in the organisation. Ian vowed to find another way.
In the 12 years since he has helped organisations to dramatically increase levels of stakeholder engagement by inspiring and influencing people to collaboratively discover the
compelling story and cause beyond profit of the organisation and how to turn values into virtues.
You will be drawn in this session to rethink where you are going, how you will get there, and what you stand for, and how to vastly improve the engagement of all your stakeholders and therefore the top and bottom lines of your business.
As a child, Alexander Blass often gazed at the black and white photos on his parents’ piano of his father’s family members who perished in the Holocaust.
The lessons he learned as a boy about the preciousness of human life, combined with world events, ultimately led him to a “lightbulb moment.” He left a career in venture capital
finance to make a difference in the lives of others as a social entrepreneur.
Alexander invented, patented and launched a revolutionary new way to make direct, person-to-person philanthropic contributions in 50 countries through the power of the Internet, for
which he received wide acclaim including the Top Innovator of the Year Award and was credited with “revolutionizing charitable giving” by the Daily Record.
Blass draws from his experience and the lessons learned as a social entrepreneur to inspire and motivate, helping you identify your defining moments, find your passion, maximize our
unique abilities, and embrace change, ensuring that one person -you-can indeed change our world.
The GFC has changed the world forever. There is talk of a new normal. Could it be that the new normal is really business as usual in disguise?
The world will not become a better place simply by putting different jockeys on the same horses.
All sustainable development begins with personaldevelopment.
We need to change our intentions, our hearts, our minds, and then our actions in order to build a sustainable world.
In this session you will learn about the awesome power of a personal sustainability plan and how inside-out innovation leads to breakthrough discoveries at work.
There is a lot of spin about sustainability and the new normal. You will discover in this moment that spin is mediocre compared to the magnificence of authenticity.
Discover how to make money through social entrepreneurship while making a difference (the “triple bottom line”), by solving real problems in our society and world. Learn
about various business models in the social enterprise arena, blending for-profit, non-profit, and hybrid approaches.
In this session, Alexander Blass will profile case studies of several highly diverse, successful social enterprises that are among his favorites that are providing innovative
solutions to pressing problems.
Learn the essential qualities necessary to be a successful innovator and how anyone can create marketing sensation and “buzz” with limited resources.
Discover how you can be involved in social entrepreneurship and change the world in your own way through the power of the Internet and even in your own backyard, and uncover
where the emerging opportunities are for future innovations.
Alexander also shows how you can get in touch with editors and journalists at major publications around the world, and how to present your venture’s “story” or brand in a fashion hat makes it irresistible to the media to spread the word about your important work, without expensive advertising or public relations budgets.
For the longest time there were landowners and farm workers, then there were industrialists and factory workers. Information experts and knowledge workers followed for a short time.
Today and for the foreseeable future the builders of our new word are InsightpreneursTM and DifferencemakersTM
Insightpreneurs are experts on the journey from information to insight to inspiration to ideas to innovation, fast.
Differencemakers innovate for the good of people and our planet.
Discover in this final session your own pathway to making the difference you were born to make.
