Many leaders fail not because they do not have good intentions or because they do not have the right professional experience, but because they have forgotten how to "speak human."

As part of the World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows program, I spent the past two weeks with...

Twenty-first century mainstream culture is infatuated with the idea and the practice of leadership. We love to dissect a president's popularity ratings, to analyze how a CEO turned around a floundering company into a Fortune 500 company, or how an athletic coach shapes an underperforming team into a world champion.

While today's crisis may revolve around financial markets, tomorrow's will stem from the aftershock: hundreds of millions of young adults never incorporated in the job market. The repercussions of this lost generation will be devastating.

Unemployment can create a vicious cycle. Countries with high levels of unemployment will generate lower...

We all dream of reaching our potential. Social entrepreneurs, who often see the mission of their organization as the embodiment of their own personal mission, perhaps know this better than most of us.

It is common to judge social enterprises by the scale of their reach or by how rapidly...

There is a lot of hype about impact investing. Investors speak of a $1 trillion USD sized market. Social enterprises reposition their business model and restructure their financial model to attract, absorb and grow through investor capital. Despite the enthusiasm, the actual volume of impact investment transactions remains minimal at...

Yesterday, 35 social entrepreneurs from around the world convened at Davos to discuss how the power of social innovation can improve the state of the world.

Among those attending Davos for the first time include Asher Hasan of Naya Jeevan,...