Breakfast Breakout Sessions

Morning Plenaries

TED Talk: Leslie Crutchfield, "How Change Happens"

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Leslie Crutchfield is a leading authority on social movements, systems change, collective impact, corporate social responsibility and shared value. She serves as Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Business for Impact at the McDonough School of Business (formerly GSEI), which delivers world-class education, research and actionable cross-sector solutions to create significant social, economic and environmental change.

Leslie’s latest book is the critically-acclaimed How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t (Wiley 2018), recognized in The New York Review of Books for offering “useful guidance for [groups] inspired to take action. In this morning TED Talk, Leslie will draw from the findings in her book to explain why some changes take hold, while others don’t, and reveal the leadership approaches, campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics used in a range of modern change campaigns. Based on several years of research with a team of 21 staff, students and faculty at Georgetown University’s Business for Impact team, Leslie unearthed six key factors that explain why winning movements triumph. Leslie will also explore how changemakers in our community can apply these best practices to promote and advance meaningful systems change for youth economic opportunity.

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Speaker:

Leslie Crutchfield, Author, social change expert, educator, and Executive Director of Georgetown University’s Business for Impact at the McDonough School of Business

Youth Activists: The Unsung Agents of Systems Change

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Responding to the 21st century’s complex global challenges requires not only new solutions but also new ways of acting and organizing. “Systems-thinking” is a topic of growing focus for the youth development community, one that increasingly informs how we understand the challenges facing young people.
 
While we get better at understanding the complexity of the system through this practice, are we missing the opportunity to have a more meaningful conversation - “how does systems CHANGE happen?”.  Change is brought about PEOPLE, and so this discussion explores the people behind systems change.  
 
We will explore what are the roles of different stakeholders that mobilize and drive change? In particular, what dynamics do young people bring as entrepreneurs and innovators, as leaders within institutions, as change agents and as an often overlooked stakeholder group for changing systems: young activists.
 The discussion will challenge our audience to think about how activism can be a lever for systems change, and how to engage young people in more meaningful ways to capture the energy, innovation and drive that young people offer their communities. We will also consider how activism and civic engagement helps to develop foundational skills that can support young peoples’ leaderships, skills development and hence future opportunities to create more fruitful future. 

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Speakers:

Seema Patel, CEO, Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI)

Bojan Boskovic, Founder and CEO, Cinecons

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Closing Plenary

The Opportunity Puzzle: Youth-Led Reflection on What We’ve Learned & Where to Go from Here​

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Join us for a high energy, interactive and youth-led activity at the close of the 2019 GYEO Summit that brings together youth and adult perspectives on systems change. Youth facilitators from the 2019 GYEO Young Leader Program will lead Summit attendees in standing discussion groups to explore what we’ve learned, what’s impacted us, and how we plan to apply the knowledge we’ve gained to our work. We will also invite you to share your ideas about what where to go from here as a community to advance systems change for youth economic opportunity. Join us for the closing celebration immediately after the session.

Facilitators:

2019 GYEO Young Leaders