Net Impact Seattle :: Professional Chapter

Leading Change Dinner Tickets Now Available

Be sure to purchase your tickets for next week’s Microsoft event on Brown Paper Tickets.

Guest Speaker: Dan Bross, Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft

Clearly, today’s economic and social challenges are beyond the ability of governments to solve and will require a cross sector response. Business success in our flat, interconnected, multi-cultural world will require forward looking, socially aware leaders. Leaders who recognize the opportunity to increase business value by addressing social challenges. As the role of business in society, particularly in the US, evolves beyond Friedman (Milton and Tom), corporate leaders need more than the basic toolbox of traditional business skills—finance, marketing, human resources, strategy. Successful executives will need creativity, empathy and context to help their businesses compete and grow across multiple cultures and geographies.

For more info on the event, see last week’s post.