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Societal Leadership in action
From the 2011 TEDxCalgary event comes this lively and far-reaching talk by Satya Das, an Alberta-based journalist and policy analyst. It is a passionate plea for many of the perspectives behind societal leadership, most particularly that Canada (and Alberta within it) has a moral and ethical responsibility to the world given our wealth of natural resources, including oil.
Instead of simply spending that wealth with little societal gain, Das calls for us to look at the resource differently, and to use it to help make Canada and Alberta the best FOR the world, not just within it. The talk also looks at what is wrong with today's empty consumer society. It's not a new phenomenon, and he talks about several ways we can individually and collectively do something about it.
The LeadWell Foundation is pleased to be an active sponsor and promoter of TEDxCalgary, and assisted the 2011 event by acting as event secretariat.