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Articles by Mariah Levin
Winter 2025
Issue Winter 2025 Volume 23, Number 1 Read about how funders can achieve greater impact through the collective ownership of strategies; how the community development field should rethink financing to prioritize impact, flexibility, and local empowerment; how development professionals should work with the existing assets of informal economies; how Kenyan fishing villages are using mangrove conservation to fund local development; and other topics in the Winter 2025 issue of Stanford Social...
Generation Z: Redefining Workplace Expectations
Every new generation of workers confronts generational stereotypes and redefines workplace expectations overtime. Some headlines have painted Gen Z as entitled, money-hungry, and unwilling to conform to traditional workplace expectations, and these impressions are negatively impacting this rising pool of employees. A recent report suggests that some companies are now avoiding hiring Gen Z workers due to performance.
Collectively Owned Strategies (SSIR)
It is common practice for major funders to shape agendas, set priorities, and determine how funding is allocated—in short, to “own” strategies for social impact. In competition for funds, would-be partners submit proposals tailored to reflect a prospective funder’s strategy, often conforming to donor expectations and requirements, rather than speaking from their own expertise.
Redefining Workplace Culture in a Post-COVID World - The World Financial Review
By Mariah Levin We launched beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship about 18 months ago and have been working closely with young innovators ages 16 to 28. Through this experience, we gathered great data on how workplace aspirations and expectations are evolving for this generation. It’s clear that professional landscapes have undergone seismic shifts accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Changes have particularly impacted those just starting their careers.
What the world needs to do to achieve a sustainable future
The 2020s was promised to be a 'decade of action' but this has been severely disrupted by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The world now needs to work together to get back on track to secure sustainability for the planet and communities across the world. Six Young Global Leaders give their thoughts on what leaders should prioritize to work towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. The 2020s started with the promise of “a decade of action” for people and planet.
3 leadership practices for social cohesion in a divided world
This article first appeared on Forbes. Now more than ever, as we face a climate crisis and mass inequality, the world needs thoughtful leaders that can bridge divides. Inclusive, humble and resilient leaders can help their organizations or societies emerge from a prolonged period of social isolation. The Forum of Young Global Leaders convenes young leaders from all over the world to foster the next generation of leaders. Our new cohort of leaders launches today.
Tools female leaders are using to overcome workplace bias
Women at all stages of employment experience workplace bias – from job applicants to presidents. International Women’s Day presents an opportunity to develop a greater awareness of the innate human tendency to categorize and stereotype. We asked members of our Young Global Leaders Community how they are attempting to overcome unconscious bias in their workplaces to create more representative power structures. Women have made considerable strides in the labour force over the past few decades.
How behavioural experiments boost sustainable leadership
Behavioural experiments give leaders tangible actions to embed responsible and sustainable behaviours within their organisations. Through behavioural experimentation, organizations can de-risk change and fully unlock human potential. Leadership experiments with 10 Young Global Leaders show that organizations that embrace iterative change significantly boost their sustainability score.
How to adapt to a post-pandemic workplace. Young Global Leaders share their insights
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Women leaders can play a special role in fighting climate change. Here's how
Women at work (representational image) | Christina Morillo/iconscout.com Text Size: The COVID-19 pandemic has set representation of women leaders back by 68%, although research shows that women in leadership positions deal better with a crisis. Women leadership traits are proving to be more effective, which is why we have to make sure they are being heard. Here are the lessons of four female leaders on why it’s crucial to close the gender gap in leadership.
Why female leadership is crucial to tackle climate change
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3 ways responsible leaders can create a sustainable, inclusive recovery
The COVID-19 has challenged leaders around the world with complex, changing uncertainties. Members of the Forum of Young Global Leaders have demonstrated what it takes to be a responsible leaders during times of crisis. Responsible leaders must prioritize trust, invest in local communities and address systemic issues. The past 18 months haven't been an easy time to be a leader.
3 Ways Responsible Leaders Can Create A Sustainable, Inclusive Recovery
What makes a responsible leader? getty by Mariah Levin, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, World Economic Forum The past 18 months haven't been an easy time to be a leader. The Covid-19 pandemic has presented challenge after challenge to lives and livelihoods around the world, putting a extra scrutiny on leaders and elevating the importance of responsible leadership even more. Effective leaders have regularly adapted their behaviors and priorities to meet changing and challenging unknowns.
3 Steps To Chart A Course Towards Inclusion
With our systems and infrastructure failing multiple facets of our societies, work to promote ... [+] diversity and inclusion has never been more important. getty By Mariah Levin, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, World Economic Forum When I was 14, I spent Take your Daughter to Work Day doing home visits with my dad, a medical social worker.
How to translate diversity strategies into resilient organizations
The case for diversity in teams is clear, but it's difficult to achieve in practice. The nomination results for the Forum for Young Global Leaders show that many of the suggested candidates are male and Western. Strategies to improve diversity include structured interviews, specific criteria and updated policies to support perception change. The business case for diversity is ever more pressing.
How To Translate Diversity Strategies Into Resilient Organizations
By Mariah Levin, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders, World Economic Forum More diverse teams deliver long-term results. Christina Wocintechchat..com/Unsplash The business case for diversity is ever more pressing. For over a decade, study after study has propagated the same conclusion: A diverse team – representing diverse nationalities, genders, abilities, ideologies, religions and more – makes organizations more innovative, profitable, appealing to workers and resilient to economic shocks.
The 3 pillars of responsible leadership for the 2020s
It’s time for more responsible leadership. Here’s how we can get there. The 2020s are unfolding in a complex context, and they haven’t even begun in earnest. At the end of the last decade, our world witnessed the Amazon and much of Australia burning, a hardening of identities and resurgence of nationalism, and a crisis in tech governance, dangerously confusing fact with opinion.
The 3 pillars of responsible leadership for the 2020s
Leaders are waking up to stakeholder demands for responsible corporate action. The new generation of leaders will prioritize purpose over profit. Implementing this can help identify unexpected spheres of action. The 2020s are unfolding in a complex context, and they haven’t even begun in earnest.
Refugee camps are brimming with invaluable talent, and the world is poorer for it
Rohingya people wait in line for supplies provided by the UNHCR at the Balukhali Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh | Photo: Ismail Ferdous | Bloomberg Text Size: Forced migration is the political hot potato of our time. With new global records of displaced people set every year, foreign aid falling and an expected surge of climate refugees on the horizon, we will all be affected by forced migration in the years to come.
There is huge talent in the world's refugee camps. We must realize this overlooked potential
Forced migration is the political hot potato of our time. With new global records of displaced people set every year, foreign aid falling and an expected surge of climate refugees on the horizon, we will all be affected by forced migration in the years to come. There are numerous policy and practical barriers preventing displaced people from contributing to the global economy, including lack of working papers in host countries and limited freedom of movement.
Meet the 2019 Class of Young Global Leaders
Earlier this year, the Edelman Trust Barometer reported that only 20% of people feel that current economic and social systems are working towards their interests. In a similar vein, a recent World Economic Forum survey on globalization uncovered a widespread belief that government-driven initiatives, such as law and regulation, are failing to generate sufficient opportunities. An urgent yearning for new direction has marked the start of 2019.
5 amazing ways young people are promoting healthy oceans
The ocean supplies more than half of the oxygen we breathe, at least one-ninth of global livelihoods and a carbon absorption system that has thus far regulated climate change. While only 5% of the ocean has been explored, evidence suggests its entire ecosystem is seriously under threat. The number of fish in the oceans has halved in 50 years, since 1970. Coral reefs bleach far more frequently and extensively than just four decades previously, putting countless species at risk.
Meet the 2018 Class of Young Global Leaders
A frightening decline in multilateralism and an increase in friction between major powers are two of the most urgent risks dominating the 2018 risk landscape, according to the 2018 World Economic Forum Global Risk Report. Large cracks in the global governance mechanisms encouraging mutual accountability for stewardship of the earth and its populations are threatening to reverse decades of work building common norms and cooperation across countries, businesses and non-governmental groups.
Fourth Industrial Revolution Tackles the Migration Challenge
People look on during a drone awareness and safety demonstration in regards to humanitarian drone corridor testing under the UNICEF-funded Humanitarian Drone Corridor testing project, in the hard-to-reach rural Chanthunthu Village Health Clinic in Kasungu. The drones will also be used for imaging in disaster areas, which are impassable to humans, to determine the extent of damage by floods and how victims can be assisted, as well as boosting telephone and internet network connectivity.
What does the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean for migration?
The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents new ways in which technology becomes embedded within societies, i.e through robotics, artificial & intelligence. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is unfolding at a time when human mobility is increasing and, in many instances, becoming more precarious. Last year, the world saw 250 million international migrants, only 21 million of whom qualified as refugees under the UN Refugee Convention.
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