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What does it mean to lead when certainty falls away? This closing plenary brings together a conversation about leadership in moments when the old maps no longer work.
Lori Schott, Kristin Bride, and Marlon Peterson will bring that question to a deeply human scale, exploring how leaders draw strength, courage, and moral clarity when life thrusts them into circumstances they never chose and could not have prepared for. In conversation, they’ll ask what humanistic leadership demands when institutions falter, certainty disappears, and the only way forward begins with the choice to show up.
Speakers:
Kristin Bride, Executive Director, The Carson J. Bride Effect
Marlon Peterson, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship (Civil Society Fellowship)
Lori Schott, Co-Founder & Parent Advocate for Child Online Safety
Moderator: Heather Sonn, MD, Gamiro Investment Holdings (Africa Leadership Initiative - South Africa)
What does it mean to lead when certainty falls away? This closing plenary brings together a conversation about leadership in moments when the old maps no longer work.
Lori Schott, Kristin Bride, and Marlon Peterson will bring that question to a deeply human scale, exploring how leaders draw strength, courage, and moral clarity when life thrusts them into circumstances they never chose and could not have prepared for. In conversation, they’ll ask what humanistic leadership demands when institutions falter, certainty disappears, and the only way forward begins with the choice to show up.
Speakers:
Kristin Bride, Executive Director, The Carson J. Bride Effect
Marlon Peterson, Executive Director, College & Community Fellowship (Civil Society Fellowship)
Lori Schott, Co-Founder & Parent Advocate for Child Online Safety
Moderator: Heather Sonn, MD, Gamiro Investment Holdings (Africa Leadership Initiative - South Africa)
