261. Solving the Leadership Crisis + The Mission of Global Citizen Year - Abby Falik
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Overview
Meet Abby. She’s a social entrepreneur and founder of Global Citizen Year, an organization reimagining the transition into adulthood by facilitating a yearlong immersion experience abroad for high school graduates. By equipping young leaders with empathy, agency & a global perspective, they’re changing the inputs into higher education in order to dramatically improve the outcomes of the world. Our minds were officially blown (in a great way!)🤯🌏👏
💡Learn:
The current leadership crisis
Why good leaders need unrestricted capital to try stuff
Partnership & approach ideas to co-leadership
The mission of Global Citizen Year
Today’s Guest
Abby Falik, Founder & CEO of Global Citizen Year
“Our leaders are failing us. We live at a time of unprecedented interconnectedness, possibility, resource generation, and yet, inequality is wider than it can be.”
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Episode highlights
Abby’s story and journey to where she is today (2:30)
The current leadership crisis (5:30)
Abby’s first international experience (11:00)
Overview of Global Citizen Year (13:00)
Story of a Program Alumni (20:00)
Co-leadership Approach (23:00)
The story of Global Citizen Year’s $12M grant from MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, the largest gift in the organization’s history (32:00)
A powerful moment of philanthropy (35:00)
Abby’s One Good Thing: If the path is clear, you’re on someone else’s. (37:00)
powerful quotes
“When you’re awake, you’re aware, and your empathy goggles are completely on.” -Becky
“Our current approach to leadership is failing.” -Abby
“Our leaders are failing us. We live at a time of unprecedented interconnectedness, possibility, resource generation, and yet, inequality is wider than it can be.” -Abby
“There is a way in which our leaders have not seen the whole picture and balanced all of the bottom lines that are essential.” -Abby
“We talk about the real good over the feel good.” -Abby
“We are all on the same team, we just don’t realize it or act like it.” -Abby
“How do we harness the idealism of Gen Z for real change.” -Abby
“It’s not just about running around and starting new nonprofits. It’s about humbling themselves and understanding the root causes of problems that need to be solved.” -Abby
“I had been on the treadmill, I checked the boxes, my sense of purpose was given to me by others.” -Abby
“The things we give credit to, are currently quite disconnected to things that are worthy of credit.” -Abby
“At Global Citizen Year we have a blueprint for a new type of education.” -Abby
“I think about how much effort, human capacity, creativity and potential we are wasting but putting kids on a thin scramble.” -Abby
“Mackenzie Scott is the exact type of leadership and leader we are trying to shine a light on.” -Abby
“This is the philanthropy that will change the world.” -Abby
“Good leaders need unrestricted capital to try things.” -Abby
“If the path is clear, you’re on someone else’s.” -Abby
“Forge your own path, and it will be messy and hard.” -Abby
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Julie Confer, Becky Endicott, Jonathan McCoy & Abby Falik
