2020-05-07
1 小时 3 分钟Growing up in a military family, the oldest of seven siblings, Jacqueline Novogratz developed this fierce sense of duty and responsibility, along with a scrappiness and a drive to make the impossible possible.
And that led her into the world of banking, where she was kind of fast tracked for a huge career before she did something that shocked everyone around her.
She quit her job to co found Rwanda's first microfinance institution and eventually founded legendary impact investment platform, the Acumen fund.
Now, along the way, she has learned to listen fiercely, to acknowledge the value of every life.
She has stumbled many, many, many times and been incredibly open and transparent about that journey and learn how to truly serve a bigger purpose 19 years later.
Now, after acumen has sort of embraced the world, under her leadership, they have supported the growth of over 128 social enterprises across Africa, Latin America, South Asia, the United States, impacting more than 300 million lives.
She serves on the board of the Aspen Institute, sits on advisory councils of Harvard Business School, Social Enterprise Initiative, the Oxford said Global Leadership Council, NYU Stern center for Business and Human Rights, UNICEF.
And right now, she sees us all kind of in a moment of profound disruption that calls for, in her words, a moral revolution.
That, in fact, is the name of a powerful new book of hers, manifesto for a moral revolution, practices to build a better world.
It is a veritable field guide to a new kind of leadership and a new vision of the world and the way that it could be fueled not so much by hope, but by powerful ideas, proven models, stories, examples of what's truly possible when we step into a place of collective responsibility, action taking, and elevation.
We dive into all the different stops in this journey, into her moving story, many of the powerful stories of the people that she has worked with along the way in today's conversation.
So excited to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I grew up all over the place.
My father was in the military, and so I think we moved something like 19 times before I was ten.
But when I was six, I lived in Highland Falls, which is right next to West Point, so.
And my grandmother grew up in Queens, and so therefore, my mother did, too.
So the city has always been a part of my life.
Yeah.
Family was originally austrian, came to Pennsylvania, is that right?