Speaker: Pamela Hartigan

Director, Skoll Centre on Social Entrepreneurship

Pamela Hartigan is Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School and Founding Partner of Volans Ventures. She spent eight years as the Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship where she created the vision, strategic orientation and management of the Schwab Foundation from its inception. She is a widely recognized global leader in the field of social entrepreneurship and co-authored The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World.

2012 SESSIONS
 

Morning Plenary

Location: New Theatre, Oxford

Thursday morning plenary at the 2012 Skoll World Forum.

OPENING REMARKS AND MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Stephan Chambers, Director of the MBA, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; Chair of the Standing Committee, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Gordon Brown, Former UK Prime Minister

INVENTING A NEW FUTURE: BEYOND OUR HUMPTY DUMPTY WORLD
Pamela Hartigan, Director, Skoll Centre on Social Entrepreneurship

RESILIENCE AND STRENGTH: STORIES AND IMAGES OF PEOPLE IN FLUX
Nick Danziger, Photographer, Author, Filmmaker

WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY: A REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES
Eve Ensler, Playwright; Founder, V-Day

Speakers: Gordon Brown, Eve Ensler, Nick Danziger, Stephan Chambers, Pamela Hartigan

Morning Plenary 2012

From: Morning Plenary | With: Gordon Brown, Nick Danziger, Eve Ensler, Pamela Hartigan

Pamela Hartigan at the Morning Plenary of the Skoll World Forum

From: Morning Plenary | With: Pamela Hartigan
 
2012 SESSIONS
 

David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships Between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business

Location: Lecture Theatre 4
How do successful partnerships between social entrepreneurs and big business get going?  What are the essential building blocks involved?  What are the tensions that might arise moving forward?  This session is one of two sessions that will examine four different partnerships from the perspective of each partner. Be prepared to learn, laugh and be inspired to stick with or kick-start a new collaboration.

Speakers: Luis Montoya, Keith Kenny, Rupert Howes, Albina Ruiz Rios, Pamela Hartigan
2012 SESSIONS
 

David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business

Location: Lecture Theatre 4
How do successful partnerships between social entrepreneurs and big business get going?  What are the essential building blocks involved?  What are the tensions that might arise moving forward?  This session is one of two sessions that will examine four different partnerships from the perspective of each partner. Be prepared to learn, laugh and be inspired to stick with or kick-start a new collaboration.

Speakers: Paul Ellingstad, Jane Chen, Gene Falk, Dorje Mundle, Pamela Hartigan
2011 SESSIONS
 

Closing Plenary 2011 Skoll World Forum

After three days of intense collaboration, delegates of the forum come together at the closing plenary.  Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, says goodbye with an Irish farewell.

Lord (David) Sainsbury talks about his passion for genetic research, especially genetically improving the resistance of plants to disease. He shares how he began his work as a social entrepreneur, and how this contrasted from his work in government.

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan talks about the great change happening in the Middle East, saying we should not be surprised. She touches upon the of role social networking, women’s rights, and unemployment among youth, and gives examples of Arabs mobilizing for change in small ways, such as cleaning up their neighborhood in Cairo. “We are watching unfold before us a breathtaking experiment in collective action, by young people armed only with cellphones and computers, protected only by social networks united in their willingness to speak out and sacrifice for change. We can learn much from their courage and dedication.”

Last to speak is Fadi Ghandour, Founder and CEO of Aramex International, the first company from the Arab world traded on NASDAQ. He discusses the crisis in the Middle East, and his solution: Ruuwad, or the Arab Foundation for Sustainable Development. “Ruuwad is a group of entrepreneurs, who decided to venture into social entrepreneurship and bring our skills, resources and networks to the Arab world’s downtrodden and forgotten. It … offers education to economically and socially marginalized youth in exchange for community service.”

Speakers: Pamela Hartigan, Lord Sainsbury Of Turville, Her Majesty Queen Noor Of Jordan, Fadi Ghandour
2010 SESSIONS
 

Opening Plenary Of The 2010 Skoll World Forum

Excitement builds as guests gather for the first time in 2010 at the Opening Plenary. A gift of majestic song by Vusi Mahlasela, South African singer-songwriter and Poet Activist kicks off the Forum. Next, two warm welcomes from Colin Mayer of the Saïd Business School, and Jeff Skoll.

The first speech was by Lakhdar Brahimi, Veteran UN Envoy and advisor, and former foreign minister to Algeria. His talk focused on his life in conflict and his work in South Africa, Haiti, Sudan, Iraq and Lebanon. “What I have learned in these 20 years in trying to make peace is …that you come across a lot of courage and forgiveness…”

The opening plenary’s panel focused on Governance, Transparency And Collaboration and was moderated by John Ydstie, Economic Correspondent, National Public Radio. Panelists were Ann Cotton, Executive Director of Camfed International;
 Diana Good and Lance Croffoot-Suede, Partners of Linklaters LLP;
 Dr. Felix Phiri, Director of Planning and Information, Ministry of Education in Zambia, and
 Faith Nkala, Deputy Executive Director of Camfed Zimbabwe. The focus was on a report about the importance of educating African girls.

Later, Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, gives a presentation called “Catalyzing Collaboration: Our Humanity at Stake.” During his talk, he shows a video about the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, called “No words can describe what happened that day.” He later says that the images of the ill in the video were taken recently, three months after the earthquake, asking “What is the disconnect between great need on the one hand, and unstinting giving on the other?”

To end the opening plenary, Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, thanked everyone who put the Forum together and asked them by name to stand for applause.

Speakers: Vusi Mahlasela, John Ydstie, Dr. Felix Phiri, Faith Nkala, Diana Good, Lance Croffoot-Suede, Lakhdar Brahimi, Colin Mayer, Paul Farmer, Ann Cotton, Jeff Skoll, Pamela Hartigan

Closing Remarks from Pamela Hartigan – 2010 Skoll World Forum

From: Opening Plenary Of The 2010 Skoll World Forum | With: Pamela Hartigan
Not quiet sure what to say after that, but we come to the conclusion. I want to just take a moment to reflect on what each one of those chefs in those colleges be preparing right now well whether we have to consider the works of chefs in top restaurants around the world why because its not unlike what it means to pull off the Skoll World Forum, except that the folks in the kitchen are separated by the eight hour time difference between Palo Alto and Oxford.

Think about it. Every guest has specific expectations about the meal they hope to enjoy. That expectation may or not be similar to other guests. Thus, the items on the menu need to reflect the variety of individual pallets and preferences but should also be memorably distinct from other offerings at other restaurants.

The ambience has to be conducive to maximizing a positive experience and each individual meal has to be served up in a timely fashion by polite and polished waiters who are available if you need them, but not intrusive in any way. I won't go on at the risk of trying your patience. The point is the level of detail that goes into planning, preparing and serving a meal is probably never fully appreciated by the customers.

So before I close I want to thank all the amazing members in the Skoll World forum kitchen. Who have worked for the last eleven months to serve up for seventh world forum. Keller Pridan our lead producer, along with Lorna Donaldson and Hippa Hitchen. A Caspian, Moya McCarthy and the stewarding team meeting all the folks in the orange jacket.

Fred Davis and the technical team. And most importantly the glue in the process, our curator Pollock Rabbits who's unflappable and upbeat approach kept us going when it got too hot in the kitchen. I also finally want to thank the contributions of Microsoft, Ernst ; Young, The British Council, Anterio Mar's discovery on our knowledge partners McKenzie and most particularly all of you delegates who have come from all over the world for helping us make this a scholar a stallard seventh Skoll World forum don't forget the movie tonight Jeff reminded you its in On Madolan St. and the Madolan Odium.

But here at Oxford we pronounce Magdalen Madolan. So, if your confused just look for something its right around the corner. Enjoy your dinner. Thank You
 
2010 SESSIONS
 

Closing Plenary Of The 2010 Skoll World Forum

After an inspiring three days, attendees gathered for the closing plenary. Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Director Pamela Hartigan opened by talking about the idea of the heroic social entrepreneur. “‘Is that not misguided?’ I am frequently asked. ‘Certainly it takes more than a visionary individual for his or her initiative to be successful.’”
Hartigan answered this question in her speech.

Then, Caroline Casey, Founder & CEO of Kanchi, shared her disability that surprised the audience, and how it’s helped her become persuasive. Her talk, “The Power of Persuasion: Pulling in the Reluctant Collaborators,” was uplifting and an example of how to be positive—whether you have a disability or not.

Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Shankar Singh talked on “The Anatomy of a People’s Movement.” Roy said it’s important to know what is going on in India, because if you don’t, “You can’t get your schooling, you can’t get your medicines, you can’t get your rations, you can’t get anything.”

Tim Smit, CEO of the Eden Project, talked about your vision in life. “We all sort of think death is optional, so we piss around wasting our lives away. You need to have the fire, to imagine how many birthdays there are from now until your death, and suddenly you think, ‘When am I going to go to the Antarctic, when am I going to do that?’ And suddenly you are fired up. So many people piss their lives up against the wall because they are too scared to take risks,” Smit says.

The Skoll World Forum came to an end with words by Stephan Chambers, chairman of the Skoll Centre Standing Committee at Said Business School. Chambers offers some wisdom learned. “Intractable problems, even big, scary, recalcitrant, painful ones, are not intractable when subject to the power of truth, reconciliation and innovation,” he said.

Speakers: Caroline Casey, Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey, Shankar Singh, Tim Smit, Stephan Chambers, Pamela Hartigan

Opening remarks – 2010 Skoll World Forum

From: Closing Plenary Of The 2010 Skoll World Forum | With: Pamela Hartigan
Good afternoon to all of you. My name is Pamela Harrtigan [sp?] i'm the director of the Skull center for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford and, so we. Come to the close of this seventh skoll world forum and as i noted in my opening remarks i hope each of you is leaving Oxford wiser which you in contacts inspire and happier as [xx]having being with us over this last three days in more days i see you beat for her initiative to be successful.

What about the people in the organization they set up, who are often instrumental to success and this is we emphasized throughout the forum a fact under scored by our theme catalyzing collaboration. Social entrepreneurs cannot hope to scale their solutions without the essential support of other public and private sector stakeholders and most importantly, of the communities in which they work.

So, "Why continue this hero worship?" I'm asked. I would like to look at this question a little bit differently were human and i think know is the people and their institution weather government weather business [xx] nonprofit strongly resists new ideas how ever great they may be. It takes an extraordinary persistance and creativity to sell the idea to others.

The entrepreneurer is incredibly inventive in that regard working day and night to find a way ...to persuade engage to hers and believing in that change in fact that ability to over.... turns out, actually, to be much more important to the original idea. An idea, that in it self is often so simple ..to a poor involving communities in a protection of their either systems reveloutionizing (xx) health care, quality health care and education but making them happen often takes years of persistant seduction.

So while these individuals always be heroes to me. Perhaps, even slightly mad. Much to humanities great good fortune, celebrating these social entrepreneurs should not lead us into the trap of assuming that they single handedly achieved their results. Nothing could be further from the truth and much of what they achieved is spy so we have reached our constraints is due to the type of leadership they exercise Cuisines imposed a who is on the subject of leadership definite as the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle For shared aspirations.

All leadership involves inspiration, vision, competence, and interpersonal skills. And that is exactly what social entrepreneurs possess. It takes courage, imagination and persistence to drive through the kind fundamental changes, needed to respond to the new challenges and opportunities. And that can only be done through a more open style of leadership that combines intellectual humility and personal confidence and that doesn't confuse ambition with omniscience.

Finally, one of the messages that I continuously reiterate to MBA students at Oxford and at Columbia Business School is the following. It's okay not to be a maverick. It's okay not to be a social entrepreneur. And, have systems changing ideas that you doggedly pursue at all costs and every waking moment.

Most of us are not change makers or entrepreneurs. And thank heavens for that. Having done nothing but lived and breathed with entrepreneurs for many years. It's been an inspiring roller coaster of a ride. So for the majority of us who are not entrepreneurs where ever our careers take us, we can and should be instrumental in facilitating, supporting, and strengthening the work that these pragmatic missionaries do, because they are coming up with the solutions that so we (sp) (xx) and to prove my point nature of social entrepreneurs.

I would like now to introduce you to our first speaker, and you conclude whether my little rant about heroes, leaders, and mavericks doesn't ring true. Caroline Casey [sp?] qualifies along all those descriptors. I first met her at the annual meeting when the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum at Davos, where she had just been designated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

And i recall her passionate argument to me that she'd actually been selected into the wrong crowd. That she actually belonged with the social entrepreneurers that were selected by the Schwab foundation. Well, she clearly belongs in both, as you will attest. I would like to welcome the incomparable Caroline Casey, with a word of warning to you all [xx] You will loose your heart to her Caroline.

 
2009 SESSIONS
 

The Ripple Effect: Communities Empowered Through Individual Transformation

Effective models for empowerment serve to transform not only power on a personal level, but have the ability to impact a wider community when executed effectively. This session looks at proven models for empowerment from across the globe and examines the relationship between personal empowerment and community power. Panelists will discuss the critical design elements that make empowerment models effective in achieving lasting impact, not only at an individual level, but across entire communities.

 

Speakers: Jeremy Hockenstein, Marcia Odell, Ron Grzywinski, Pamela Hartigan
2009 SESSIONS
 

Closing Plenary Of The 2009 Skoll World Forum

After an inspiring three days, the forum came to a close with inspiring talks.

Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, said that “we live in two realities.”

Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, C.B.E., talked about “Citizens, Institutions and Shifting Power” and showed an emotional 7-minute video on the state of the education in the world and how we need to improve.

Soraya Salti, senior vice president MENA of INJAZ Al-Arab, gave “A Social Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Power.” She said we have drifted far from the days when education and learning was critical. “The education systems across the Arab world have failed its youth,” she said.

Jeff Skoll said goodbye with his talk, called “Collective Power: A Call for Urgency,” about urgency and hope. “Urgency is on an upward path. We’ve made some progress on the big challenges in the world, but each passing day raises the stakes,” Skoll said.

Ending the Forum was Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at Said Business School. “History is on our side,” he said. “The great periods of institutional innovation have indeed emerged out of crisis.”

Speakers: John Wood, Lord Puttnam Of Queensgate, Soraya Salti, Colin Mayer, Jeff Skoll, Pamela Hartigan

‘We live in two realities’: Pamela Hartigan at the 2009 Skoll World Forum closing plenary

From: Closing Plenary Of The 2009 Skoll World Forum | With: Pamela Hartigan
The World of two realities, one reality is Salts is Sally with the else of modern life such as the film the first part of the film that we saw. For communities, political bribery, all of which can be traced back to the lack of responsibility from one or more constituencies . It is the reality that we read about every day, when we pick up the paper or turn on the radio or listen to the television and it can actually paralyze us.

But the other reality is what we saw in the second part of the film, and it's the reality that we've lived with for the past three days, the reality of what imaginative, committed, caring men and women are accomplishing to revert and transform what might seem to be an irreversible downward spiral.

All of you here are a testament to the power of the human spirit to transform the hugest problems into enormous opportunities. And celebrating that spirit and the accomplishments that ensue from that spirit is what brings us back together here, year after year, to draw strength from and re-energize and go back and continue, knowing that we can draw courage from the ties that bind all of us here and those of us who are not here, but are with us in our journey.

Who knows what this year will bring? This year We all know so well, may the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sunshine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly upon your feet and telling we meet again. May God
 
2008 SESSIONS
 

Addressing The Talent Gap

Social entrepreneurs increasingly report that access to human capital is one of the biggest challenges they face. This raises a whole host of challenges around recruiting and retaining the right talent to ensure effective implementation and impact on the ground. This experienced panel will discuss both the challenges and opportunities that accompany growth as well as effective strategies for attracting and keeping the human resources you need to succeed.

Speakers: Marc Freedman, Rodrigo Baggio, Deepti Doshi, Ngwarati Mashonga, Pamela Hartigan
2007 SESSIONS
 

The Problems and Perils of Scaling

Scaling to achieve systemic change is enormously difficult and fraught with external and internal challenges. Here social entrepreneurs will share with delegates how they have spread their innovations and changed the lives of millions, their challenges and victories, their mistakes and successes.

Speakers: Ashok Khosla, Mel Young, Pamela Hartigan, Mechai Viravaidya