Will Marre is a Featured Delegate at 2010 Innovation and Humanity Summit

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“The wisdom of courageous leaders needs to shine as a beacon to inspire those who fear to wake up and get busy saving our world. It’s actually just wise business.”

Orange, California (PRWEB) January 22, 2010

Will Marre, leadership speaker and expert, CEO of Realeadership Alliance and author of Save the World and Still Be Home For Dinner (Capital Books), will be a delegate at the 2010 Innovation and Humanity Summit at Chapman University in Orange, California on Jan. 23. The summit, titled Positive Social Change Through Ethical Innovation, will focus on how businesses can create a more positive and sustainable future through innovation that addresses both environmental and social issues.

Marre, in particular, is going to address the hidden initiatives that today’s great leaders are already doing. Marre states, “There are wise companies who lead their industries, embrace sustainability and are investing in the future of humanity.” He uses such examples as FedEx and Johnson & Johnson who have partnered with Heart to Heart International, a health-based nonprofit whose main focus is to get life-saving medicine and supplies to victims in crisis. Through FedEx’s innovative Forward Response Centers, FedEx warehouses full of relief supplies that are ready to go to virtually any disaster zone in the world quickly and efficiently, and Johnson & Johnson’s generous donations of supplies, Heart to Heart has been among the first responders to the Haiti earthquake disaster.

Marre also cites The Grameen Foundation, a non-profit microcredit organization, as an example of visionary leadership. The Grameen Foundation will use the innovation of microfinance and technology for longer-term economic recovery in Haiti. The President of the Grameen Foundation, Alex Counts, recently stated, “We will help our local partners build a Haiti that is more prosperous than pre-earthquake conditions.”

The question Marre addresses is, what drives these enterprises to invest in more than their own self-interest? In Marre’s 30 years of working with senior leaders and his research at the REALeadership Alliance, Marre proposes that these companies do it because they understand that business is about more than money. He contends that at the core, these enterprises have wisdom. Drawing from Plato’s definition of wisdom as “a knowledge of the Good and courage to act accordingly,” Marre describes wisdom as the commitment to seek the right balance between “all that exists,” what today we might call sustainability. Marre states, “At the core, wisdom is moral courage. The responsibility of today’s business leaders to act from wisdom is essential for our future.”

Marre and other distinguished delegates will be discussing ways that enterprise leaders can create new value by inventing new ways to save the world. Marre states, “The wisdom of courageous leaders needs to shine as a beacon to inspire those who fear to wake up and get busy saving our world. It’s actually just wise business.”

About Realeadership Alliance:

Realeadership Alliance provides leadership education and talent development to help leading companies grow and create unique and sustainable value. They conduct workshops and seminars within companies to develop new leadership capacity by training leaders and teams to develop actionable value innovations that drive sustainable growth. Clients include Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Nike, Gap, Disney, and Proctor and Gamble. The founder, Will Marre, is the cofounder of the Covey Leadership Center where he brought the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to millions of executives and managers worldwide. He also heads the advisory board of the Human Performance Institute (a Johnson & Johnson company) and is an Emmy award-winning writer of a public television learning documentary. Please visit Realeadership.com for more information.

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