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Sustainable Leadership Briefings March 2008

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March 20, 2008

Leadership in Sustainability : The Role of the Social Entrepreneur

Panel Presentation
Patrick Guerra ‘73 MBA ‘76, Moderator

David Green of Project Impact, Jody Ranck of Institute for the Future, and Harry Wiland, co-president & co-CEO of Media & Policy Foundation, examine how social entrepreneurs contribute to global sustainability. Pat Guerra, SCU alumnus and Global Social Benefit Incubator co-founder, will moderate.

Breakfast & Briefing
SCU Adobe Lodge
7:30 AM Hot breakfast buffet
8:00 – 9:00 AM Presentation
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David Green founded Project Impact, is a MacArthur Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by the Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. David has been the prime mover in three successful technology transfers, which have had a significant impact in the fields of blindness prevention and amelioration of hearing impairment. In 1992, David, in collaboration with Seva Foundation and Aravind Eye Hospital, directed the establishment of Aurolab ( India), the first non-profit manufacturing facility in a developing country to produce affordable intraocular lenses (IOLs) to ameliorate cataract which is the main cause of blindness. Aurolab is now one of the largest manufacturers of IOLs in the world, with sales of 700,000+ units per year (8% of the world market share) to 86 countries and has fulfilled its promise to make affordable high quality IOLs available to programs serving the poor. Aurolab's selling price is $4 per lens, compared to over $100 in the US.

In conjunction with Seva, Aurolab and Mr. Rolf Spingler, and other donors, David also established suture (wound closure product) manufacturing at Aurolab in 1998. Aurolab has reduced the selling price of ophthalmic suture from $200 per box of suture to $30.

Project Impact’s present initiative is to design, produce and distribute a digitally programmable hearing aid. Production commenced in February 2003 at Aurolab. Hearing aids usually sell for $1500 per unit. The Project Impact hearing aids are sold for prices ranging from $0 to $200. The manufacturing cost is $50.

Project Impact, through the efforts of biomedical engineer Joel Segre, is also presently engaged in a transfer of technology and know how to

Aurolab for the manufacture of a foldable intraocular lens. Aurolab also produces pharmaceuticals and eyeglasses and has CE Mark Certification for hearing aids, suture and IOLs, fulfilling the same regulatory requirements medical companies must fulfill for selling products in Europe. The suture and hearing aid also have US FDA approval. Aurolab is financially sustainable from sales revenues and as a non-profit, cycles it’s profit into expanding and improving it’s ability to serve the underserved with affordable medical products.

In addition to establishing medical manufacturing, through his work with Seva Foundation and others, David has developed high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees. He helped develop Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, which performs 220,000 surgeries per year, making it the largest eye care program in the world. 65% of the care is provided free of charge or below cost, yet the hospital is able to attain 50% profit margin. For Lumbini Eye Hospital in Nepal, he worked with Seva to develop a system of financing from user fees to enable the hospital to be self-sustaining. The hospital now provides sight-restoring surgery each year to 30,000 patients (20 percent at no cost and the majority at cost); is now self-sustaining with substantial savings and has a 35% profit margin. David Also worked with Al Noor Foundation to create a sustainable eye care program that is now one of the largest in Egypt. David has assisted in replicating this cost recovery model in Malawi, Guatemala, El Salvador, Tibet, Tanzania and Kenya and has assisted the Lions Aravind Institute for Community Ophthalmology to build their capacity to transform over 150 programs in India and abroad to increase service volume, improve quality and become self sustaining.

Jody Ranck's lifelong interest in science and society took him into health care, but two life-changing experiences informed his passion for studying the future of global health. The first was working at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, where Jody learned how small loans to the poor work to raise people from poverty, develop local economies from the bottom up, and improve health. The second was the several years he spent in Rwanda during the genocide reconstruction. There Jody dedicated himself to studying the effects of mass violence and the way societies renegotiate social memory.

Jody's interests at IFTF span topics as diverse as innovation, cooperation, healthy food, global health and development, and Islamic finance. As a social scientist he has paid particular attention to social and political norms and how these may change the health economy of the future. He is now directing IFTF's efforts in forming a global health and development center that will address major challenges in areas such as Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. The center will explore new ways of mapping and conceptualizing socio-technological changes and their implications for business, government, philanthropies, and NGOs. The program hopes to use innovative forecasting to help alleviate poverty in partnership with low-income communities around the globe.

In his career, Jody has also worked on public health and technology projects on HIV in Africa and Mexico, and on risk politics, and on food security in Zambia. In the process, he has collaborated with a variety of academic and philanthropic institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of California, San Francisco, and UC Berkeley.

Jody has a B.A. in biology, an M.A. in international relations and economics (Johns Hopkins University), and a doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. Outside work, Jody spends time with his family; gardens, swims, runs, and cycles; and is an avid reader on the subjects of politics, anthropology, and Islamic history and law.

Harry Wiland
• Executive Producer of the PBS award-winning environmental sustainability project Edens Lost & Found
• Executive Producer of the acclaimed PBS caregiving project And Thou Shalt Honor
• Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
• Former CEO and founding partner of Leonardo Internet (Santa Monica, CA)
• Executive Producer of PBS's career planning series Change Your Job/Change Your Life
• Award-winning producer/developer of multimedia distance learning courseware for PBS -- 3 Emmys, Ben Franklin Award and Family Media Award Gold Medal
• Former columnist for freeagent.com's "Wiland's World" re navigating the new business landscape
Currently:
• Executive Producer of Public Space / Public Health and America's Children.
• Principal of Going2Green.com

March 20, 2008

Sustainable Leadership

James Kouzes
co-author The Leadership Challenge

Luncheon & Briefing
Scott’s Seafood
Palo Alto Town & Country Plaza
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Luncheon
12:30 – 1:30 PM Presentation
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Jim Kouzes, who wrote The Leadership Challenge and other business bestsellers with Leavey School of Business Dean Barry Posner, looks at leadership development for your business, leveraging the insights of more than 20 years of management research.

Kouzes has been thinking about leadership since he was a Boy Scout growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. The co-author (with SCU Business School Dean Barry Posner) of bestsellers like The Leadership Challenge, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, and Encouraging the Heart, he has been featured as a workplace expert in What Works at Work: Lessons from the Masters (George Dixon, 1988), and in Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders (Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye, and Ken Shelton, 2000).

No only is Kouzes a highly regarded leadership scholar and experienced executive, he has been named as "one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S." (The Wall Street Journal), and he speaks worldwide for educational institutions, government leaders and staff, and corporations such as Accenture, Cisco Systems, Deloitte Touche, Levi Strauss & Co., 3M, Roche Bioscience, and Toyota.

He served as president, then CEO and chairman of the Tom Peters Company from 1988 until 2000. Prior to his tenure at TPC he directed the Executive Development Center at Santa Clara University, from 1981 through 1987. He also founded the Joint Center for Human Services Development at San Jose State University. His lifelong career in education began in 1967-1969 when he served for two years in the Peace Corps.

Kouzes believes it was on January 20, 1961, when he was first inspired to dedicate himself to leadership. That was the day he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts who served in John F. Kennedy's Honor Guard at the Presidential Inauguration. His latest "leadership challenge" involved remodeling his house, selling his house, moving, more remodeling, and getting married.