this time last year (before global hub meeting and cogniscent of what queen sofia had been asking but not getting microcreditsummit's
help on in the world microcreditsummit she must have put 50 days of her own time and much of spains regional turism budget
behind ) I asked whether there was anyone in the spanish hub who knew queen sofia well enough to help her microcreditsummit
address spanish youth economy problems; we didnt get an actionable answer
2012's concept I have in mind is that
queen sofia leads a journey of change to s.africa with one third people in church who are most reponsible for catholic budgets,
one third entrepreneurial youth and one third spanish ceo businessmen and learns from everyone taddys partners know how to
youth entrepreneur-- I dont know if we should involve virgin united as the travel partner in this tour because I dont know
if branson would ever play supporting role to taddy (to date what bransons elders do has been inpenetrable to anyone living
outside of s.africa)
I do not believe you will find a simpler way to make it trendy news that is is possible to
start to reverse youth unemployment in spain; ideally a tv crew would cover this journey; it could have a second leg in kenya
too if ingrid and taddy saw a synergy
chris www.erworld,tv
logics:
if I could mention such a scenario is being explored, the japanese would get it in their
own way
there is no reason why other royals including prince charles shouldnt sponsor something similar and bundle
it in to celebration of his mothers 60th year on the throne
I am very concerned that the first experiments with
social impact bonds take it to countries in eu where the way church elders accidentally disinvested the economy from the next
generation; the euro bubble targeted these nations in europe, so getting the part of the top of society that was the problem
to be the solution is quite likely the only way spain or greek youth have any chance of growth in the next quarter of a century;
queen sofia's 2 familial countries are spain and greece as you may know
Is this too radical a story for journalists
of the new economist to cover even if they take smaller steps towards this logic; the end action needs to be the result of
any such faciliation process
I will also voice something that concerns me; I believe that queen sofia and indeed
grand duchess of luxembourg each of whom have spent months if not years of their time on yunus related work think that yunus
hunts out the taddy blschers of this world and would put her in touch with them; whereas for whatever reason yunus has got
to be of that age and obsession about defending grameen village women that he doesnt look across the micro youth networks
he inspired for such future twinnings; put another way none of the summits -let alone their hub spinoffs - led around yunus
are ever going to present taddy as a next generation leader of micro up movements so we need to break through that with a
royal news journey of change to taddy's work; equally if we could ever substitute monica yunus and viv westwood on one of muhammad yunus royal tours they would cross-connect their superstar networks
after all right now the whole of s africas positive change movements including mandela converge on taddy's energy and
the way his mdoest persona is of no threat to any of s;africa powers for good
chris
ps if you think
this idea is muddled ok but substitute it for a bigger one as this connecting of adundant entrepreneurial solutions isnt going
to come about if the people we each link in cant come up with a big idea on how the world can now learn from what taddy has
next to no degrees of separation round; microeducationsummit can rise from the ashes of microcreditsummit
attached
is version 1 of the entrepreneurial revolution script I am walking japan through in asking that japan economists go to war
with american economics mindsets and make sure the asian region repels such fatally conceited american economics for the rest
of this century;it would be sad if the southern hemisphere isnt simlarly innoculated
if this mail worries you
just trash it; thanks and any errors are mine alone
TADDY (ADAM PAUL)
BLECHER
PhD (Honoris Causa),
B.Sc. (Hons) (Wits)
Fellow of
the Institute of Actuaries (London) F.S.S.A.
PROFILE
Dr Taddy Blecher is the:
· Chair of the South African National Government task
team on Entrepreneurship, Education, and Job Creation,
Human Resource Development Council of South Africa
· CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association (COMMUNITY)
· CEO of the Maharishi Institute (MI)
· Executive Chair of Invincible Outsourcing
He
is a pioneer of the ‘free tertiary education movement’ in South Africa:
· Founded the first free tertiary educational institutions in South
Africa
· As
a result over 5 500 unemployed South Africans have been educated, found employment, and moved from poverty to the middle-class
· These formerly unemployed youth have combined salaries in excess of R250 million p.a.($35m), with
an expected life-time earnings of R9.5 billion ($1.4bn)
· Over 600 000 young South Africans in schools have been reached with one-week education and life-skills training courses
· Has raised over R 450 million
in cash, property, and equity, to support free access for financially disadvantaged South Africans to successfully go through
university and post-secondary school education
As CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association (COMMUNITY), he has been co-founder of six free-access
tertiary education institutions:
1. the
Maharishi Institute (2007)– to develop by 2012 the first financially self-sustaining free-access higher-education institution
in Africa
2. the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship (2005) with Sir Richard Branson;
3. CIDA City Campus (2000) - the first free university in South Africa; [resigned August 2008][City Campus has achieved scale and
now operates independently of COMMUNITY]
4. MERU
(2011)
Assisting with the creation of:
5. TSiBA
in Cape Town (2005)
6. Eden
Campus in Karatara, Garden Route
(2006)
In addition, he has founded:
· Invincible Outsourcing – first call-centre business ‘owned’ and staffed by students
· CIDA Empowerment Fund – a R 150 million education endowment fund;
· Invincible South Africa
- to reduce violent crime by 30% in South Africa by December 2013;
· CBE Schools SA - Consciousness-Based Education, a daily Quiet Time programme in schools, incorporating Transcendental
Meditation – to transform educational outcomes in schools
Initiatives currently under development:
· The development of the field of Impact Sourcing in South Africa, through the creation of IMPACT SA BPO (Business Process
Outsourcing) Academy, as a sustainable means to help thousands of individuals gain access to education, training, jobs, and
lifetime careers, breaking the poverty cycle
· MERU: Ezemvelo Eco-campus – to create a centre of excellence in poverty alleviation methodologies for sub-Saharan
Africa at a R35 million
Nature Reserve donated by the Oppenheimer family
· Education and Replication Centre – to package materials and methods to open free-access tertiary education
across South Africa
and Africa
o Including, 21’st Century Learning Labs
o Mass-scale, low-cost, high-quality, effective, enlightened education
· Africa College Fund, in process to become a USA-based 501(c)(3) charity to fund free tertiary education
in Africa
Other
areas of involvement:
· The
Elders – development initiative with Sir Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel. Involved in the foundational strategy and
creation of the Elders [with Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu]
· innovationTOWN - premier South African innovation awards;
Board Roles:
Current:
· Chairperson of the South African National Government
task team on Entrepreneurship, Education, and Job Creation, of the Human Resource Development Council [reporting to the Deputy
President through the secretariat of the Human Resource Development Council]
o Launched an initiative in January 2012, to put 100,000
small South African business online for free, bringing together Google, Vodacom, and the Department of Trade and Industry,
and the Human Resource Development Council
· Global Center of Social
Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific, California
· Community Individual Development Association, and Community Individual Development Trust
· Maharishi Education for Invincibility Trust
· International Board of Branson School of Entrepreneurship
[co-founded with Sir Richard Branson: schools now launched in South
Africa and Caribbean, and under development
for several other African countries]
· Invincible Empowerment Fund, and Invincible Outsourcing
· Supernews,
South Africa
· Patron of the Tomorrow Trust
· Cents for Change
· National
Director of Consciousness-Based Education for South
Africa
Former Board Positions:
· International Marketing Council of South Africa [invited by SA President]
· CIDA City Campus, currently a ‘member of organisation’ and attend AGM’s
Dr Blecher is formerly a qualified actuary and
management consultant.
Taddy turned down a R1.3 million per annum job in 1995 and numerous
offers subsequently of dramatically higher salaries and has spent 16-years to help uplift the lives of historically disadvantaged
individuals in his country and to build access to education for all in South Africa.
HONOURS
· Inc.com Magazine, author Tom Peters ranked Taddy Blecher
as one of his top 5 most influential entrepreneurs in the world of the last 30 years, 2009
· $ 1 million award for Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Foundation award to support his work in CIDA
City Campus, to honour the most innovative and effective approaches to resolving critical social issues world-wide, 2006
·
Awarded two honorary doctorates: Goodwin College, USA,
2004; Maharishi University of Management, 2007, in recognition of contribution to society
· Global Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum, 2002. Recognised as one of 100 young
leaders under the age of 37 around the world who are making an exceptional contribution to 'making a better world’
· Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, 2005
· ‘Favourite business personality in South
Africa’, Glamour Magazine, 2005
· Ranked
#5 amongst business leaders in South Africa,
in the publication South Africa’s Leading Managers, Corporate Research
Foundation
· Recognised by The Star newspaper as being one of the top 100 people in 2002 that made the headlines.
He was ranked number six in the country in the business category as, “An inspirational speaker whose incredible story
made every major publication in South Africa.”
· Supporters of his work have included: Sir Richard Branson; Oprah Winfrey; His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Suze
Orman; Oppenheimer family; Russell Simmons; Bill Gates; Michael Dell; & leading South African and international corporations
and foundations
AWARDS
v BMF (Black Management Forum Award) - a ‘shining example of achievement and success’
in empowering managerial leadership amongst black people
v Wits University Alumni Honour
Award
v Rotary, Paul Harris Fellowship, their highest honour, for ‘service above self’ contribution
to the community in the field of tertiary education
v Jewish
Report humanitarian Award
v
Toastmasters ‘Communicator of the Year’ Award
v The
Maharishi Award, 2008
v World Shining Humanitarian Award, 2009
v Wits Humanitarian Award, 2009
v The David Award for Gemilut Chesed, from the King David Foundation, 2010
v Global Hero Award, from the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific,
California, October 2010
INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS
v SABC2
Achievers’ Award for education. The award pays tribute to African excellence and is an acknowledgement of Africans who
have made a profound difference.
v The National Productivity Institute’s chairperson’s award for outstanding contribution.
v Grand
prix award in the Age of Innovation competition for the most innovative organisation in South Africa,
v
The Nedbank Prosperity Sustainability Award
v “Seedlings of Success” Award for the Maharishi Institute; October
2010: chosen in Bahrain’s Education Project for global education prize to recognize young (early-stage)
educational institutions or programs that have maximum potential to bring positive educational outcomes and significant good
as they grow and scale. The judging for the award was done by National Ministers of Education from 10 countries, and 500 educators
from 48 countries; featured on CNN, Wall-Street Journal, CNBC, and by over 100 international news agencies
BOOK CITINGS
Over
30 published books have profiled Dr Blecher’s work, including the three most recent books by Sir Richard Branson (Screw
Business as Usual, Nov 2011; Business Stripped Bare; Screw It, Just Do It), Extraordinary South Africans (2010), The Optimist
(Lawrence Shorter, 2009), The Opposable Mind (Roger Martin, 2009), Three Feet from Gold (2009) the 100’th year centenary
of Napoleon Hill’s, Think and Grow Rich.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Has lectured in the fields of Strategy, Management,
Statistics, Business Mathematics, IT, Insurance and Financial Services, Leadership and Consulting.
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Taddy is a former senior project leader with international strategic
management consulting firm Monitor Company, where he was rated in the top 1% of consultants in the firm.
Formerly
an actuary at a large South African financial services organisation,
Taddy has won several awards and scholarships
including the Liberty Life Gold Medal for top Actuarial Honours student in South Africa.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Dr Blecher has presented at over 300 conferences over the last 15 years in South
Africa and around the world on topics related to poverty eradication, developing economies, innovation
in education, and human potential development. These talks include amongst others: Microsoft; Canadian
Government; Alexander Forbes UK; Sir Richard Branson’s Leadership tours to South
Africa; The Elders; World Economic Forum; Skoll Forum; Education Project, Bahrain;
Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship; Clinton Global Initiative,
and Young Presidents Organisation.
