Paving the Path with Peggy Dulany
“Building trust allows for vulnerability, which allows for authenticity. This brings the human potential out of each of the individuals and allows them greater willingness and capability to reach out beyond their safety zones and divides, to work with people who are actually experiencing the problems, and who need to be included in the problem solving, and not just the recipients of aid.”
- Peggy Dulany
In late 2024, Peggy Dulany, Synergos' founder & chair, was honored to join a panel to share her insights on “Bridging Polarities” at the Inner Development Goals (IDG) Summit in Stockholm. She was joined by Kristen A. Cordell, Fellow of The White House Leadership Development Program, Aitor Llodio Rodriguez, Executive Director at ALIARSE, and Massamba Thioye, Project Executive at The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Peggy talked about how the inner dimensions of leadership—the principles of trust, vulnerability, and authenticity—create the opportunity to address global challenges through radical collaboration, highlighting the importance of breaking traditional barriers and leveraging diverse perspectives to reach a shared goal.
Synergos’ success stories in various places like India, where the malnutrition rate decreased by a significant percentage, and Bangladesh, where the child drowning rate has gone down by a substantial portion- reflect just that.
The conclusion drawn from these successes is all the same, i.e., building trust between diverse groups of participants by becoming vulnerable to resonate with authenticity. All this effort in one place can have a rippling effect throughout different areas.
Why? because the inner knowing and inner process gets spread from person-to-person and leader-to-leader.