Bridging leadership is a form of leadership that builds trust and collaboration to solve complex social and development problems.

There is increasing recognition that the complexities of our world demand a collective, inclusive response - one grounded in leaders’ personal purpose and their connection to shared purpose. Yesterday’s leadership paradigms are insufficient in the face of today’s challenges. A growing global community is navigating this change, by working across barriers, amplifying knowledge, and engaging with those - often the most marginalized - whose lives are most directly affected by social problems. They are facilitating the emergence of shared solutions with distributed power.

The Bridging Leadership Voices project assembles a unique chorus of voices of twenty-three practitioners from fourteen countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas who are innovating on a wide range of issues including corporate sustainability, philanthropy, agriculture, youth development, and more.

These voices are shared in a book, Bridging Leadership Voices: Building trust for collective action, and through a growing series of podcast episodes.

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PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS

Victor Adejoh - Country Director, Nigeria, Synergos (Nigeria)
Adewale Ajadi - Chairperson, Ethnocopia Limited (Nigeria)
Marilia Bezerra - Chief Program Officer, IKEA Foundation (United States of America/Brazil)
Claudia Cisneros - President and Visionary, Digisalud (Venezuela)
Peggy Dulany - Founder and Chairperson of the Board, Synergos (United States of America)
Hisham El Rouby - Regional Director, Arab World, Synergos (Egypt)
Marina Feffer - Co-Founder, Generation Pledge (Brazil)
Neville Gabriel - Chief Executive Officer, The Other Foundation (South Africa)
Ernesto Garilao - Chairperson, Zuellig Family Foundation (The Philippines)
Emanuel Garza Fishburn - President, Universidad Carolina (Mexico)
Mark Gerzon - President, Mediators Foundation (United States of America)
Nili Gilbert - Chair of Investment Committee, David Rockefeller Fund (United States of America)
Esha Husain - Project Lead, Bangladesh, Synergos (Bangladesh)
Margaret Jacobsohn - Co-Founder, Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (Namibia)
Len le Roux - Managing Director, Synergos (Namibia)
Chong-Lim Lee - Senior Director, Global Programs, Synergos (United States of America)
Joyce Malombe - Interim Program Director, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and Senior Fellow, Synergos (United States of America/Kenya)
Marlene Ogawa - Country Director, South Africa, Synergos (South Africa)
Shirley Pendlebury - Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Kgotso Schoeman - Chief Executive Officer, Kagiso Capital (South Africa)
Bambi Semroc - Senior Vice President, Center for Sustainable Lands and Waters, Conservation International (United States of America)
Olavo Setubal - Global Philanthropies Circle (GPC), Collective Action Amazon Group (Brazil)
Manish Srivastava - Co-Director, Social Presencing Theatre & Core Faculty, Presencing Institute (India)
Gretchen K. Steidle - Founder and President, Global Grassroots and Circles for Conscious Change, LLC (United States of America)
Abera Tola Gada - Regional Director, Ethiopia, Synergos (Ethiopia)
Kristine Tompkins - Co-Founder and President, Tomkins Conservation (United States of America)
Bruno Vercken - Employee Representative and Union Leader, Danone; formerly Global Head of Health Safety and Working Conditions, Danone (France)

Collaborative Communities Chronicle April-June, 2023 Edition

Synergos releases new book: Bridging Leadership Voices: Building trust for collective action