What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first?
The Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand at the age of thirty-seven, becoming the country’s youngest Prime Minister in more than 150 years. Ardern exemplifies a new kind of leadership—proving that leaders can be caring, empathetic, and effective. After becoming a global icon, she’s ready to share the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made political history and changed our assumptions of what a global leader can be.
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, which marries science and storytelling to help us better navigate change in our personal lives. Shankar founded and served as Chair of the White House Behavioral Science Team under President Barack Obama, and she served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon. She was a violin student of Itzhak Perlman at Juilliard and has a book forthcoming with Penguin Random House called The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans.
* Tickets include a copy of Ardern’s new memoir, A Different Kind of Power.
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