261. Solving the Leadership Crisis + The Mission of Global Citizen Year - Abby Falik

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Meet Abby. She’s a social entrepreneur and founder of Global Citizen Year, an organization reimagining the transition into adulthood by facilitating a yearlong immersion experience abroad for high school graduates. By equipping young leaders with empathy, agency & a global perspective, they’re changing the inputs into higher education in order to dramatically improve the outcomes of the world. Our minds were officially blown (in a great way!)🤯🌏👏

💡Learn:

• The current leadership crisis
• Why good leaders need unrestricted capital to try stuff
• Partnership & approach ideas to co-leadership
• The mission of Global Citizen Year

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Abby’s story and journey to where she is today (2:30)
• The current leadership crisis (5:30)
• Abby’s first international experience (11:00)
• Overview of Global Citizen Year (13:00)
• Story of a Program Alumni (20:00)
• Co-leadership Approach (23:00)
• The story of Global Citizen Year’s $12M grant from MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, the largest gift in the organization’s history (32:00)
• A powerful moment of philanthropy (35:00)
• Abby’s One Good Thing: If the path is clear, you’re on someone else’s. (37:00)

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