Designs on the Future | How Can Leaders Support Racial Healing? | Chat Box Questions

“What specific metrics have your organizations set for themselves to have an impact when it comes to racial equity? Internally do you feel your organizations are representative of the communities they serve?�

Damaso Reyes Founder of Clarify Media Salzburg Global Fellow, Power in Whose Palm? The Digital Democratization of Photography (2012)

“Kirk, you mentioned the rise of ESG in corporate behavior and investment, and we see a rise in conscious capitalism. But how far is it benefitting stakeholders and helping a larger community cause, especially towards racial healing? What more needs to be done?�

Aravinda Sridar Student at Presidency College in Bengaluru Non-Fellow participant

“You happened to mention about ESG principles being followed by corporations, and there is a rise in the adoption of conscious capitalism. But up to what extent is it reaching out to the development of the larger community and more specifically how is it aiding racial healing? Is it enough at present?�

Aravinda Sridar Student at Presidency College in Bengaluru Non-Fellow participant

“Many private and public boards of directors are entering into joint board-management commitments to make change in areas critical to greater diversity and inclusion. For these commitments to be effective what do each of you believe are the critical elements of these good intentions, and how should they hold themselves accountable?�

Stephen Salyer President and CEO, Salzburg Global Seminar

“Can any of you give us some ideas how to activate these ideas at the local level? How do we bring together local businesses and philanthropists to start the conversation of potential partnerships?�

Rebecca Nelson Volunteer NE Mississippi Salzburg Global Fellow, Climate Change and the Future of Food

“How can this time be used to address the systemic digital divide while meeting objectives of equality and opportunity for all? What is the role of businesses and philanthropies in meeting workforce skills needs to meet digitization and increasing adoption of AI?�

Stacy Baird Consulting Director, Telecommunications Research Project Corporate; Executive Director, Intellectual Property Program, US-China Clean Energy Forum Salzburg Global Fellow, Corporate Governance Forum and Law & Technology Forum

“When we think about ways to reconcile the discrepancy between Profit and People, should we not remind ourselves that Profit is linked to Value?

This also means the values which are at the heart of society.

But how can we address the structural racism that is endemic to a lot of educational programs?”

Christa Knellwolf King York University Salzburg Global Fellow, Education for Tomorrow’s World series

“Is there a truth to that power shifts mainly when elitism has been challenged, even dismantled?”

Colleen Mac Dougall SoulCare Online Participant, Education for Tomorrow’s World series

“How can corporations and philanthropists invest more in communities where educational inequities in poor communities are more likely to lead to prisons than colleges? Where do you start?�

Jeanne Toungara Howard University Salzburg Global Fellow, Mellon Community Fellows Initiative and Global Citizenship Program

“To Kirk: I still would like to know what Kirk / Angelo Gordon think their role is to play (as a Leaders) in Racial Healing is and what are their specific goals to achieve this?�

Rina Alluri Post-Doctoral Fellow, Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria/Canada, SGS Fellow Salzburg Global Fellow, Asia Peace Innovators Forum