Global Leadership Summit

Recently I've had the opportunity to be a speaker at the Northeastern Global Leadership Summit.  Today’s knowledge economy challenges both higher education and industry to address the learning needs of a generation of emerging professionals who consider themselves as global citizens, those identifying with a global community beyond their own nation or location. The education of the next generation of the global community is so important if we look to evolve past incidents like what happened last Friday in France.  As the educators and mentors of the next generation, we must take a hard look at ourselves and understand what it is that we are truly trying to teach them.  Are we attempting to provide an understanding of how to survive in the world that we are living in today? Are we expected to teach them about the unknown and prepare them for the world of tomorrow? Or is there a happy medium where both can cohabit?   It is important that we help the next generation understand not only how to obtain the job that will pay the bills, but also be tolerant and flexible enough to change and align to the global economy as it develops.

I'd love to hear everyone's opinions on how we can help develop this next generation for the jobs of today as well as those tomorrow.