The AC Podcast

082: Voices for the Future

In this Episode

Sharron McPherson, Co-founder and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Technologies and social impact entrepreneur, joins our host Sue Stockdale, to discuss what is needed from each human to transform our future. This rich and fascinating interview is the first of three past episodes linked with our flagship publication, Coaching Perspectives, and is part of our 20-year celebration of the Association for Coaching. Sharron's passion, knowledge, and courage will bring you into the 21st century with a sense of awareness, empowerment, and hope.

You Will Learn

• How your transformation is critical to change within your business, organization, institution and wider community
• How human capacity, ingenuity, and transformation are the key elements of technological disruption
• Why technological disruption is important for emerging market growth and development, future work, and the disruption of education

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Guest Bio

Sharron is the co-founder and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Technologies (CDT). A social impact network orchestrator on digital transformation strategies, leadership and workforce development for post-Covid Digital Transformation (DX) and DX project implementation. She also teaches Project Finance at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. She is a pioneer in NEXUS thinking for smart city development and has been instrumental in the planning and development of some of Africa's largest smart city projects. In 2015, her pioneering work was awarded for innovation by the Tony Elumelu Foundation in recognition of the development of the Launchpad, a framework that leverages digital media to make social impact invention more accessible in Africa. As a former Wall Street investment banker and attorney turned serial social impact entrepreneur, she has raised over $1 billion in investment and positively impacts over 1,000,000 people to create wealth and sustainable jobs.

 

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