ebbf 25th Annual Conference, Barcelona
The 25th Annual Conference of ebbf - Ethical Business Building the Future
was held near Barcelona on 1-3 October 2015 with over 150 attending,
including 53 for the first time. There were lots of young people. The theme
this year was "Unity and Collaboration to create meaningful and purposeful
organizations ready for the 21st century". Short keynotes alternated with
facilitated meaningful conversations and parallel learnshops. I went early
for an ebbf Governing Board meeting, and was again re-elected to the
Governing Board. I also gave a keynote talk on The
Science
and Spirituality of Unity and Collaboration (presentation) and short
summary
Six of the founders of ebbf who were at the first conference in Chamonix,
France, in 1990, returned for the 25th conference.
Mahmud Samandari, George Starcher, Ezzat and Annette Zahrai, Daniel
Schaubacher, Wendi Momen
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Jason Maude (UK) has been Master of Ceremonies for 6 years; Cristobal
Gracia (Spain) presented on social enterprise
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Carrie Freeman (USA) led a learnshop on "Defining the problem to
enable impactful solutions"
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Arash Aazami (Netherlands) led a learnshop on "how can a Culture of
Empowerment lead towards an Economy of Abundance?"
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Ralph Blundell (Portugal) and Michael Spiegel of Deutsche Bank
presented “establishing unity to co-create collaborative leadership and
culture: tales from two different businesses”
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I presented a keynote on the science and spirituality of unity and
collaboration; discussion afterward with Michel Zahrai
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Sonia Ruiz (Spain); Guissepina (Italy); Gary Reusche (Ukraine)
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Keynote speakers Sonia Rulz (Spain); Augusto Lopez Claros of the
World Bank (USA)
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The newly elected Governing Board was introduced: Ralph Blundell
(Portugal), Arthur Dahl (Switzerland), Wendi Momen (UK), Mahmud Samandari
(Switzerland), Françoise Le Goff (France), Mika Korhonen (Finland), Paul
Hughes (Netherlands); Stephanie Hughes (Netherlands) and Mika Korhonen
present some of the work of the Governing Board
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Coffee break on the terrace
Lest anyone think that ebbf members are always serious, a Swiss private
banker and his wife led some pretty wild dancing on Saturday night
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dancing Saturday night
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More information and programme of the conference at
http://ebbf.org/event/ebbf-annual-conference-celebrating-ebbfs-25th-anniversary/#ebbf