Join the next edition of The Handshake featuring John Marks, a highly skilled social entrepreneur, founder of the Nobel Peace Prize nominated NGO Search for Common Ground, and accomplished author. This event takes place at Inholland Den Haag on March 6th, 16.00-18.00.
Are you thinking of a career focused on peacebuilding, sustainable development or furthering global peace and justice? Are you interested in creative industries? Do you have innovative ideas for solving pressing societal issues and are interested in hearing what it takes to be a successful social entrepreneur? Either way, you have come to the right place!
Whether you are a student or a young professional we invite you to join ‘The Handshake‘: an event series where we are joined by senior figures from the world of peace & justice and “for good” sectors to reveal the ins and outs of their careers and network with young talent! There will be moderated conversation, time for Q&As from the audience and networking.
“To make a difference in the world you have to have a way to apply your vision in concrete ways, you need to keep showing up and be a persistent risk taker, but also a calculating risk taker.” – John Marks
Introducing John
John Marks is the author of From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship. Until 2014, he was President of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit organization he founded in 1982 and built with his wife Susan Collin Marks into the world’s largest peacebuilding NGO with 600 staff members and offices in 36 countries. He also founded Common Ground Productions. In 2018, his work was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. He is a best-selling, award-winning author, a former US Foreign Service Officer, a Skoll Awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, and an Ashoka Senior Fellow. He was a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. The UN’s University of Peace awarded him an honorary PhD.
Connecting to the SDGs and IDGs
John’s work is deeply connected to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those focused on peace, justice, and strong institutions. He will share insights on how to navigate challenges in the non-profit, peace and justice, and entrepreneurship sectors; however, important for achieving these goals is personal growth and development, which is why we will also be joined by InHolland’s Philippa Collin who will explain the value of Inner Development Goals (IDGs).
Special Guest: Philippa Collin & the ESC-IDG Hub
Many of us can feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of such challenges and don’t know where to start taking action.
That is why Inholland now has its own IDG Hub: ESC IDG Hub, a platform that brings together professionals, researchers, and students to develop skills and devise solutions for sustainability challenges.
“With this hub, we want to strengthen connections and initiate a local ecosystem where education, research, and practice meet… We hope that everyone in education—students, teachers, and staff—will see themselves playing a role in the challenging social transitions ahead.” – Philippa Collin
Get Involved:
Those who want their work to be meaningful either through successful entrepreneurship or by exploring their own potential to contribute to societal transitions can buy a signed copy of John Marks’ book From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship at the event as well as join the hub at www.esc-idghub.nl or find out more by contacting Philippa Collin at philippa.collin@inholland.nl.
John and his wife Susan will be moving back to Washington, DC in April after ten years in Amsterdam, this may be one of your last chances to meet and hear from him firsthand. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with leaders in peacebuilding and sustainable development!
Practical information:
When: March 6th, 16.00-18.00
Where: Inholland University of Applied Science Den Haag
Costs: Free of charge – reserve your place here
Previous Handshake editions:
Read about our previous editions of the Handshake here.
Learn more about the IDG Framework: Framework – Inner Development Goals