What if we could reinvent leadership to be more like nature? What if our human systems – our schools, businesses, cities and communities – were designed and developed using the principles of life instead?
Andres Roberts believes a better world and a new kind of leadership is possible. His TEDx talk takes us on a journey into human stories that go beyond relentless growth, competition and consumption, to show how we can work with nature to grow things like resilience, connection, wisdom and care. Rather than battling with the old operating systems, he argues that making nature our guide might be the most important innovation of our times.
Andres left the world of big organisations early on in his career. He set up an agency for playfulness in his mid-twenties, before setting out to work with nature.
He is the co-founder of Way of Nature UK, where he guides journeys to help people reconnect with the things that really matter in life. He is also the founding partner of the Bio-Leadership Project — an initiative that is helping to grow new forms of leadership and human innovation by doing it with nature.
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Dan O’Connell Andres Roberts believes a better world is possible if we could only find a way to work with nature.
He believes that we have to, for the sake of all of life.
Andres left the world of big organisations early on in his career. He set up an agency for playfulness in his mid twenties, before setting out to work with nature.
Today he supports a range of people and organisations, from Patagonia to pioneering leadership schools like THNK and the Amani Institute, and alliances such as the World Benchmarking Alliance.
He is the co-founder of Way of Nature UK, where he guides journeys to help people reconnect with the things that really matter in life. He is also the founding partner of the Bio-Leadership Project — an initiative that is helping to grow new forms of leadership and human innovation by doing it with nature.
Behind his work, Andres is interested in how to lead more whole lives and how to nurture a more whole world. These matters have taken him on a journey through learning, leadership and sustainability — and then deep into the wilderness, where he once sat alone on a mountain for 28 days, and to study with wise and wonderful teachers and elders from around the world.
Today, he respectfully brings some of these lessons back to modern life. Andres is starting to learn that we need more kindness. He is also learning how to be a Dad, a better friend, and a how to stay an adventurer.
He thinks we can make that better world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
How Would Nature Change Leadership? | Andres Roberts | TEDxBristol