Скачать или смотреть Unlocking individual potential | Yves Salomon-Fernandez | TEDxBabsonCollege

Discover how community, resilience, and the power of seeing potential in others can lead to transformation across generations. This moving talk follows the courageous journey of a girl who survived domestic violence and hardship to become a leader unlocking the potential in others. Dr. Yves Salomon-Fernandez is the president of Urban College of Boston. In 2024, the Boston Business Journal named her one of the city’s Power 50 leaders influencing their local communities for good. In March 2018, Diverse Issues in Higher Education named Salomon-Fernandez one of the Top 25 Women in Higher Education. Beyond credentials and accomplishments, Yves believes in the power of human connection and in challenging stereotypes, norms, and expectations that limit people’s ability to achieve their full human potential. As an educator, she believes her role is to help others unlock the power of their own agency and build community. Yves uses her personal narrative to up lift others and to demonstrate that leaders are ordinary people who take risks. She has failed, learned, grown, and succeeded with the help of the community. n her spare time, she enjoys road trips with her daughter and underwater adventures with her son. Her TEDx talk focuses on taking risks, failure, and community. 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