Emptiness and Power: A Geometry for Breakthrough Change | Andrew Markell | TEDxSacramentoSalon

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Andrew, challenges the pervasive view that the world is comprised of a series of problems, albeit at times wickedly complex, to be solved by hosts of renowned experts. Instead, Andrew wants to focus our attention upon the relationship between knowledge, power and the unknown. He urges us to include the entire world, and all of ourselves, in our quest to create change and transformation.

For the last 20 years Andrew Markell, co-founder of Exile (www.exileleadership.com), has pursued a transformative vision of leadership and innovation that has given him the opportunity to partner with and train top leaders and organizations all over the world. He has worked in diverse spaces - criminal justice, higher education, energy, transportation, materials and products, design, non-profits, and venture capital – and has worked with hard-core street gangsters, founders and CEO’s, college presidents, scientists, executive directors, innovators and entrepreneurs.

During these two decades Andrew has found that the hardest and most important thing for a leader or innovator to do is to cross thresholds. This act of crossing boundaries is an art and a practice that takes extraordinary discipline and focus. It is a question of power. Andrew’s company Exile was founded to support leaders as they build strategies and imagine innovations designed to cross thresholds and create new ones.

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