CEO's Perspective
Consciousness & Spirituality
Current Issues
Futures
Innovation
Leadership & Governance
Philanthropy
Physican/Hospital Relationships
Lynne Twist -- a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author -- has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work.
Lynne has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives including: ending world hunger, protecting the world's rainforests, empowering indigenous peoples, improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children, advancing the scientific understanding of human consciousness, creating a sustainable future for all life.
An original staff member of The Hunger Project, an organization started in 1977 to end world hunger, Lynne served as a leader of this global initiative for 20 years. During those years she created and managed the worldwide fundraising operation. As she traveled the world learning how to work in a multitude of different cultures, Lynne developed profound wisdom about our relationship to money and the way it governs, dominates, and stresses our lives.
The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences inspire Lynne's keynotes and workshops, and are the foundation for her best selling, award winning book The Soul of Money.
Through a life of global service work, Lynne Twist has learned that much of the world believes in scarcity. Most of us believe that there is not enough money, time, or whatever we feel we lack, for everyone. We think that there is never enough, and worst of all, that we are not enough.
In the US, we live under the tyranny of a consumer culture, one that exalts money above all else and which devalues us as people. In this "money culture," even the very wealthy experience fear, constraint, and misunderstanding around money. In the workplace, there is so much pressure to produce that the opposite is often the result.
In this keynote, based on her book, "The Soul of Money," Lynne examines the harsh realities of a money culture that limits and oppresses us. She also offers new pathways to realign our relationship to money. She eloquently conveys how each of us can discover our own sufficiency and inner wealth.
Sharing the richly layered experiences and insights of her life -- living and working among the richest and poorest people on earth -- Lynne will guide you to experience how a shift in your relationship to money enables you to:
1. Practice more manageable and long lasting business and personal economic principles.
2. Appreciate the power and presence of your existing resources.
3. Gain a sense of inherent completeness and success.
Lynne's compelling message will help free you from constrictions around money and identify how money can best serve your life.