Category Archives: L.E.D

Village Capital draws on the power of peer support to build enterprises that change the world. Their worldwide presence allows the incubator to source, identify and nurture promising entrepreneurs on their way to making a big impact.

They say it takes a village to raise up a child, and think it works well also for entrepreneurs. Therefore they have created a space for entrepreneurs to work together and enhance each other’s potential. Nevertheless they found many challenges to address along the way: troubles with the peer selection process, building trust, setting goals.

The organization keeps learning through action to evolve with its participants. And that, is already the proof that it is a place worth looking at!

http://www.vilcap.com/

Become a broadway star, invent original sweets, participate in automobile races, publish best-sellers,…

We ALL have dreams. Toyota has decided to launch the Get Going Challenge along with a brand new media campaign. Available even in countries where the network is not necessarily working well, they push for everybody to participate. The prize of 1 000 000$ joyfully inspiring the world crowd to share.

Obviously, the company receives an incredible pull of qualitative data – what is more personal than dreams? – and will most certainly be able to transform that in careful sales. But at least they agree that people need to dream, they push for self-expression, and they do it very well!

I want to get going. My dream « create a company enabling people and communities to achieve their dreams through learning »

What’s yours?

getgoing-toyota.com

That is what the Change School is offering you. Through different programs tailored to your needs they help you envision life and your attitude to it in a different manner. Focus is on you, the others, the world. You change scenery and finally take some time away, for yourself.

A school for thoughts and actions, to explore you entrepreneurship grit, to enhance your leadership potential, to develop your skills in wellness, culture and creativity, social innovation and other soft abilities.

An adventure for your body and mind, and in the end: a more balanced and empowered you.

Fly away and maybe start with the Change Ventures program : http://www.changeventur.es/

Financial Times says the Center for Creative Leadership is one of the top 5 providers of executive education leadership courses. Many resources and trainings are available to help you address the most important questions and lessons regarding how to better lead your life, your team, your organization, positive change in the world.

It is better if you company can pay for it – usually the advice is always for all the members of the same team/organization to be trained by the same provider otherwise visions on skills such as leadership may differ and it becomes very difficult to make them cohabit – but it is certain that you will find a program that suits you.

A wide but sharp vision makes it a good opportunity

http://www.ccl.org/

Building a team, develop it, make it work, expand it, nurture it, lead it, …  is a challenge.

It is therefore a good thing that Teamworks exists to help us keep our team engaged and aligned. It adapts to your schedule and needs to enable you to work more efficiently, to communicate more clearly, to address problems more quickly. No stress attached!

Expert consultants at your service to build the perfect tool for you and your mates.

So team up: http://www.teamworks.is/

Singapore is speeding up fast on the innovation highway and isn’t afraid to show it and share it. Lately, innovation is everywhere and we know that our industrially-based systems need to evolve. We will have to catch a wagon to this future.

More and more options align and we should indeed think of joining the right crowd to move away from an automatized past not to risk to stay still in a blurred present. We could for example joint the Innovators Network or the Innovators Institute. Through events and trainings, they assemble a community of fast-paced innovators, across sectors, and offer you a ticket to ride.

Will you participate in incarnating this new wave and make things more concrete for others?

http://www.t-i-n.co/

http://www.theinnovatorsinstitute.com/

By Martin Pasquier – a life adventurer that I am know honored to know

This new community you can only love because it is made to bring out the best in you. Yes, to show you that you can take any challenge in the world when in the right mindset and joined by the right people. Motivation and trust that all it takes to empower yourself to the next level.

How does it work? Amazing individuals offer you a challenge – it can be in sciences, in arts, in sports, in anything and everything for you to find your match – and it is then up to you to accept it, one at a time. You find yourself associated with a team of 30 and there you go in a specific timeline. You will share about failures and excitements, you will move, forward and soon you will learn that it only takes a first step – a few first steps to start feeling able to face the world’s challenge independently and freely but never on your own!

Join the amazing crowd now : http://amazers.co/

My brain instantly felt motivated as I entered the Singtel Innovation and Development department. What a treat! All the last technologies made by the ICT giant for healthcare and education available right in front of me.

I reached heaven when I got to try the new headset that analyzes your brain waves and will power to make a strawberry fly on the screen in front of you. What a great tools to help children with ADD to focus and learn better!

They understood that people today need to become savvy by themselves but to also be connected to the world. They look for every positive impact possible of technology on peoples lives. They work with the Singaporean governments to improve their interfaces with its citizens. They work with banks to develop highly secured services. They work with universities to enable students to map opportunities on the job market.

Thanks to Singtel, Singapore wants to become a smart nation. Sounds like paradise right? Wondering if it has a price… Surely, by submitting your own ideas and proposals to use Singtel’s technology you could contribute to make sure this race goes the right way. If you idea is good you will even be able to join their great incubator Innov8. Try their « Future-Back » approach, start from your dream back to reality and pave the way. Big names are also behind you and somehow, that’s comforting!

http://innov8.singtel.com/

Design is now fully part of our lives. Why? Because some people make it great. And some of these incredible people can now be found at the MAD school of design in Singapore.

Brought to you by the Chatsworth Mediart Academy, MAD is short for Marketing, Advertising, Design and helmed by award-winning practitioners. The MAD formula as they call it. 

Their moto: thinkers first, creative second. Students are taught to be thinking creative. Even more, what students realize there is that « to teach is to learn » and they have a very empowering relationship with their teachers. They get the opportunity to build an award wining portfolio – not only based on paper but on life.

Surely something to awake your passion!

http://www.cma-academy.edu.sg/