"My talk about is about the power and value of care to shape the future for individual people, leaders, organizations, and societies. Care is an innate human capability, deeply wired into our psyches and behavior, that we can leverage to create more powerful, successful organizations and a better world. Care lies at the core of being human. Care is also a timeless resource for performance; it energizes all human work activity, relationships, and organizational systems. Care, too, is generative and recursive. The science of caring suggests that care begets care: one person’s care motivates others to care. Care transforms performance by bringing together the powerful dimensions of mental mindset, heart-based feeling, purpose, and creative intelligence with the more-typical analytical aspects of business. Care motivates people to perform at their best: to act from values, reach toward purpose, build highly-performing relationships, deliver great service, and create highly-engaging experiences for employees and customers. Care is needed to shape the future, because what we see, what we feel, what we hold deep in our hearts and brains, what we drive forward with purpose, will shape the future. Thus what you care about also becomes vital to the future that we are co-creating through every decision, interaction, strategy, and vision. This talk introduces the mindset, behaviors, science, and power of care to create better organizations and a better world. It describes what care is, outlines the need for care (at global, organizational, and leadership levels). It identifies 7 ways to operationalize care in business to realize specific benefits, citing real examples. The talk is inspirational as well as grounded with facts and examples. I connect with people by opening them to the hearts with a very short exercise and through my own story of finding care in my life. The talk presents a tool and way of being and acting that will enable people to open up to their own resource of care and use this to shape the present and future of their own lives, work, organization, and world." Oceanographer Branwen Williams studies the health of our Arctic ocean. She uses measurements of the skeletons of marine creatures to collect data about changes in ocean chemistry and temperature. Branwen is an associate professor of environmental sciences at the Claremont Colleges, where she leads the Williams Marine Environmental Research Lab. Her work has taken her from the tropics to the Arctic to investigate factors driving the natural and human-caused changes in our oceans. 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
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