Communications Room Talk #09: Purpose makes different generations act together for positive change

Welcome to the next special edition of the Communications Room Talk podcast! Today, the hosts Mark and Hartmut are summarizing the second part of the Purpose Dialog, an event that brought together Gen Z members and the business world to exchange concepts for a purposeful economy. The event featured panelists Eva Pomeroy from the Presencing Institute, Joep Cornelissen from Erasmus University, Allan Moelholm from kaerly, Thimo Kühner from Stabilo, Frank Thiele from Meet Your Purpose, Franz Allmayer from digihub.li, as well as students Amelie Kurz and Lisa Eggert from the University of Munich. 

Key takeaways:

• In this second part, the discussion went more into the details of building bridges between business and education and of establishing an authentic purpose in organizations, beyond being a marketing slogan or a rehashing of a mission statement.
• Amelie and Lisa emphasized the need for purpose to be a core aspect of education from an early age, i.e. help young people reflect on their purpose in order not to get lost after school but to be able to take a conscious decision on what to work. To practically get in touch with nature should be an incremental part of this new education.
• The discussion continued in a co-creative dialogue on how to implement purpose in education and business as well and how to connect both. 
• Joep Cornelissen talked about best practice examples of real purpose-led companies that are more actively open learning communities and not the standard reflection of the capitalized system. He criticises companies that use purpose just as a means of image and reputation improvement. And he wants to bring purpose back into higher education.
• Even despite the difficulties to make purpose become the driving principle for every employee that Thimo Kühner mentioned, he and Frank Thiele see purpose as a must to attract potential employees. Frank gives an example where this works.
• Eva Pomeroy told about yearning for meaning as a general human condition and how important it is against this background to find and live an individual purpose. Here she sees the common ground for business and education.
• Franz Allmayer sees purpose as a catalyst to come to a positive change of economic systems to a collaborative way of working, e.g. in decentralization and distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs). For him, this implies a change of the education system as well in this direction.
• For Allan Moelholm, purpose is closely related to consciousness and wisdom like indigenous people live it. Education should take them as an example and emphasize more caring about each other and the environment.

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