Building a Values Driven Society

EXIT’s latest panel within the Conscious R:evolution platform focuses on one of its pillars, the attitude that every positive change in society occurs primarily as a consequence of an individual’s evolution of consciousness. On Thursday, August 27 at 8pm, the panel opened the topic of building a society based on true values, live on EXIT Festival’s Facebook page.

Through a discussion on the topic of building a value-based society, some of the world’s leading experts on value systems answered questions on how individuals, teams, organizations and society, as a whole, can build value systems within which both individuals and society, will be able to reach their full potential.

The participants of the panel are Richard Barrett – author, values luminary and founder of the Barrett Values Centre, the largest global values organization which has assessed the values of over 50 nations, tens of thousands of companies and hundreds of thousand individuals around the world, Tomas Björkman – philanthropist, social entrepreneur and co-author of The Nordic Secret – a book that recounts the efforts put in to building values driven societies in the Nordic countries in the 19th and early 20th century history – resulting in their level of development today and Slavica Squire – the first NLP trainer in Serbia and the founder of the first NLP Institute and Coaching Academy in the region of Southeast Europe. The NLP Leadership Summit declared her leader of Southeast Europe in the field of NLP education, and the ANLP rated her NLP Institute as the best example of an NLP-based business in the world.

The discussion is hosted by Nikola Jurišić, a senior expert in culture at McKinsey, who specializes in building value-based systems, with global experience at the level of organizations, states and society.

Participants:

Richard Barrett
Author, Values Luminary and Founder of the Barrett Values Centre

Richard Barrett

Richard Barrett is an author, speaker, consultant and coach. He is an internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the President of the Barrett Academy for the Advancement of Human Values, the Founder of the Barrett Values Centre, a Fellow of the World Business Academy and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. Richard Barrett is the author of Worldview Dynamics and the Well-being of Nations (2020), The Evolutionary Human: How Darwin Got It Wrong (2019), Everything I Have Learned About Values (2018), The Values-driven Organization: Cultural Health and Employee Well-being as a Pathway to Sustainable Performance (2017), A New Psychology of Human Well-Being: An Exploration of the influence of Ego-Soul Dynamics on Mental and Physical Health (2016), The Metrics of Human Consciousness (2015), Evolutionary Coaching: A Values-based Approach to Unleashing Human Potential (2014), The Values-Driven Organization: Unleashing Human Potential for Performance and Profit (2013) and others.
Tomas Björkman
Philanthropist, Social Entrepreneur and Co-author of The Nordic Secret

Tomas Björkman

Tomas Björkman is an entrepreneur in financial services, media, property and banking. He founded Investment Banking Partners AB and served as chairman of EFG Investment Bank. In 2008, Tomas established the Ekskäret Foundation in Stockholm, which aims to facilitate personal development and social change. A special focus of the foundation is supporting the development of social entrepreneurs and the understanding of the complexities of social change. The foundation operates a conference and retreat facility on its island Ekskäret in the Stockholm archipelago. Tomas is also the co-founder of the research institute Perspectiva in London, of the Co-creation Foundation and the media platform Emerge in Berlin and 29k.com personal development platform. He is the author of three books: The Market Myth (2016), The Nordic Secret (together with Lene Rachel Andersen, 2017) and The World We Create (2019). He divides his time between London, Stockholm and Berlin.
Slavica Squire
NLP Trainer and Founder of NLP Institute and Coaching Academy

Slavica Squire

Slavica Squire is the first NLP trainer in Serbia and the founder of the first NLP Institute and Coaching Academy, not only in our country, but in the entire region. The NLP Leadership Summit proclaimed her the leader of Southeast Europe in the field of NLP education, and the ANLP rated her NLP Institute as the best example of a NLP-based business in the world. She became acquainted with NLP in 2000, when she lived in Germany, where she successfully worked in sales for years, and in the desire to bring this useful methodology to her native Serbia, she moved to Belgrade in 2004. After a series of specializations around the world with the most recognized NLP experts and the best NLP and Coaching Institutes, she is certified as an International NLP Master Trainer, licensed as a coaching educator and vice president of the European Coaching Association - ECA. She has written three books, is currently working on a fourth and is engaged in scientific research within her PhD in the field of application of modern methods of coaching and NLP in a business environment.
Nikola Jurišić
Senior Expert in Culture at McKinsey, who specializes in building value-based systems, with global experience at the level of organizations, states and society

Nikola Jurišić

Moderator

Nikola leads McKinsey’s culture and change work across more than 90 countries in Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, and Africa (EEMA). As a senior expert in culture and change, a facilitator, and a coach, he counsels public- and private-sector leaders on building values-driven systems. He focuses on systemic, large-scale, transformation programs that integrate strategic, operational, and cultural initiatives. Nikola is an expert in building values-driven organizations in both the public and private sector. He does this by orchestrating McKinsey’s global culture and change-related assets, including Aberkyn (a firm of change facilitators), McKinsey Academy, Impact Essentials, Org Solutions (including the Organizational Health Index), and external partnerships to meet our clients’ cultural evolution imperatives. Before joining McKinsey, Jurišić worked as a researcher and journalist for several major publications in Europe.