How business leaders can renew democracy | Daniella Ballou-Aares
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How much should business leaders speak out about threats to democracy? It's a question many corporations are wrestling with these days. Business and democracy leader Daniella Ballou-Aares shows why companies have both the ability and the responsibility to engage in protecting elections and the rule of law — and why their bottom lines may depend on doing so. After the talk, Daniella joins Modupe for a conversation on business, politics and the year ahead.
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| 0:32.2 | A couple years back, a business school friend of mine said she wanted to start a non-partisan organization |
| 0:38.6 | that united business leaders with the goal of protecting democracy. Her vision was to ensure |
| 0:45.2 | business leaders were civically informed and to foster proactivity toward their big picture |
| 0:51.1 | goals. The organization was designed to give people concrete ways to |
| 0:55.5 | lend their resources and their expertise. She had named the organization the Leadership Now |
| 1:01.3 | Project. I was in. My partner at the time joined as one of the group's founding members, |
| 1:08.1 | and I joined too. It's been amazing to see the Leadership Now |
| 1:13.9 | Project grow into what it is today. Its mission is especially important now, given it's a really |
| 1:21.0 | big election year, not just in the U.S., but around the world. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm Madupacanola. This is Ted Business. |
| 1:36.0 | Today's speaker is Danielle Ballou Ayers. |
| 1:39.0 | She's the founder of the Leadership Now Project. |
| 1:42.5 | And like I mentioned earlier, she and I go way back. |
| 1:46.0 | She's here to tell us about the role business leaders can play in safeguarding American democracy. Then after the talk, she and I reconnect to talk about business, |
| 1:53.2 | politics, and what this coming year might look like. But first, a quick break. |
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