Decentralized governance expert Robertson Work calls for decisive action in this critical decade 2020 - 2029. Addressed to 3,000 leaders around the world, these twelve talks given in 2010 - 2019 explore multiple crises and opportunities, an emerging civilization, innovative leadership (group facilitation, social artistry, integral thinking, mindfulness), sustainable development, public service, community development, the movement of movements (MoM), and peacebuilding. These "calls to action" were given in events organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), Building Creative Communities Conference, Oklahoma City University, Horace Mann School, and World Fair Field. Talks were made in New York City, Bahrain, Chicago, Nepal, Seattle, Tanzania, Oklahoma City, Republic of Korea; Colquitt, Georgia; India; and Fairfield, Iowa. Be empowered by bold ideas, methods, and actions for a regenerative-just world.
Author Biography:
Moorman Robertson Work, Jr. has worked in international development for over fifty years in over fifty countries. Recently, for ten years, he was a UN consultant, conference speaker, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service adjunct professor of innovative leadership, Fulbright Senior Specialist assisting universities overseas, and Fellow of the NYU Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action. He is now a nonfiction author, and ecosystems/ justice activist. This is his fourth book with contributions made to eleven others. Previously, he was United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) deputy director of democratic governance, and principal policy adviser of decentralized governance for sixteen years at UN headquarters in New York. While with UNDP, he designed and coordinated the Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment (LIFE) operating in twenty countries and another global program, Decentralizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through Innovative Leadership. He also coordinated a global community of practice on decentralized governance, provided policy advice to countries worldwide, conducted research and prepared global policy papers. Prior to UNDP, Robertson served in Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Jamaica, Texas/Oklahoma, and Venezuela for twenty-one years as country and regional director with the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), an international NGO with UN Economic and Social Council Consultative status. His work of human development has consisted of the design and implementation of research, training and demonstration projects in leadership, organizational, and community development, rural and urban development, NGO and project management, policy formulation and advice and group facilitation. Work has written widely on decentralization and local governance, urban and rural development, poverty eradication and environmental improvement, the role of civil society in governance and development, capacity development and participatory methods. In addition to NYU, he has taught at the University of the West Indies, University of Aruba, Antioch University Graduate School of Whole System Design, the ICA Global Academy, and the Social Artistry School. He conducted his graduate studies at Indiana University and Chicago Theological Seminary and undergraduate studies at Oklahoma State University, which honored him in 2003 with its Distinguished Alumnus Award. He and his wife live in Swannanoa, North Carolina, near family, friends, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Great Smoky Mountains. He continues to believe that an ecological-compassionate community, nation, and world are necessary and possible to create. He may be contacted at robertsonwork100@gmail.com. His blogsite is at: https: //compassionatecivilization.blogspot.com/
