Featuring NewDay Speaker Scott Sherman, Executive Director of Transformative Action Institute

Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Building: Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
Location: uptown campus

Want to change the world, but afraid of the risk of burn out or failure? Scott Sherman has some innovative suggestions for you.

Scott Sherman was trained as an attorney, a business person, and a community organizer. Having experienced hardship in his youth, he wanted to improve social conditions. Yet, many of the strategies that he learned seem to be ineffective. He saw many good-hearted people who were trying to make a difference in the world. But many of these people had become burnt out, exhausted, and frustrated. Their lives were unsustainable. Worst of all, they were losing.

Sherman decided to investigate the circumstances in which people were most likely to win — ways that people could make life better for themselves and their communities. His research looked at what separated people who succeeded from those who failed in numerous causes, including civil rights, public health, the environment, and economic development. In this talk, he will share some of the most surprising and important discoveries.

You may be asking, who is Dr. Scott Sherman?

He is a writer and researcher on the most effective methods of social change. He has worked on nonviolence and social justice projects from the war-torn island of Sri Lanka to the inner cities of America. He is an expert on the most effective ways that citizens succeed in creating social progress and innovation.

Sherman’s work on nonviolent social change projects has been praised by such Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as the Dalai Lama and the late Mother Teresa and eventually leading him to found the Transformative Action Institute. He is also a nationally recognized speaker on environmental regeneration. His curricula and workshops have been used at more than 50 campuses across the United States from Tulane and Harvard to Stanford and UCLA. His programs have also been used in dozens of nations around the world from Europe to Latin America, and from Africa to Asia. Check out this blog to watch a live hangout with Sherman.

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For more information, contact Jennifer McNulty at jmcnulty@tulane.edu.