Why is it that one person becomes a successful game changer and impacts the world and why does another with the same opportunity, and education does not reaches that level of success and impact? While consulting multiple organizations around the world Marian Spier discovered 5 principles to help professionals find out how to become game changers and create impact.
1. Chance: You have to create an opportunity
2. Clarity: You have to strategize
3. Craze: You need to have a passion for what you do
4. Courage: You need to have an entrepreneurial mindset
5. Considerate and determined: You need to be purposeful, and meaningful in everything you do Marian Spier is a visionary business professional, social entrepreneur, and strategy
consultant. She has been a manager and lecturer at the University of Applied
Sciences Amsterdam for eight years. In 2012 she started consulting and has built a diverse portfolio of clients that range from industries, sectors, and size like the United Nations, World Humanitarian Summit, Unesco, TEDx in Europe, the Caribbean and TED.com. Marian also mentored and trained many young female entrepreneurs from the Netherlands, Poland, The US, Algeria, The Caribbean, and
Moldova. She founded the first Female Startup Award in the Netherlands and serves as an
advisor and board member of several nonprofit organizations, including Humanity in Action.
Her projects have appeared in several media outlets including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Forbes, The Guardian, NRC, Volkskrant, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Het Parool, and the Dutch Financial Times. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx