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AI x Power Action Roundtable at the 2024 Action Forum
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AI governance requires trustworthy, values-driven leadership

What does values-driven leadership look like in the world of artificial intelligence (AI)? And what responsibilities do AI consumers have?

May 29, 2025

Joe Waring and Justin Habash
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Values in Action: How the Medal of Honor Center is Redefining Leadership Development

The National Medal of Honor Center for Leadership is transforming how we understand and teach values-based leadership. In this Behind the Impact interview, we speak with Joe Waring (Liberty Fellow) who serves on the Center’s board, and Dr. Justin Habash, the Center’s Senior Vice President of Leadership Programs and Chief Learning Officer. Together, they share insights on how Medal of Honor values translate to everyday leadership decisions, the power of moral courage, and why this approach to leadership development is especially relevant in today’s rapidly changing world.

May 22, 2025

Conflict and Civil Discourse Action Roundtable
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If factions are a feature — not a bug — of a society, creative conflict helps us design new ways forward.

How do we listen even when we are the most hurt? How do we disagree without disappearing? At the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, changemakers explored what it means — and what it takes — to stay at the table during the most difficult moments. This conversation turns toward clues in history, reminding us that the institutions of today were once the result of creative innovation. Taking inspiration from youth and the artistic community as sources of “research and development,” this conversation invites us to wrestle with tension rather than treating conflict as failure, allowing us to remain in relationship through our differences. Whether operating in small towns in a single U.S. state like South Carolina, or across multiple nations in the Middle East, panelists discussed the conditions that we can create in ourselves and in our communities to design new ways forward.

May 15, 2025

Three roman pillars behind the word "Act" making the Act III logo.
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Announcing the Act III: Leadership and Legacy Laureates Initiative

From success, to significance, to consequence.

April 17, 2025

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Beyond Individual Solutions: Understanding the Power of System Catalysts

Lasting change doesn’t come from a single solution—it emerges when system catalysts connect people, resources, and ideas to reimagine entire systems. Through the System Catalysts podcast and global partnerships, we spotlight individuals and organizations driving collaborative impact on challenges like healthcare access and climate change. True transformation happens not through individual efforts, but through orchestrated collaboration that amplifies collective impact.

March 27, 2025

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Seeing Our Common Humanity with Simran Jeet Singh

How can we see the light during such painful times? How can we take pause amidst chaos and hurt to stay curious? Who can we turn to and where can we go to find our common humanity? Simran Jeet Singh, a national leader in the areas of equity, inclusion, and social justice shares his lived experience and offer practical wisdom for seeing the light.

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The Most Undervalued Driver of the Economy: Childcare with Jessica Sager and Bernadette Ngoh

If “children are the future” how are we guaranteeing support for those responsible for protecting them? Explore what caregiving means to our culture and why we aren’t paying enough attention.

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Facing the Shortness of Life with Suzanne Beigel

In confronting the end of her life, impact investor Suzanne Beigel has found a clarified vision around how to spend her time, live into her purpose, and speak truth. Suzanne joins us on LIMINAL to explore how we might all allow the shortness of life to shape how we show up for the better.

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Reimagining Power in the Workplace with Roy Bahat and Liba Rubenstein

Rethink how ideas of power and our relationship to work and the workplace could help inform better decision-making and ultimately create prosperity for everyone.

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The Most Undervalued Driver of the Economy: Childcare with Jessica Sager and Bernadette Ngoh

If “children are the future” how are we guaranteeing support for those responsible for protecting them? Explore what caregiving means to our culture and why we aren’t paying enough attention.

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Reimagining Power in the Workplace with Roy Bahat and Liba Rubenstein

Rethink how ideas of power and our relationship to work and the workplace could help inform better decision-making and ultimately create prosperity for everyone.

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The Moral Question at the Center of the Climate Crisis with Katharine Wilkinson and Brett Jenks

We know that at its core, the climate crisis, like many, is a moral challenge, rather than a technical one. You’re invited to think less about the “what” of climate work and more about the “who” and “who” we need to be in order to heal our planet.

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Power and Race with the Groundwater Institute

The Groundwater Institute helps people make sense of our society is organized by race – and how that organization causes racial inequity. Dar Vanderbeck is in conversation with the Groundwater team on their analysis and how they work with leaders to propel their anti-racism journeys.

About the John P. McNulty Prize

The John P. McNulty Prize celebrates breakthrough leaders who have turned their talents and resources towards dismantling our toughest problems. Created in 2008 by Anne Welsh McNulty in honor of her late husband, the annual award is a call to action, recognizing three Winners demonstrating moral courage, a vision for change, and a track record of bold and lasting impact. 

Each winner receives $150,000 and foundational support to amplify their efforts, and are selected by an international jury that includes former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international statesman Olara Otunnu, international development expert Brizio Biondi-Morra, and Ford Foundation President Darren Walker.

Learn more at mcnultyfound.org/the-prize.

About the McNulty Catalyst Fund

The McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund recognizes ventures with significant momentum at critical junctures on their path to creating meaningful change. 
 
Established in 2017, the Catalyst Fund provides unrestricted support to promising ventures led by AGLN Fellows. The Fund has received $1.2 million in contributions from David Blood, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, the Nancy & George Walker Foundation, and many more, as well as a matching grant from the McNulty Foundation, all honoring the legacy of John P. McNulty.
 
Catalyst Fund awards are available to organizations led by AGLN Fellows whose leadership ventures or Action Pledges are at critical stages of growth and development with significant momentum and traction. All applicants to the annual McNulty Prize, as well as former McNulty Laureates at a pivotal juncture, are eligible for Catalyst Funds.

Learn more about the Catalyst Fund and the 2020 recipients here

McNulty Prize Winners

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A Vision for a New Haiti: Enriching Leaders, Community and Public Education

Nedgine Paul Deroly and Jean-Claude Brizard of Anseye Pou Ayiti speak on enriching leaders, community, and public education in Haiti.

August 7, 2024

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Creating a Resilient Workforce and a New Civic Fabric

2024 McNulty Prize Foundation winner Saket Soni, shares his work in improving worker rights and creating a new civc fabric.

August 7, 2024

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Climate Solutions for and by Frontline Communities

2024 McNulty Prize Winner, Gloria Walton, shares how her work is placing frontline communities at the center of climate solutions.

August 7, 2024

Courage, Vision, Impact: The 2024 John P. McNulty Prize
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Courage, Vision, Impact: The 2024 John P. McNulty Prize

Listen to the bold vision for transformative change and impact from the 2024 McNulty Prize Winners.

August 5, 2024