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How service plus synchronicity can multiply impact | Sharron L. McPherson | TEDxJohannesburgSalon

The concept of synchronicity was first introduced by psychologist Carl Jung as “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection”. Former investment banker and Wall Street attorney, and now serial social entrepreneur, Sharron McPherson, began studying this concept as a means of increasing impact in her newly chosen career—post the pivot—about twenty years prior to giving this talk. She credits the concept as the key to her success. In this delightfully charming talk, she leads us on a tour of her social impact activities since 1994, just before leaving the United States of America for South Africa, as a young anti-apartheid activist. In the process, she gives a compelling demonstration of how her openness to service has triggered synchronicity over and over again in her own life, allowing her to have a positive impact on a seemingly disproportionate, and surprisingly large number of people. Former investment banker and Wall Street attorney turned social impact investor and serial entrepreneur Sharron L. McPherson is Executive Chair and co-founder of The Center for Disruptive Technology. Sharron is putting to work the knowledge and global network she developed during 25 years operating across the continent to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. Creating a tech-enabled collaborative innovation platform that enables African experts, ideators and disruptors to create a measurably better future is the Center for Disruptive Technology ‘s mission. The experience of participating in Singularity University's (SU) Global Studies Programme and serving as a SU Faculty member informed her decision to help orchestrate African innovators and investors. Sharron is a founding director of Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy (WINDE) Consortium, Africa’s largest women in infrastructure investment group. She also teaches at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business in Project Finance. She’s a pioneer in NEXUS thinking for smart city development and has been instrumental in the planning and development of an innovative Africa Smart City 2.0 project in Kwa-Zulu Natal, with the potential to benefit over 3,000 women-owned SMEs. Sharron was a founding board member of the Graca Machel Trust’s Women in Finance network, New Faces, New Voices and is a member of the Brains Trust of UnitedSucces, a global network of high impact women entrepreneurs. She sits on Katerva Awards Council for Social Innovation. In 2015, she was recognized by the Tony Elumelu Foundation for the development of BigIdeas.Africa, a framework that leverages digital media to make social impact invention more accessible in Africa. An accomplished public speaker and moderator with a lifetime interest in building better communities through social investing, Sharron has addressed a wide range of audiences including TEDx (Tokyo), the World Economic Forum on Africa, the Clinton Global Alliance, the Abraaj Forum and a host of leading international forae on topics that include: Women in Technology, Sustainable Investment, Nexus Thinking, Smart Cities, Future Schools and The African Youth Dividend. She earned a Doctorate Degree in Law (Columbia University), an honor degree in Finance from the University of Toulon (La Garde, France) and a B.A. in Economics (College of William & Mary). 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