This is a talk I gave on July 4, 2026 in Telč, Czech Republic. In 2015, a skatepark arrived in Janwaar — a small, remote village in Madhya Pradesh with no reliable electricity and a school most kids skipped. Nobody asked for it. But under two rules (“No school, no skateboarding” and “Girls first”), the […]
When one thinks of transformation, change management and EmPOWERment, a closer look at the skate park in the remote Indian village of Janwaar, whose inhabitants live just about poverty line, does not really seem to make sense. But only at first glance – a second look shows that companies can learn enormously from this example. […]
On October 9 and 10 I was invited to hold a design thinking workshop in Imizamu Yethu, a township in Hout Bay, south of Cape Town. The goal was to bring various members of the skateboarding community together and find a common understanding of what they want to do with their skatepark. It was a […]