Leadership through Learning: Driving organizational growth through stakeholder engagement, Dr....

Leadership through Learning: Driving organizational growth through stakeholder engagement

Dr. Geetha Murali

MARCH 2015

Learning

World Change Starts with Educated

Children. ®

16%of adults in the world

lack basic literacy skills

2/3 of the adult illiterate

population are women

The lowest literacy rates and highest dropout rates are in Asia and Africa.

87%of all illiterate adults live in Asia and Sub-

Saharan Africa

Gender Equality in

EducationLiteracy

2000 2015

Materials Results

Nepal (2000)

Vietnam (2001)

Cambodia (2003)

India (2003)

Sri Lanka (2005)

Laos (2005)

South Africa (2006)

Zambia (2007)Bangladesh (2008)

Tanzania (2011)

10 program countries

1,000 staff 7 fundraisingoffices

0.1MM0.5MM

1.2MM

3.0MM

5.1MM

8.8MM

9.8MM 10MM +

2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015

CHILDREN BENEFITTED

7.8MM

In just 15 years we’ve reached 10 million children

17

2.3 times better employee retention

“We took our top performing employees…on a trek to see a girls’education program. They said at the closing dinner that this isthe best retention tool that you could have ever designed.”

Suzanne DiBianca, President, Salesforce Foundation

2.2 times better access to new markets

“In less than 9 months the partnership with Room To Readadded over 12,000 new customers. The net result has been abig boost for Atlassian’s market share, competitive position, up-sell revenue and corporate brand. ”

Daniel Freeman, Former VP of Marketing at Atlassian

90% of consumers are loyal

to socially-conscious companies

Thank You