How to Change the World

Having always grown up in a small town and dreamed of a future beyond the cornfields, I came to college eager to make big things happen, but relatively unprepared for what that would entail.  The adventure I have been on for the past three years has taken me from building a nonprofit organization and pitching to wealthy donors in Chicago, to fitting prosthetic arms to amputees in Guatemala and the United States.  Along the path to empowering amputees in developing nations, I have learned the critical importance of three steps in the process of changing the world: creating a vision for change, building a team around that shared vision, and leading others in taking risks.  Let’s discuss….

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