Accelerating the New Economy

Powerful Convenings by YKCenter

Climate Change is an Immediate Existential Threat

No more proof is needed that climate change is an immediate existential threat or that innovative sustainable models are attainable, profitable and economically sound. YKCenter works with visionary organizations — non-profits, corporations, NGOs, municipal authorities and national leadership — to optimize activities in alignment with the changing realities of a New (Sustainable) Economy driven by rapid climate change.

YKCenter’s Global GameChanging Impact Lab™ is a transformation-acceleration platform designed to rapidly transform the mechanics of conversations in large-scale organizations such that leaders may address large-scale challenges with the energy, focus and urgency necessary to achieve quick alignment and to progress to the implementation of impactful solutions.

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Orientation Shift

To generate this necessary transformation, we apply an urgent, iterative, co-creation methodology (the Advocacy-2-Impact Accelerator Model™). Each Impact Lab is a safe space for acceleration in which critical stakeholders may examine their preparation and readiness for a rapidly changing future, so they can work proactively and creatively, not reactively.

Rigorous Inquiry

We don’t provide the answers. We ask teams of influential change-makers questions that ignite powerful game-changing conversations with velocity from which answers emerge rapidly. We then support the teams in reevaluating their fundamental work assumptions and decision making modalities in order to reset the organization’s intent and direction such that they are aligned with the realities of the New Economy. All assumptions and potential solutions are viewed through a 4D Lens that considers impact vis a vis four critical contexts: economic, environmental, societal, and that of the evolution of human consciousness.

Purpose to Impact

In a purposeful economy, measures for success are your direct impact. All of our work reflects our core value that everything an organization needs to achieve its goals is already resident in the organization. Our job in the Impact Lab is to surface, crystallize, aggregate, and mobilize that organizational knowledge into purposeful action. When the impact is fueled from within, it happens faster and, most importantly, it is more sustainable than change fueled or imposed from outside. Your purpose makes its desired impact.

Launch of the SDG-Market at the Global Solutions Summit in UN HQ (June 2018)
SDG-Market launches at UN HQ in New York

In keeping with SDG-Market’s mission to help investors capitalize projects connected to the UN’s 2030 Global Goals, we are sponsoring the Global Solutions Summit (GSS) Lunch Event being held at the United Nations on June 4th.

This year’s GSS is focusing on the organizational, entrepreneurial, financial, sociological and managerial dimensions of scaling technology deployment with the focus of doing so in order to meet the UN’s Global Goals by 2030.

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Tel Aviv University, Israel (Sep 2017)

YK Center Founders, Prof. Kahane and Mr. Ronen, to speak at the New Economy – Old Traditions: Caring Entrepreneurship Conference in Tel Aviv. Click for details.
Beverly Hills, CA (Apr 2017)

Meaningful Influencers is a new platform for higher philanthropy gathering together an intimate group of influencers, thought leaders and change makers across the continents for an extraordinary immersive experience, addressing the most pressing issues of our time with rapid, effective collaboration, quick decision making and targeted deployment of ideas and resources. Find out what happened…
Rwanda (Jan 2017)

YK Center founders Prof. Yehuda Kahane and Mr. Tal Ronen traveled to Kigali, Rwanda for the official launch of The Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa (“SDGC/A”). Find out what happened…
Israel (Dec 2016)

In partnership with the Milken Innovation Center and The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies at Globes 2016 Israel Business Conference. Find out what happened…
San Diego, CA (Jun 2016)

The 2nd Global GameChangers Lab a the Sustainable Brands conference in San Diego. Find out what happened…
Orange County, CA (May 2015)

The 1st Global GameChangers Lab in Orange County, California.
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TransFormNation™

The Time to Transform Nations is Now

No more proof is needed that environmental and societal crises present humanity with an immediate existential threat, or that sustainable models are necessary, profitable and economically sound. That was yesterday’s conversation.

Nations are motivated: ethically, practically and financially. 193 countries have already committed to align their actions with the intentions of the UN’s agenda, identifying and committing to 169 specific targets across 17 areas of concern, the United Nations’ Global Goals. The game started in 2015 and it extends to 2030. In the year 2020, the Kyoto Protocol kicks in: signatory nations will accrue penalties on any shortfalls from their country-specific targets. Nations must mobilize to address these threats immediately and with urgency.

On the nation-state level, however, the legacy governance and decision-making systems we have inherited from previous generations do not move quickly enough to address, with urgency, the challenges of the New Economy.

And we can’t evacuate 7.3 billion people.

So we need to reboot with a new global operating system designed around the following assumptions:

The evidence is in and the time to act is now. We must shift from conversations about the problem to iterations of the solution. We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Most models for governance and methodologies for decision making are based on past-based metrics. While we must acknowledge and learn from the lessons of the past, there is an immediate need to develop and implement future-based models, structures, platforms and instruments that accelerate synchronization of and collaboration amongst all forces that work inside each nation-state.
Current problem solving modalities are conceived on a scale of millions and billions of dollars, while the global challenges we face now require trillion dollar solutions.
Egocentric and ethnocentric philosophies must give way to an ecocentric philosophy so that a United Humanity may emerge. Only radical collaboration will get us where we need to go.
By 2020, nations not on track with their baseline commitments to the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda will be increasingly considered threats to humanity.
Business as usual is out, breakthroughs and game-changing strategies are in.

In alignment with the 17 Global Goals of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda, The TransFormNation™ Initiative supports national leaders in accelerating the development and adoption of clear, feasible, practicable roadmaps to meeting their commitments to these goals. We seek to engage courageous leaders of committed nations that wish to be on track by 2020 to succeed by 2030.

TransFormNation™ is a development accelerator program designed to rapidly transform the mechanics of national conversation such that leadership—in collaboration with all critical stakeholders and subject matter experts—may address global-scale challenges with the energy, focus and urgency necessary to achieve quick alignment and to progress rapidly to the implementation of impactful solutions.

TransFormNation™ applies an Advocacy-2-Impact Accelerator Model™ to generate the transformation necessary to achieve these results. Over the course of an extended in-country engagement of approximately six months, we ask teams of influential change-makers questions that rapidly generate game-changing conversations from which powerful answers emerge with velocity. Elements of the model include:

GAP MAPPING

An Advance Research Team of country and subject matter experts (carefully selected by a National Steering Committee led by Senior TransFormNation™ Global Knowledge Managers) spends four weeks in situ reviewing existing systems, data and resources. They apply agnostic metrics to identify anticipated Global Goal shortfalls vis a vis committed goals and prepare reports for fact-based discussions.

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGERS IMPACT LABS

Throughout a six month engagement, we conduct a series of intensive ` transformation-acceleration labs to shift from purpose to game-changing impact, wherein the regionally integrated Steering Committee—made up of national leaders and subject matter experts—continually re-assess and reevaluate fundamental work assumptions to reset intention and direction.

REBOOT CAMP

Representatives from government, academia, NGOs, industry and civil society are selected to attend ReBoot Camp, a 6-week intensive training program, where they are developed into Global GameChangers that will lead the process of roadmap development.

Following ReBoot Camp, teams are assigned hands-on research practicums working directly with sustainability project development experts on successful projects models appropriate to the national roadmapping challenges ahead. They emerge from the experience as practical experts in their assigned model and methodology, ready to lead.

4D ROADMAPPING

Utilizing an urgent iterative co-creation methodology, we facilitate a 90-day effort to unleash the knowledge and genius of the human assets already on the ground to generate a Global Goals National Development Roadmap to identify an appropriate menu of impact investments, innovative funding mechanisms and global knowledge management that will bridge these gaps by 2030. Building on best practices, every potential investment is viewed through a “4D Lens” that considers and measures its impact in four contexts: economic, environmental, societal, and that of collective human consciousness.

ACTION CIRCLES

Local GameChangers, with roadmap in hand, begin implementation of planned initiatives supported by periodic Action Review Circles, facilitated by the TransFormNation™ team, including experts in leadership coaching, sustainable development project management, project finance and MRV. The TransFormNation™ team is then available for support as needed through 2030.

TransFormNation™ provides a safe environment for acceleration in which all stakeholders—NGOs, governments, industry and civil society—may examine their preparation and readiness for the future vis a vis their Global Goals National Development Roadmap, so they can work proactively and creatively, not reactively..

The TransFormNation™ Initiative is the culmination of Tal Ronen’s life work, spending over 40 years in the development and application of transformation technologies that optimize individual and team performance with great velocity. For the last twenty years, Mr. Ronen has been an international leader in developing models that apply these methodologies to provide Strategic Transformation Acceleration and Reboot Technology (S.T.A.R.T) solutions for organizations of all sizes, including non-profits, corporations, NGOs and municipal authorities. The TransFormNation Initiative is a program incubated at The YK Center and implemented by YK Center and its network of partnering organizations and subject matter experts. Click for Tal’s full bio.

Tal Ronen, President & Co-Founder, YK Center

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Accelerating the New Economy

Powerful Convenings by YKCenter

Climate Change is an Immediate Existential Threat

Orientation Shift

Rigorous Inquiry

Purpose to Impact

Launch of the SDG-Market at the Global Solutions Summit in UN HQ (June 2018)

Tel Aviv University, Israel (Sep 2017)

Beverly Hills, CA (Apr 2017)

Rwanda (Jan 2017)

Israel (Dec 2016)

San Diego, CA (Jun 2016)

Orange County, CA (May 2015)