Day one of the conference began brightly: After a nice light breakfast and getting introduced to other fellow delegates; we went to the sessions room where we were briefed about the aims of the summit by Alison Bradley who has also presented a video message from HRH Prince of Wales; Founder of Mosaic.
After the brief, we were welcomed to Qatar very warmly by a very warm person: Dr. Saif Al-Hajari; Vice Chairperson of Qatar Foundation and a former Qatar National Team football player. The welcome was so close to the heart.
His Excellency Ambassador John Hawkins; Ambassador of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain to Qatar took the Podium next to deliver some of his very thoughtful ideas and experience to all delegates.
After that, Alison stood up again to introduce us to the tremendously splendid Mosaic Team as well as our team leaders whom were participants in last year’s summit in London.
The real journey of the summit began after that with Mr. Stephen Howard, CEO of Business in community who delivered very nice ideas about leadership in business. Stephen expressed his own belief in the virtues that must be found in any leader who is in business world like concentrating on the power of skills of people more than what they do as work, and how to bring out the best in people, and how to always do the right thing even of it is hurtful. Stephen left us with what Mother Teresa once told him: to always ask himself what he does that matters.
After the coffee break, every group gathered in the room of its team leader where everyone introduced themselves to other members of the group, and then all went for lunch.
After filing our stomachs, we had the chance to hear an inspiring journey story from a person lots of people find inspiring, and lots of others find crazy: Robert Swan, who was the first man to ever walk to the two poles, and have been working in that field in the previous 25 years of his life, and although that I don’t agree with the way he handled his personal life, but it was inspiring how he managed to achieve his childhood dream, and how he managed to raise 67 Million Dollars over 25 years to serve his case in saving Antarctica and he poles. Robert gave us his points of view of the values that must be found in a leader, and then we went for a coffee break after which we had an overwhelming discussion with Robert about his journey of life.
After having dinner, and went to the rooms for a good sleep.
In-Room Group Introduction
Lunch - Jordanian Delegation
Robert Swan
Lt. to Rt.: Samia Barj (UAE), Myself, Robert Swan, and Iftikhar Khan (Pakistan)
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