WSS Climate Emergency
Response Forum

It’s Time to Rise!

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WSS Climate Emergency Response Forum

It’s Time to Rise!

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The Climate Crisis is something that we desperately need to solve. What humanity has been doing to address it has not adequately worked. New collaborative and collective approaches are now required as we have less than five years to act decisively and on a global scale. Then we must continue acting for the next 30 years in order to fully succeed. No single organization, institution or government is going to move the needle on the climate crisis. It is time for humanity to foundationally change how we live in this world. Only all of us working together can achieve sustainability and renew the natural ecosystem.

We are gathering capable stakeholders from many different disciplines to collaborate for two days. In this workshop environment, we will engage this diverse group’s unique skill sets to creatively build new networks and solutions to effect catalytic changes that significantly move the needle on the climate crisis.

BY THE END OF THE FORUM, WE WILL HAVE MET THE FOLLOWING TANGIBLE CONCRETE OBJECTIVES:

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Recognition that we now need a global shift in consciousness, collaborative approach, solutions paradigm and AI-based platform technology to organize, develop and deliver crisis resolution solutions, resources and technologies that are available to all.
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Workshop participants will help define the capacities required for the global community to generate scalable solutions to solve the climate crisis in the time available.
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Workshop participants recognize the vital importance of their commitment to long-term collaboration with each other in order to generate the required scalable capacity between the world's stakeholders, networks and thought leaders.
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Establish a prototype for climate crisis resolution workshops to be offered to the world in order to foster global collaboration.
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Engage and unite high capacity, motivated workshop participants in lasting collaborative partnership with WSS for the building of the PHOENIX platform.

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EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH, WOMEN AND DIVERSITY IS ESSENTIAL FOR US TO MEET OUR GOALS

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November 14 & 15,
8am - 5pm

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November 14 & 15, 8am - 5pm

Dinner and networking reception Nov 14, 6 - 10 pm

Greenville Water Department Community Room
407 W Broad St, Greenville, SC 29601

In partnership with Global Action Coalition. globalactioncoalition.org

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— AGENDA —

Tuesday - Day 1

7:45 am Doors open – Registration (Breakfast Provided)

8:30 am Welcome and Opening

Goals & Why We Are Here
Who Are We? Introductions

10:15 am Break

10:30 am Presentations:

Dr. John MacCarthy, Professor Woodford College
Farhana Hasan ,Founder and CEO HerWILL
Bob Inglis, Former US Senator and Director, republicEN.org

11:45 am Welcome to 2030

Introduce group exercise

12:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm Breakout group collaboration

2 :15 pm Break

2:30 pm Breakout group collaboration

4:05 pm Group reflections

4:45 pm Closing and prep for Day 2

6:00 pm Networking Dinner Ink N Ivy Restaurant

Wednesday - Day 2

7:45 am Doors open – Breakfast

8:15 am Welcome Back

Recap & Agenda
Review feedback

8:45 am Break

8:50 am Group synthesis report out prep

9:20 am Group report outs

9:45 am Break

10:00 am Group report outs

Integration of Capacities discussion

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Personal Reflection and Sharing

2:00 pm Closing Circle

2:40 pm Celebration and Ending

INSIGHTS WE HOPE PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE:

AI augmented collaboration is the antidote to the climate crisis.

Our current way of life and technology base and way of developing solutions is creating the climate crisis.

Our current non-collaborative and unscalable approaches, however well intended, will not solve the climate crisis in the time available. A new paradigm is required!

We must collaboratively and collectively define and enact new approaches and paradigms.

Participants realize we must build the collective global capacity in order to affect necessary transformational change into sustainability, now!

There is no higher or superordinate goal or priority. Sustainability and reharmonization with the planet is the goal and priority, all others are secondary.

There must be scalable, dedicated centralized global commons systems and technology to affect this new paradigm.

Accept and understand that we must now act to foundationally restructure our ways of life, ways of developing and using all technology and our collective economic processes to generate full sustainability.

It is vital that the ecosystem and all other species be represented as equal to human populations in all systems of global governance and solutions developments from now on.

We must create a highly organized global collaborative community effort to transform the world into sustainability now!

We must all learn to do more with less and to live and have less moving forward.

We must learn and accept that there is NO option for limitless growth of any organization, nation or economy within a finite planetary and ecosystem resources space.

Growth must be transcended as a standard of success by all nations, economies, organizations and peoples.

There is no potential for a future nation winner, in any military, combative or economic competitive process that does not bring about global economic collapse.

We can only now collaborate and work together in hope, trust and faith for the common good if we as national entities want to continue in a viable way.

As the various pressures of the climate crisis increase, there is no future for global or national humanity that is viable that is not based on love, trust, faith, collaboration, inclusiveness, fairness, equality, ethics and morals.

Our current systems are not designed to, nor are they ready to solve the climate crisis. We need a new system, approach and paradigm.

CO-CREATING THE PHOENIX WORLD TRANSFORMATION PLATFORM™

A collaboration and education technology infrastructure is being designed by World Systems Solutions to bring individuals, organizations and nations into a functionally aligned union to give people, organizations and government institutions a way to collaborate quickly and proactively to solve the most pressing environmental issues.

SPEAKERS, PARTICIPANTS AND ATTENDEES

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Bob Inglis, US Congressman (Ret)

Dr. Chakradhar Iyyunni

Temple Hayes, Global Spiritual Leader

Tom James, Jr, Lieutenant General (Ret), a career Army Officer, retired from active duty in August 2021 after 36 years of active service in leadership positions from platoon through Field Army level. His passion is connecting with people, identifying talent, and building teams that achieve maximum potential. His professional knowledge, skills and attributes have largely been shaped by the extraordinary leaders and the brave Soldiers with whom he served, often in extremely intense situations. His areas of expertise include leadership in complex organizations, cohesive team building, complex problem solving, crisis management and international relations.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina; a Master of Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and a Master of National Security and Strategic Studies from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C..

As a Commander, Tom served at the Battalion and Brigade level in combat in Iraq. His Brigade combat tour was during the “Surge” and the unit he commanded covered five provinces requiring complex coordination with Iraqi Security Forces, the State Department and USAID during intense security situations. At the Division level, he served as the Operations Officer for a Task Force responsible for military operations in Baghdad and on a separate deployment served as the Chief of Staff for a Task Force responsible for Northern Iraq.

Tom commanded a Division at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington; supervising the leader development, training and readiness for over 15,000 Soldiers focused on operations and training in the Pacific Theater. He then served as the Operations Officer for United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, U.S. Forces Korea where he managed a directorate of over 300 U.S., Korean and Multi-National Soldiers responsible for operations, training and exercises for all Military Services supporting the Korean area of responsibility.

In his last assignment Tom commanded First Army at Rock Island, Illinois where he led over 7,500 Soldiers and Civilians spread across the United States and Territories. Responsible for enabling training, leader development, readiness generation and mobilization capability for the Army National Guard and Reserve: over 530,000 Soldiers representing 52% of the Total Army Force.

Tom also has extensive experience with leader development. He served as the Mission Command Center of Excellence director at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where he had oversight of the Centers for Army Leadership.

Tom currently serves as a Senior Mentor for the Army’s Mission Command Training Program (MCTP), a Leadership Ambassador for AUSA, a strategy advisor for the University of Health and Performance in Bentonville, Arkansas, and a member of the US Global Leadership Coalition National Security Council. Additionally, through Connected Leadership LLC I conduct consulting and leadership engagements.

Tom is a physical fitness enthusiast. He and Chelle have been married for over 33 years and are blessed with three awesome children. They claim the Greenville, S.C. area as home, where he was raised and much of their Family live.

Tom James, Jr, LG, USA (Ret)

W. Robert Pearson, US Ambassador (Ret)

Ragan Thomson, Chairperson of the Board, WSS

Marc Bolick, Founder and
Managing Partner, ReShift

Aunkh Chabalala, Founder,
Amen-Ra Institute and Infinite Earth

Dr. Ramanathan Subramanian, Urban Planning Consultant

Keri Evjy, Founder and CEO, Regenerative Life Design, LLC

Nicolás Ducoté, Executive Consultant

Recognized globally as an expert, thought leader and visionary in the field of crisis management, Melissa Agnes has worked with global players, including NATO, the Pentagon (DoD), Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, financial firms, technology companies, healthcare organizations, cities and municipalities, law enforcement agencies, aviation organizations, global non-profits, and many others.

In 2020, Melissa founded Crisis Ready Institute, a public benefit corporate dedicated to creating a crisis ready, crisis-resilient world by elevating industry standards; providing training and certification programs to professionals that better protect people, brands, the environment, and the economy in times of crisis; and promoting and incentivizing organizations and leaders to invest in effective crisis readiness

Her book, Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World, is taught in dozens of universities around the world, including at Harvard University; is ranked amongst the leading crisis management books of all time, by Book Authority; and was named one of the top ten business books of 2018 by

Melissa is the creator of the Crisis Ready® Model, which is recognized and being taught as leading industry best practice in the fields of crisis management and crisis communication.

As an in-demand international keynote speaker and a TEDx alumna, Melissa has traveled the world helping organizations and leaders further strengthen their crisis ready mindset, skills and capabilities.

In 2019, Melissa founded the Crisis Ready® Community, a space for professionals to come together to support one another, collaborate and strengthen their crisis ready skills.

Melissa sits on the Board of Trustees for D'Youville University, a private University in New York, where she also serves as a visiting scholar for the course she co-created and co-teaches on Crisis Leadership.

Melissa also sits on the Board of Directors for ZeroNow, a non-profit organization committed to ending harmful events in schools.

Passionate about serving law enforcement and bridging the trust divide between agencies and the communities they serve, Melissa is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). In 2021 she co-chaired a committee that was tasked with developing a strategy and plan of action to begin managing and overcoming the trust crisis in the U.S.

In 2019 and 2020, Melissa sat on the panel tasked with developing the International Standard for Crisis Management— ISO 22361, Guidelines for developing a strategic capability

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), Melissa currently lives in New York City and enjoys traveling, rollerblading, sailing, and working out when she isn’t working.

Melissa Agnes, Founder and CEO,
Crisis Ready Institute

John Jones, CEO, WSS

Pari Patri, Founder and Chief
Executive Officer of PSSM Global

Paul S. Berg U.S. Foreign Service Officer (Ret). Currently an independent foreign policy consultant, was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1983 to 2018. He served as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Rome from 2013-2017. Prior to that, he served as Senior Civilian Representative at the Regional Platform Southwest at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He was promoted into the Senior Foreign Service (SFS) Fall 2011 following a tour as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) of the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, also accredited to Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. From 2007 to April, 2009, he was Deputy Director of WHA/ PPC, the Western Hemisphere Bureau’s Office of Policy, Planning and Regional Coordination. From 2003-2006, he was Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate General in Medan, which he reopened. During his three years in Medan, he was the U.S. government's point man on the insurgency in Aceh and oversaw USG response to the December 2004 Aceh tsunami and March 2005 Nias earthquake. In March, 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued him a Distinguished Honor Award for his achievements in Medan, one of only three ever issued to officers below the Senior level. He has also received four separate individual Superior Honor Awards. Prior to his service in Indonesia, Mr. Berg served as Plan Colombia Director at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia 2001-2002. He was Deputy Chief of the Political Section at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam 1998-2001. Before that, he oversaw law enforcement and political-military affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City 1994-1997. He has also served in Rome, Brussels, Bombay and Washington DC. Mr. Berg’s languages are French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia and Pashto. Mr. Berg is a 2007 graduate of the National War College in Fort McNair, Washington DC, with a Masters in Strategic Studies. He also has a Certificate from the MIT Century XXI Seminar. He has Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in the City of New York. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was Acting Executive Director of International House in New York City, and before that was a local politician in Wisconsin, elected to the Dane County Board of Supervisors in 1977. He is active in the community of Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he lives, serving on the Board of the Rotary Club, and the Township of Berwick Planning Commission. He is also a Board Member of the Center for Foreign Affairs and Defense Policy. In his spare time, he likes to box and grapple, hunt, bike, run, scuba dive, mountain climb, golf, read, write, cook, and collect art.