Ecosphere Net Member Profile
Saad Khan, Islamabad, Pakistan
The world can seem like a big place, with problems that can be overwhelming in complexity and that often seem to further isolate us from each other.
Out of this complexity, however, regardless of religion or culture, age or gender and from within the midst of poverty, social and political unrest, and, often at some amount of personal risk, leaders are emerging.
They are adaptive network leaders, social entrepreneurs, positive deviants, leaders for world benefit, CSR leaders, boundary managers and transition managers.
What do these leaders all have in common?
They are all change agents for a better global future.
A future of sustainability and sustainable development for everyone.
They are in action at the community level, at the global level and busy linking those two together both directly and indirectly.
They are, as one author recently put it, engaged in “intentional behaviors that depart from the norms of a referent group in honorable ways”
They are the levers and drivers of cross-cultural positive individual and social change.
Ecosphere Net (EN) member Saad Khan is exactly such a leader for positive change.
Saad was an integral part of the highly successful internet-based social science research initiative in Pakistan called Social Bridges that explored the interface between corporate social responsibility and sustainable development at both the domestic and international levels.
More recently he has started a blog called Socially Responsible Pakistan in which he continues to pursue a sustainable future for his country and our world.
Most recently Saad has begun writing for the Huffington Post in which he seeks to provide unique insights into the political and social forces emergent in Pakistan.
Generating a transition toward a sustainable global future is a world engaged in actions toward a common future while respecting cross-cultural differences.
It is a world connected through a network of collaborative action communities driven forward by powerful change leaders like Saad Khan.