Michael Yang

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About Michael Yang

My vision is a flourishing world for humanity on our planet. At the moment I am contributing to this vision by stewarding a community of future thinkers and active change agents as the Co-President of oikos International. I chose empowering students and their allies to lead systemic change as my personal mission. I have diverse work experience in leadership development, facilitation, event management, project management, effective storytelling, volunteer management, team engagement and various jobs related to sales, marketing and customer experience. I thrive in highly diverse teams having experience in working with people from each corner of the world, from all ages and with extremely different backgrounds. I work with professionals in academia, businesses and international organisations. CliftonStrengths Assessment (2021) 1. Strategic thinking: ability to quickly create alternative ways to proceed in any given scenario. Natural ability to anticipate, play out different scenarios and plan ahead. Agile decision-maker. Positivity: ability to creating spaces that others want to be part of. Offering genuine encouragement and an optimistic outlook on life. Connectedness: ability to building bridges between people and groups. Helping others to find meaning and giving stability in the face of uncertainty. Ideation: a fascination by ideas. Ability to look at the world from different perspectives searching for connections. Powerful and creative brainstorming partner. Developer: ability to recognise and cultivate potential in others. Investing in the development of others and help them learn, grow and improve. “We cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein. We are shifting from ego- to eco-driven from silo- to systems-thinking from a fixed to a learner mindset.