People Matters Magazine September 2021: The Great War for Talent

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Great Resignation is a movement that will continue for long into a new era of work, in which talent leads:

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Nell Derick Debevoise

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Leaders should integrate an approach of purposeful leadership throughout talent strategies, beginning with recruiting —to win the war for talent, says Nell Derick Debevoise, speaker, author, and entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO Inspiring Capital

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ell Derick Debevoise is a thought partner to purpose-driven leaders, as well as a speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Debevoise's guidance helps CEOs and CHROs expand their impact, grow their businesses, and build powerful legacies. She has lived and worked on 4 continents, and collaborated across sectors with Japanese executives, Palestinian community leaders, French high school students, and Mozambique education ministry officials among others. Debevoise also studied leadership, innovation, and intercultural dialog | september 2021

at Harvard, Cambridge, Universita di Roma, and Columbia and London Business Schools. In 2011, she moved to New York and founded Inspiring Capital, a certified B Corp that designs and delivers purposeful leadership development to

accelerate the movement of business as a force for good. She is the President of the Purposeful Growth Institute, a not-for-profit with the mission to align professionals' skills with the needs of their communities. Debevoise's first book, Going First:


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