We’re Gonna Have to Get a Little Weird: Topher Wilkins, CEO of Opportunity Collaboration
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In this episode Topher Wilkins, the CEO of Opportunity Collaboration, shares his thought-provoking quote 'We're going to have to get a little weird if we're going to solve some of these big problems.'
We launch into a discussion about innovation and creative thinking that can arise from play, especially when done in groups. He shares his insights on how trust is built through new ways, which allows us to problem-solve in even bigger and better ways.
Our conversation leads us to his involvement in Lunar University, an ambitious concept that explores what it will be like for humans when we live and work on the moon. Topher explains how this unique form of higher education encourages exploration in advanced fields such as space technology, astrophysics, and lunar science, as well as offering novel solutions for global issues.
More about Topher Wilkins:
Topher has been convening and connecting people for the purposes of social change for over two decades, starting at the Highland City Club, a membership community of 300 change-makers in Boulder, Colorado. He then managed Dunton Hot Springs, one of North America’s top all-inclusive resorts and retreat centers, and founded Conveners.org, a group of 150+ impact conferences and accelerators. Topher now leads the Opportunity Collaboration’s global network of 3,000+ nonprofit executives, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers, impact investors, corporates, media and academics building sustainable solutions to poverty and injustice.
He is also involved with the Lunar University, a humanity-wide endeavor to ensure the first human settlement in space is a learning institution that embraces our collective aspirations for more just and equitable forms of economics and governance, and the Lab to Land Institute, a hybrid nonprofit and for-profit organization dedicated to developing and ethically deploying genomic technologies for climate resilience on wildlands.
