Humanity's Team Newsletter – July 2020

As the Country Coordinator for Trinidad and Tobago, it was my great pleasure to host Steve Farrell, the Co-Founder and Worldwide Executive Director of Humanity’s Team, who graciously launched our CNETT Conversations on May 12th, 2020.

Steve spoke with an interested audience of micro and small business owners from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, USA, Canada and UK who all signed on for 1 hour to hear, for the very first time, about the concept of Oneness and Conscious Leadership in business.

While Steve shared his Hawaiian roots and embraced our Caribbean island spirit, he mentioned that it was his first time speaking to a predominantly Caribbean audience. 

He explained to us that all his businesses were extremely successful and managed in alignment with Conscious Business Principles (Oneness Principles), even when it was not yet a recognized concept. The key areas of Conscious Leadership in his businesses included:

• Being open to enormous personal growth that stretches your capabilities and competencies
• Being true to your vision and ideas even when those around you cannot yet see them
• Being open to change and transformation
• Selecting the right talent
• Meeting the needs of the team in all ways
• Acknowledging that it’s not only about financial profits and using open book financials 
• Charging fair prices and always being open to discussion
• Developing trustworthy, honest and open relationships with vendors and clients and others in the business ecosystem
• Having real value for the Corporate Social Responsibility programmes which included Habitat for Humanity and adoption of a school.

It really was inspiring to hear that by using the above principles, his businesses were able to attract and retain the top talent in the hyper-competitive environment of Silicon Valley in the 1990s and he was able to scale from a very humble start of life and upbringing to 2 large profitable IT businesses spanning the globe.

His final suggestions to our keen listeners included:

• There are opportunities that have emerged as a result of the pandemic that we should be exploring
• Step up and be a Conscious Leader in your community and importantly to trust yourself to be that leader
• Remove the notion that you cannot be a profitable Conscious Business and that...
• The conscious way of leadership is about Oneness, presence and humility

Steve invited our audience to visit the Humanity’s Team website and sign up for the free programme Be The Inspiration, Be The Influence... Be The Leader.

We also invited everyone listening to share the message and sign the Conscious Business Declaration. 

It was a great conversation and a wonderful launch to the first Conscious Business Initiative in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Region. We look forward to continuing our series to support the development of Conscious Businesses in the Caribbean.

One participant sent in this comment:

"Steve, through his conversations with CNETT this week, has empowered me with the spiritual enthusiasm to seek and collaborate with a regional client." —Allister Bowen, Founder of Idwach Global Co. Ltd.

Please visit us at: https://www.cnett.org