“If we only take the time to talk to those we consider different, we might find we have a lot in common,” Laura Ling told our audience at Collinson Media’s Diversity Summit, a conference last month to open the dialogue between meeting professionals who share challenges and goals because of the diverse organizations they represent.
Ling, a journalist for Current TV, was referring to experiences during her captivity in North Korea. Maintaining a position of gratitude got her through each day and helped her see her situation and the North Koreans imprisoning her from a different perspective.
Yesterday, I was catching up with a friend who plans international events and she asked me, “What are you excited about right now? What do you think the big trends will be?”
