The Business Elevation Show With Chris Cooper - Be More. Achieve More

About this episode: In a world living through what many now call a "polycrisis" – overlapping conflicts, climate shocks and social division – what does truly graceful leadership look like? In this powerful conversation, Chris Cooper is joined by Dr Will Parks, a deeply experienced humanitarian leader whose career has taken him from UNICEF roles in the Pacific Islands, Nepal, Iraq, Iran, Bhutan and Cambodia to his latest work as an author, coach and mentor. Inspired at 16 by UNICEF's legendary Executive Director Jim Grant, Will went on to spend almost 20 years leading programmes for children in some of the world's most fragile contexts – often on the front line of natural disasters and human-made crises. Along the way he has witnessed both the worst and the very best of humanity: families fleeing ISIS in Iraq, deep trauma along the Cambodia–Thailand border, but also extraordinary kindness, courage and recovery. Drawing on his new book, "Graceful Leadership – Inspiring hope, creativity and resilience in ti