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PODCAST/VIDEO INTERVIEWS by Stephen Ibaraki

Stephen Hecht: Co-founder and Chief Executive Peacemaker of Million Peacemakers

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Stephen Hecht.

Stephen Hecht is a "private" serial entrepreneur and third generation North American Business Magnate.

Winner of the Canada Award for Business Excellence, given by the Prime Minister, Stephen is also a top leader in the YPO organization (Canada co-Chair YPO innovation conference; Chair YPO Education program in Canada and globally for YPO Gold; vice-chair Peace Action Network in 2019 to be followed by Chair Peace Action Network which is part of global YPO Social Impact Innovation Council). YPO is the premier and largest organization of CEOs: 27K CEOs, $9 Trillion in annual revenue ranking them third if they were a country, employing 22 million in 130 countries. Stephen Hecht is a pioneer in implementing YPO 3.0 - which is a new YPO strategy that is outward looking and about solving the world's biggest problems leveraging the YPO network, YPO relationships, member power, financial capability, and much more. He now devotes full time to his non-profit Million Peacemakers initiative which has received multiple best of the best recognition from YPO Canada and then YPO globally training 2,300 members, YPO chapters globally, recognition from the Vatican, usage in fortune companies, and much more. He has trained more than 225K in his program and more than 100K students so they can lead others in the program.

He has also co-authored a best-selling book, "Nonflict: The Art of Everyday Peacemaking", which can be implemented in 4 hours or even 1 hour when time constrained. The actionable principles fit on the back of a business card - it's actually on the back of his business cards. It can be applied to every situation and domain plus working on an immediate application with AI to scale massively.

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