Susan Collin Marks & John Marks - Search For Common Ground - Part 1 of 2

Global X interviews John Marks, President of Search for Common Ground, and Susan Collin Marks, Senior Vice President.

John Marks founded Search for Common Ground in 1982 to “transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.”

As can be seen on this X-Interview, John and Susan are not only partners in social change but also in their personal lives. They are co-preneurs who "share love, vision and passion."

John Marks mentions a typical error made by social entrepreneurs as they launch their social venture: they think they know where they are going, when the process is in fact similar to Napoleon's motto: "On s'engage et puis on voit." ("Let's start, and we will see where this is taking us.")

Susan Collin Marks adds: "Let's build a better world with congruence, with integrity. Let's be clear that we come from a place of compassion, and that we are here to heal divisions, not to create more."

She concludes this first interview: "People don't respect us for agreeing with them. They respect us for being true to ourselves."