“What are the main motivations that drive you in life?”

Question #33 You’re completing the Youth Speak Survey, and you come across this question. What do you base your response on? Why does AIESEC want to know this about you?  Understanding how to better align our organization with the people…

Why Is This The Time We Need Empathy The Most

Empathy is what facilitates prosocial or, in other words, helping behaviour that comes from within and is not forced. This makes us a more compassionate society that is willing to understand each other’s feelings and take action. Daniel Goleman, the…

On Carrying a Youth Leadership Movement Through Uncertainty

I am the Global President of AIESEC, the world’s largest youth-led organization focused on developing leadership in young people through the facilitation of cross-cultural internships and volunteer experiences. For the past year, that has meant travelling the world to represent…

AIESEC’s International Congress Set To Be Held Online

Montreal, Canada, April 2, 2020 – AIESEC decides to hold its annual International Congress virtually, amid concerns related to the widespread border closures and nationwide quarantines set to continue in the next months in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The…

Getting Out Of My Comfort Zone Changed My Life

Asmaa Mangual, a student from Morocco, went on a Global Volunteer (one of AIESEC’s exchange products) in the summer of 2017, in Suez, Egypt. Here is her story! It was in a class that I kept hearing a classmate talk…

Leadership is for Everyone, Including “Her”.

Today, on International Women’s Day, I am a week past the mid-point of my one-year mandate as Global President of AIESEC.  In just six months, I have had the opportunity to travel the world – from the United Nations General…