Florencia Segura has written an article for Compromiso Empresarial on the evolution of leadership that is going on in Latin America. This evolution involves a new perspective of the world, where every living being is interconnected.

From this perspective, leaders are aiming to put into practice a radical sustainability that includes an evolved leadership which wonders about the reasons and consequences that come out of innovating and moving forward in the development of a particular field.

In Latin America, the leaders that represent this new vision of the world are, among others, Guillermo Scallan, Director of Social Innovation in Avina Foundation, and Federico Seineldin, cofounder of NJambre in Argentina and Colombia.

Avina Foundation is located in 16 countries and has been working in Latin America since 1994, developing social capital. Its goal is to create trustworthy relationships and alliances between social and business leaders in order to build a sustainable society. They have being developing a new collaboration model for the past 6 years that has been rather successful and they were able to deliver USD 450 million to social investment, where they expect to obtain a social and environmental return.

In addition, they have added a technological dimension to accelerate the impact and have established an alliance with the Advance Innovation Center in Chile, where a project to clean water is being developed. Together, social and technological innovation may enhance the struggle against poverty.

According to reports from Avina, Latin America is quite behind in almost every social progress indicators. Its’ main challenges are transparency and corruption.

Guillermo Scalla believes that everything except responsibility has being globalized and that we all must work together to build the road towards development. Every sector must collaborate and work under the concept of radical transparency.

As regards Njambre, it is a place where innovative companies with strong social and environmental impact are conceived and developed. Revenue is used as a mean and not as an end. Innovation is put under the service of laggard sectors of the population.

Its’ cofounder, Federico Seineldin, is also a cofounder of the NGO MoveRSE and is deeply involved in projects in which innovative companies are created and empowered.

Seineldin thinks that the opportunities of the future must be built by changing the rules of the game, focusing solutions on people and on the planet. This requires taking into account laggard sectors and clean technologies.

As Segura states, these leaders are clear examples of a different kind of leadership emerging in Latin America, focused on integrating different sectors and the environment and aiming to develop sustainable societies and create new knowledge.