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What does "Drive" mean for behaviour change?

So I’m a bit jetlagged.  I’m watching Dan Pink’s entertainingly animated talk at the RSA from April, considering the implications for behaviour change and global health.  If human motivation is nuanced in the way that Pink argues, and our institutions are hardwired to consider only the most basic of our innate desires – what does this mean about the way that we currently promote healthy behaviours?

 

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Cynthia Schweer Rayner

Cynthia Schweer Rayner is an independent consultant and philanthropy advisor specializing in public health, social entrepreneurship and scalable business models for positive social change. As a recovering management consultant, she spent several months living in South Africa, and later co-founded the US branch of an organization providing support to orphaned and vulnerable children. In 2009, she was an LGT Venture Philanthropy Fellow, working with mothers2mothers (m2m), a multinational non-profit organization employing mothers living with HIV as peer educators to positive pregnant women. She currently works with individuals, companies and nonprofits to finance and develop models for positive change. Cynthia has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Cape Town and visits New York frequently, where she co-owns a Manhattan-based yoga studio, mang'Oh yoga (www.mangohstudio.com).