Raising Small Giants

On Tuesday morning, Year 9 Be The Change students had a wonderful conversation with our Zest (Zoom Guest) Danny Almagor. Danny is the co-founder and Chair of Small Giants, which he started with Berry, who also happens to be the mother of his three children, and the Creative Director of Small Giants. Prior to Small Giants, Danny was the founding CEO of Engineers Without Borders and the CEO of Medivax. He loves reading non-fiction and jumping on the trampoline with his kids.

Danny shared wonderful nuggets of wisdom and personal stories, some of the inspirational books, TED talks, places and people in his life. He also answered questions posed by the students and asked some of his own.

What is most telling about the success of Danny’s ‘virtual visit’ is that when I asked the students to reflect on the one or two things that they took away from the session with Danny, almost every response had something different and meaningful to share:

“I took many things away from the Zoom session: not only did Danny teach us that when we have passion or see something wrong in our world, we should stand up for it and try to help or reduce the problem as much as possible.” Ella Engler

“One thing that I took away from the session today is that you can do anything with just a passion. Try to think about what you want to be, but also what you want to do.” Ruby Miller

“I took away the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes each one of us special.” Alexi Demos

“After this Zoom call it made me think about what my purpose was in life and how I wanted to contribute to the world.” Mariah Lewy