Ep. 44: Mandar Apte on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety

Madar Apte, on Leading Healthy Change in Public Safety, speaking with Fleet Maull.

Cities4Peace founder-director, producer of the documentary From India With Love, meditation teacher, and former global manager of Shell Oil's prestigious GameChanger social innovation program, Mandar Apte, discusses the confluence of his work at Shell, generating and investing in ideas that create shared value – business value and social impact, and his current Cities4Peace project, an initiative to promote peace in cities worldwide by bringing together law enforcement, community members, and business leaders to work together in transforming chronic violence in cities like Los Angeles, California and San Salvador, Brazil. The natural service orientation of law enforcement officers and other first responders and the need for all of us to remember that and to respect and honor these professionals for their often heroic public service. He became very concerned about the level of violence in our societies and communities and began interviewing law enforcement professionals to better understand the contributing factors to chronic violence, how a single murder costs a community roughly one million dollars, and the economic need and potential economic benefits and opportunities connected to dramatically reducing violence in our cities.

MANDAR APTE Mandar is the Director of Cities4Peace - an initiative to promote peace in cities worldwide. Prior to this, he worked at Shell for 17 years and managed Shell’s prestigious GameChanger social innovation program, investing in ideas that create shared value – business value and social impact. In 2016, Mandar produced the From India With Love documentary film to reinvigorate the message of nonviolence (or Ahimsa) in the world. Aligned with this mission, in Oct 2018, Mandar hosted the inaugural World Summit for Countering Violence & Extremism which brought together peace activists and law enforcement executives from across the world in the spirit of promoting peace and compassion in the world. For nearly two decades, Mandar has taught leadership programs using meditation practices for the International Association for Human Values and the Art of Living Foundation.

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