Samuel Benoit

This is a video from the last module in my Master of Social Entrepreneurship program at Hult International Business School. I worked a couple of my classmates to organize this surprise pledge at the end of our last class with a professor to thank him for coming to teach us.

Over a few months and lectures, Mike Edwards took the class through a systematic exploration of the crushing problems currently facing humanity. In the process we were all forced to challenge our beliefs about economic activity and how change happens.

At one point in the pledge we say that we ‘are ready to be the naked dancing guy or at least one of his first followers’.  This is a reference the below video that a couple of our professors have shown us to underline the role of first followers in leadership.

We also mention that ‘playing the didgeridoo in an electronic music group is a legitimate career choice’.  Besides the fact that this is a true statement, it was a reference to the fact that for a chunk of Professor Edward’s career, he dropped out of his profession as a scientist to tour in an electronic music group playing, that’s right, the didgeridoo.  Now he does both teaching and performing and recording music with his band Didjitalis.