MESSAGE 9: KEVIN MALONE
Kevin Malone
Head of Business Development, North America, ISI Emerging Markets
Question: As a leader, what is your message to Americans who are frightened about the future due to the Coronavirus?
Message: First and foremost, it's OK to feel fear. I, like just about everyone, have felt a certain level of it over the last few weeks, especially at the onset of this situation. Fear is the first in a series of emotions we inevitably go through when confronting a challenge. However, it's important to remember that fear is generally related to lack of control of the future as opposed to our present situation. What we do have control over is what we are choosing to do with this open-ended time Covid-19 has forced on us.
The kind of emotional shift we're all going through should propel us to come out of this situation better than how we entered it. A genuine appreciation for life and its fragility, the importance of health and family, and the individual role we each play in determining the quality of the world we live in. As leaders, the same thing applies. Just as we must shift personally, so must business strategies. We must create adjustable paths that move in sync with this new reality and then turn those paths into new ideas.
We will get through this just as we have previous challenges, the key is for everyone to do our part in shaping the outcome and being about something bigger than ourselves.
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Kevin Malone is the Head of Business Development for North America at ISI Emerging Markets, a firm that provides data and intelligence to global investors.
He co-founded and is a strategic advisor for NorthStar Consulting, a tourism and strategy implementation firm focused on the Caribbean market. He is also an executive member of Revenue Collective, a private membership organization for commercial growth operators.
Prior to this, Kevin worked in the macroeconomic research field as a Director of Business Development at Medley Global Advisors and Roubini Global Economics where he was of charge of new and existing business with hedge funds, asset managers and family offices.
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