A Young Leader Empowered to Dream in Zimbabwe

“My name is David Boeke, and I’m from Zimbabwe. I think the Global Leadership Summit was and is a very strong tool in my life, primarily because it helped me to dream. As a student pilot, it was very difficult with my background to try to imagine that one day I could fly for the airlines. It was very difficult, I mean, you’re in Africa and the world is telling you that there is no way under the stars that you’ll be flying planes one day. I’m still on the journey, and I haven’t come to the point where I’m flying for the airlines yet, but now I’m the proud holder of a private pilot’s license. That is something that came out of dreaming big and not limiting myself to where I was. The Summit is pretty much the place that put me in that space where my mind was opening, and I was looking at the world in a different light. And that was just awesome.”

• David Boeke, Zimbabwe