I’m fed up with the ceaseless carpet of
a handful of spoiled self-indulgent
overgrown adolescents so indulge with
every toy game and electronic device
available they didn’t even need to learn
how to amuse themselves because mom and
dad were always there to shuffle them
from one organized activity to another
sound familiar we’ve all heard the
Millennial stereotypes before lazy
spoiled self-entitled but what if I told
you those lines you just heard were
written by a 50-something baby boomer
about a twenty-something gen Xer written
in 1993 it was called the whiny
generation wasn’t even about our
generation but you probably all thought
that I was talking millennial stereotype
because that’s all the rage nowadays in
2016 alone real news outlets had
headlines and articles talking about how
Millennials are ruining the wine
industry we ruined hotels for everyone
napkins movies running golf Europe’s
Millennials they’re even worse they
killed off the European Union so if you
believe all these stereotypes it’s it’s
almost like there’s nothing left for
Millennials to just sink their teeth
into and completely ruin but it got me
thinking because I’ve also heard
countless experts talk about the power
of the millennial generation and the
power that we have to one day change the
world and I wondered why you know when
do we stop thinking about what we can do
one day when do we stop worrying about
the challenges that we’re facing today
and actually start doing something today
to fix it some people are Mark
Zuckerberg for example Facebook Facebook
is connecting people from all around the
world he was a millennial in October of
20 2003 and
Dormer he didn’t wait for the rest of
the world to tell him that he was
allowed to pass go he just did it but
with all the technology technology and
the connectedness out there today almost
anyone can do that
you don’t need be born in the 80s or the
90s of the 2000s to create some social
network that’s out there so what makes
Millennials special what is it about
Millennials they can actually one day do
something to change the world everyone
may have their own answer but it goes
back to values our generation the
millennial generation is the first
generation to ever prioritize values and
things like our search for work past
generations certainly care about other
people but our generation is the first
to have it be so vividly important to
what we do on a daily basis there’s a
study published recently by Deloitte
they talked about Millennials all around
the world the majority of them feel as
though they have a fair amount or great
deal of accountability into things like
social equality protecting the
environment but why
obviously there’s Facebook in the
internet that has allowed us to connect
with people of different cultures and
backgrounds from all around the world
but what is it about Millennials what
happened that either consciously or
subconsciously has forced us to
prioritize these values to the extent
that we have again everyone may have
their own answer I remember mine and it
was when I was in sixth grade I don’t
remember too many days from when I was
in sixth grade but I remember this one
in particular about 9:15 and I was
heading into my second period American
history class I can only imagine we were
gonna talk about the Battle of Bunker
Hill or some other aspect of the
American Revolutionary War but this day
was different because our teacher was
late and he was never late now we were a
bunch of 11 year old boys so we were
messing around goofing off we loved the
fact that our teacher was not there yet
but what we didn’t know is that while we
were there in that classroom
the entire world and the way that we
would grow to look at the world was
rapidly changing you see about 15
minutes before he finally walked in that
class five terrorists took control of an
airplane and they crashed into the North
Tower of the World Trade Center in the
minutes that followed three more planes
one into the South Tower one into the
Pentagon and one into a field in
Pennsylvania after the passengers on
board fought back that quickly
everything changed now I suspect my
parents probably tried to keep some of
it from me but I remember seeing the
replays over and over and over again our
world changed like that there are been
countless experts who have said that
what happened on 9/11 was the most
formative experience of our generation
but I don’t necessarily agree I think he
goes deeper than that
and I think it’s from this place where
the future Millennial leadership was
born because as much as I remember
seeing the smoke billowing in Manhattan
there’s something else that’s been
ingrained in our generations memory and
it’s not what happened on that day it’s
what we saw in the days and the weeks
and the months after the fact when we
saw Americans as close as Union Square
in New York and as far as Waikiki Beach
in Honolulu
come together at candlelight vigils we
saw people wait in line an entire day in
Wisconsin just to donate blood to the
Red Cross
we saw cities and towns from all across
the country sending fire trucks and EMTs
up to Ground Zero just to pitch in we
saw the Reverend Billy Graham at the
National Cathedral and the Imam at the
al Abedin mosque in Queens preaching
that we come together and unite together
rebuild together because the world
depended on him our generation no matter
how young we were we saw a country
actually come together
you night regardless of what differences
were thrown into the mix we saw the
promise of a country at an age where we
were just trying to learn the promise
within ourselves the power that the
millennial generation has to one day
change the world it’s not in what we do
that’s not what we believe and it’s not
in what companies we start it’s in why
we do what we do why we believe what we
believe and why we start the companies
that we start because we know what we
aspire to actually be now this slide
that I showed you earlier the Deloitte
slide there’s something important on
here
because there’s more and more millenials
consistently feel like we have a great
deal of accountability into issues like
the environment social equality hunger
health care income inequality more and
more of us feel as though we lack the
ability to influence that conversation
and it’s time for that to change the
time where we can just sit back and
watch everything unfold on TV or tweet
about it it’s done the time for
millennial leadership is here and it
starts with you when it starts with me
whether you’re a millennial in this
audience right now whether you’re
watching on the livestream at home
whether you’re that kid from Northeast
Philadelphia or the kid from the farm in
Idaho it’s us forcing ourselves to have
the influence it’s us coming together in
our communities and our churches our
synagogues our mosques learning from
each other in school and just from
conversation because before the smartest
person in the room that’s a problem so
this talk the future of millennial
leadership what is it
the future is now the present the day
for tweeting is over so next time you
hear
about how Millennials are killing golf
or maybe next time we’ll just kill fun
altogether next time you feel
accountable towards an issue in your
community no matter how small stand up
speak up and start that conversation
because some of the greatest things that
have been accomplished in this world
started from one small conversation and
because the time of watching it from
afar is over a time for millennial
leadership is now thank you
[Applause]
a handful of spoiled self-indulgent
overgrown adolescents so indulge with
every toy game and electronic device
available they didn’t even need to learn
how to amuse themselves because mom and
dad were always there to shuffle them
from one organized activity to another
sound familiar we’ve all heard the
Millennial stereotypes before lazy
spoiled self-entitled but what if I told
you those lines you just heard were
written by a 50-something baby boomer
about a twenty-something gen Xer written
in 1993 it was called the whiny
generation wasn’t even about our
generation but you probably all thought
that I was talking millennial stereotype
because that’s all the rage nowadays in
2016 alone real news outlets had
headlines and articles talking about how
Millennials are ruining the wine
industry we ruined hotels for everyone
napkins movies running golf Europe’s
Millennials they’re even worse they
killed off the European Union so if you
believe all these stereotypes it’s it’s
almost like there’s nothing left for
Millennials to just sink their teeth
into and completely ruin but it got me
thinking because I’ve also heard
countless experts talk about the power
of the millennial generation and the
power that we have to one day change the
world and I wondered why you know when
do we stop thinking about what we can do
one day when do we stop worrying about
the challenges that we’re facing today
and actually start doing something today
to fix it some people are Mark
Zuckerberg for example Facebook Facebook
is connecting people from all around the
world he was a millennial in October of
20 2003 and
Dormer he didn’t wait for the rest of
the world to tell him that he was
allowed to pass go he just did it but
with all the technology technology and
the connectedness out there today almost
anyone can do that
you don’t need be born in the 80s or the
90s of the 2000s to create some social
network that’s out there so what makes
Millennials special what is it about
Millennials they can actually one day do
something to change the world everyone
may have their own answer but it goes
back to values our generation the
millennial generation is the first
generation to ever prioritize values and
things like our search for work past
generations certainly care about other
people but our generation is the first
to have it be so vividly important to
what we do on a daily basis there’s a
study published recently by Deloitte
they talked about Millennials all around
the world the majority of them feel as
though they have a fair amount or great
deal of accountability into things like
social equality protecting the
environment but why
obviously there’s Facebook in the
internet that has allowed us to connect
with people of different cultures and
backgrounds from all around the world
but what is it about Millennials what
happened that either consciously or
subconsciously has forced us to
prioritize these values to the extent
that we have again everyone may have
their own answer I remember mine and it
was when I was in sixth grade I don’t
remember too many days from when I was
in sixth grade but I remember this one
in particular about 9:15 and I was
heading into my second period American
history class I can only imagine we were
gonna talk about the Battle of Bunker
Hill or some other aspect of the
American Revolutionary War but this day
was different because our teacher was
late and he was never late now we were a
bunch of 11 year old boys so we were
messing around goofing off we loved the
fact that our teacher was not there yet
but what we didn’t know is that while we
were there in that classroom
the entire world and the way that we
would grow to look at the world was
rapidly changing you see about 15
minutes before he finally walked in that
class five terrorists took control of an
airplane and they crashed into the North
Tower of the World Trade Center in the
minutes that followed three more planes
one into the South Tower one into the
Pentagon and one into a field in
Pennsylvania after the passengers on
board fought back that quickly
everything changed now I suspect my
parents probably tried to keep some of
it from me but I remember seeing the
replays over and over and over again our
world changed like that there are been
countless experts who have said that
what happened on 9/11 was the most
formative experience of our generation
but I don’t necessarily agree I think he
goes deeper than that
and I think it’s from this place where
the future Millennial leadership was
born because as much as I remember
seeing the smoke billowing in Manhattan
there’s something else that’s been
ingrained in our generations memory and
it’s not what happened on that day it’s
what we saw in the days and the weeks
and the months after the fact when we
saw Americans as close as Union Square
in New York and as far as Waikiki Beach
in Honolulu
come together at candlelight vigils we
saw people wait in line an entire day in
Wisconsin just to donate blood to the
Red Cross
we saw cities and towns from all across
the country sending fire trucks and EMTs
up to Ground Zero just to pitch in we
saw the Reverend Billy Graham at the
National Cathedral and the Imam at the
al Abedin mosque in Queens preaching
that we come together and unite together
rebuild together because the world
depended on him our generation no matter
how young we were we saw a country
actually come together
you night regardless of what differences
were thrown into the mix we saw the
promise of a country at an age where we
were just trying to learn the promise
within ourselves the power that the
millennial generation has to one day
change the world it’s not in what we do
that’s not what we believe and it’s not
in what companies we start it’s in why
we do what we do why we believe what we
believe and why we start the companies
that we start because we know what we
aspire to actually be now this slide
that I showed you earlier the Deloitte
slide there’s something important on
here
because there’s more and more millenials
consistently feel like we have a great
deal of accountability into issues like
the environment social equality hunger
health care income inequality more and
more of us feel as though we lack the
ability to influence that conversation
and it’s time for that to change the
time where we can just sit back and
watch everything unfold on TV or tweet
about it it’s done the time for
millennial leadership is here and it
starts with you when it starts with me
whether you’re a millennial in this
audience right now whether you’re
watching on the livestream at home
whether you’re that kid from Northeast
Philadelphia or the kid from the farm in
Idaho it’s us forcing ourselves to have
the influence it’s us coming together in
our communities and our churches our
synagogues our mosques learning from
each other in school and just from
conversation because before the smartest
person in the room that’s a problem so
this talk the future of millennial
leadership what is it
the future is now the present the day
for tweeting is over so next time you
hear
about how Millennials are killing golf
or maybe next time we’ll just kill fun
altogether next time you feel
accountable towards an issue in your
community no matter how small stand up
speak up and start that conversation
because some of the greatest things that
have been accomplished in this world
started from one small conversation and
because the time of watching it from
afar is over a time for millennial
leadership is now thank you
[Applause]
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