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Jack Sim is the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore, the World Toilet Organization, the World Toilet Day initiative and Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) Hub. Formerly from the construction industry, he decided to devote the rest of his life to social work after attaining financial independence at the age of 40.
In 2001, for “creating goodwill and bringing the subject into the open” and “mobilizing national support in providing on-the-ground expertise” he received the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2007, Jack was elected a Fellow of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, and also became one of the key members to convene the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance which is composed of key players in the sanitation space.
Jack was named one of the Heroes of the Environment for 2008 by Time magazine. He also founded the BOP HUB and a series of social businesses and startups. He is now constructing a 65,000 sq ft World Trade Center for the Poor in Singapore to coordinate an effort to transform the 4 billion poor into a massively efficient marketplace to end global poverty.
In 2013, Jack successfully created 19th November, WTO's founding day, as UN World Toilet Day at the UN General Assembly. The resolution was supported by 193 countries. This underscored Jack’s status as a global leader in global sanitation advocacy.
Widely recognised as Mr. Toilet, Jack Sim is actively involved in toilet activism, public education and media communications. He broke taboos surrounding toilets, elevating the sanitation crisis to the centre stage with a distinctive blend of humour and factual discourse.
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How to Create an Innovative Exponential Mindset
Jack Sim created the World Toilet Organization and the UN World Toilet Day. Over the last 25 years, his movement brought toilets and Sanitation access to more than 2 billion people. He is recognised worldwide as Mr Toilet and named Time Magazine's Hero of the Environment. How to Create an Innovative Exponential Mindset
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Audience will be enthralled by how Jack simplifies difficult challenges into easy solutions. They'll learn how to use his Leverage Model to incentivise stakeholders like media, politicians, bureaucrats, corporations, academia, investors, and local communities, etc, into alignment with a common mission. They have a first-person experience meeting someone who has delivered a positive impact for billions of people.
The Q&A sessions will be particularly insightful. He has never failed to impress any audience worldwide
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I’m really impressed by how many Prime Ministers and Presidents are lining up at your side, Jack, which is because you brought the toilet issue successfully to the highest levels of governme ... keep reading United Nations
I applaud Jack and the World Toilet Organization for their efforts to improve toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide over the past 20 years.
I consider you ‘Jack’ a treasure of Singapore and the world. Because of your initiative and efforts, the UN has designated the 19th of November as World Toilet Day.
