Video: Ai-jen Poo, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and José Andrés on Leadership

What does resilient leadership require?

Supermajority co-founder Ai-jen Poo (National Domestic Workers Alliance), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (Leadership in Turbulent Times), and Chef José Andrés (World Central Kitchen) weigh in.

"Even though we are facing unprecedented attacks and threats, we are also seeing unprecedented levels of activism and engagement and that is the path to the future we deserve in this country." — Ai-jen Poo

"I believe that you can be Republican or you can be Democrat, but to me, leadership is 51% empathy. If you don't have empathy, you cannot be a leader. Period." — José Andrés

"When you look at what leadership is, qualities that these people did at their best, not always, but their best represent, their humanity and empathy and resilience and the ability to communicate and have their words be trusted." — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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