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On Resignation: Moira Deslandes at TEDxAdelaide

1,769 views · Published 25 August 2013 · 9:52 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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While some people do extreme sports, Moira Deslandes is an extreme pilgrim, exploring and journeying across spiritual terrain with all its ups and downs and navigational challenges. Trained as a social worker, Moira is committed to building the connections and solutions between private pain and public policy. She has worked in a diversity of paid and voluntary leadership roles from direct services to being a Chief of Staff in Government, and a CEO of a state-wide and an international organisation. In this talk she tells us a story of the flip side of exploration, what it means to stop, to resign, and the power in that discovery.

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