The enterprises will also have a full week intensive business plan training at Roger Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics Master Programme in Bali, and support from XL Nation circles around the world in making connections and growing their markets.

The eligible social enterprises will be nominated by an XL Circle, have established themselves locally with a strong team and operations, be purpose driven, and ready to expand globally. As Roger Hamilton says:

“There is a new trend of incubators providing mentorship and training to promising companies. Where XL Nation differs is that we are focused entirely on social enterprises and, along with the mentorship and resources available, we have a ready global network of social entrepreneurs meeting regularly with the shared intent of supporting social entrepreneurship.” – Roger James Hamilton

All successful entries will receive a package worth over $30,000 in mentorship and training, together with access to global markets, connections and financial support.

Roger James Hamilton

The team will be focusing at the creation of a social entrepreneur incubator, which will see its first entrants in 2012. The incubator will provide qualifying companies with mentoring, resources, and global connections via the XL Nation circles. All nominated companies will also be nominated via the XL Nation circles, providing a network of trust to both introduce and support world-class social enterprises.

On his recent ‘Fast Forward’ tours, Roger Hamilton and Michelle Clarke met with XL Nation Circles in Australia, Japan, England and South Africa. The incubator initiative was met with enthusiasm and excitement.

“XL Nation represents a virtual nation of social entrepreneurs united by one purpose: World Wide Wealth. With the introduction of the incubator programme, each XL Circle can step up to the original intent – that each operates effectively as a ‘local embassy’ for XL Nation Citizens. In this role, each introduces purpose-driven enterprises into the network, and supports social enterprises from around the world in their own local city and country.” – Roger James Hamilton

The tour, visiting Japan, UK and South Africa, will be looking at how far entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs have come within the first decade of this new millennium, and what we can expect over the next decade.

Roger Hamilton will be covering the Top 10 Trends that will impact our businesses over the next year, and what we can do to harness the changes heading our way to gain a competitive advantage  - not over our competitors but over our own vision of ourselves.

“An incoming storm doesn’t prevent a mountaineer from climbing, but does impact on when they climb and what route they take. For many entrepreneurs who are head down running their business, they have little idea what storms are approaching, let alone in which direction. This tour is an opportunity to check the weather, and plan a path that isn’t going to be cut short.” – Roger James Hamilton

Roger Hamilton’s view is that it is the change makers in the world who have the greatest opportunity to see through the promises within the millennium goals. Many of them are currently active doing exactly that. We are now moving almost half way between the making of the promises (2000) and the target for the goals to be achieved (2025).

“We are moving into the decade of transformation, where most of the results will occur. For example, in Asia the forests have seen a net gain in forest cover – mainly due to China’s reforestation programme. This will see even greater acceleration in the positive changes. – Roger James Hamilton

Roger Hamilton has a theory: “If we see all the major challenges in the world occur because of friction between where there’s a problem and where there’s a solution, these challenges will be solved with Web 3.0 – When the main apps are the ones that connect problems to solutions. Need a loan at 15% interest? Just press the button. Interested in earning 15% on your money? Just press the button. Need the best method to solar panel your house? Just press the button. Need the best way to dig a well? Just press the button. Need an instant view of where there’s a gap in a market for a new product? The missing link that is coming is artificial intelligence, which will analyse all the connections and deliver the one that meets your need.”

For members of XL Nation, you can catch Roger James Hamilton on his upcoming Fast Forward your Business tour, where he will present the Top 10 Trends that will transform your business in the near future.

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The Power of XL Nation - Stephen Petith

Privilege Of Founding Membership

XL Nation
The world’s first global nation. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”

Kupu-Kupu Foundation
Michelle Clarke and Leon Aarts (both Founding Members of XL Nation) stumbled upon the Kupu-Kupu Foundation in Bali as they were looking for inspiration for the XL National Day on 31st March 2009. What …

World Wide Wealth

In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed by all 191 UN member states, set a target to halve world poverty by 2015, and end poverty by 2025 In 2002, XL Results Foundation was launched to help make World Wide Wealth a reality. We set a goal to create a worldwide foundation of learning and networking resources for entrepreneurs to accelerate their ability to create and contribute wealth. The aim of this global, self-supporting network is to provide an ongoing cycle of creation and contribution through social enterprise. We are now five years into that journey. Whereas the classic learning institutions of the 20th century were united by pride of place, we see the learning networks of the 21st century united by pride of purpose. The purpose of XL Results Foundation is World Wide Wealth: a concerted and simultaneous creation and contribution of wealth, with 10% of new wealth created each year being contributed to the sustainable prosperity of the environment and our next generation. By 2020 our goal is to have reached $1 billion of new wealth created annually, with $100 million being contributed and leveraged to end poverty and environmental degeneration. How are we making this happen? Where are we now, and where will we be in 2020?

A Global Learning Institution

When we launched in 2002, we had a vision of entrepreneurs learning the latest strategies and skills for success, not from academics but from other entrepreneurs who were walking the talk. We envisioned a core team of Life Members who would be our success stories and our resource base, providing coaching, mentoring and leading by example in each country. By 2020, we will have an international network of centres providing hard skill and soft skill training on all topics, from finding the right team to building the best systems to effectively setting up in new countries. We will have an unrivalled international business mentoring network allowing new entrepreneurs to tap in to a collective knowledge base on business and personal growth. We will have a network of International Schools to instil a culture of empowerment and entrepreneurship in our next generation.

Accomplishments

In our first seven years, we have built a base of over 3,300 XL Members across 27 countries. We have established the widest-reaching coaching certification programme with monthly modules being conducted throughout the world. Over 40,000 hours of coaching have taken place in the certification programme in the past 12 months. In 2008, we sponsored the National Achievers Congress, and numerous other global events, bringing together leading entrepreneurs, educators and leaders. In 2007, we launched XL Café and XL Preschool. XL Hotels, which is now in the planning stage, will join XL Vision Villas as a series of global venues to host the meetings and be learning locations for our network.

A Self Financed Foundation

When we launched in 2002, we had a vision of entrepreneurs becoming a sought-after community for sponsors and advertisers, financing the activities and resources to help new entrepreneurs to help themselves. We saw our Life Members becoming stakeholders where their investment in our vision would lead to a lifetime return in value funded by the corporations supporting entrepreneurship. By 2020, we will have an international base of more than five million entrepreneurs, the world’s widestreaching publications on social enterprise, Global Summits and Conferences, and networking events taking place on any given day. Revenues from sponsorship, advertising and promotions will fund a large portion of this activity. Being part of this collective force, a self-employed entrepreneur or small business owner will be able to benefit from the same global buying power that today only multi-national corporations can achieve. In our first seven years, we have become the leading path for corporations to reach entrepreneurs and small businesses, with a global network of over 60,000 entrepreneurs. XL Media on-line, is dedicated to Social Enterprise and has featured leading entrepreneurs and leaders including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Bono, Al Gore and Nelson Mandela.

Entrepreneurship Decoded

When we launched in 2002, we had a vision of entrepreneurs accessing a community organised to build businesses around each individual’s strengths. In the same way that Hollywood enabled people to get into movies whether they were a scriptwriter, actor, director, producer, distributor, agent or technician, XL Results Foundation would enable people to become entrepreneurs whether they were a Creator, Deal Maker, Trader, Mechanic, Star or Supporter. Using the Wealth Dynamics profiling system, business owners could identify the team they needed, the value they delivered and the strategy to follow. By 2020, over one million people will be taking the Wealth Dynamics profiling test each year. We will have an opportunities exchange that follows the hierarchy of the eight stages of business growth, with international markets to find, offer and exchange ideas, brands, patents, contracts, licences, franchises, agents, management teams, financing, companies, properties and assets based on the Wealth Dynamics system. Entrepreneurs will be able to access communities of mentors, coaches, resources and fellow entrepreneurs supporting and following their specific profile. Entrepreneurship will not be about doing everything, but about doing what you do best and doing what you love. In our first seven years, we have established Wealth Dynamics as the only profiling system providing specific strategic direction to entrepreneurs. Over 100,000 people have attended seminars to learn about the Wealth Dynamics Experience making it the widest-reaching event of its kind worldwide, taking place in 12 countries. In 2008, the online profile is attracting over 600 tests per month, with this number doubling each quarter. Over 100 Wealth Dynamics Master Practitioners are now coaching, training and writing a niche book as part of the Wealth Dynamics book series.

A Global Accreditation

When we launched in 2002, we had the vision that, in the future, consumers would contribute more to charities from buying through social enterprises than giving directly to charities. We had the vision that charitable causes would eventually receive more from corporations passing a percentage of their profits to them, than from their own charity drives. We had the vision of the Billion Dollar Challenge — where we would play a vital role in facilitating this movement by driving and measuring the wealth created and contributed by social enterprises, with the goal of achieving $100M in contributions from $1B in profits from participating social enterprises each year. By 2020, we will have reached and surpassed our target of $100M contributed each year out of $1B in profits. We will have established a universally-accepted definition of a social enterprise as a company giving at least 10% of its profits to a charitable cause. Our Social Enterprise Accreditation Programme will be internationally regarded as a trusted system to recognise social enterprises publicly. Our Social Enterprise 500 will be the authoritative ranking of the top companies world-wide-ranked by their level of giving. Our annual Social Entrepreneur Award will give international recognition to the leading social entrepreneurs, providing role models and inspiration to the entire network. In our first seven years, we put in place the mechanisms for the Billion Dollar Challenge, and the XL Social Enterprise Accreditation Programme. Through this accreditation, companies are publicly recognised as a Social Enterprise, with a nominated charitable cause that they are committed to giving at least 10% of their profits to. Through this programme, the Social Enterprise 500 will emerge and we will have specific measurable data each year, contributing to the Billion Dollar Challenge. In 2007, there are over 300 companies registered, with over US$52 million pledged to charities.

A Force for Giving

When we launched in 2002, we had a vision that, in the future, each of us would have as much education on how to contribute our money as our current consumer culture gives us on how to spend our money. We had a vision of the emergence of ‘enlightened consumers’, who would want their dollars spent to go to both consumption for themselves and contribution for others. We had a vision, shared by many, that as consumers found more meaning in the power of their money, knowledge on where to give and how to give would become increasingly valuable and important. By 2020, we will be an authoritative source on effective giving. The collective knowledge we will have accumulated on the difference that each dollar makes within different causes will be published in our annual XL World Wide Wealth Directory. The partnerships we will have created with non-profit organizations will enable us to link the networks of wealth creation and wealth contribution. Our non-profit network will match our profit network in breadth and depth. The XL Social Enterprise Accreditation Programme will enable us to rank charities by the number of enterprises that have nominated them, providing a gauge to the public of the causes that fiscally-conscious corporations are supporting. The collective result of these initiatives will be to give individuals — from consumers to entrepreneurs — the power to make more informed decisions and see more tangible results in the difference they are making on this planet.

In our first seven years, we have featured success stories, highlighted causes and promoted charities in XL Media, at our events and through our online network. Our Extraordinary Lives Award and Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award have highlighted the extraordinary work of individuals within the network. Our World Wide Wealth Ambassadors champion causes in cities throughout the world. We have established a sister site, worldwidewealth.org, which will feature charities from across the region, enabling effective giving at multiple levels, from individuals to enterprises. When we leave this planet, no matter how much money we’ve made, if we leave it in a worse state than when we got here, that’s not wealth. We each have the ability to make more, and we each have the ability to contribute more. Each of us has the ability to transform our personal wealth. Collectively, we have the ability to transform World Wide Wealth. There are two pivotal events that will occur in our lifetime. One will be the end of world poverty, where our wealth networks will raise us all above the bar of pure survival. The other will be the beginning of environmental construction, where the effect of our human presence on this planet will equal a nett constructive result on the environment, from the present nett destructive result we have been having for the last 2,000 years. These are both historic sea changes — and they will occur in our lifetime. What part will you play? When we launched in 2002, we had a big vision. The big vision has become bigger because we have gotten closer. We have gotten closer not as a result of the vision moving, but as a result of the world moving. The world has become more uncertain, more challenging, more exciting. We have become more connected, more informed, more empowered. Entrepreneurs are appearing at an accelerated rate. Social Enterprise has entered the global lexicon. People are ready to make more of a difference today. By 2020, our vision will have become reality. It will have become bigger, and clearer. As the optometrist said, ‘Wealth comes from 2020 Vision.’ Vision opens the door to our potential. It gives us sight of who we can become, individually and collectively. We each have a power inside that, when combined, can and will change the world. In our first five years, we have made baby steps towards this vision. This is a long-term vision being built dayby-day, and it takes patience and perseverance. In our first five years, we have built an internationallyrecognised network that is already changing the lives of individuals daily. We thank you for your contribution towards everything we are trying to achieve, and we ask that you continue to seek the ways to create and contribute more effectively. After all, it has only been five years, and we still have another thirteen to go! In 2020, how old will you be? What will you accomplish in your lifetime? What will be your legacy? This is XL 2020. This is our vision. We invite you to make it yours.

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Here citizens can find inspiring stories from each of our circles, track WWW contributions and network and mastermind with other citizens.

This is a Citizens only area.

So if you think this is you JOIN TODAY

Founded in 2002 as XL Results Foundation, members of the XL Community declared themselves an interdependent nation, XL Nation, on 31st March, 2009.  From 1st April 2009, Social Entrepreneurs from around the world are welcome to apply for Citizenship to XL Nation either by invitation or independently.

Thank you for your interest in applying for Citizenship with XL Nation.

If you are applying independently and as yet don’t have a Buddy to invite you to join, we would be delighted to help find one, who will invite you to join their circle directly and give you access to all of XL Nation. Please complete the Application form in as much detail as possible,so that we can match you to the most appropriate circle and buddy. You will be contacted in due course by a Circle Leader whose Circle Group relates to your areas of interest, to discuss your Citizenship application

Please note:
XL Nation is a community of like-minded, social entrepreneurs working together with integrity and purpose towards realising World Wide Wealth. XL Nation Citizens are entitled to invite and accept those individuals who they believe would both benefit from and add value to XL Nation.

If you think this is for you JOIN TODAY for only $SGD360 per annum.