As my wife, Carole, was recently preparing to begin another chapter in our forthcoming book, The Transformational Workplace, she found out that one of the people we interviewed on my sabbatical last year had just won the International Children’s Peace Prize. Her name is Michaela (Chaeli) Mycroft. Here is her story.

Seven years ago, Chaeli was a nine-year-old child, born with cerebral palsy, who wanted nothing more than the greater degree of autonomy she could gain if she had a motorized wheelchair. A small group of kids ages six to 12, including Chaeli’s sister, Erin, and three school friends, Tarryn, Justine, and Chelsea Terry, took on the mission of raising the money to purchase the chair.

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