Dr. Kiki Sanford had a choice. Continue with what felt like an increasingly frustrating path in academia, or pivot and turn her passion into power. She chose the latter. With a degree in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology, she’d spent her undergraduate and graduate studies exploring learning and memory – specifically through research on birds. She loved the learning. She loved the science. So she opted to spend her time getting other people just as jazzed about science as she is. Since 2015 she’s turned her focus back to her brothers and sisters of science, starting “Broader Impacts” a company that helps researchers and scientists up their communication game making sure that the vast amount of important information being generated in those circles can make it into the world in a meaningful way. Her view of leadership is very much like her view of science – that the mechanisms we use have changed vastly, and the people who use those things, have not. She says it’s imperative that we “vaccinate” ourselves – against misinformation, bad actors and those who would use information in the wrong way. She also believes that connection and empathy may be the keys to the future we all need.
What motivates people? Why do they do what they do? What does leadership actually mean in today’s world? Good questions, right? That’s what Cathy Brooks, thought. And it’s why she created Talk, Unleashed – a new podcast of entirely candid conversations with fascinating people doing remarkable things. This weekly podcast will feature guests from arts and entertainment to business to technology to food to activism to politics (well, we’ll see on that last one). Talk Unleashed invites these influencers to consider the things that have led to them to where they are, the lessons they’ve learned and how all those things can come together to create a better world.
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