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Changemaker MindsetTalia-Milgrom-Elcott - Building Networks To Solve Complex ProblemsIn Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech, he called out the need to train 100,000 STEM teachers in 10 years. Hearing that call, Talia Milgrom-Elcott started 100Kin10 and made it her mission to transform President Obama’s vision into reality. Using the insights she shares in this episode, she hit that goal in eight and a half years. Understanding that complex problems have interconnected roots she took a network approach, bringing together people already working on the key problems to collaborate and apply their collective knowledge to bear to break new ground. Along the way she created...2025-03-1847 minChangemaker MindsetPatricia Letayf: Unlocking The Power Of Refugee CommunitiesWhat does the word “refugee” mean to you? Poverty? hardship? Misfortune? What about entrepreneurship, innovation and opportunity?Patricia Letayf is the Executive Director at Five One Labs, a groundbreaking organization that empowers refugees to become entrepreneurs in places like Kurdistan, Iraq and Barranquilla, Colombia. Starting with $15,000 in seed money won in a pitch competition in graduate school, it’s become a global force for entrepreneurship. Through incubators, accelerators and a global network of mentors and experts, the organization has supported over 130 startups and awarded nearly $1 million in seed funding to founders since 2017. On...2025-02-1038 minChangemaker MindsetTransformational - Jeff Softley, ExperianExperian Was Being Disrupted by Fintech Startups. Then They Turned the TablesWhen Jeff Softley joined Experian’s consumer division ten years ago, things looked bleak. The business had endured 16 quarters of declining revenues. It was being disrupted by venture backed fintech startups that didn’t need to turn a profit for years—if ever.How do you run a business charging customers for what other companies are giving away for free? How do you compete against companies that don’t need to earn money?That, in a nutshell, was the challenge Jeff Sof...2025-01-2743 minChangemaker MindsetBob Sutton: Rule #1 - Don’t Be An AssholeBob Sutton is among the most influential business scholars today. One of Stanford’s Business School’s most distinguished professors, a bestselling author of seven books including, most recently, The Friction Project, he has advised CEO’s ranging from Pixar’s Ed Catmull to IDEO’s David Kelley.Yet his career didn’t start out in an ivory tower, but in a pizza shop smoking pot. It was through a series of relationships, starting with the woman who would become his wife, that he found his path. Along the way he built the bonds that led to penetratin...2025-01-2044 minChangemaker MindsetEnyinnah Okere: How Edmonton Developed A Game Changing Policing StrategyOne of the most basic responsibilities of a government is to keep its people safe. In a city, that first line of defense is the police. They are trained to investigate crimes, handle violent criminals and put them in jail.Yet police departments also spend a lot of time on repeat nonviolent incidents. They manage domestic disputes, mental health episodes and sometimes just people who are down on their luck.This realization led to the creation of Endmonton’s HELP program, which has been highly successful in reducing police calls and overall crime ra...2024-11-1236 minChangemaker MindsetWhitney Johnson: Creating Safety Around DisruptionWhitney Johnson was one of the top analysts on Wall Street. Yet when she met Clayton Christensen, she realized her fate path would lead somewhere else. As she would later write in a landmark in Harvard Business Review, she would disrupt herself and leave her top job at a Wall Street firm.Today, Whitney is regularly ranked as one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world and is one of the most widely sought after executive coaches. Where she once climbed the ladder as a woman in the male-dominated world of Wall Street, now she f...2024-10-2235 minChangemaker MindsetHow Russell Lowery-Hart Is Helping To Solve The Upskilling Crisis By Loving Students To SuccessWe are in the midst of an upskilling crisis. Rapid industrial changes and an increasingly competitive global environment, with countries like China and India emerging as technology superpowers, mean millions of workers need to upskill to remain economically viable.Community colleges play a crucial role in this transformation. Aspen Award winner Russell Lowery-Hart, Chancellor of the 50,000-student Aspen Community College system, believes educators must move beyond being mere gatekeepers. He believes that educators need to love their students to success.If this sounds idealistic or naive, consider Russell’s impressive track record. As...2024-10-0739 minChangemaker MindsetHow Aidan McCullen Learned To Become UndisruptableAs a professional rugby player for Europe’s top team, Aidan McCullen knew the value of showing up. He wasn’t born with the most talent, but he made sure he had the most discipline. Yet his biggest challenge was to overcome the disruption of ending his career, to shed his rugby identity and become something else.Today, Aidan helps some of the world’s top organisations to do the same—overcome disruption by shedding old identities to allow them to do something new and different, increasing their competitiveness and tackling new challenges. Aida...2024-09-2341 minChangemaker MindsetYassmin Abdel-Magied - Finding Strength Through AdversityWhat do you do when you achieve your dreams…and then lose it all.At the age of 25, Yassmin Abdel-Magied was an unbridled success. She achieved prominence at a young age, garnering awards and recognition as a teenager in Australia. She had been a successful engineer, author and TV personality. Her TED talk had millions of views and was named one of the top ten ideas of 2014.Then it all changed in an instant. Ambushed by a Senator attacking her religion on live TV, she lost her cool and the video went viral. Tha...2024-09-0939 minChangemaker MindsetRob Wolcott - Creating Connection In the Service Of ChangeEvery successful changemaker thrives on connection. It is their ability to connect to different people, places and institutions that makes it that much more likely that they will come across that seemingly random piece of information or insight that helps to crack a really tough problem.Nobody personifies that more than Robert C. Wolcott. As Co-Founder & Chairman of The World Innovation Network (TWIN), he leads a global community of 4,000 innovation and growth leaders from over 30 countries that meet and connect to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems. It is through these connections that Rob fo...2024-08-2644 minChangemaker MindsetAlister MartinAlister Martin's Journey To Make The World Just A Little Bit More Fair When human potential is wasted, we all lose something. Most people who look at Alister Martin’s resume would assume he’s led a charmed life. A medical doctor as well as a White House fellow, he holds dual appointments on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School, he excels in just about every way you can imagine. He even has a mean tennis serve.Yet his life has not been charmed, at least not in...2024-08-1240 minChangemaker MindsetHow Stephen Shapiro Turned Away From Downsizing And Started Helping Companies GrowHow Stephen Shapiro Turned Away From Downsizing And Started Helping Companies GrowStephen Shapiro was a superstar. With an Ivy League degree and a hot job at a big consulting form, he spent most days jet-setting around the world, re-engineering business processes to help firms become more productive and efficient. He liked the work, and he was good at it. Then one day a news story changed his path. A project he had worked on had resulted in 10,000 layoffs and there, on the TV, he saw first-hand how the executives' lives were still s...2024-07-2933 minChangemaker MindsetChangemaker Mindset Trailer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-07-2001 min
Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics2022 in review.Guests of Mid Atlantic give their thoughts on the events of 2022. We are Joined by Laura Babcock, Doug Levy, Greg Satell, Pytor Kurzan, Emma Burnell, Steve O'Neil, Mike Holden, Jarett Kobeck, David Volodzko, Amy Everett, and Iain Dale Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-12-2835 minMid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politicsRussia makes gains in Eastern Ukraine.We are joined by professor Karolina Wigura, Michael Donahue, Greg Satell, Ben Mendelson and Dr Dan as we look at the Russian advances in the east of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-0244 minMid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politicsThe world this week - The Ukrainian defenders of Maripul and Boris Johnson skates on thin iceIn a week when a US federal mask mandate was struck down on public transport, we ask how many lives does the British prime minister have?Today we are joined by Pyotr Kurzin geopolitical expert from Washington DC and the host of the global gambit podcast, Greg Satell award-winning author and businessman who lived in Kyiv for over 10 years and Steve O'Neil who was deputy head of policy for the Liberal Democrats between 2013-15. You can hear more from him on his blog and podcast No Man's Land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...2022-04-231h 03Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politicsUnderstanding Ukraine from 1991 - 2022 with Greg SatellDurings Ukraine’s 30-years of independence since the Soviet Union’s collapse, it has had to contend with neighbouring Russia’s tightening grip and expanding power on the country's geopolitical future. Instead of following the current Russian invasion and the heroic defence of the Ukrainian people today I want to look at Ukrainian politics from 1991 to 2022 with Grreg Satell who lived in Kiev and witnessed the 2004 Orange Revolution and the growing sense of Ukrainian national identity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-03-041h 10