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Big Thinker Universe PodcastPhilippa Gillström
MindFLEX Mentor | Transformational Coach | Community Builder | Public Speaker
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippagillstromhttps://philippagillstrom.com/create-your-vision-masterclass
2023-06-2145 min
Thriving Community ShowEpisode #12 - Create User Groups to Work with New Rules & Regulations with Lauren UyenoLauren Uyeno is the National Director of Professional Groups at Workiva. We spoke about how she created a user group within a community to help her organisation work with ESG, which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. ESG encompasses the measures and strategies that companies are taking to act responsibly - for example, when it comes to sustainability and having a diverse and inclusive workforce.
In this conversation, we dove into what user groups are, how to create and run them and how Lauren uses her community-building skills to lead in an area where she is not...2022-12-2043 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #11 - Increase Member Retention with These Three Tactics with Jen ShermanJen Sherman is the Community Manager at the Advance Women’s Expert Network - the premier networking group for female consultants, coaches and done-for-you service experts.
Originally a School Social Worker, Jen leaned into her strengths and experiences and applied her background in understanding people's needs and her passion for being a connector to support a community of women who want to accelerate the growth of their businesses through the power of relationships. Jen has been working at the Advance Women’s Expert Network since its launch in February 2021. In her time as Community Manager, she has take...2022-12-0629 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #10 - Use Online Challenges to Boost Member Enrolment & Engagement with Rush SadiwalaRush Sadiwala is the CEO and founder of Framework, building software dedicated to helping people run online challenges. Framework makes it dead simple to build, launch and operate - with hundreds of challenges taking place in the last year, meaning over 250,000 people have completed a challenge powered by Framework. They’ve worked with brands and organizations such as Columbia University, Chris Haroun (#1 ranked Udemy instructor), Annie Grace (#1 ranked sobriety author) and SugarAddiction.com
As we know, communities are multi-faceted and are more than just an online forum. Running a challenge could be the perfect tool to add to...2022-11-2229 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #9 - How our Upbringing Influences our Work with DEI and Belonging with Haseena PatelHaseena Patel is an author, mind-body-spirit breakthrough coach, international speaker, yoga instructor, Akashic Records reader and teacher, poet and peace-builder. She lives and grew up in South Africa and she shares her personal experience of the inequalities of Apartheid.
Her upbringing has influenced her work with diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and she applies her learnings to the two communities she now runs. She is co-founder of Leave No Girl Behind International, an organisation that empowers girls worldwide through leadership programs, and co-creator of the Bubbles Beyond Borders global campaign for gender equality, which focuses on holding...2022-11-0840 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #8 - How to Use Templates Ambassador Programs to Grow your Community with Haneefah Abdurrahman LekkiHaneefah Abdurrahman Lekki is best known as a tech community builder, passionate about the improvement of tech communities in Africa. She is the Programs and Community Manager at Ingressive for Good, a nonprofit organization with the mission to create and increase the earning power of African youth through tech training and resources for the growth of the African startup ecosystems.
She currently manages the Ingressive for Good student Community of over 55,000 students. As well as the Ambassador program which has grown to over 100 Ambassadors across Nigeria and Ghana. Because of this work at Ingressive for Good she...2022-10-2535 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #7 - How to Create a Thriving and Warm Community That Manages Itself with Myriam HadnesMyriam Hadnes is a behavioral economist. In fact, she has a PhD in this area. She is the host of the “Workshops Work” podcast which has been running since 2019 with over 170 episodes. The podcast is ranked by Listen Score as one of the top 10% most popular shows out of almost 3 million podcasts globally,
Myriam is motivated by the vision that we can change the world, one workshop at a time.
She curates the "Never Done Before" Facilitation Community. This community was born from the pandemic and has since grown into a paid membership community of 250 from...2022-10-1147 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #6 - How cultural competency is vital to our DEI work and to our profit with Seema JainSeema Jain started out her journey working with cultural understanding when she launched a Culture Day program for Marriott International in 2014. She designed it to be an innovative program to help market teams be more culturally competent when working with multicultural guests.
The Culture Day program grew from 7 to 35 presentations per year, with a library of content for 14 different cultures and Seema was traveling all over the world to help others lead with a global mindset. Due to the pandemic, Seema was furloughed and it was then she realized she could be sharing her knowledge with other...2022-09-2733 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #5 - The Co-created approach to Community management with Anamaria DorgoAnamaria Dorgo is Head of Community at Butter and Founder of the L&D Shakers. Butter is a software platform where you can plan and host virtual sessions. The L&D Shakers is a community of practice for Learning & Development professionals. She joined the Butter team in June 2021 and has built their facilitation community from the ground up.
She works with a core community team of 6 community members to bring workshops, webinars, AMAs (Ask Me Anything Sessions), and other types of events to the community. They curate an ever-growing free library of facilitation resources and support Butter’s...2022-09-1340 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #4 - Use the Co-Created Approach to Successfully Launch your Community with Anamaria DorgoAnamaria Dorgo is Head of Community at Butter and Founder of the L&D Shakers. Butter is a software platform where you can plan and host virtual sessions. The L&D Shakers is a community of practice for Learning & Development professionals. She joined the Butter team in June 2021 and has built their facilitation community from the ground up.
She works with a core community team of 6 community members to bring workshops, webinars, AMAs (Ask Me Anything Sessions), and other types of events to the community. They curate an ever-growing free library of facilitation resources and support Butter’s...2022-08-3047 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #3 - How to find that opportunity and fill a gap in the market with Amber Dugger
Amber Dugger is a cash-flow and profitability coach. She has founded Profit for Keeps, a framework that has helped hundreds of coaches, course creators, online businesses, practitioners, small business owners, and entrepreneurs gain clarity and awareness of their cashflow and money systems.
This system combines what Amber believes is the trifecta of a holistic and empowered money system: Business Cashflow; Personal Cashflow; Mindset and Wealth Consciousness.
But in this podcast we talk about a part of her life that is not so well known - the time she started a community in a...2022-08-1633 minThriving Community ShowEpisode #2 - Increase Member Engagement with a Champion Program with Katie Browning
Katie Browning is a Community Engagement Manager at Copado. She describes herself as an engagement enthusiast who is passionate about capturing the people's voice and leading cultural initiatives that bring people together. She has been a part of the team at The Copado Community helping it grow by 165% from 2021-2022. In the previous year, the community grew over 400%. The big focus in 2021 was how to engage with all of these new members. And to give you an idea of the numbers, the community now has over 53000 members.
The strategies that Katie and her team...2022-08-0243 min
Thriving Community ShowEpisode #1 - How to succeed with non-punitive community moderation with Lisa Barroca
Lisa Barroca is a Community Manager at Cultivate where she is leading a growing community of corporate changemakers who seek to challenge the status quo. Previously Lisa has worked in a community-focused research team, which produced the work that secured their $10M Series A round of start-up capital. She then led the total program overhaul within the community that created 300% growth in their first year.
In her work and life, Lisa focuses on relationships and scaling with integrity and values alignment. She believes that communities are opportunities to practice the futures we want to...2022-07-1942 min