Technology for Good: Entrepreneurs Making A Difference in the Lives of Others w/ Leila Janah
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Release Date: 10/15/2019
How To Build Communities That Matter w/ SC Moatti, Darryl Grant & Anne Devereux-Mills
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Having a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups.
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Leslie Schrock on Bumpin
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If you want to write a book, the best advice out there is that you really need to like writing because the whole process is time-consuming and, to be perfectly honest, kind of hard! My guest, Leslie Schrock, joins me to talk about the process she went through writing Bumpin’ while she was pregnant and some of the best parts of her book.
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What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table w/ Minda Harts
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Black women exist in corporate America and the more we talk about, advocate, and acknowledge them and their differences, the better their experience will be. Minda Harts is here to talk about how black women can be their own advocates to advance in their life and career.
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Gender Equality In Corporate America w/ Julie Des Jardins
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Opening the conversation about gender equity in and out of the workplace is the first step to creating productive and positive allies. Women have always been in positions that promote a culturally feminine leadership, often behind the scenes or beside strong men. Historian Julie Des Jardins joins Powerful Conversations to discuss feminine modes of leadership in today’s political climate.
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Food Justice Rock Star w/ Anna Lappé
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The state of our nation’s food industry is in complete disarray. From pesticide use to over-farming to ads for sugar-laden drinks and snacks targeting our children, we need to completely overhaul the system. Anna Lappé is here to talk about food sustainability, health, and justice.
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Anita Sands On Board Service And Being A Leader
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Being the only woman in the boardroom doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, Dr. Anita Sands thinks this situation can actually be something positive and memorable. It’s all about making a difference, standing out, and being recognized, something every professional woman should aspire to.
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Entrepreneurs and the Power of Being Young
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If you haven't started following through on your dreams yet, I hope this episode will inspire you to start now. We are going to hear from three young entrepreneurs who share their passion and engagement with us and the stories of their journeys and their incredible accomplishments.
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Innovation and Opportunity in Virtual Reality
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Don't miss this interview with leading innovators in virtual reality as they share how it is being used and future opportunities to connect to a new world through VR.
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Bringing Diversity To The Tech C-Suite w/ Sandra Lopez
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Will the actions you take today have a positive impact on tomorrow’s society? That’s a question that Sandra Lopez, VP of Intel Sports Group asks herself every day. She’s not only creating a new world of sports technology, but she’s also a diversity advocate for women in C-level careers.
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The Power of a Warm Embrace w/ Jane Chen
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Jane Chen has spent years working on health issues in the developing world. Listen in and learn more about the impact she is making in the world so that mothers don't lose their babies because of a lack of access.
info_outlineWhat is the power of using the Internet to lift 30,000 people out of poverty through the creation of jobs?
That is what Leila Janah did with SamaSource and that is just the beginning. She is the Founder and CEO of Sama Group and Laxmi and an award-winning social entrepreneur.
She created an international nonprofit that is now a consortium of three organizations, created jobs, crowdfunds medical procedures, and trains employees at job centers in the US and in Kenya.
Join us as she shares her growth from nonprofit to for-profit, the challenges, and risks of entrepreneurship, and the lessons she has learned along the way.
About Leila Janah:
Leila Janah is the founder and CEO of Sama Group and an award-winning social entrepreneur.
Prior to Sama Group, Leila was a visiting scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public ethics. She was a founding director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Director of CARE USA, a 2012 TechFellow, recipient of the inaugural Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award, and in 2014, was the youngest person to win a Heinz Award.
She received a BA from Harvard and lives in San Francisco.
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