How to achieve a consistent flow of inspiration with action?
Patrick Hamilton Walsh
Chief Talent and Operations Officer, Tuutti Frutti Strategies
About Patrick
A problem solver who enjoys working with diverse teams to find workable solutions. Currently based in Sweden, serving as Head of Talent, Business Intelligence and Growth for the City of Stockholm, advising on European pandemic response leadership, global talent mobility and working to provide solutions to global megatrends.
A results-oriented executive with over 20 years domestic and international experience in start-ups, multinational corporations and major accounting firms. With a start-up DNA, I have been highly successful in building relationships with decision makers, seizing control of critical problem areas, and delivering on customer commitments.
A team player with an ‘anything is possible’ attitude and superior interpersonal skills, capable of motivating staff to peak performance and an excellent track record in converting opportunities into success and growth. I am a results-orientated and decisive leader with a large network who thrives in ever-changing environments and shows effective decision-making and judgement.
Patrick Hamilton Walsh is an Author, Adventurer, Life Coach and Phoneographer.
After training as a Chartered Accountant, in 2007 he filled a backpack with what he needed, sold everything else and set out to explore the seven continents and meet as many weird and wonderful people as possible.
He can be found posting on Facebook, ranting on Twitter and pretending to be cool on Instagram. When he is not studying Digital Marketing, fans of mobile phone photography may find him dishing out encouragement at his ‘Nothing but a Nokia’ page.
Originally from Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland he is supposed to be living in Dublin at the moment – but he could be anywhere on the planet hanging out with the locals.
Take home these learnings
1) How to step out of the victim zone and celebrate life?
2) Ways to pull yourself out of self-sympathy.
3) How to help yourself transform and transcend into a higher plane of life?
4) How does the path of goal-oriented self-realization look like?
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Francisco Palao Reinés
Scaling Above Stakes and Mistakes
Francisco Palao Reinés
Founder and Doer at Purpose Alliance
About Francisco
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Francisco Palao (PhD, MBA) is an award-winning innovator and a purpose-driven entrepreneur and his purpose is to evolve humanity through technology, social change, and love.
Francisco has founded several companies, including: Cognocare (an award-winning AI-based assistant to personalize cancer treatments), LeanMonitor (a cloud-based platform acquired by Gust.com in 2014 and aimed at helping big organizations and startups to implement lean startup principles and to improve their innovation techniques/strategies), Nativoo (an AI-based platform for personalized tourism, acquired by SBTUR in 2012) and IActive (a high-tech company focused on AI and named Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2012).
In addition, Francisco collaborates with leading business schools and universities, such as Singularity University and IE Business School teaching on entrepreneurship, disruptive innovation and exponential technologies.
Francisco has been honored with several prestigious international recognitions, such as the TR35 award given by the MIT to innovators under 35 all over the world.
Take home these learnings
1) Creating impact by leading a purpose-driven life.
2) The meaning of being a real entrepreneur
3) Mindset as key to make conscious decisions
4) How to be comfortable with uncertainty
Andrew Scheffer
Spirituality in the Business World
Andrew Scheffer
Founder - Mind-Set-Go
About Andrew
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Andrew Scheffer has the unique distinction of being born in New York, educated at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania, and has traveled the world training with leading self-help teachers over the course of 30+ years of his life, including (over 10,000 hours) in silent intensive meditation retreats.
But Andrew didn't leave his practice in the retreat centers. He took what he learned there and applied it to the high-pressure work environments and family situations that most of us experience daily at work and at home in relationships and while parenting.
Since 2001, he has coached executives, entrepreneurs, health care workers, students and even spouses seeking a higher level solution for anxiety, stress, and the frustration of everyday struggles that we all face in today's world. Andrew helps people develop their own strengths of mind to find the answers they need within themselves.
Take home these learnings
1. Why do we take things so seriously?
2. What is spirituality in the business world?
3. How conditioned are we from the environment we grow in?
4. Realizing the impact of our intentions
Chalinda Abeykoon
Entrepreneurship is The New Revolution
Chalinda Abeykoon
CEO - Lankan Angel Network.
About Chalinda
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Chalinda has spent the last 10 years building a startup ecosystem in Sri Lanka. During his tenure, he has mentored over 3,000 aspiring entrepreneurs and helped launch more than 50 startups.
After six years of ecosystem building, he shifted his focus towards entrepreneurial leadership in 2016. More specifically, he helps entrepreneurs fine-tune their business models and formulate execution strategies. As many of them are first-generation entrepreneurs, he coaches them to become investor-ready and support their fundraising journey. As a result, he has helped over 20 startups from multiple domains raise their angel/seed rounds.
His goal for the next five years is to expand the funding landscape in Sri Lanka. He works very closely with angel investors, VCs, and startup organizations around the world. Being an intervention leader, he aims to drive value to investors by connecting them with the most promising startups with regional and global potential. In January 2020, he took over as CEO of the Lankan Angel Network, Sri Lanka’s first alliance of angel investors. Together with his team, he raised the first Angel Fund dedicated to early-stage startups in Sri Lanka. He firmly believes that success breeds success. As such, the Angel Fund brings together 100 of the most successful Sri Lankans from around the world. They represent over 20 industries & disciplines and are from Asia, APAC, Europe & Noth America.
He obtained my bachelor's from the University of London in 2009 and began my entrepreneurial crusade. He was one of three finalists in South Asia for the Entrepreneurial Award, awarded by the British Council in 2018. In 2020, he received the Chevening Fellowship(CRISP), hosted by the University of Oxford.
Take home these learnings
1) How can innovation help start a company
2) The full cycle of entrepreneurship
3) Converting ideas into business
4) Identifying an Entrepreneur
5) Challenges of the entrepreneurial journey
Sangeeta Talwar
Shattering The Unseen Barriers As A Women Leader
Sangeeta Talwar
Global Community Lead at Camunda, Board Member at Signal of Solidarity
Sangeeta Talwar
Sangeeta Talwar is acclaimed as the first woman in the Consumer Products sector in India and has blazed several new trails. In a career spanning over 30 years, Mrs. Talwar has worked across large businesses of European, American, and Indian corporations. She largely worked with the private sector in India & in Switzerland as well as spearheaded the implementation of a national-level, Social sector - World Bank-funded project in Rural India. She has multifunctional exposure across the disciplines of Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and General Management and has built familiarity both with urban as well as rural India.
Take home these learnings
2. Empowering women at work
3. Looking at the world through the lens of a Woman
4. Adding value to people's life
Spud Marshall
Ways to Build Communities that Thrive
Spud Marshall
Founder of My Creative Community, Author
About Spud
Spud Marshall is a social entrepreneur, community builder, and fog machine enthusiast. He is the founder of My Creative Community, which supports groups in designing engaging experiences for their communities. He works with a variety of organisations, including the Sullivan Foundation, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as Teach for America, the American Planning Association, and Johnson & Johnson, as a facilitator, coach, and consultant. He was the Innovation Director of 3 Dots Downtown, a community art and innovation event facility that he founded. He's also the originator and driving force behind the co.space, a 20-person intentional community for young changemakers that's been dubbed one of higher education's most innovative innovations.
Spud launched New Leaf Initiative, which now acts as a dedicated co-working facility and innovation incubator, prior to those activities. He has been named a Knight Foundation Emerging Cities Champion, as well as one of the country's top millennial civic leaders and one of central Pennsylvania's "Foremost Under 40" business leaders. Spud has a master's degree in strategic sustainability leadership with a very impressive failure track record (contact him if you're interested). He and his wife, faithful dog, and curious cat currently reside in State College, Pennsylvania.
Take home these learnings
2) Role and traits of a community builder.
3) Difference between a cult and a community.
4) Three important pillars of our community
Pat Hedley
3 C’s to Build and Sustain Connections
Pat Hedley
Investor, Advisor, and Author
About Pat
Pat is a growth company advisor and investor with more than three decades of global private equity experience. She adores disruptive technology and dynamic management teams who find new ways to address old challenges. Pat is the author of Meet 100 People: A How-To Guide to the Life Edge Everyone Is Missing, a book about the importance of personal networks.
Pat worked as a managing director at General Atlantic (GA) until January 2015, where she spent nearly 30 years in a variety of roles, including over a decade of direct growth investing. Pat also established GA's global marketing and human capital strategies, as well as the company's global talent network.
Pat worked for a Bain Capital-backed healthcare firm before joining GA. She had previously worked at Bain & Company as an associate consultant, advising healthcare clients. Ms. Hedley graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Computer Science and an MBA from Harvard Business School with a focus on entrepreneurship. Ms. Hedley is a native Hungarian speaker.
Ms. Hedley is the current Chairman of Reach the World, a non-profit that promotes global awareness by using technology to connect student travellers with classrooms.
Take home these learnings
2) How to build curiosity in people?
3) What stops people from building connections?
4) What are the parameters to look for before investing?
