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
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Karen Craggs
Why Did An Assault Survivor Choose To Forgive?
Karen Craggs
Thought Leader & Advisor on Corp Purpose
Karen Craggs
Growing up in Kenya in a multi-racial home, Karen was always sensitive to inequality and injustice around her.
Impacted by childhood rape, Karen decided, at the young age of 13, that she was not going to be trapped in life as a victim, living in shame and being angry at the world.
Coaching helped her find healing and freedom. She transformed her pain into an even deeper love, compassion and commitment to elevate humanity.
Karen is now a global Coach and Advisor, working with leaders in governments, corporations and NGOs to learn how to recognize and effectively address unconscious bias and discrimination within their organizations and in the communities they serve. Working with clients like the UN, Government of Canada, Adidas and Reebok, the MasterCard Foundation, Karen has shaped more than half a billion dollars worth of international programs and social justice initiatives, bringing hope, healing and a better life for millions of women, men, children and marginalized groups all over the world.
Mindful Content Warning - This episode includes some discussion about Karen's experience of sexual violence that may be distressing or triggering.
Please take care of yourself and feel free to reach out to Karen directly or seek local resources, if you need support.
Take home these learnings:
2. How society shames victims
3. The impact of trauma on young Karen
4. Voicing the pain and breaking the silence
5. Heal men to heal women
6. Imbibing self-love as a survivor
7. Breaking generational and corporate bias
Brett Hill
How to Practice Mindfulness In Everyday Life
Brett Hill
Professional speaker, trainer, coach, author, and specializes in mindful communications
Brett Hill
Brett is the host of the Language of Mindfulness and Organizational Mindfulness podcast. He is a professional speaker, trainer, coach, an author, and specializes in mindful communications. Brett has distilled a lifetime of deep study and practice into mindful communications in his training, lectures, and writings. He has a degree in interpersonal communications, has taught meditation to many hundreds of people, and has studied the mindful presence and communications for many years in such schools as Hakomi (somatic, mindful psychotherapy), The META institute (Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches), The Mindfulness Coaching School, and others. He founded the Quest Insitute mediation center in Dallas Texas.
In addition, Brett has launched several businesses and is deeply technical having worked for Microsoft as a Sr. Technical Evangelist and Worldwide Technical Readiness Manager for Microsoft Online Services. Before and after joining Microsoft, he was named by Microsoft as "most valuable professional" and wrote software for organizations like Fresh Produce Sportswear and the Texas Rangers baseball team. He was CTO for a startup that went on to get several rounds of funding. In addition, he developed and taught classes on-site for organizations like Citibank, Ford, State Farm, Progressive, and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Now he focuses on helping professionals learn the power of conscious, mindful communication. In all of his work, he's concluded the key skill any person can study to improve their professional and personal lives - is mindful communication. He says "the limits of what we can achieve personally, professionally, and even as a people - is bounded by our ability to effectively communicate".
Take home these learnings
2. The impact of mindfulness on interpersonal relationship
3. How organizations are adopting mindfulness during the great resignation
4. Hurdles of practicing mindfulness
Brain Lehanan
Taking Control of your life with Technology
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Brian Lenahan
CEO - Aquitaine Innovation Advisors
About Brian
MIT-trained speaker, author, consultant, and mentor in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Brian has authored four books on AI including "Artificial Intelligence: Foundations for Business Leaders and Consultants", releasing his new book in September 2020 titled "Deep Health: Using Artificial Intelligence to Live Longer and Healthier". The new book illustrates the power of AI in analyzing vast amounts of data about one person: you.
He was recently named AI Advisor at Halton Regional Innovation Center in Burlington, Ontario, and at Hamilton's Innovation Factory. Brian is also an AI Instructor with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Brian's fifth book, Quantum Boost, offers insights into the world of quantum computing and its myriad applications. Quantum Computing Applications is due out in early 2021.
Take home these learnings
1) How to use technology to transform your life for the better?
2) How to approach artificial intelligence and get comfortable with it?
3) Befriending technology for business transformation.
4) Finding ways to bring peace in your life with technology.
John Spence
Figuring out Ideas straight from a Business Coach
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John Spence
Master Business Acumen Coach
Founder John Spence LLC
About John
John Spence is widely recognized as one of the top business and leadership development experts in the world. The American Management Association named him one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon. He is also recognized by the highly prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the top eight in the world for their Distinguished Achievement Award. At 26 years old, John was appointed as CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects across 20 countries. Just two years later, Inc. Magazine named him one of America’s Up and Coming Young Business Leaders. John is also recognized as one of the Top 100 Business Thought Leaders in America, one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in America, one of the Top 50 Small Business Experts in America and one of the top 500 Leadership Development Experts in the World. For more than three decades, John Spence has travelled the world assisting individuals and businesses in becoming more successful. John is the author of five books and a co-author of several others. He is also a business consultant, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and executive coach, with clients ranging from numerous Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, professional associations, and other organizations. John Spence is widely recognized as one of the top business and leadership development experts in the world.
The American Management Association named him one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon. He is also recognized by the highly prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the top eight in the world for their Distinguished Achievement Award.
At 26 years old, John was appointed as CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects across 20 countries. Just two years later, Inc. Magazine named him one of America’s Up and Coming Young Business Leaders. John is also recognized as one of the Top 100 Business Thought Leaders in America, one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in America, one of the Top 50 Small Business Experts in America, and one of the top 500 Leadership Development Experts in the World.
For more than three decades, John Spence has traveled the world assisting individuals and businesses in becoming more successful. John is the author of five books and a co-author of several others. He is also a business consultant, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and executive coach, with clients ranging from numerous Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, professional associations, and other organizations.
Take home these learnings
1) To understand workplace communications a business leader
2) Develop effective business leadership strategies
3) The role of values for a CEO or senior management
4) How to come out of an unhappy state of mind
5) The common denominators of a successful leader
6) How to create a safe space for employees as a leader
Oscar Trimboli
Art of Listening- A Code to Change the World
Oscar Trimboli
Author, Professional Speaker, and Apple Award-Winning Podcast Host
Oscar Trimboli
Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors, and executive teams, Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words.
He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organizations that create powerful legacies for the people they serve – today and more importantly, for future generations.
Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens.
He is the author of how to listen - discover the hidden key to better communication - the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening - Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions
Oscar loves his afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with one or all his four grandchildren.
Take home these learnings
2. Why listening is a gift to humanity
3. Four villains of listening
4. Understanding how pattern matching work
Pooja Marwah
Living from a centered identity to create a culture
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Pooja Marwah
CEO - Child Rights and You (CRY)
About Pooja
Puja Marwaha CEO - Child Rights and You (CRY), believes that children are the very foundation of every nation’s growth and development aspirations. It was this belief that fueled her passion for children’s rights and inspired her to become a full-fledged part of the social sector in 1994.
After a liberal arts and Human Resources development education, Puja Marwaha made the transition from the corporate to the social sector early in her career. Having worked earlier with various corporate organizations, she joined CRY in 1994 to set up the organization’s Human Resources function. In 2002 she moved into more general management roles in CRY. Today, Puja is the Chief Executive Officer at CRY, India’s leading child rights organization.
Puja believes that children should be at the heart of all human development work. This belief informs her passionate interest and involvement in children and their potential. Over the course of her work, Puja has been involved in the nurturing of a large number of organizations and people, enabling them to connect at the level of individual belief, to the vision of all rights, for all children.
For the past 25 years, Puja has helped build an organizational framework for CRY that best captures the essence of justice and equity. Her work is focused on creation of an organizational character that attempts to foster a passion for children, a high degree of individual accountability to children and a belief in every person’s potential to bring change for children. She currently also serves on the board for VANI – Voluntary Action Network India – in an endeavor to strengthen public mobilization for social causes.
Take home these learnings
1) What it's like to follow your heart?
2) Switching from corporate to the social sector.
3) How to lead an organization?
4) Why children should be put in center stage for decision making?
