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Finding that One Thing That Switches You On with Ken Banks, National Geographic Society Explorer and Founder of kiwanja.net
April 30, 2012
Hosted by Kate Ebner
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Ken Banks was one of four children raised by his mother after his father passed away early in his childhood in England. Resources were tight and his mother worked hard to support her family. Despite hardships, Ken has always seen himself as lucky. He is well known as an innovator, mobile technologist and anthropologist and the founder of kiwanja.net, enabling communications channels for communities in the developing world by leveraging mobile phones and text messaging through offline computers. Ken found his life path by accident: a broken leg while working at a primate sanctuary in Africa led to a big life change -- the discovery of a life work that has truly "switched me on." Since then, this National Geographic Society Explorer has devoted his life to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, winning major awards for his work. Join Host Kate Ebner to hear Ken's wisdom, experience and his truly inspiring vision.
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Anne Hubert
Senior Vice President at Scratch, a "SWAT team across Viacom," Anne studies what makes millennials tick, jump for joy, and yes, open their wallets. Join us for this myth-debunking conversation that will open your eyes to a future led by this fascinating generation as they make their mark in the working world. View Guest page
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Captain Barrington Irving
In 2007, Captain Barrington Irving became the youngest person, at 23, and the first black pilot to fly solo around the globe. Born in Jamaica and brought up in inner-city Miami, Barrington saw a football scholarship as his route to college until, inspired by a Jamaican airline pilot who became his mentor, he decided to pursue a career in aviation. Barrington founded the nonprofit Experience Aviation, offering STEM-based programs and career guidance to students in the Miami area. He has received many awards including a 2007 Congressional Resolution honoring his flight and his work in education. In 2012, he was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Barrington is currently planning his next flight around the world, the Classroom in the Sky, scheduled for 2014. He will set new aviation records as he flies to all seven continents. Throughout the flight, he will conduct air and land expeditions combined with live learning to engage millions of students throughout the world. View Guest page
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Martha Johnson
Martha Johnson is a leadership expert who draws on the lessons learned as an executive with a more than 30-year career in business and government. She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed unanimously by the US Senate to be the Administrator of the General Services Administration, a position she held for two years. She also served eight years with the Clinton Administration. Her private sector career has spanned the information technology, architecture, strategic consulting, and automotive industries. Johnson has delivered over 50 public speeches on topics including leadership, organizational transformation, sustainability, and government innovation. She has been featured repeatedly in the press and has testified before the US Congress on government effectiveness. She is the author of On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation, and Personal Resilience. Johnson graduated with a BA from Oberlin College and MBA from Yale University's School of Management. She resides in Annapolis, MD. View Guest page
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Laura Kang
Laura Kang, Head of School, Eagle Cove School – Pasadena, MD Laura Kang is Head of School at Eagle Cove School. The School's mission is to maintain a culture of academic excellence as we foster within students respect, responsibility, joy in lifelong learning and habits of environmental and community stewardship. In her nearly 30 years in independent school education, she has learned how important it is to keep the entire course of a child's personal and educational development in mind: past, present and future. From working with toddlers to seniors in high school, she has become fascinated with the intersection of neuroscience and best teaching and learning practices. Laura finds herself attracted to independent schools as they are mission and values-driven institutions. Before joining the Eagle Cove Community, Laura was Middle School Head at Severn School. She attended the University of Kansas' School of Education for her undergraduate degree in education and English. She received her Masters in Administration and Supervision at Loyola College. View Guest page
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Jim Kiles
Jim is Program Director for FOUR YEARS.GO. Jim is the leader and holds accountability for all programs and activities of FOUR YEARS.GO. Jim has been a civil rights lawyer and a lifelong entrepreneur and business investor. He has managed many initiatives including several major media and communications activities. During the past ten years, Jim has been involved in developing technology and systems that enable real networks to engage and grow memberships, deliver on the network value proposition and enable the integration of media and action. His thirty years of experience includes a stint from 1995-2001 as Managing Director at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for Intel Capital investments in Media and Content, founding position at CPM Capital (a fund focused on content relevancy and monetization solutions) and CEO at Eyetide and Living Networks, internet startups engaged in new strategies and technologies for bringing community interaction to the web. View Guest page
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Dr. Timothy Killeen
In 2012 Dr. Timothy Killeen was appointed president of the RF and SUNY vice chancellor for research. Dr. Killeen leads the SUNY Research Council, an advisory body to the SUNY board of trustees, RF board of directors, SUNY provost, and campus presidents. Appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Killeen is a co-chair of New York's Innovation Network. Prior to joining the RF and SUNY Dr. Killeen was the National Science Foundation's assistant director for geosciences. From 2000-2008, he served as director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world's premier atmospheric and climate-change research centers. He has served on various White House Committees and Task Forces, testified frequently to Congress and the Executive branch, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Killeen has also held positions at the University of Colorado and the University of Michigan. Dr. Killeen, earned his Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics at the age of 23. View Guest page
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Barbara Kline
After living in Europe for graduate school, Barbara Kline returned to the US to settle in Washington, DC. She had no idea how hard it would be to find a job. After a brief stint as a paralegal, she opened The Ice Cream Lobby on Capitol Hill. For 7 years, she scooped ice cream cones, made hot fudge sundaes, and hung out with Hill staffers. After the birth of her first child, she reconsidered her career path. The need to find quality childcare for her baby led her to found White House Nannies. Over the past 26 years, White House Nannies has evolved into the premier nanny agency in the DC metro area. In 2005, Barbara wrote White House Nannies published by Tarcher/Penguin. She has been interviewed on many national programs. She lives in Chevy Chase with her husband Richard who runs the financial side of the business. They have two children: Matt lives in Venice, California and is on his city council and Gillian works in digital advertising in New York City. View Guest page
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Thomas Kolditz
A retired brigadier general and titled Professor Emeritus by the U.S. Military Academy, Tom led the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point for 12 years. In that role, he was responsible for teaching, research, and outreach activities in management, leader development science, psychology, and sociology. A highly experienced global leader, General Kolditz has more than 26 years in leader roles on four continents. His career has focused both on leading organizations and studying leadership and leadership policy across sectors. He served for two years as a leadership and human resources policy analyst in the Pentagon, and a year as a concept developer in the Center for Army Leadership, and was the founding director of the West Point Leadership Center. He was instrumental in the design and formation of the Thayer Leader Development Group, and is the managing member of Saxon Castle LLC, a leader development consultancy. View Guest page
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Jim Kouzes
Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author and award-winning speaker. Jim has been thinking about leadership ever since he served in John F. Kennedy's honor guard when Kennedy was inaugurated as President. Kennedy's inaugural call to action —"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." — inspired Jim to join the Peace Corps. Jim has devoted his life to leadership development ever since. Currently Jim is Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, at Santa Clara University, and also lectures on leadership around the world to corporations, governments, and nonprofits. Jim has won numerous honors and awards, including recognition as one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States by the Wall Street Journal. Jim's book with Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge, has been a business and leadership classic for the last 25 years. Its teachings have helped over 3 million people fulfill their leadership potential. View Guest page
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Sasha Kramer
Dr. Sasha Kramer is an ecologist and human rights observer who has been working in Haiti since 2004. In 2006 she received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University and co-founded Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), a non-profit dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. She coordinated an ecological sanitation project in Haiti in collaboration with Stanford's Engineers for a Sustainable World. She is an Adjunct Professor of International Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Miami. She teaches an intersession course called Sustainable Development Challenges in Haiti: from Theory to Practice. She is the co-founder of SOL (Sosyete Oganize pou Lanati), a Haitian non-profit dedicated to promoting environmental justice and ecologically sound development. Sasha is also a National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2011). View Guest page
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Andrew Kutt
Andrew Kutt, Oneness-Family School – Chevy Chase, MD For over 20 years, Andrew Kutt has guided the Oneness-Family School, a Montessori-based educational institution that produces confident individuals filled with a life-long love of learning. The School empowers students, teaches conflict resolution, and is a place where learning is not just about finding the right answers but about asking questions on the journey. The curriculum incorporates academics, self-discovery, and world service in order for students to develop the leadership skills necessary to meet the challenges of a global society. Andrew has 25 years of experience as a Montessori teacher and administrator. He is the founder of Peacekeepers, an after-school club that teaches students to become global citizens. Andrew is the author of "Living in Harmony," a handbook for teachers and parents to help students building citizenship skills and global understanding. He is on the board of the International Montessori Council and he is a founder of the Montessori Peace Academy. View Guest page
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Gina LaRoche
Gina LaRoche is a co-founder of Seven Stones Leadership Group, a professional services firm that develops organizational leadership and works with individuals on their personal journeys. She brings respect, clarity, truth and love to all of her work as an organizational consultant, facilitator and coach. She is also a writer and collage artist, and the author of Living in Sufficiency: A daily journey (2009). Gina is a popular public speaker, delivering keynote addresses on "What is enough?" and what it means to be a leader during times of great change. View Guest page
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Geraldine Laybourne
Geraldine Laybourne is the Co-Founder of Oxygen Media, a 24-hour cable television network for young women. She was Chairman and CEO of Oxygen Media until she sold it to NBC Universal in 2007. Gerry was a cable programming pioneer in the 80s and 90s: she led the team that created Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite. As president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks, she ran cable programming for the Walt Disney Company and its ABC subsidiary. She was ranked #1 among the 50 most influential women in the entertainment industry by The Hollywood Reporter and named one of the 25 most influential people in America by Time magazine. She is on the Board of Directors of Electronic Arts, J.C. Penney, Symantec Corporation, and Alloy Inc. and on the Board of Trustees of Vassar College and President of the AAVC. She is a corporate ambassador for Vital Voices and advises many women political candidates and entrepreneurs. She and her husband Kit, a teacher, producer, and author, have 2 children and 4 grandchildren. View Guest page
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Dr. Merle Lefkoff
Dr. Merle Lefkoff has spent decades on the front lines as an international mediator in conflict zones all over the globe. She received a research grant to investigate the new field of Complexity Science and its application to global peace building at the Center for Non-Linear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she worked with computer scientists, physicists and mathematicians exploring in computer simulation the natural laws that govern collective human behavior. After this study, Dr. Lefkoff founded the Center for Emergent Diplomacy in Santa Fe, NM. Casting aside the worn-out conflict resolution and mediation models that have proved inadequate to address the complexities of the 21st century, the Center now applies her research to building and facilitating a network of change agents around the world who use Complexity Science to address dysfunctional global paradigms. Dr. Lefkoff holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. View Guest page
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Richard Leider
Founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm, Richard has created a wide array of programs and experiences for clients. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the "Top 5" most respected executive coaches, by Linkage as one of the "Top 50" executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a "legend in coaching." He is an Executive Fellow at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and is a guest lecturer in the Harvard Business School and Duke Corporate Education. Richard is the author of eight books, including three best sellers. Repacking Your Bags and The Power of Purpose are classics in the personal growth field. He holds a Master's Degree in Counseling and is a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing where he founded The Purpose Project. Richard appears in the Wall Street Journal, The NYTimes and USA Today, and on PBS and NPR. He leads annual Inventure Expedition safaris in Tanzania, East Africa. View Guest page
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Marc Lesser
Marc Lesser is the CEO, co-founder and board member of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and author of Know Yourself, Forget Yourself. Marc is a long term Zen student and teacher and has also authored Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less, and Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration; How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life. Marc is the founder and former CEO of Brush Dance, a publisher of greeting cards, calendars and gift items, with spiritual themes and artwork. He spent 15 years taking Brush Dance from an idea in his garage to a multi-million dollar publishing company, with distribution throughout the U.S. and the world. He facilitates retreats for CEO's, business leaders, and management teams. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years. He received his M.B.A. from New York University and his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Rutgers University. He is currently a board member of the Social Venture Network. View Guest page
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Kelly Lewis
Kelly Lewis is the founder of The Bounce Collective, a human development organization committed to empowering the leader within every young person, woman, and man. Through her work, Kelly supports the leaders of today and tomorrow by creating meaningful ways for leaders and organizations to develop while bringing communities together. Kelly is head over heels in love with her work (don't worry, her husband is ok with that). Her work is her teacher as it provides her the opportunity to be in service to herself, others, and the world - while inspiring others to do the same. As an Executive Leadership Coach, a faculty member for Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program, an entrepreneur, a 20-year corporate leader, and a community change agent, Kelly brings a breadth of relevant experience, knowledge, and expertise to her work. View Guest page
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Jenn Lim
Jenn Lim created the company Delivering Happiness with Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life. In 2010, Jenn led the launch of Tony's first book (Delivering Happiness) which sold over 220,000 copies internationally and hit #1 on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. It was voted one of the best business books in 2010 by NPR, Inc. Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Jenn creates Culture Books for Zappos. In 2009, Zappos was sold to Amazon.com, and in 2011, Zappos was #6 on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. The Culture Book has become a global symbol of how companies can create cultures based on happiness and be profitable at the same time. Jenn has been a featured speaker at organizations such as Twitter, Pixar, Stanford, UCLA, NAWBO and the American Marketing Association. Jenn formerly consulted in a number of industries, including Internet, branding, writing and graphic design. View Guest page
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Maggie Little
Maggie Little, B.Phil., PhD, is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and a member of the Philosophy Department, at Georgetown University. Her research interests include issues in reproduction, clinical research ethics, and the structure of moral theory. A fellow of the Hastings Center, she has twice served as Visiting Scholar in residence at the National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics. She is a founding member of The Ob-Gyn Risk Research Group, which brings together experts from medical epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, philosophy, bioethics, gender theory, and the medical humanities, for research encompassing a wide variety of issues in reproductive health and clinical research ethics. Together with Ruth Faden and Anne Lyerly, she co-founded The Second Wave Initiative, which works to promote responsible research into the health needs of pregnant women. View Guest page
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Darlene Markovich
Darlene is a leader in strategic human resources and corporate communications with diverse experience providing broad solutions to complex organizational challenges. She spent 28 years at ALZA Corporation before retiring to focus on nonprofit activities. In 2003, Darlene co-founded The Missing Peace Project. She presently serves on several boards including The Committee of 100 for Tibet, Kreddha International, and is Executive Director of The Dalai Lama Foundation. She is based in Palo Alto, California. View Guest page
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Ross Martin
Ross Martin is an Executive Vice President at Viacom Media Networks and runs Scratch, a creative swat team driving innovation across the company. Ross joined Viacom Media Networks in 2004 as the first Head of Programming for MTV's Emmy and Peabody Award winning college network, mtvU. He later became SVP of MTV 360 Production & Development, working across MTV, MTV2 and mtvU. Prior to MTV, Ross founded Plant Film, an LA-based production company partnered with Fox, VH1 and Dimension Films; was a development executive for Spike Lee's 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks; and taught poetry at Washington University, RISD and The New School. His writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The Harvard Review, McSweeney's, Denver Quarterly, BOMB Magazine and multiple anthologies. His first book was published in 2002. Ross is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Viacom Marketing Council, and serves on the digital advisory board for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. View Guest page
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John M. McCardell Jr.
John M. McCardell Jr. was appointed 16th vice-chancellor of the University of the South effective last July 1. Since his arrival, McCardell has challenged the university both to examine its history and to seize the opportunities of the present to fulfill its vision of being a nationally prominent university located in the South. McCardell is the former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, and is a distinguished historian and respected national leader in liberal arts education. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, and did his graduate work at The Johns Hopkins University and then at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in history. During his first year as vice-chancellor, Sewanee, in an unprecedented move, reduced its tuition and fees for the academic year 2011-12 by ten percent. The decision has garnered much positive coverage in the national media. View Guest page
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Mike McGinley
Frank Ball and Mike McGinley are co-founders and Managing Partners of New Dominion Angels, a membership-based investor group formed in 2008 to accelerate Virginia's emergence as a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship. Frank Ball has also founded or co-founded four other businesses in Virginia. Frank is also an executive coach and organizational consultant. He holds degrees from Davidson College and The George Washington University. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of American Public University System and sits on the boards of Mom Made Foods and Analytic Advantage, Inc. Mike McGinley also is an executive coach and principal in Element North, a consultancy focusing on leadership development. He earned his MBA from The Darden School at UVA and leads a private foundation in Richmond aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty through financial and leadership education. Frank and Mike both serve on the faculty of the Institute for Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University. View Guest page
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Chris McGoff
Chris McGoff is the author of THE PRIMES and founder of The Clearing, Inc., a management consulting firm that supports large scale problem solving and transformation projects. His clients include agencies of the U.S. federal government as well as a wide range of organizations including IBM, AARP, Consol Energy, DuPont, the UN, and Boeing. Chris has facilitated strategy sessions for over 10,000 government and industry professionals. Prior to launching The Clearing, Chris founded his first company, Touchstone Consulting, in 1991, which grew to $40 million in revenue and 200 employees and was bought by SRA International Inc. in 2005. Prior to Touchstone, he designed and built IBM's Decision Support Center and initiated the commercialization of work group technology. Chris has a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Scranton and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Public Policy. View Guest page
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Maggie McGuire
Maggie McGuire is Vice President of Scholastic's Kids and Parents online channels and is an expert in digital media, education, youth and parenting. Before joining the online division, she ran Scholastic Media Interactive where she developed award winning learning and entertainment products across interactive platforms. As Director of Nickelodeon's Home Entertainment Group, she oversaw product development for their video, DVD and audio businesses. She has produced live action television shows and created content for and in partnership with companies inclusive of Sesame Workshop, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, LeapFrog and Fisher Price. Prior to her work in media, she spent eight years in education as a Language Arts teacher and curriculum developer and recruiter for Teach for America. She holds a MA in Educational Theater from NYU, a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Boston College and with her husband is raising two wonderfully inventive boys in Brooklyn, NY. View Guest page
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Patrick Meier (PhD)
Patrick Meier (PhD) is an internationally recognized thought leader on the application of new technologies for crisis early warning, humanitarian response and resilience. He presently serves as Director of Social Innovation at the Qatar Foundation's Computing Research Institute (QCRI) where he develops next-generation humanitarian technologies. Patrick is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and a member of the Academy of Achievement (AoA). Prior to QCRI, he co-founded and co-directed the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning, and served as Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi. Patrick also co-founded the CrisisMappers Network, the Standby Task Force and the Digital Humanitarians Network. He is an accomplished speaker, having given talks at the White House, UN, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, PopTech, and several TEDx's. He writes the widely respected iRevolution blog and tweets at @patrickmeier . View Guest page
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Talane Miedaner
Talane Miedaner, owner and founder of LifeCoach.com and The Coaching Directory, has gained international prominence as a professional coach by guiding thousands of people to find wealth, success, and happiness. Talane helps people restructure their lives to attract the opportunities they want. She works with executives, public officials, entrepreneurs, and business owners around the world. Talane taught at CoachU where she received training as a professional coach. She is the author of the internationally best-selling book, Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips from a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Life and in Work. Talane is a Master Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation and leads classes for Georgetown University. She holds a degree in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service and a master's in English from Georgetown University. Prior to becoming a coach, Talane held a corporate position as second vice president at Chase Bank in New York City. View Guest page
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Cliff Miller
Cliff Miller is the current steward of Mount Vernon Farm in Sperryville, VA. As the 6th generation of his family to farm the land, Cliff has a deep personal connection to it and its future. After taking over management upon his father's death in 1998, Cliff has grown curious about cultivating more sustainable, holistic farming practices than are common in most meat-producing operations today. Cliff and Mt Vernon Farm are committed to the health of the microbes, soil, grasses and animals that grow and live on the farm. Through careful land stewardship, unique conservation practices and a natural rotation of multiple species of animals through its grasslands, Mount Vernon Farm produces 100% grass-fed and finished beef and lamb, and pastured pork and chickens. View Guest page
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Mary Morton
Mary Morton is curator of French paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She received her B.A. from Stanford University in history, and her PhD from Brown University, concentrating on 19th and early 20th century European painting. Dr. Morton began her curatorial career in the European art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and spent five years as associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. She has collaborated on and organized numerous exhibitions including The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (2010), Sur le Motif: Painting in Nature around 1800 (2008), Oudry's Painted Menagerie (2007), Courbet and the Modern Landscape (2006), Focus on the Beck Collection: André Derain's "The Turning Road, L'Estaque" (2002), Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay (2002) and Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow (2002). View Guest page
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Anne Firth Murray
Anne Firth Murray, a New Zealander, was educated at the University of California and New York University. She has worked at the United Nations and the Hewlett Foundation, taught in Hong Kong and Singapore, and been an editor with Oxford, Stanford, and Yale University presses. She currently teaches at Stanford University. She is the Founding President of The Global Fund for Women, which provides funds internationally to seed, strengthen, and link groups committed to women's well being. She is the recipient of many awards and honors for women's health and philanthropy, and in 2005 she was nominated as one of a group of 1,000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her book on the early years of the Global Fund for Women is Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change. The 2nd edition of her recent book on international women's health, From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poorer Countries and What They Are Doing About It, will appear in April 2013. View Guest page
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Cal Newport
Cal Newport received his PhD in computer science from MIT and is currently on the faculty at Georgetown University. He writes the popular advice blog Study Hacks and has been featured in many print publications, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, television networks and radio stations. Cal is the author of three advice books for students in addition to So Good They Can't Ignore You. He lives in Washington, DC. View Guest page
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Kakenya Ntaiya
Life for Kakenya Ntaiya was supposed to follow the traditional path. Engaged at age 5, she was to be circumcised by the age of 13, an event that would mark the end of her education and signal her readiness for marriage. But Kakenya had a different plan. First, she negotiated with her father: she would be circumcised only if she could also finish high school. He agreed. Then she negotiated with the village elders to do what no girl had ever done: leave her village in Kenya to go to college in the U.S. She promised that she would use her education to benefit her community. After receiving a Masters in the U.S., Kakenya is now fulfilling her promise to her community. As the founder of Kakenya Center for Excellence, a girls' primary school, Kakenya believes that education will empower and motivate young girls to become agents of change in their communities. Kakenya was honored with a Vital Voices Global Leadership award in 2008 and as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2010. View Guest page
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Tim Ogilvie
Tim Ogilvie is the CEO of Peer Insight, an innovation strategy consultancy, where he has made pioneering contributions to the emerging disciplines of service innovation, customer experience design, and businessmodel exploration. His clientsinclude AARP, Bank of America, Hallmark, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Starwood Hotels, and The Hartford. His projects create organic growth by linking new customer experiences to scalable business models. Tim has consulted to five governments and influenced innovation policy from the United States to the European Union to Taiwan. He is the co-author of "Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers," (2011). He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, where he teaches customer-centered design and innovation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BA in English from the University of Virginia. View Guest page
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Parker J. Palmer
Parker J. Palmer, founder and Senior Partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal, is a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has reached millions worldwide through his nine books, including Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy. His latest book, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit, was chosen by Spirituality & Practice as one of the best books of 2011 on contemplation and social activism. Parker holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as eleven honorary doctorates, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, and an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press. In 2011, he was named an Utne Reader Visionary. Dr. Palmer and his wife Sharon Palmer live in Madison, Wisconsin. View Guest page
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Billy Parish
Billy Parish is Co-Founder and President of Mosaic, a solar investment platform. A 2002 Yale dropout, he's gone from Rolling Stone Magazine's "Climate Hero" to a top US business leader in solar investing. Before Mosaic, Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. He later developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the largest green investment in U.S. history. Billy has helped launch dozens of clean energy, youth, and green jobs related organizations and has been honored as an Oil & Gas Magazine "Game Changer," an Utne Reader "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. He is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World. View Guest page
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Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D.
Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is an internationally known authority on depth psychology and transformational leadership. A former President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dr. Pearson is the author of numerous books, including The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes (co-authored by Margaret Mark); and The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the Twenty-First Century (ed.), which grew out of a three year project with the Fetzer Institute that she co-led. Previously, Dr. Pearson was Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and the Director of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. Bridging theory and practice, Dr. Pearson has worked to translate psychological and other theories to provide meaning to organizational stakeholders and customers and in the process develop healthy and productive organizational cultures. View Guest page
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Susan Penfield
Susan Penfield is a Senior Vice President specializing in the use of information technology in the national health industry. Her focus includes developing IT modernization strategies to transform regulatory, safety, payment, electronic health record, and public health systems. Ms. Penfield provides consulting services for every major federal health-related organization including the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and Department of Health and Human Services. She has also worked in the commercial health sector. For Booz Allen, Susan leads the Systems Development Center for Excellence. She is an advocate for women and is the co-chair of the Firm-wide Women's Agenda, and serves on boards for Healthy Women, Women in Technology, Women's Center, and the National Institutes of Health Children's Inn She holds a BS in Technology Management from Lock Haven University and a Certificate in Management from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business. View Guest page
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Wendy Philleo
As Executive Director of The Center for a New American Dream, Wendy brings 20 years of nonprofit and philanthropic experience in the areas of resource management, community development, women's empowerment, advocacy, and civic engagement. Wendy previously ran a philanthropy and nonprofit consulting business. She worked as a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. As a program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, she designed a $25 million, five-year cross-cutting initiative on population, health, and environment. Wendy has worked at the World Wildlife Fund, WorldWIDE Network and the United Nations Environment Programme. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado and her M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Wendy enjoys being outdoors, hiking, mountain biking, camping, and running, squash, art, and spending time with her family. She lives in Charlottesville, VA with her husband, two children, and two cats. View Guest page
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Robbin Phillips
As one of the founders of the word of mouth and identity firm Brains on Fire, Robbin Phillips has created, revitalized, protected and grown identities such as BMW, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Love146, Find Great People International and Ryobi Tools. She is also co-author of the book Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable Word of Mouth Movements. Robbin has spoken on a national level with ThoughtLead and the American Marketing Association. View Guest page
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Sandra Postel
Sandra Postel is one of the world's leading authorities on freshwater issues. She directs the independent Global Water Policy Project and lectures, writes, and consults on international water issues. She is a Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society, and serves as lead water expert for the Society's freshwater initiative. Sandra is the author of several acclaimed books, including the award-winning Last Oasis, the basis for a PBS documentary. Her essay "Troubled Waters" was selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing. Sandra is a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment, and has been named one of the "Scientific American 50" for her contributions to water policy. View Guest page
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Don Quayle
Don Quayle was born and educated in Logan, Utah, completing two degrees at Utah State University. With his wife, Yvonne, also a Logan native, Don began his trek east by moving to Columbus, Ohio for study at Ohio State University. An association with WOSU-FM-TV in 1956 began a 35 year career in Public Broadcasting that would take him to Boston, New York City and Washington, DC. He worked for individual stations, regional and national organizations during that time. Soon after he moved to the Washington, DC area in 1970, he was chosen to be the first President of National Public Radio (NPR). He and Vonn joined ILR in 2004 and have participated each semester since then. Don's main accomplishment is a family of five children, thirteen grand children and two great grand children. And the family is growing. View Guest page
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Daniel Raven-Ellison
Daniel Raven-Ellison is a guerrilla geographer, alternative explorer, radical educator and National Geographic Emerging Explorer. A former geography teacher, Daniel's innovative work inspires new kinds of exploration and challenges us to rethink what 'geography' is. He has walked across some of the largest cities on Earth, taking photographs every eight steps in an effort to represent how we think of them. Daniel is currently planning 125 adventures to do with his son across the UK in 2013 and a bike ride to demonstrate the size of London's "foodprint." He also works with InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and TED to explore the "future of local." Daniel is the Director of Creative Exploration for Mission:Explore, a project that he co-founded with the sole purpose of increasing the number of children benefiting from outdoor play, exploration and learning. As well as a series of children's books, Mission:Explore features a groundbreaking and innovative social gaming platform. View Guest page
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Margaret Regan
Margaret Regan is President & CEO of The FutureWork Institute, a global consulting firm that translates future trends to transform organizations. She helps clients achieve a MindShift, HeartShift and SkillShift in creating more inclusive/flexible workplaces. She has worked on HR and generational practices in Asia, mergers in Europe, cross-cultural executive education and women's studies on four continents. She was a Partner and Human Capital Management/Global Diversity Practice Leader for Towers Perrin and was the first woman executive at the NY Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Con Edison. She has appeared on NBC-TV's Today Show, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, and CNN. She is featured on Close-Up TV as the CEO of one of the most innovative U.S. businesses, in CNN/Money as the expert on future workplace trends and in Business Week for FutureWork's approach to "my-job my-way, "my-business our-way" and "my-perks my-way." She is the recipient of the Diversity Innovation Award. View Guest page
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Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan is the New York Times bestselling author of Following Atticus: Forty-eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship. Before that he was the founder and publisher of The Undertoad newspaper and went on to write the popular "Hiking with Tom & Atticus" column. During the winter of 2006-2007 Ryan and his dog Atticus M. Finch climbed 81 4,000-foot peaks while raising money for the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The next winter, the duo climbed 66 4,000-foot peaks while raising thousands of dollars for Angell Animal Medical Center. Because of their efforts Ryan and Finch were inducted into the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Hall of Fame and at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. In 2013, Ryan and Finch were also recipients of the Massachusetts School of Law Humanitarian Award for the attention they bring to animals in need. They currently live in New Hampshire's White Mountains where they continue to hike. View Guest page
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Irasema Salcido
Irasema Salcido worked for nine years in the DC public school system before founding the first Chavez School in 1998. Frustrated by the failures of the public school system, she has since become a nationally recognized expert and advocate for charter schools and underserved students. Her mission in starting the first Chavez School was to create an institution where the poorest students received the best education. Mrs. Salcido is considered an expert on charter schools and a leader in the charter school movement in DC. She received an award from the Caring Institute, designating her as one of the "Six Most Caring Citizens in the U.S." of 1999, and in February 2001, she was awarded the "Use Your Life Award" from Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network. She holds an MA in Education, Administration, and Social Planning from Harvard University. Mrs. Salcido's life serves as a true testament that individuals who start from humble beginnings can truly defy the odds and achieve the American dream. View Guest page
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Sharon Salzberg
Born in New York City, meditation teacher, writer and speaker Sharon Salzberg experienced a childhood involving considerable loss and turmoil. An early realization of the power of meditation to overcome personal suffering determined her life direction. Her teaching and writing now communicates that power to a worldwide audience of practitioners. Sharon she leads intensive meditation retreats and other programs worldwide. After studying meditation in India, in 1976 Sharon co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA which now ranks as one of the most prominent meditation centers in the Western world. Sharon has been featured at many conferences and events, among them the State of the World Forum and Peacemakers Conference, where she shared a panel with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Sharon is the author of many books and CDs on meditation and frequently contributes to and is featured in a variety of publications including Huffington Post, Time and O Magazine. View Guest page
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Aziz Abu Sarah
Aziz Abu Sarah is the Co-Executive Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution, Co-Founder of MEJDI Tours, and was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer for 2011. He has spoken in hundreds of churches, synagogues and mosques on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace, reconciliation, and interfaith dialogue. He has lectured and facilitated meetings for countless international organizations and universities, including Georgetown University, Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, Yale, George Washington, and before the European Parliament and the UN. He is a columnist for Alquds Newspaper and has published articles in the New York Times, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, Alarabiya, Daily Star and Middle East online and he provides analysis for television news programs. Aziz co-hosted a radio show in Jerusalem for 3 years with tens of thousands of international listeners and is a contributor for 972mag.com, a new Israeli online English magazine. View Guest page
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Suzanne Scurlock-Durana
Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, C.M.T, C.S.T.-D For almost thirty years, Suzanne has taught and mentored conscious awareness and its relationship to the healing process through a uniquely creative approach to energy, presence, grounding and integrative exercises. Suzanne is the author of the book and companion audio, Full-Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom. Known for her grounded and nurturing manner, Suzanne helps others go to the heart of their healing process. She weaves together mind, body, and spirit to create a unique environment where profound healing can occur. A certified instructor of CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release with The Upledger Institute, Suzanne also teaches at Esalen Institute. A sought-after speaker, she inspires healthcare practitioners, coaches, teachers and others all over the world to stay energized. She has written numerous articles and posts a popular blog, Presence Matters: Reflections on Body, Mind and Spirit at http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/presence-matters. View Guest page
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Doug Silsbee
Doug Silsbee is a thought leader in the fields of presence-based coaching, leadership development and resilience. He is a leadership coach, trainer of coaches, speaker, and author in Asheville, NC. Doug's original work integrates deep experience in organization and leader development with mindfulness, interpersonal neurobiology, and developmental psychology. Two books,The Mindful Coach and Presence-Based Coaching, are the basis for a widely recognized coach certification program, approved by the International Coach Federation (ICF.) Doug is certified as a Master Somatic Coach with the prestigious Strozzi Institute. He is a sought-after presenter for ICF and other international conferences, and has taught at the Brookings Institution, UCLA Executive Education, Hudson Institute, and the Federal Executive Institute. With his wife Walker, Doug is the owner of a carbon neutral mountain retreat center north of Asheville, NC. They have three grown children and two very loved grandsons View Guest page
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Hayat Sindi
Dr. Hayat Sindi was named by Newsweek as one of 100 Fearless Females Changing the Word. Recognized by Arabian Business as the 9th most powerful Arab woman, she is combining her passions for science and innovation to build an institute promoting innovation and social impact in the Middle East - i2 Institute for Imagination and Ingenuity will launch 12 science and technology businesses in the Middle East by 2014. As a teen, Dr. Sindi left her home in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and worked against the odds to become the first female from the Gulf to earn a PhD in biotechnology, studying at King's College London, Cambridge, MIT and Harvard. The co-founder of Diagnostics For All, offering cost-effective diagnostic tools enabling the treatment people living beyond the reach of medical infrastructures, she has been a PopTech fellow linking science and social impact. Dr. Sindi is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, a Global Ambassador for Vital Voices and is a member of the Nifty Fifty. View Guest page
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Ellyn Spragins
Ellyn Spragins, Author and CEO of What I Know Now Enterprises, LLC Ellyn Spragins is the New York Times bestselling author of What I Know Now: Letters To My Younger Self. She has since authored What I Know Now About Success and If I'd Known Then: Women In Their 20s and 30s Write Letters to Their Younger Selves. Ellyn was a columnist at The New York Times, writing Love & Money for the Sunday business section, and Editor-At-Large at Fortune Small Business. She was VP of Editorial Development at Oxygen Media and a contributing editor to Newsweek, where she won the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award and the Clarion Award. She has been an editor at Smart Money, BusinessWeek and Inc., and a reporter at Forbes. Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Working Woman, Bloomberg Personal, Worth, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Ladies Home Journal and Town & Country. Ellyn graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and economics from Barnard College. She lives with her husband, John Witty, and two children in Pennington, NJ. View Guest page
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Neil Stroul
Dr. Neil Stroul is a professional psychologist, who left the therapy world for organizational consulting and training in 1979. His career has been devoted to helping organizations foster a developmental culture. As a leadership coach, Neil works with senior executives to help them find pathways to maintain their humanity while becoming effective leaders. Neil finds coaching to be the vehicle that allows him to express his "best self." Neil believes that leadership is a philosophical proposition. Great leaders want to make a contribution, and leading is how they bring their vision of what the future could be, to the world. Leaders must be clear on who they are and what they stand for. Through clarity, leaders demonstrate resolve to find a critical path through paradox and obstacles to create a desirable future for their followers. Neil Stroul is a member of the faculty for Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. View Guest page
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Amy Jen Su
Muriel Maignan Wilkins and Amy Jen Su are Managing Partners and Co-Founders of Isis Associates They are co-authors of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Muriel has a strong track record of helping senior leaders and teams take their effectiveness to the next level. Muriel is adept at helping leaders develop in the critical career accelerator areas of executive presence, role transitions, and relationship management. She has in-depth experience designing and leading customized leadership development programs, group coaching, and leadership assessments. Amy has a proven track record helping senior leaders more clearly articulate vision, socialize their message, and build key followership. She has served on the faculty and senior coaching teams for formal Leadership Development programs across a variety of industries including biotechnology, private equity, management consulting, financial services, and public service institutions. View Guest page
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Tenzin N. Tethong
Tenzin N. Tethong is President of the Dalai Lama Foundation. He is the founder of key Tibet initiatives in the U.S. including the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, and the International Campaign for Tibet. He is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in the United States and former Chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet. Mr. Tethong currently serves as Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. View Guest page
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Fred Tutman
Before founding the Patuxent Riverkeeper organization, Fred Tutman spent nearly 25 years as a media producer and consultant on assignments all over the globe. As a volunteer activist, he has been involved in many civic causes related to conservation of the region's waterways and has long been a zealous presence in zoning and planning causes aimed at preserving rural lands along the Patuxent River. After learning of the Waterkeeper movement while a mid-life law student, Fred became the 165th Riverkeeper in the world in 2004. In addition to his duties on the Patuxent, Fred teaches Environmental Law and Policy at St. Mary's College of MD and serves on the Board of several environmental organizations . Fred lives and works on an active farm that has been in his family since the 1920's and enjoys doing trail maintenance in his spare time. Fred appears frequently in the media for his work on behalf of the environment including national public radio programs "The Signal" and "The Story." View Guest page
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Chris Waddell
Chris Waddell was a promising skier at Middlebury College in 1988 when a skiing accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. Determined to return to the slopes, in just a few years he was named to the US Disabled Ski Team. The most decorated male skier in Paralympic history, Chris won 12 medals over four games, and has medaled in both summer and winter games. He is the first paraplegic to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro unassisted, and he was inducted into both the Paralympic Hall of Fame and the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. Chris has been named the Dalai Lama's unsung hero of compassion and has been featured in numerous publications, including Outside Magazine, Skiing, Ski, and National Geographic Explorer. He has appeared on Dateline and Oprah. In addition to his work with the Paralympics and the International Paralympic Committee, Chris is a motivational speaker. He speaks to the resilience of the human condition, with topics ranging from leadership to adversity to quality of life. View Guest page
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Chris Wahl
Chris Wahl, MCC, leadership coach and consultant, has been consulting to organizations in numerous industries for over 25 years in the areas of leadership development, executive and team coaching, and strategic planning. Chris is the creator of the Coaching Certificate Program at Georgetown University, where she teaches a course in coaching teams. Working primarily with executives, senior leaders, and their teams, Chris helps leaders produce results while staying attentive to the human issues that create an integrated sense of purpose, resolve and meaningful accomplishment. Chris is an accomplished author, presenter, and radio interviewee. She co-authored Be Your Own Coach with Barbara Braham. Her dream of writing a book on leadership coaching in collaboration with faculty at Georgetown University, On Becoming a Leadership Coach, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Chris teaches an advanced coaching course, Mindful Transitions, at George Mason University. View Guest page
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- Making the Vision Real: The Nature of Personal Transformation with Chris Wahl
- Greater than the Sum of the Parts: The Secrets of High-Performing Teams (Part 2) with Guest Host Chris Wahl and Alexander Caillet
- Creating High-Performing Teams with Leadership Coaches Chris Wahl and Alexander Caillet
- Living the Vision: True Stories from the Frenchtown Vision Retreat with Guest Host Chris Wahl
- Gutsy Transitions: Finding the Courage to Pursue Your Dreams
Kim Weinberg
Kim Weinberg is a leadership coach, facilitator and consultant. She is the founder of Coach In Motion, a Washington, D.C. area based leadership coaching and consulting firm. Kim previously worked in Human Resources and as an Organization Development consultant for Fortune 100 companies, entrepreneurial ventures, and non-profit organizations. She is actively involved with the Young Presidents Organization where she is a Certified Forum Facilitator. For Larry Weinberg, running his own business was always a dream and passion. In 1988, he left the corporate world to co-found BOWA Builders, a home design and construction firm. He continued pursuing his love of business by joining the Young Presidents Organization where he quickly became the Chairman of the Washington Metro Chapter. To cultivate his competitive appetite, he has summited many mountains, and has completed an ironman triathlon and a 50k ultra marathon, among other races. Kim and Larry have two children and reside in McLean, VA. View Guest page
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Debra Bailey Whitman
Debra Bailey Whitman is AARP's Executive Vice President, Policy, Strategy and International Affairs. She is an authority on aging issues with extensive experience in national policymaking, research, and the political process. She oversees AARP's Public Policy Institute and several other offices. She works closely with the board and National Policy Council on a broad agenda to develop AARP policy priorities and make life better for older Americans. As staff director for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, she worked to increase retirement security, preserve a strong system of Social Security, lower the cost of health care and make the pharmaceutical industry more transparent. From 2001 to 2003, she served as a Brookings LEGIS Fellow to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, working as a health policy adviser to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.She holds a master's and doctorate in economics from Syracuse University and a bachelor's from Gonzaga University. View Guest page
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Muriel Maignan Wilkins
Muriel Maignan Wilkins and Amy Jen Su are Managing Partners and Co-Founders of Isis Associates They are co-authors of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Muriel has a strong track record of helping senior leaders and teams take their effectiveness to the next level. Muriel is adept at helping leaders develop in the critical career accelerator areas of executive presence, role transitions, and relationship management. She has in-depth experience designing and leading customized leadership development programs, group coaching, and leadership assessments. Amy has a proven track record helping senior leaders more clearly articulate vision, socialize their message, and build key followership. She has served on the faculty and senior coaching teams for formal Leadership Development programs across a variety of industries including biotechnology, private equity, management consulting, financial services, and public service institutions. View Guest page
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Jody Williams
Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the Peace Prize with her that year. When she received the prize, she was only the 10th woman - and third American woman - in its almost 100-year history to do so. Since her protests of the Vietnam War, she has been a life-long advocate of freedom, self-determination and human and civil rights. In 2004, Forbes Magazine named Jody one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. In 2006, she co-founded the Nobel Women's Initiative. Jody has received over 15 honorary degrees and is currently a professor at the University of Houston, where she has been since 2003. Last year she released her memoir, My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize. View Guest page
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Chris Wood
Before joining Trout Unlimited in September 2001, Chris Wood served as the Senior Policy and Communications Advisor to the Chief of the US Forest Service for five years. Chris began his career with Forest Service Research in Idaho and also worked for the Fish and Wildlife Program of the Bureau of Land Management. Since arriving at TU, Chris has worked with various sportsmen organizations to protect iconic landscapes such as the Wyoming Range and Idaho's backcountry road-less areas. He has successfully formed partnerships with various foundations, landowners, state and federal agencies to find conservation solutions that balance the needs of fish and people. Chris is the co-editor and author of two books: "Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices" (AFS 1997) and "From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Land Legacy" (Island Press, 2003). He lives with his wife Betsy and their three sons in Washington, D.C. View Guest page