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Episode Directory
May 2012
- 5/28/2012: Special Encore Presentation: Breaking All the Rules: Delancey Street Coming Soon
- 5/21/2012: Collaborate for Success Listen Now
- 5/14/2012: Brainstorming with Nature – How Biomimicry May Hold the Key to Your Innovation Challenge Listen Now
- 5/7/2012: Looking for Superman (Or Woman): How to Find Exceptional Talent Listen Now
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
Chris Allen
Chris Allen is the CEO of Biomimicry 3.8, the global leader in biomimicry innovation training, consulting services, and education. He is a certified Biomimicry Professional, with an expertise in business strategy and development. Trained in International Business at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas (1985), Chris has over 20 years experience providing strategy and management consulting services related to sustainable development for a variety of private sector clients as well as the US Department of Energy, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, the Northwest Area Foundation, and the United Nations Man and Biosphere Program. His international experience includes work and studies in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Mexico and he serves on the Board of Directors of A World Institute for Sustainable Humanity View Guest page
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George Anders
George Anders is the bestselling author of five books and a contributing writer at Forbes. Most recently, he is the author of “The Rare Find,” a management/leadership book that spells out a new framework for finding talent, and “Becoming a Rare Find,” a careers book that helps people with jagged resumes win great jobs. His earlier books include “Merchants of Debt,” “Health Against Wealth,” and the New York Times bestseller “Perfect Enough.” In 1997, George shared in the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. His journalistic career includes many years as a top feature writer for The Wall Street Journal, as well as staff positions with Fast Company magazine and Bloomberg View. His freelance work has appeared in publications ranging from Harvard Business Review to SmartMoney, Parade, BusinessWeek and The (U.K.) Guardian. He is a graduate of Stanford University and lives in northern California. View Guest page
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Chris Arnold
Chris Arnold joined Chipotle as Director of Public Relations in 2003. In his current capacity as Director of Communications, Chris oversees the company's media and government relations, social media, customer service and internal communications functions. Prior to joining Chipotle, he served as Vice President of Linhart McClain Finlon Public Relations, one of the largest independent public relations agencies in the Rocky Mountain Region. He has more than 15 years of experience in public relations, corporate communications and marketing communications working with companies and organizations in a variety of industries. He holds a BA and MBA from the University of Denver. View Guest page
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Anthony Brennan
Dr. Anthony Brennan is the inventor of the Sharklet™ surface technology and the founder of Sharklet Technologies where he currently serves as the company’s Chief Technical Officer. Dr. Brennan is also an endowed professor in the Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Florida. His research group has earned 12 Ph.D.’s and 26 MS degrees, authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, and secured 27 invention disclosures and seven patents. Dr. Brennan received his Ph.D. in materials engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As the associate director of the Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Professor Brennan has initiated and participated in numerous interdisciplinary research programs with the Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences and Dentistry. Within the business community, Dr. Brennan serves as reviewer of numerous publications and serves as consultant to the medical device industry. View Guest page
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Bo Burlingham
Bo Burlingham is editor-at-large—and former executive editor—of Inc. magazine and chairman of the Small Giants Community (www.smallgiants.org). His book Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big was a finalist for the 2006 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. His most recent book, co-authored with Norm Brodsky, is Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs. He has also written two books with Jack Stack, CEO of Springfield Holdings Corp. and pioneer of open-book management. One of them, The Great Game of Business, was named one of 100 best business books of all time. The second, A Stake in the Outcome, has been called “the first management classic of the new millennium.” He is currently working on a book about exits. Mr. Burlingham lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife of 41 years, Lisa. They have two children and two grandchildren. View Guest page
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Phil Drew
Phil Drew is an Associate Director at Fishburn Hedges, one of Europe’s leading communications consultancies, whose clients include Nestlé, Shell, and Sony. Phil advises a range of global and UK businesses on corporate and brand reputation, with a specific focus on sustainability and social media. He is particularly interested in how digital media is transforming businesses’ approach corporate responsibility, a topic he has written about regularly for titles such as The Guardian newspaper. Prior to Fishburn Hedges, Phil worked with major businesses, Government, and NGO, to run a major corporate sustainability campaign backed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. View Guest page
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Luca Ferrari
Luca Ferrari Work Experience: 2010-today: Co-founder and COO at Evertale 2010-2012: Associate at McKinsey & Company, Business Technology Office Education: 2008-2010: MSc in Telecommunication Engineering at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2007-2010: MSc in Electrical Engineering at University of Padua, Italy Scholarships: 2008-2010: T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) Interests: - Literature (favorite writer: M. Proust) - Cinema (favorite director: S. Kubrick) - Sports (football and basketball) - Travelling (backpacking) View Guest page
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Louis Forman
Louis Forman, CEO and Founding Partner of Edison Nation Louis Foreman is the CEO of Edison Nation, the founder and Chief Executive of Enventys, the creator and executive producer of Everyday Edisons, and the publisher of Inventors Digest. Louis graduated from The University of Illinois with a Bachelors of Science in Economics. He created his first business in his college dorm room and since then, has authored The Independent Inventors Handbook, created nine successful start-ups and has been directly responsible for the creation of over 20 others. A prolific inventor, Louis holds 10 registered U.S. patents. He is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Queens University and Belmont Abby College, and his awards and accolades are many. Additionally, Louis sits on many boards and committees within the world of innovation, most notably the nine-person Patent Public Advisory Committee of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. View Guest page
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Priya Haji
Priya Haji is the CEO and co-founder of SaveUp, a free rewards program that motivates Americans to make good financial decisions like saving money and paying down debt. She has a history of building companies with a social purpose. After graduating Stanford University, she co-founded and led Free at Last for substance abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS intervention in East Palo Alto. After receiving her MBA from UC Berkeley, she co-founded and led World of Good, a branded marketplace for fair trade and sustainable goods made by women in 55 countries. World of Good built partnerships with retailers like Hallmark, Disney and Whole Foods and became part of eBay in 2010. In 2007, Priya received the Social Innovation Award from the Social Venture Network for her vision to change the way the world does business, and in 2009 was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Now her new venture, SaveUp, is helping Americans to succeed financially. View Guest page
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Larry Lee
Larry Lee was the head of marketing at DA.AI Technology (http://www.daait.com/index.php/en/abouten), a green social enterprise that recycles post-consumer PET bottles, and makes them into textile products. He has been involved in the technology industry for more than 30 years. Larry began his career as the Director of Lite-On Technology, and later worked at different computer companies as Assistant Vice President. He joined DA.AI Technology in 2010. Due to relocation, Larry decided to waive his salary at DA.AI at the end of 2011 and started working for DA.AI as a volunteer while spending more time on his own company. Weitei Inc. View Guest page
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Jeffrey Manheimer
Jeff kicked off his travel career during his junior year of college, joining the Hyatt in Cambridge MA as a not-so-high-ranking room service employee. Working his way up, he went on to hold positions in sales, account management and electronic distribution with Hyatt Hotels. Changing things up a bit in 2007 but remaining loyal to the travel industry, Jeff then moved to Chicago to work on the online side of travel management with Travelzoo. He is currently VP of Business Development and Partnerships at Tripping International. Tripping is a global community of travelers that connects travelers with locals and rental options via a Discovery Search Engine that has been referred to as the “Kayak for Airbnb”. Jeff graduated with a Communications degree from Boston University and a huge fan of fishing, flying airplanes, bidding on eBay auctions and collecting those little hotel toiletries. His last trip was to Japan and Vietnam. View Guest page
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Joy McGovern
Joy McGovern, Ph.D., is the Head of Client Services at Najafi Global Mindset Institute, at Thunderbird School of Global Management, the world’s No. 1-ranked school of international business Dr. McGovern is an industrial and organizational psychologist who has spent her career as a leadership consultant and business developer across a wide range of industries and services. Previously, she was the practice leader for Right Management Consultants. Joy is a sought after and frequent presenter on her work and has presented to the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial/ Organizational Psychologists, the New York Metropolitan Society for Applied Psychology (Metro) and other professional conferences. She was the author of the Return on Investment Study of Executive Coaching that explored the impact of executive coaching on behavioral and organizational change and the organization’s bottom line. Joy has also been quoted extensively in a wide variety of media outlets. View Guest page
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Nanette Lee Miller
Nanette Lee Miller serves as Marcum’s West Coast Partner-In-Charge of Assurance Services. She has more than 20 years experience in public accounting & provides assurance, accounting & business consulting services to publicly & privately held businesses, as well as not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Miller works with various emerging companies including manufacturing, distribution, retail & professional services companies in diverse industries; such as finance, healthcare, & technology. She is a trusted business advisor for start-up & emerging companies, as well as troubled entities that require restructuring. Ms. Miller believes in helping the community she lives in & has been an active & sought after board member for many local healthcare, service & faith-based not-for-profits. Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting & advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked among the top 15 firms in the nation, Marcum offers the resources of more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 150 partners, in 23 offices throughout the U.S., China & Grand Cayman. www.marcumllp.com View Guest page
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Adrian C. Ott
Adrian C. Ott Award-Winning Author, Speaker and CEO, Exponential Edge Inc. Consulting Magazine said, “Adrian Ott is one of Silicon Valley’s most respected, if not the most respected, strategists. “ She is award-winning author of The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy http://j.mp/cJASOb which was awarded Best Business Book of the Year by USA Book News, Library Journal and Small Business Trends. She is also CEO of Exponential Edge® Inc. consulting and keynotes frequently at industry events. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Strategy & Leadership Journal and she has appeared on Fox News, BloombergTV, and CNBC. Adrian was named the Silicon Valley Enterprising Woman of the Year in 2011 by The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. degree from U.C. Berkeley. View Guest page
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Paolo Parigi
Paolo Parigi received his PhD in sociology in 2008 from Columbia University and has since then been an assistant professor at Stanford University. Paolo has been interested in studying the emergence of cooperation processes that unite people and/or organizations in networks. The data he has used spans between contemporary and historical times. Paolo’s research shows how networks generate new cultural fields, social movements, ideologies and markets and has appeared in leading journals in the discipline. In the last two years, Paolo has been working on a collaborative project about the formation of trust using data from CouchSurfing. The overarching goal of this project is to develop a detailed model for trust formation among strangers that would become applicable in different contexts. More information about Paolo’s projects is available here: www.stanford.edu/~pparigi View Guest page
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Francesco Patarnello
Francesco Patarnello Work Experience: 2010-today: Co-founder and CEO at Evertale Education: 2008-2010: MSc in Telecommunication Engineering at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2007-2010: MSc in Electrical Engineering at University of Padua, Italy Scholarships: 2008-2010: T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) Interests: - Travelling - Sport (Rugby, triathlon, and skiing) - Music (Jazz, Classical music, Rock, Hip-hop & RnB) - Diving (Instructor of Freediving) View Guest page
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Cynthia Scott
Cynthia Scott Ph.D. Core Faculty Presidio Graduate School and ChangeworksLAB - As Faculty Director of the Executive Programs she provides the inspiration and thought leadership for leaders bringing the transformation required to implement sustainability in their organizations. She brings over 25 years of experience in helping leaders build work environments where engagement and innovation flourish. Her background in behavior change, leadership development, and large scale culture change has provided the foundation for innovative approaches for organizations such as Walmart, Wellpoint, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Deloitte & Touche, Estee Lauder, National Semiconductor and IBM. Cynthia is co-author of books, assessment tools and innovative capability development programs, among them: Making Sustainable Change, Agility: Fast feedback leadership, Take This Job and Love it, Getting Your Organization to Change, Empowerment, Rekindling Commitment, Navigating Change, Organizational Mission, Vision and Values, the Values Edge and Self Renewal. View Guest page
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Mimi Halper Silbert
The dynamic force behind Delancey Street is its President & CEO, Dr. Mimi Halper Silbert. Although she does not share the same background as her fellow residents, she lives at Delancey Street, abides by its rules, and takes no salary. Her tenacious spirit and unlimited energy have built an organization unique in its entrepreneurial and self-governing structure. Her dedication in enacting her vision of an educational community of change has inspired residents to break their destructive cycles and take responsibility for themselves and others. Dr. Silbert has garnered national and international attention for her achievement at Delancey Street, demonstrating her belief that the people who are the problem can, themselves, become the solution. As a result of her pioneering work, Silbert and Delancey have received numerous awards. From the academic world she has been awarded ten (10) Honorary Doctorate Degrees including Brandeis, UMass, Golden Gate University, San Francisco State University, and will be receiving an 11th degree from Ben Gurion University in Israel. She was awarded UC Berkeley's prestigious Alumni of the Year (1991) along with being named one of 100 Berkeley Fellows, an Honorific Society. She has also received the President's Medallions from both University of San Francisco (1995) and UC San Francisco (2001). View Guest page
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Collaborate for Success
May 21, 2012
Hosted by Nancy Lin
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Wikipedia, launched in 2001, has popularized crowdsourcing. Since then, crowdsourcing has evolved from content sharing to innovation collaboration and much more. Louis Foreman, CEO of Edison Nation, and Phil Drew, Associate Director at Fishburn Hedges, will join me for a discussion about how companies of different sizes are harnessing the power of crowdsourcing, and the importance of aligning it with social media and overall business strategy.
Business REINVENTION
Monday at 4 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
“Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization we can.” - Shawn Achor
Reinvention is what America is all about. For centuries, people came to this country to reinvent their futures. Today’s organizations face unprecedented challenges and speed of change. To thrive in today’s marketplace, companies have to transform themselves frequently to stay competitive. “Business Reinvention with Nancy Lin” empowers you to think innovatively and offers you inspiration and business lessons from business innovators and thought leaders. Leveraging Nancy’s own diverse experience in business and international development, the show features guests from a wide range of sectors and countries who have succeeded in transforming their organizations, shifting business paradigms and bringing about social change. Business Reinvention with Nancy Lin is broadcast live every Monday at 4 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Nancy Lin
Nancy Lin is an executive coach, consultant and the founder of Change Agent SF (www.changeagentsf.com) which helps leaders transform the way they look at their business and leadership. Nancy brings to her executive coaching and radio show a strong understanding of business, having worked for Yahoo, DHL, Johnson & Johnson and Pepsi. Her insightful probing approach and passion to unleash potential helped companies uncover hidden opportunities, topple conventional thinking and achieve high growth in US and international markets. Through the radio show, she continues to encourage innovative thinking and empowers the audience to overcome their business challenges.
Her diverse experience also includes international development work, training impoverished farmers in rural Tanzania and expanding professional midwifery education for young indigenous women in Mexico. She is a motivational speaker and has spoken at Google, Visa and HP. Some of her articles are available at changeagentsf.wordpress.com.
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