Brandon Stover On Life

Tony Loyd is a leadership development expert, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and executive producer & podcast host for not one… but three podcasts including Social Entrepreneur which has shared the stories of over 250 impactful entrepreneurs and has been downloaded more than half a million times in over 180 countries. He also produces the Thrive Connect Contribute & Anti Racist Voter podcasts.

He is also a former Fortune 500 executive with companies such as John Deere, Medtronic, and Buffalo Wild Wings where he was responsible for launching some the most impactful talent & leadership programs these companies have ever had including a global training of 120,000 personnel in 60 countries across 4 strategic business units.  

He is the best-selling author of Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs.  

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/tony-loyd

David Katz is recognized as one of The World’s Top 100 Compassionate Business Leaders as number 4 between Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Elon Musk. Being a steward of the earth and a champion for the poor, he is the founder of Plastic bank, a social enterprise committed to stopping ocean plastic by turning plastic into gold with store chains in the poorest parts of the world that accepts plastic waste as a currency. Celebrating their 7th anniversary, the organization has collected 11,000,000 kg of plastic registered over 19,000 members, & opened over 300 branches in 5 of the poorest countries in the world and projected to reach annual revenue of 65 million.

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/david-katz

Lisa Carmen Wang is the Founder & CEO of The GLOW (Global League of Women) providing world-class executive leadership training for ambitious female leaders. She is a former USA National Champion and Hall of Fame gymnast, turned serial entrepreneur, executive coach, and keynote speaker. She has been named Forbes 30 under 30, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Woman, Red Bull Hero of The Year, and Advisory Board Member to PepsiCo’s WomanMade initiative. Lisa’s podcast, LEADERSHIP WITH LISA, shares leadership lessons behind the world’s most impactful leaders transforming the face of business & culture.  

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/lisa-wang

Stephen has 10+ years of experience building successful businesses, including Altrum Honors which had $20 million in annual revenue and a 33% global market share. His most recent venture Journey Meditation was coined the “Peloton of Meditation'' by Tech Crunch, bringing a 5,000 year old practice to the modern age by building the world's largest, most supportive meditation community both online and off. This startup has rapidly grown it’s corporate programs in 20 major U.S. cities with clients such as Facebook, Disney, Nike and GitHub and launched Journey Live, the world’s only group meditation app with live instructors and real-time classes.

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/stephen-sokoler

Maren Kate is an entrepreneur, writer, distributed workforce expert, and serial founder who has launched four companies, including Zirtual.com which employed over 450 employees spread across North America and was doing $11M/yr in revenue. From starting her first business in college selling jewelry on ebay to her most recent boutique recruiting firm helping to hire over a thousand fully remote professionals, this leader in the remote work revolution earned a 5 million dollar MBA in human capital by spending 15 years in the trenches. With so much experience and expertise it is a natural next step for her to launch Inde.co, an online platform for remote workers.  

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/maren-kate

Dr. Emily Musil Church is strategist, thought leader, writer, public speaker, Fulbright Scholar, and former professor who is now taking education and learning to a whole new level as Executive Director at the groundbreaking XPRIZE which harnesses technology to address global challenges for social good. Connecting over 700 teams to radically transform access to education and learning worldwide, she led the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE, funded by Elon Musk, to address the quarter-billion children that cannot read, write, or do basic math. The competition resulted in 5 teams developing open-source, scalable software that empowers children to teach themselves, returning $300 million worth of research, and positively affecting the lives of 3000 children in 170 villages across rural tanzania.

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Links:

XPRIZE:https://xprize.org/

Code Games:http://codegameschallenge.org/

Connect website: http://connect.xprize.org/

XPRIZE Data Collaborative: https://data.xprize.org/ (click on “Learning” category for Global Learning results, including social-emotional)

XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance: https://www.xprize.org/fight-covid19

Social:

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @XPRIZE

Our blog: https://xprize.org/blog

YouTube: XPRIZE

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/x-prize-foundation/

Patrick Cook-Deegan is a serial social entrepreneur, educator, writer, wilderness guide, former lecturer at Stanford, and an education innovation fellow, who has adamantly been focused on re-designing the American high school for the 21st century to help students craft meaningful lives. Starting in Stanford’s d.school, he launched Project Wayfinder—a year-long curriculum combining the best of social emotional learning, mindfulness education, design thinking and 21st-century skills for schools. Their programs have been taught to over 15,000 students in 200 different school programs throughout 25 states in the U.S. and 18 countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Ireland and Japan.

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Brett Hagler is an author, speaker, cancer survivor, and Co-Founder & CEO of New Story, one of the most innovative and impactful charities in the 21st century. He has raisedover $25 million dollars creating 25 communities filled with over 2,300 homes in 4 countries and changing over 11,000 people’s lives forever. They were the first Non Profit to go through the world's top startup accelerator Y Combinator, accomplishing a challenge of 100 homes in 100 days, and have continued the startup mentality by innovating the world’s first 3D printed home which only takes 24 hours to build, and costs $4,000, a fraction of traditional construction costs.

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/brett-hagler

After 15 years teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior courses in the traditional college system, Michelle Jones set out to create a one-of-a-kind educational experience designed to help you find your way, stretch your mind and grow your skills so you can live life on purpose. With 5 years in operation, Wayfinding Academy has over 100 years in faculty experience leading students ranging from 17 to 46 years old through courses titled like “the good life”, through 100’s of community events and partnerships, and learn and explore trips to places like Spain, Hong Kong, & Portugal. Yet this college has no grades, no textbooks, and no english 101 course. Instead students weave classroom and applied learning together with their own interests in a portfolio-based program.  

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/michelle-jones

Ben Nelson is an education revolutionary who is going head to head with the ivy leagues to lead the transformation of global higher education for 21st century students. Enrolling it’s first students in 2014, this innovative university has a 1.2 acceptance rate, tens of thousands of applicants from over 180 countries, and currently serves about 630 students across 7 major cities around the globe including San Francisco, London, and Taipei. While many have speculated how to reform higher ed, this entrepreneur has actually created a program using effective pedagogy, technology, and immersive experiences to equip a diverse group of students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation for less than a ⅓ of the cost at an Ivy League university.

For more visit https://www.evolvethe.world/episodes/ben-nelson