How important is women’s health? Do we even fully understand the challenges and complexities involved? The impact is vast, and everyone is affected. Hear the story of Melissa Burton, who is shining the light on how women’s health impacts each one of us from our wallets to our hearts.

Melissa Berton is an Academy Award winning producer for Best Documentary Short (2019) and the Executive Director of the Pad Project. Melissa taught English at Oakwood Secondary School, where she inspired her students to make the film Period. End of Sentence. to raise awareness about menstrual health.

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What will the next normal be like? How will we reduce the administration burden and extraneous people contact during the pandemic? Hear the story of Mani Veluthakkal and Abhi Mukherjee, who are using AI to help people and small businesses tap into resources like the Paycheck Protection Program.

Mani Veluthakkal is the CEO of Nirveda Cognition. He has operational and strategic leadership experience in lending and insurance industries. 

Abhi Mukherjee is the Chief Experience Officer at Nirveda Cognition has sold over a billion dollars’   worth of total contract value across four continents for Enterprise Software as well as Digital Initiatives in multiple industries.

• Accelerating freedom
• Everyone is getting inspired by skynet
• Augmented intelligence
• The Next Normal

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Implicit bias is a struggle we all face, especially in trying to create a more diverse and inclusive world. Hear the story of Ivan Williams, who transformed from chemical engineer into a Hollywood champion against bias by tapping into the power of storytelling.

Ivan Williams is an executive producer and an Executive Vice President for a Hollywood story development firm called Scenario Entertainment. However, Ivan’s career has spanned several industries. He was a chemical engineer, who designed advanced computer controls and artificial intelligence applications for oil refineries. Ivan was also a senior business leader at major energy and engineering companies (ARCO, BP, and WorleyParsons) for over 35-years. In addition, Ivan is an entrepreneur and helped create an innovative film production studio and a media tech startup company that is revolutionizing the tv industry. This was all on top of producing multiple entertainment projects from films to Broadway.

• Opening the door to diverse voices in Hollywood
• Tapping into the power of storytelling
• Youth culture is leading the charge
• Expand your bubble

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Artists are innovators. Why don’t we tap into this pool of disruptive entrepreneurs more often? Hear the story of Alice Loy, who enables and empowers creatives to unlock opportunities and build new business ventures.

Alice Loy is the CEO and co-founder of Creative Startups, a global startup accelerator for creatives. She has lived and worked in Europe, Mexico, and Central America, and designed and taught university level courses ranging from Social Entrepreneurship to Environmental Ethics, and holds an MBA and PhD in Strategic Communication and Entrepreneurship. Alice is also co-author of the book Creative Economy Entrepreneurs, From Start Up to Success.

• The ingredient mix for innovation
• Be weird and wonderful entrepreneurs
• How to find creatives
• Does this person give you energy?
• The magic of art and technology

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• DaVinci Ventures

• Social Media: @createstartups

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Everyone has a BILLION dollar idea, but how do you capitalize on it? Hear the story of Saurabh Suri on how knowing your bliss leads to value creation and successful business ventures.

Saurabh Suri is the Managing Partner and. He has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, and mo st recently, he served as Vice President for Emerging Solutions, Innovation, and Investment at UST Global Saurabh has significant experience in creating, growing and sustaining technology products and solutions in a global operations environments; having lived and worked in 4 continents.

Saurabh has a degree in Neuro-computation and a research background in High Performance Computing from the UK. He also serves as an advisor, observer, or board member of several high growth technology companies such as Abzooba, Third Eye, 1-Page.

• Focus on most valuable, not visible, problem
• Balancing your what ifs
• Find your bliss
• Do what you’re good at, not what you love

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Leaders have playbooks and it starts with your origin story. Do you know yours? Hear the story of Ed Tyson, who has crafted leadership SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for all of us to grow our careers.

Ed Tyson is the CEO of PerSynergy Consulting and author of the book, From Expert to Executive. He is a former strategy executive and Marine turned executive coach and organizational consultant. As the architect of the LeadershipSOPs, a ground-breaking leadership framework and methodology, Ed encourages leaders to develop and deploy personal standard operating procedures for structuring, operating, and perfecting their communities of effort.

• What’s your 5 second origin story of leadership
• How to become a leader
• Step away from craft and towards leadership
• Learn to lead up (not just down)
• It’s not about winning a race

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We all have problems. And we all want to be heard. When we focus on sharing our truths through storytelling, we can tap into the power of aggregation. Hear the story of Patrick Beggs on how helps people craft narratives to realize their goals.

Patrick Beggs is a narrative strategist, who helps organizations find and define their voice through effective narrative strategy, message development, campaign planning, content development, and delivery.

Patrick also founded PUR Production to empower people to discover their own stories as well as the stories of other people. This has increased peoples’ sense of belonging, cohesion, and inclusion by creating media that strengthens culture and shares that culture to the world.

• Finding your narrative
• Crafting the story starts with deep listening
• The power of aggregation will move the needle

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Feeling overwhelmed by all your tasks? Success lies in being comfortable when you’re uncomfortable. Hear the story of Rob Angel who went from being a server to the creator of an international best-selling board game by embracing his discomfort.

While waiting on tables, Robert Angel created the international best selling board game, Pictionary. He is also the author of a new book, Game Changer, on how he turned a simple game into a bestselling phenomenon. He loves speaking to entrepreneurs, college students, and businesses, sharing the many lessons he learned in business and life.

• How to be ok when outside of your comfort zone
• Must tell yourself the role you are to have the right mindset
• Don’t think too far ahead
• Avoid overthinking and focus on execution

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​​Showing anger, sadness, or fear in public is not okay in most societies. But this stigma is really a source of power. Hear the story of Leisa Reid who shows us how to flip our “weaknesses” into strengths.

Leisa Reid is the Founder of www.GetSpeakingGigsNow.com. She mentors business professionals and entrepreneurs who want to make an impact and ultimately attract their ideal clients through speaking. As a speaker herself, Leisa has successfully booked and delivered over 500 speaking engagements. In her book, Get Speaking Gigs Now, she shares her 7 Step System to Getting Booked, Staying Booked and Attracting Your Ideal Clients Through Speaking.

Leisa is also a trainer and speaker for Productive Learning, a personal development company that dives into the journey of self-mastery is available for those of us who are willing to investigate ourselves and turn up the volume on our curiosity.

• The magic of shared consciousness
• Vulnerability is the new strength
• The first step: managing what we can control
• Effort involved is worth it

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Why are we using 19th techniques to educate 21st century kids? It’s past time to update our curriculum and the way we teach. Experience the story of Nithin Jilla, and how he’s leveraging imagination and collaboration to teach kids how to code.

Nithin Jilla is the Executive Director for Dreams for Schools, a non-profit focused on making STEM approachable and accessible for all. Their programs inspire, create and educate students to be STEM literate with hard and soft skills needed to become the critical thinkers, creative leaders, and technologists of tomorrow.

• Dreams for Schools
• Change agents to inspire
• It’s the 3R’s + coding
• The secret sauce: Collaboration, creativity, and emotional intelligence
• Partnerships for education

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