In this episode of Build Momentum, We have an incredible guest, Gina Condon, who shares her insight on building awareness using PR. 

Gina Condon is the founder of Construct, an education non-profit that works across the education system to accelerate educators as designers, ready to inspire a new generation of thinkers and doers, collaborators and change-makers.

Gina Condon has two degrees in developmental psychology and went to the Graduate School of Education at Harvard.

Some Questions I Ask:

• Tell us more about your background. (1:01)
• Tell us more about Construct (1:47)
• how you got started and promoted your program and it's something that could be replicated in other cities? (5:25)
• For other nonprofit leaders, how would you recommend that they share their message and their story? (11:08)
• How has the pandemic impacted your organization and how are you moving through that? (14:40)
• If you had one final piece of advice, what would that be? anything that you can share? Or just insights that you've gained? (18:12)

 In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• PR and the importance of communication, written oral and digital is so important, and these are the skills that are the high-level transferable skills that all employers want and to succeed in the world that we know is changing constantly with the innovation economy. (2:20)
• The entrepreneurial mindset is the future of education (4:01)
• Having the skills to succeed in the innovation economy requires agency and autonomy. (12:21)
• When you become really crystal clear on the value you add in your theory of change you can unleash the joy of learning (13:15)

Quotes:

“The entrepreneurial mindset really ensures that kids can be the entrepreneurs of their own life.”

“When you are a startup, you would have the opportunity to stay closer to the user experience, You're really much closer to it, so then you are being able to really study those needs of the users.”

“Entrepreneurs don't always move slow, sometimes you do have to slow down to go fast”

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