Junctional Thinking

This week we are joined by Glen O'Gilvie, Executive Director for the Center For Non-Profit Advancement in Washington, DC. His organization provides skill building, executive leadership training, & board preparation for community-based agencies, a set of services which call for leadership with a keen ear, wide-angle lens, and nimble feet.

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This episode we are joined by culture-curator Daniel Beer and VR/AR med-tech expert Keiji Drysdale, two social impact focused Junctional Thinkers who will give us a glimpse into the paths that led them to social impact work, and the plans they have for what's next. Then we reminisce on the 9 months this podcast has been on the air, reflecting with a whole lot of gratitude for all the lessons and growth we've experienced in that time.Thank you for tuning-in and joining our community. We look forward to sharing more of the applications of Junctional Thinking with you next year. If it has powerful impact on health, we will be bringing you closer to the innovators who push to improve community health from multiple angles, inspiring us all to level up fearlessly as we chart our course towards Junctional Thinking.

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Kerriann Peart, Special Advisor to the Chief Administrative Officer for Health & Human Services & Education (argualbly the most "junctional thinking" gov position in the DMV area) for Prince George's County, joins us to update us on her cross-sector youth and family engagement work. We talk about the goals the County Executive has her and her colleagues driving towards; how they are engaging youth in an authentic, sustainable way; their partnership with UNICEF; and how they use a couple Junctional Thinking mainstays (listening and perpetual learning) to great effect for municipal services.

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This episode of Junctional Thinking features Dr. Veronica Vela from an early episode of the podcast called ""Healthy By Design"". Dr. Vela is a systems engineer and health policy expert who has used HCD for her work at the VA, CMS, and Booz Allen Hamilton, and Dr. Kofi Essel a pediatrician at Children's National Medical Center, and Director of the Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity.

We talk about; the value of ""people learning"" via contact and real interaction with community members in order to gain clarity and context that data-sets and machine-learning alone cannot provide; examples of how they each use a design mentality to do their work; and how they see novel partnerships focused on social determinants of health impacting community health outcomes.

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Lessons learned from anywhere, is one of the foundational Junctional Thinking skills / ideals, and in this week's episode we cover it through the eyes of two social impact practitioners who will share some of the lessons they bring from their travels to their work.Priyanka Surio is the National Director for Data Analytics & Public Health Informatics at ASTHO, and DaQuawn Bruce is a Human Centered Designer focused on community development. While their work is different, the tie that binds them is the experiences they shared working in India and Senegal. We will talk about the paths they took to those places, the value of their travel experiences, and the way these international applied learning opportunities impact them both personally and professionally.

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A few years ago a media campaign caught my eye, it was called "sustain or die", and called on public health to take a hard look at creating initiatives and strategies that establish sustainable community health outcomes or risk becoming obselete. The people engaged in getting that work done need to come from a range of backgrounds, expertise, and experiences, and Andre Blackman is dedicated to building the future of health through this lens which makes him not only an influencer in the sector but a great guest for thid podcast. Andre is a pioneering strategist with deep ties within the public health, healthcare, social innovation, and strategic communication landscapes. He is also the Founder and CEO of Onboard Health a specialized executive search and advisory firm providing startups and organizations with diverse, dynamic talent to further bolster their impact. A sought-after advisor to companies building the future of health, and brand builder for the leaders who run them, his work and insights have been featured in CIO, Fortune, Forbes, NPR, Reporting on Health, U.S. News and World Report . In this episode we talk about his career journey, experiences with bias (both sectoral and personal), and get his top three personal branding tips for job seekers.

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We are fortunate to have a community of guests on this podcast who have work experience from multiple sectors. That fact about their professional journeys is part of what makes them Junctional Thinkers. Most of them bring their cross-sector skills to work on specific topics that influence health, but few of them oversee ecosystems where there are many different impact foci in play all the time and on their watch. The Washington Regional Area Grantmakers organization is led by Dr. Madye Henson, and she has that responsibility. A leader with business, education, and non-profit experience and a penchant for strategic thinking and operations management, Dr Henson and I will talk about her focus on equity in philanthropy and the community impact it looks to create, key lessons from her career path, and her vision for WRAG's upcoming annual meeting.

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Will Smith is known to many of us as the Fresh Prince of Belair, an MC, actor, and friend with legendary turntablist Jazzy Jeff. The Will Smith on this week's podcast is a cross-sector thinker, returning Peace Corps Volunteer, runner, and family nurse practitioner at DC's Mary Center where he's engaged with the establishment of school-based health centers. he is "the other Will Smith". His work calls for a lot of listening and attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). For public health and social impact work, DE&I have always been valued. The problem for many organizations is that those values are espoused rather than actually lived, and part of the reason for this lies in the definitions used for what makes us unique (diversity) and what makes us feel welcome (inclusion). We are different based on gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual identity, and also based on our backgrounds, experiences, education, etc. and how these factors integrate with our identified gender, race etc. One the personal side, Will and I will talk about privilege, blindness, and comfort. On the professional side, we will get into partnerships and what it takes to establish sustainable programs. We put them all together for another Junctional Thinking conversation with the other Will Smith.

Like footwear, career management can take on many forms. Some go the pliable route, while others are more rigid in their approach. Either way we all want to put our skills to work in places where we are passionate, and get a return on the investments made in our education. Navigating the path to a successful career in public health sector takes a combination of Junctional Thinking skills, and this episode's guests are primed for a conversation about the kicks they put on for the journey. We are joined by Bhakthi Sahgal, Micah Earley, and Greg Dwyer who share their experiences as early career public health professionals, and give some timely advise for peers, managers, and educators in the sector.

Danielle Gilliam-Moore is a big deal...she will definitely not tell you this because she is one of the most humble people I've met, but really, she is a big deal. At 31 she is the policy lead for one of the world's largest cloud-based software companies, a company with a client list that cuts across multiple industries. In her role she has to keep her finger on the pulse of not only her business, but the business of her clients and the people they serve, all through the lens of policy. Communication skills are central to her success, so part of our conversation will be about how she has built that muscle, and what she sees has on her list as "still to learn". We will also get into a "big data" conversation, how it's the currency of the moment, and the future.