Problem Solved Podcast

How may we help kids make better decisions? In this episode of the Problem Solved Podcast we speak with NYC elementary school principal Tiffany McAfee as we explore how good schools help kids (and adults) make better big decisions. 

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More about Tiffany: 

Tiffany McAfee is a dedicated and passionate educator with over 22 years of experience in various roles, including classroom teacher, instructional leader, and principal. Her journey in education began with a decade of teaching before joining Teach For America (TFA) in 2012, driven by her belief in ensuring that all young people have access to excellent educators. Tiffany is currently the principal at Our World Neighborhood Charter Schools, a K-5 charter school in Queens, New York.

A deep commitment to teaching and learning has marked her career. Tiffany wakes up every day eager to discover new ways to learn and share knowledge. 

Tiffany served as the principal of East Harlem Scholars Academy, where she played a crucial role in shaping the educational experiences of students in East Harlem. Before that, she held the position of Director of Instruction at Citizens of the World Charter Schools in Brooklyn, focusing on coaching and supporting teachers. Her experience also includes her role as Director of Personalized Learning at Matchbook Learning, where she coached and supported teachers in implementing blended learning models. 

Tiffany holds a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction from Concordia University, Nebraska, and a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature, Writing from Bradley University. Tiffany remains committed to her passion for education, continuously seeking to enhance her teaching methods and share her insights with others.

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This episode of the Problem Solved Podcast takes a special look at the world of high stakes decisions amid emergency and features Kristie Wrigglsworth, the executive director of Maui-based Pacific Whale Foundation, dedicated to protecting the ocean through science and advocacy and inspiring environmental stewardship. Wrigglesworth shares with our listeners a look back at one year ago this week when the tragic Maui fires became the largest fire-related loss of human life in a century in the United States. 

What were the critical decisions that needed to be made in those difficult moments to safeguard her employees and her organization? And what can leaders running local, national, or global organizations learn about preparing for emergencies beyond those that they encounter delivering work related to their mission?

At a time when disaster seems to strike ever more often –whether natural or man-made– these leadership lessons offer insight into the plans and policies we all can put in place now to be better prepared for an emergency.

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About Kristie: 

Kristie is the Executive Director of Pacific Whale Foundation and has been with the org for over a decade. She has been a lifelong advocate for animals and is passionately committed to protecting marine mammals and their environment. Kristie obtained her B.A. in Law and Justice from Central Washington University and her J.D. Cum Laude from Seattle University, where she studied animal law. She is licensed to practice law in Washington State and the State of Hawai‘i.

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Most people think innovation is synonymous with invention—and that to become successful, you need to come up with a shiny new product, market, or idea. But as our Problem Solved Podcast guest Liz Elting, one of Forbes richest self made women and co-founder of billion dollar language translation business TransPerfect, shares, you don’t need to invent something entirely new or have a “Shark Tank” moment to succeed at entrepreneurship.

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About Liz Elting:

Liz Elting, Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, is an entrepreneur, business leader, bestselling author, linguaphile, philanthropist, feminist, and mother. After living, studying, and working in five countries across the globe, Liz founded TransPerfect out of an NYU dorm room in 1992 and served as Co-CEO until 2018. TransPerfect is the world’s largest language solutions company, with over $1.1 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. Liz received many awards for her work and philanthropy including the 2019 Charles Waldo Haskins Award for business and public service from NYU’s Stern School of Business, For more about Liz please visit lizelting.com

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At a time when our decisions divide too many of us, David Bornstein, co-founder and chief executive of the Solutions Journalism Network, shares how to bring people together to solve complex problems. In this episode of the Problem Solved Podcast, David explains how to find common ground:

David’s Bio: 

David Bornstein is the CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is working to establish solutions journalism as an integral part of mainstream news. He has been a journalist, focusing primarily on social innovation, for 30 years. From 2010-21, he co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times, which focused on social innovation. He is the author of: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the GrAmean Bank, and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know. 

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Management consultant Debbie Boone knows a lot about how to work well with humans —and with our furry friends and family members. She began her career in a veterinary clinic and soon realized that it wasn’t only animals that needed care, the people who cared for the animals needed skill building too. She began advising veterinary and other healthcare companies on how to provide better hospitality and has recently published her first book Hospitality in HealthCare: How Top Performing Practices Give the Best in Care to Their Patients and Boost Team Happiness. 

Join us in learning from Debbie about how to make others feel more welcome as she describes how to build trusting relationships with clients and each other.

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About Debbie:

Debbie Boone, BS, CVPM, Fear FreeSM Certified, has worked for the veterinary profession for more than 38 years. After earning her bachelor’s degree in animal science from North Carolina State University, she began as a client care representative and quickly moved into hospital administration. Debbie has experience in the management of small animal, mixed animal, specialty, and emergency practices. She has also managed restaurants, retail fabric and jewelry stores.

Debbie is considered an expert in team communication, creating positive practice culture, and developing operational efficiency for veterinary practices. She published her new book, “Hospitality in HealthCare: How Top Performing Practices Give the Best in Care to Their Patients and Boost Team Happiness” in July of 2023.  Her business, Debbie Boone-2 Manage Vets Consulting, helps practices develop extraordinary team communication and business skills, enhancing patient care, improving profitability, and increasing practice value. She strives to improve the lives of animals by using her expertise to improve workplace culture and the well-being of veterinary professionals.

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So many of us feel like we are busy all the time taking care of what needs to be done today -even though we have long term goals we’d like to be working on as well. If you feel that way, make sure to tune in and listen as I interview best-selling author, coach, professor and speaker Dorie Clark about her new book The Long Game, How To Be A Long Term Thinker In A Short Term World.

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Thank you Dorie for helping us all make big decisions better!

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About Dorie:

Dorie Clark has been named three times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Columbia Business School, and she is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Long Game strategic thinking self-assessment at dorieclark.com/thelonggame.

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How do start-ups become grown ups? Star executive coach Alisa Cohn shares her sage advice from her new book! Alisa Cohn has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and The New York Times.) She is the author of From Start-up to Grown-up, which won the 2022 Independent Press Award, and the creator and host of a podcast of the same name.

In this episode you will learn:

1. Why good leaders cultivate self-awareness

2. How communication skill enhance leadership

3. How to embody the culture you want to motivate your team and hold them accountable

About Alisa:

A frequent keynoter, Inc. Magazine named Alisa one of the top 100 leadership speakers, and she was named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards and the #1 Global Guru for Startups.

She is the executive coach for Cornell’s New York City tech incubator, and she has coached leaders from around the world, including the first female minister of the transition state of Afghanistan and the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She has guest lectured at Harvard, Cornell, The Naval War College and Henley Business School. Her articles have appeared in HBR, Inc, and Forbes, and she’s been featured as an expert on BBC World News, Bloomberg TV, and in the NY Times and Wall Street Journal. Read Alisa’s book here and check out her podcast. You can follow her on twitter & instagram @AlisaCohn.

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How do top athletes make decisions to maximize their mental and physical fitness? 

In this latest episode of The Problem Solved Podcast, Menachem Brodie, the Head Strength Coach for the Israeli Cycling Federation Track Program discusses how he makes decisions for the team and his clients.

In this episode you will learn:

1. The biggest challenges athletes face

2. Tips to improve your athletic performance

3. How to frame and break-down decisions for athletic training

About Menachem:

With well over 15 years of coaching experience and a sports-medicine background spanning from Emergency Medicine & Physical Therapy settings, to the NCAA Division I Strength & Conditioning setting, Coach Brodie brings with him an incredibly unique & diverse skill set, which has led to his work as a Health & Fitness Engineer for international companies in the Health, Wellness, & Fitness fields.

Coaching since 2000, Menachem Brodie has been working with athletes in a number of settings, and a broad variety of sports. From Basketball and Cycling, to CrossFit and Triathlon, Brodie has helped numerous athletes to attain their goals, and beyond.

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How do I make good investment decisions? What research questions do I need to ask? And how do top investment managers generate superior risk adjusted returns?

Join me as I interview Mac Alpha Capital Management’s Mark Cooper in this latest episode of The Problem Solved Podcast. Mark co-founded MAC Alpha Capital Management in 2020 and serves as its Chief Investment Officer. 

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About Mark:

Prior to founding the MAC Alpha Capital Management, from 2014 to 2019, Mr. Cooper was the Co-Portfolio Manager of First Eagle Investment Management’s International Small Cap Value strategy. Prior to First Eagle Investment Management, Mr. Cooper was a global generalist Portfolio Manager and Analyst at PIMCO from 2010 to 2014, where he managed a diversified quantitative U.S. equity fund and concentrated separate account. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Cooper was a Portfolio Manager at Omega Advisors, where he also served as a Partner beginning in 2006. At Omega Advisors, Mr. Cooper focused on global industrials, capital goods and commodities/energy sectors. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Cooper was an Analyst at Pequot Capital Management. Prior to his time at Pequot Capital, from 1992 to 2000, Mr. Cooper was a Portfolio Manager in the fixed income, commodities and foreign exchange asset classes of JP Morgan, where he co-managed a $50 billion notional value portfolio investing in both European and exotic options. He also managed a $10 billion portfolio focused in long-dated gold and silver. Mr. Cooper earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2002 and a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. Mr. Cooper continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, where he has taught Applied Value Investing and lectured on Value Investing for the Heilbrunn Center for Value Investing since 2004. Former US Army officer. Former Vice Chairman of Harlem success academy HSA #2 (a charter school) Co-Author of Value Investing (Second Edition): From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

About MAC Alpha

MAC Alpha Capital Management, LP is a minority, woman, and veteran-owned institutional investment manager. Their investment style utilizes a value-driven approach focused on competitive advantage, culture, and management incentives and employs a proprietary and rigorous fundamental research process developed by the CIO. Since 2020, MAC Alpha has managed two different investment strategies focused on the global small cap space: International “long only” and Global “long short.”

MAC Alpha Capital’s strategies have exhibited significant Alpha net of fees while also demonstrating consistently high Sharpe ratios and low Beta to the markets (please note, past performance is not indicative of any future results or the likely future performance of either strategy).

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How does fear impact decision-making and what can we do about it?

In this latest episode of The Problem Solved Podcast, John Hagel, serial entrepreneur and 8-time author discusses his latest book, Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change. It’s a topic John has dealt with throughout his long and storied career that was capped as the founder and chairman of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge, focusing on identifying emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda.

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About John:

John Hagel III has more than 40 years’ experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, McGraw Hill published his new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, LLC, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact, focusing on business transformation.

While at Deloitte, John was the founder and chairman of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge, focusing on identifying emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda.  Before joining Deloitte, John was an independent consultant and writer and prior to that was a principal at McKinsey & Company and a leader of their Strategy Practice as well as the founder of their E-Commerce Practice.  John has served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups.

John has published 8 books, drawing on his research and experience as a management consultant and entrepreneur.

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