How can you use your platform for good — whether you have a legacy business or are a startup?

It’s one thing to talk about corporate social responsibility, and it’s another thing to actually do it. 

Heineken has been hard at work leading the pack in rebooting its entire growth strategy though a sustainability lens.

Learn how a large corporation can use their influence for good with such programs as:

• Carbon neutrality in the entire value chain

Join us with special guest Stacey Tank, Chief Transformation and Corporate Affairs Officer for The Heineken Company, as we discuss their sustainability efforts, as well as her fascinating journey to help Heineken make a real impact — and what you can learn from her story. 

China is on the path towards becoming the next superpower. How they lead will have a drastic impact in every sector, including the environment. What will the new silk road look like? In this episode, we will explore:

• What is different about the US policy towards China than the past Soviet Union/Cold War era?

Please welcome back John Perkins, Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man and several other NYT best-selling books, as we explore his upcoming book on the Rise of China and what we can learn first-hand from his research and experience in the field.

For the one-year anniversary of StraightTalk.Live and in celebration of Earth Day 2021, we are proud to welcome a distinguished group of young global climate leaders for a panel discussion on the environment and climate change. Together, we will discuss "net-zero" from the varying perspectives of our panelists, who represent climate activism, eco-startups, and eco-tech initiatives. Questions we'll dive into include:

✔️Is it too late for net-zero?

✔️How can we actually meet the net-zero goal set by the UN and world leaders? 

✔️What are the viable innovations and solutions to help us get there? 

✔️What can we do at a societal, government, and individual level to make a difference?

✔️What are we missing if we only focus on carbon emissions and net-zero?

About the panelists:

Beth Eden is an independent sustainability impact and engagement consultant and the Cofounder of the Impact Alliance.

Luna Abadia is the Founder and Executive Director of the Effective Climate Action Project.

Flaviu Cipcigan, PhD, is a researcher and strategist at IBM Research, using artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new materials for carbon capture.

Lore Van Onsem is a climate activist and the author of If Nature Had a Voice. 

Vivek Badiani, PhD is the Co-founder eCO-SENSE. He is working toward a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge.

How we work is changing at unparalleled levels.

Literally overnight, the majority of the world has been working from home, juggling family and work life, relying on technology for communicating and getting work done, and thinking beyond your geographic scope to hire key talent.

✔️What does the future of work hold for us as we find our way out of this pandemic? 

✔️How does the shift from traditional models of shareholder perspectives to inclusion of all stakeholders change the landscape?

✔️What does corporate responsibility need to look like in the coming decade?

✔️And what do you need to know as a leader to prepare your team and company for the radical changes that are happening?

Join us as we invite special guest Nicole Sahin, CEO and Founder of Globalization Partners, as we discuss the future of talent and other global trends that will equip you for what’s coming next.

It only takes a brief glance into the news these days to understand that we as a global society have completely lost our way.

We are suffering from social and economic inequality, racial divides, and climate crisis. 

One of the biggest factors that plays into all of these challenges is corporate greed. Corporations are just starting to wake up and realize that consumers will no longer support these unsustainable and unfair practices. 

Big companies have responded by creating corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects, diversity and inclusion (D&I) policies, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. But is any of it trustworthy or authentic?

Society is demanding a new social contract, one that accomplishes more than just lip service.

Join us as we welcome back third-time repeat guest Charles Eisenstein, one of the great philosophers and integrative thinkers of our age. Hailed as a trailblazer by Huffington Post, Charles is the author of Sacred Economics, which traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.

Together, we’ll explore these questions: 

• What is the new social contract?

As US leadership has been waning over the last several years, we are experiencing a fundamental break of global structures, which in turn has laid the groundwork for new advances in geopolitics, trade, and technology.

These radical changes are having significant implications for individuals and societies.

✔️So what is happening to human beings as a result of these radical changes today?

✔️What factors are brand new that we haven’t considered before?

✔️What conversations do we need to lead in order tol prepare us for the times ahead?

Join us with our special guest Mark Stahlman, CEO of Exogenous, Inc. Mark brings to the discussion an extensive background in finance and digital (he was the one who brought AOL public in 1992). We will explore the digital disruptions that are guaranteed to affect us all as our global landscape is being shaken up.

We were thrill to have a chance to pick the brain of the OG fearless innovator! Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, former boss of Steve Jobs—he TURNED DOWN Jobs' offer of 33% of Apple for $50K!

A serial entrepreneur and innovator who is recognized as one of the founding fathers of the video game industry and was named one of Newsweek’s “50 Men Who Changed America,” Bushnell has founded over 20 businesses including Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, and several others.

He has built an incredible life out of innovation and entrepreneurism, and he has learned a lot of lessons about risk and reward. We can't wait to sit at his feet and learn.

✔️Successfully equipping the next generation to make the world a better place—what do we need to be doing NOW to lay that foundation?

✔️What are the best practices that allow you and your team to get into the zone to see what others aren’t seeing?

✔️How do you trust your intuition AND do the necessary research to see around the corners of your industry?

Join us to find out what it takes to stay on your entrepreneurial edge, balancing risk and reward, and how to anticipate where the marketplace is going.

You can be the smartest person in the room and still not know how to inspire your audience toward action.

You can be an impressive visionary and still not know how to share in a powerful way that influences your team, company, or investors. 

Storytelling is the secret ingredient that allows leaders and thinkers to transmit data that matters. It’s the heart of influencing relationships — whether that involves your team, business, community or nation. 

This week, we’ll be digging into the art of storytelling: 

✔️Learn how to weave together data points, facts, and knowledge with the magic that creates an inspiring story.

✔️Use stories to transform the way people think about important topics.

✔️Learn the essential components of a great story so you can foster engagement and inspire change.

Join us with special guest Jay Golden, Author and CEO of Retellable. He has worked with companies such as Google, Youtube, Facebook, and LinkedIn, as well as startups and organizations around the world. Together, we’ll take a hard look at the stories we tell, the ones we avoid, and what stories we can use to inform the future.

Have you accepted the new normal yet?

When COVID hit, nearly all of us were taken completely by surprise, and this state of shock has been underlying all our actions (and inactions) since — for more than a year now. Some are still trying to “wait it out” and wonder when things will “get back to normal.” 

If you are finding it difficult to move past the shock and adjust to new ways of working, leading, and collaborating, THIS is the show for you to watch! 

We’re going to be diving in and finding answers to these important questions:  

✔️What are the keys to remaining relevant in times of rapid change? 

✔️How can we change our focus from a “waiting” mindset toward a “catalyst” mindset?

✔️How do we upgrade our own operating systems, so that the way we perceive and relate to the world helps us adapt?

✔️PLUS: Learn four critical questions that all leaders should be asking themselves to not only adapt to the current times, but to excel.

Collaboration is a key ingredient in any successful team or organization. But what does true collaboration look like, in practice? 

We are in an era where hero worship of strong leaders is at its peak, but we are seeing the downfalls of this leadership structure. Instead, shared leadership, as well as honoring and working through our differences, is emerging as a proven effective structural model for companies that value adaptability and innovation. 

Yet our diverging values and ideas often get in the way of our ability to collaborate. 

In this week’s discussion, we’ll uncover three main roadblocks to true collaboration, and we’ll learn how we can bridge these gaps.

We are thrilled to be joined again by Darcy Winslow, former Global Nike GM/VP and President of the Academy for Systems Change and Magnolia Moonshot 2030: A new narrative for women’s leadership, creating the conditions to activate our collective power to address the greatest challenges we face today.