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Action now is better than never. This is especially true in the DEI space.When it comes to DEI, we can start driving change with more education, access to opportunities, and the creation of systematic changes. But all of this starts with a step in the right direction.Rosa Nunez believes that it's never too late to do the right thing.Rosa is Foley Hoag's Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. She is responsible for developing, implementing, leading and championing proactive diversity and inclusion initiatives and programs, in alignment with Foley Hoag's overall strategic plans. Rosa is also co-chair the firm’s Diversity Committee.Rosa's initiatives are centered around recruitment, learning and development, engagement, retention and external positioning.Rosa has over 15 years of experience specializing in workplace diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, workplace culture and community outreach programs. Most recently, she worked at BCW Global - Burson Cohn & Wolfe in New York as the SVP, Seni

Our education system has created a massive gap in individuals for feeling true fulfillment, true creativity, and true contribution in the world because it's focused more on creating cogs in a wheel than actually individually contributing members of society.The things that you don't learn in college are the things you need to know to be truly fulfilled in your life.Zander Fryer knows and teaches you what they don't teach you in college.Five years ago Zander Fryer was stuck in a 9-5, single, lonely, bored, and lost. He was unfulfilled and unhappy and getting paid a quarter million dollars a year to stay that way. But, after losing his best friend to suicide and struggling with depression for months he knew something had to change.He quit his corporate job in his late twenties, with no idea what he was going to do and only 3 months of living expenses in the bank. Fighting for life, for time and in honor of his fallen brother, he embarked on a new journey. Despite the harsh criticism of those around him, within 3

It's never too late to start new. It's never too late to jump horizontally. It's never too late to keep living a little bit more of your truth. Progress is not linear.Paul Park knows that it's never too late to find your purpose in life.Paul is the Chief Revenue Officer at Sparrow. Prior to Sparrow, Paul Park was the Acting Head of Sales at TriNet, a leading PEO in the HR Tech space that is publicly traded with a $6B market cap. Paul Park started as an individual contributor and rose through the leadership ranks by creating innovative industry go-to-marketing strategies, ecosystem partnerships, DE&I initiatives, and championing career development programs.Paul Park has contributed to a number of different industry events and organizations, including being a startup ambassador and a super-connector.Paul Park earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton.In his spare time, Paul Park enjoys watching foreign films, reading personal development books, and list

Have you ever wondered where your perspectives come from?Throughout your lifetime, various people have taught you your current belief system. In order to find the root cause of a belief, you need to keep asking yourself why until the root appears.Dr. Shindale Seale focuses on finding the root cause to create transformational education.Dr. Shindale Seale is a cultural equity and diversity strategist who employs leadership and performance optimization concepts to help entrepreneurs, corporate and academic stakeholders, and Diversity & Inclusion professionals identify and reach their organizational culture goals.For over two decades, Dr. Seale served in various leadership and training roles and sectors, including the corporate environment, academia, and the non-profit arena. Her work has focused on business performance optimization, staff development, and creating sustainable and equitable working environments. Her research and consulting on creating equitable solutions in gender, race, age, and ability matt

If you aren't living your truth, then you aren't living the life you are meant to live.Ray DeForest knows just how necessary it is to live your truth.Performer, producer, activist, community leader, Ray DeForest, may also be known to some as his popular theatrical character, Doris Dear. 3-time winner of the MAC Award, actress and comedienne Doris Dear, has been featured in numerous movie and TV productions, performs in her own sold-out cabaret-style shows, and stars in her series "Doris Dear's Gurl Talk" on the BroadwayOnDemand streaming service. Ray created the series at the height of the Covid pandemic as a way to bring Doris to a new audience while live theater was on hold. Ray writes, directs and produces the series now currently filming season 3. The show was an immediate hit and won the prestigious Silver Telly Award for season one.In addition to entertaining audiences and raising funds to support theatre development, Mr. DeForest is a member of the prestigious Dramatist Guild of America. It is through

To create equity, we have to do things that are above and beyond because we're compensating for the way the system is already stacked against certain individuals. Equality and equity are different in that equality treats everyone the same regardless of need, while equity treats people differently depending on need.Kathy Goss knows just how vital equity is, especially when it comes to recruiting.Kathy Goss (she/her/hers) has nearly 20 years of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion at companies spanning a wide variety of industries and sizes. She currently serves as the Diversity & Talent Practice Leader at Chicago Trading Company. Previously, she built LinkedIn's first Inclusion Recruiting strategy and team, and during her tenure achieved double-digit percent increases in hiring rates for under-represented candidates. In addition to diversity recruiting, Kathy has extensive experience in DEI learning and development, culture change, and data analytics. She excels at breaking down complex problems

At any point, any one of us is one question away from a completely different life.A good question creates a pause. And when we can pause, we can think, reflect, and then acknowledge the people who have formed our story up until this point. And then, most importantly, we can consider who we want to continue to fuel that story?Marc Champagne knows the life-changing power that questions have.Marc Champagne unpacks the mental fitness practices and reflective questions shaping the lives of some of the most successful and brilliant thinkers in the world. He is the host of the top 50 ranked podcast Behind The Human and co-founded the journaling app (KYO), which reached 86.9 million people without any paid advertising. He has studied mental fitness practices for over a decade and consults with Fortune 500 companies as a mental fitness strategist and speaker.Marc's first book, Personal Socrates (publishing October 2021), explores the pointed questions that stimulate our mental fitness and teach us how to direct our in

One billion people, or 15% of the world's population, experience some form of disability.Disability refers to the interaction between individuals with a health condition (e.g., cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and depression) and personal and environmental factors (e.g., negative attitudes, inaccessible transportation or public buildings, and limited social support). Almost everyone is likely to experience some form of disability - temporary or permanent - at some point in life.But having a disability does not mean you don't have value to offer to this world.Debra Ruh fights to make sure everyone gets to share their value, regardless of their disability.Debra Ruh is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, Market Influencer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur, and exceptional mother. Debra is the host of a popular program: Human Potential at Work (Audience in 92 countries and 113 Regions). Proud to be the founder and CEO of Ruh Global IMPACT a

Times of struggle are familiar to all of us. Moments where we're unsure of how we'll make it out the other side, that are difficult and dark are moments we all have in common. Sometimes they come upon us from out of nowhere and other times we bring them upon ourselves. Regardless of how they come about, they all have the potential to be better than we could ever imagine.David Paynter's worst year of his life turned out to be the best year of his life.David Paynter is a highly entrepreneurial, former professional cricketer who faced some of the world’s best players in his career, including the likes of the legendary English paceman James Anderson. And it was Paynter’s competitive playing experience that inspired him for what was to come next after he hung up his bat and boots.He recognised that there was an opportunity for a footwear revolution in cricket, based on those years of experience wearing product that failed to put the performance needs of the athlete first. The result? The PAYNTR brand, which was bo

There's a demographic that a lot of people don't know exists. That demographic is gentlemen in the inner city who are extremely intelligent, have high grades, have massive potential, want to go to college, and be super successful.Two issues are standing in the way of this demographic achieving that success. The first issue is that they don't have access to the community that will help them become that successful. And because they don't have access to that community, they also don't have access to those powerful first experiences; the second issue.A powerful first experience is doing something you'd never thought you would do for the first time in a place that you never thought you would be in for the first time.Kenneth Chabert knows firsthand how much power first experiences have.Kenneth has a passion for communicating big ideas in very little time through the use of conversational intelligence and authentic storytelling.While working at Alex and Ani, he was known as the Prezi Master, one of only twenty-five

Creating relationships is more challenging than ever for business and marketing professionals. But it doesn't have to be.If you want to become the ultimate marketing engine, focus on making customers into members to help them achieve lasting transformation.John Jantsch has the strategies you need to create customers and clients for life.John is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur, and The Ultimate Marketing Engine. He is also the founder of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network, which trains and licenses independent consultants and agencies to use the Duct Tape Methodology.In this episode, John details the marketing concepts in his new book that transform how readers view their business, marketing, and customers.Listen to this episode and learn about:John giving gratitude to Peter Drucker (3:33)Why John wrote The Ultimate Marketing Engine now (8:37)What people are craving a transformation away from (12:22)Membership over c

It is through hardship and hard work that creativity grows and flourishes. When crunched for time or in a challenging situation, we have to find alternative, innovative solutions to our problems.Maria Goyer knows firsthand that necessity is the mother of invention.Maria is the Chief Innovation Officer at Velocity Global, where she drives strategic initiatives and innovative best practices across the organization to serve the growing global customer base. She served as senior vice president of Strategy for iWorkGlobal prior to Velocity Global’s acquisition. Maria’s efforts led to 2020 American Business Awards Silver medals in Growth and International Expansion. Maria applies more than 27 years of industry and strategic expertise in the development of all aspects of Business Process Outsourcing, including pioneering work in the Managed Service Providers (MSP), Vendor Management Systems (VMS), Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR) and Independent Contractor Compliance (ICC) industries and development o

In our modern world, we have access to what seems like an unlimited amount of food. For instance, grocery stores are filled with aisles and aisles of processed foods.But real food is not limitless. Real food comes from the hard work of local farmers and independent makers. The best quality food comes in a limited quantity.Jessica Young knows well that real food is not limitless and has a solution to getting real food to the masses.Jessica is the Founder and CEO of BUBBLE. Prior to launching BUBBLE, Jessica led product and operations at Daily Harvest, the frozen food direct to consumer model,now valued at over $500M. After being in the Health & Wellness industry for many years, Jessica saw a gap in the market: brands were innovating (specifically in the health foods space), but they didn’t have the right platform to launch and scale on, and so she built and launched this very platform called BUBBLE in 2019.In this episode, Jessica shares the inside scoop on BUBBLE and the future of food.Listen to this epis

Not being able to articulate your ideas can be deeply frustrating. But, your ideas are needed out in the world. You just need to find your red thread that makes your big ideas irresistible.Tamsen Webster knows all about finding your red thread.Part strategist, part storyteller, part English-to-English translator, Tamsen Webster helps experts drive action with their ideas. Tamsen honed her trademark Red Thread approach in and for major organizations like Johnson & Johnson, Harvard Medical School, and Intel, as well as with hundreds of individual founders, academics, and thought leaders. She's a former TEDx Executive Producer and current Idea Strategist. She's also the author of Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible.In this episode, Tamsen dives deep into the concepts of her book and how to communicate your ideas to those who need them.Listen to this episode and learn about:Tamsen giving credit and thanks to her sister, Kira (4:46)How internal conflict can create lasting change (6:37)Balanc

Change is constantly occurring, and with change comes new ways of seeing and doing things. To stay flexible through times of change, clarity about your purpose and the good around you builds your resilience to weather times of change. Rachel Flood knows how vital clarity is for creating resilience. Rachel is the Director of Operations at The Flood Law Firm. She has almost two decades of experience in legal marketing and management. Rachel works alongside her husband Brian who is a successful trial lawyer. Together they have used Brian's courtroom success and Rachel's business and legal management background to grow the firm from four employees to almost fifty employees over the past eight years. Rachel is passionate about her firm's work helping injured clients and giving back to the community. She uses her positive attitude, energy, and passion to encourage her team to work hard and succeed. Rachel has a B.S. from Western Connecticut State University and a J.D. from Pace Law School. In her free time, Rachel

We've all heard the saying that people don't plan to fail they fail to plan. Well, the expression is true, especially for creatives looking to spark innovate ideas.Creativity requires unstructured, structured time, which means we need to plan times to be unstructured in our days, or we'll get swallowed up by our calendars. Think of this as structured serendipity.Hannah Donovan knows how crucial structured serendipity is for creative work.Hannah is a product & design leader in the tech industry. She creates consumer tools & experiences for self-expression, with a focus on collaborating with machine learning.Han is currently director of product at VSCO, a photo and video editing platform with a focus on creative wellbeing. VSCO acquired Han’s company Trash, an AI video editing app at the end of 2020. Han founded Trash in 2017 and raised capital from top tier VCs.Before that, she was the General Manager at Twitter-owned Vine; led the team and product at Expa-backed music startup Drip (acquired by Kicksta

People often don't like or are afraid of what they don't know. By learning about all things around you, things that are different from what you may identify with, you can open up your worldview and see, understand, accept and love people. In doing so, we can live a more meaningful, diverse life.Othniel Mbamalu knows just how astonishing is it to broaden your worldview.Othniel is the founder and CEO of Advanced Rockets Corporation (ARC). Othniel has been working on Launch systems for space travel since his teenage - filing his first patent at 16 years old, creating the foundation for ARC today. Driven by his life’s mission to voyage into space, Mbamalu came to Southern California from Nigeria in 2014 with the intent of establishing an aerospace company that could provide cost-effective leap-ahead of current systems as well as high-speed capabilities for defense and civil applications. With two patents granted, five patents-pending, and a host of trade secrets, Mbamalu oversees and directs the ARC team in makin

With an inquisitive mind and asking the right questions, we can unlock new learning pathways, new opportunities, and treasure troves of data.Information is out there. We just have to know how to unlock it because everyone around us has a lesson that we can learn if we ask the right questions.Andy Ellwood knows how to ask the right questions to unlock hidden gems.Andy is an Executive Coach based in NYC on Zoom and serves coaching partners worldwide. Andy partners with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate exeutives to tackle the challenges of leadership, fundraising, and growth.Andy spent over a decade as a startup operator. First leading partnerships and sales for companies acquired by Google (Waze) and Facebook (Gowalla) before then going on to found three companies of his own. In hindsight, Andy becoming an Executive Coaching was a natural next step in his career’s trajectory. He was drafted into the work by multiple entrepreneurs that had frequently sought him out as a sparring partner and soun

Trauma, adversities, and insecurities are things we all experience. But opening up about these things can be challenging.The upside of being vulnerable and authentic about the things that scare us is creating connections with others—forging genuine relationships that stand the test of time.Rob Wellner knows just how powerful being vulnerable can be.Rob Wellner leads Sales, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, and Customer Success at Velocity Global. Rob is an entrepreneurial professional who brings over 20 years of executive sales and business development experience to Velocity Global. He has a proven track record of helping organizations reach their international strategic goals. Before joining Velocity Global, Rob worked in Capital Markets for 12 years. His experience gives him a unique take on the pitfalls that can sidetrack global deals and transactions. He is a frequent speaker on topics including employment, payroll, expatriates, and global M&A. He is a graduate of Colgate University, sits on the Boar

It can be so easy to focus on what's wrong around you. Because humans are problem-oriented, our analytical minds are always looking to figure out what's wrong and how to fix it.But not everything around you needs to be fixed or even can be fixed. So the solution is to pause and reflect on the gratitude around you. There's an awful lot out to give credit and thanks to when you stop and consider it.Jason Jackman knows just how valuable slowing down and reflecting on the good things can be.Jason Jackman is the President and Chief Investment Officer for Johnson Investment Counsel. Previously, he was Director of Fixed Income and Institutional Management. Jason has been with the firm since 1993, joining soon after earning his bachelor's degree in economics from Wittenberg University. He is a shareholder of the firm, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and is a member of the Cincinnati Society of Financial Analysts. Jason serves as President of the Northern Kentucky University Foundation where h