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Sanyin Siang shares highlights from her journey, and how to accept positive affirmations and constructive criticism as data points in your life, importance of being generous, and how to be vulnerable.Sanyin helps leaders launch and create value by focusing on mindset, behavioral change, and team and culture building. Sanyin is a CEO Coach, Advisor, Author,the Executive Director of Duke University's Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) and a Professor with its Pratt School of Engineering.The COLE center is a leadership laboratory that engages all of Duke's Daytime MBA students and convenes high-level think tank gatherings to explore today's complex leadership opportunities and challenges.Sanyin coaches C-suite executives and is in the original cohort of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches. She is an advisor for GV (former Google Ventures), Duke Corporate Education, and the Sports Innovation Lab. Her thought leadership has appeared in Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. She has more than 1 million LinkedIn followers. She is a LinkedIn 2017 & 2018 Top 10 Influencer and a 2018 Thinkers50 On the Radar.Sanyin's board service has included those of The Emily K Center, The Museum of Life & Science, Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center. She is a Sr. Advisor with Dan Ariely's Center for Advanced Hindsight and a faculty with StoryLab at Duke. She has spoken to audiences from the White House to Global Sports Management and Owners Summits.Prior to Duke, Sanyin worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies, and publisher of Science. Her initiatives explored the ethical, social, and legal implications of technological advances before they became reality.Her book The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career, uses behavioral science principles to help readers build the mindset for addressing major change.Sanyin received a BSE in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA from Duke University.Order "The Launch Book": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074JC5L9V/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

In this episode you will hear:   For episode 500, 21 listeners sent in verbal messages about lessons they have learned in the first 500 episodes that they feel can help other students and parents. Julia and Mark discuss the danger of having a top heavy college list. Mark interviews Dean Christoph Guttentag, Understanding Duke University Part 1 of 2 Part 1-Preview o   Christoph gives his backstory o   Christoph lets us know the difference between the East Campus and the West Campus o   Christoph explains the difference between the Trinity School and the Pratt School o   I say, you are always asking our students, “Why Duke”, so I am going to turn that question back on you, “Why go to Duke” o   Christoph tells us what the values are that Duke embraces o   I share two stories that back up that Christoph says, and the second story is kind of funny o   Christoph talks about the new curriculum that goes into place in the fall of 2025 that he is very excited about o   Christoph tells us what Duke Immerse is?   Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. We feel hearing from our listeners in their own voices adds to the community feel of our podcast.   You can also use this for many other purposes: 1) Send us constructive criticism about how we can improve our podcast 2) Share an encouraging word about something you like about an episode or the podcast in general 3) Share a topic or an article you would like us to address 4) Share a speaker you want us to interview 5) Leave positive feedback for one of our interviewees. We will send your verbal feedback directly to them and I can almost assure you, your positive feedback will make their day.   To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our new monthly admissions newsletter, delivered directly to your email once a month, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign-up popup. We will include many of the hot topics being discussed on college campuses.   Check out our new blog. We write timely and insightful articles on college admissions:   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK.   Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple's search feature so others can find our podcast.   If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!   If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you follow our podcast. You will also get instant notifications as soon as each episode goes live.   Check out the college admissions books Mark recommends:   Check out the college websites Mark recommends:   If you want to have some input about what you like and what you recommend, we change about our podcast, please complete our Podcast survey; here is the link:     If you want a college consultation with Mark or Lisa or Lynda, just text Mark at 404-664-4340 or email Lisa at or Lynda at Lynda@schoolmatch4u.com. All we ask is that you review their services and pricing on their website before the complimentary session; here is link to their services with transparent pricing: https://schoolmatch4u.com/services/compare-packages/

“I think that this idea of cross-functionality may be a legacy framework.”Throughout this season of the series I've been looking at the impact of AI and other emerging technology on the future of design and design leadership, and I've been particularly interested in examining this through the lens of some of the top academic design programs in the US. I find that looking at how students are learning design in the classroom can be a great predictor for how they will show up in the workplace in the years ahead, which of course will have a major impact on how our design teams and scaled design programs will operate. My guest for this episode is Vivek Rao, director of the new Masters of Engineering in Design & Technology Innovation program at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. A mechanical engineer by training, Vivek spent his early career at the design and innovation consultancy IDEO. He then did his PhD studies in design, innovation, and emerging technology at the University of California Berkeley, before joining Duke in 2023.We discuss the core idea of cross-functionality—blending design with engineering, business, data, marketing and other disciplines—a quality that Vivek himself embodies, and is instilling in his students.

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz is an assistant curator and associate dean for Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at New York University Division of Libraries where she serves as the Faculty Diversity Search Liaison. Shawn is also an adjunct assistant professor at Pratt School of information, teaching Reference & Instruction. Shawn is a co-coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, a co-convenor of the Reference & Instruction Special Interest Group at METRO where she co-curated the Critical Pedagogy Symposium and Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy series. Shawn is the co-editor of a two-volume series, Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Archives and Practice and Queer Conversations in Identity and Libraries expected 2024 from Litwin Books/Library Juice Press.

Show Summary Are you an engineer who wants to use your technical skills and move into an entrepreneurial or managerial role? Well, Duke's Master of Engineering Management or MEM may be just the ticket for you, and it provides two options, on campus and online. The program has been around for over 25 years and aims to prepare engineers with business knowledge. Luis Morales, Executive Director of the program, shares more of what the program offers and how applicants can successfully present themselves.   Show Notes Welcome to the 564th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me. Before we dive into today's interview, I want to mention a free resource at Accepted that can benefit you if you are applying to graduate engineering programs and that is Applying to Graduate Engineering Programs: What You Need to Know. It can guide you through a process you've never been through before. It's not the same as applying to college. Download your complimentary copy at accepted.com/564download.  Our guest today is Luis Morales, Executive Director of the Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke University. Professor Morales earned his bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico and his master's of engineering from Cornell University. He then worked as an engineer and manager at AT&T and at Cisco before joining Duke as an executive in residence and adjunct associate professor at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, while also founding his own consulting company. He became the executive director of the MEM program in 2021 and also teaches three courses in that program. Professor Morales, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:00] Thank you, Linda. It's a pleasure to be here. Can we start with an overview of the Master of Engineering Management program at Duke? Who is it for? What need is it intended to fill? [2:06] Absolutely. So the Duke MEM program has been around for more than 25 years. In fact, last year we were celebrating our 25th year anniversary, and as I look back at the charter of the program back then in 1997, the purpose was to prepare engineers with business knowledge. So the assessment, Linda, at the time was that we were preparing engineers for industry, for the global economy that did not have the necessary business knowledge. So they were not able to either get an impact, have an impact on the business side of companies right away so that's exactly the need that we're trying to satisfy. And if you think back to if that was the need then, and you look at where we are now as technology has become so pervasive across so much of how we as a society generate value, engineering management, to me is the perfect solution because it combines, again, it builds on a base of technical knowledge, but then it builds business knowledge on top of that. So the basic structure of the program is eight courses, four of which are core, focus on management, people management, intellectual property management, marketing and finance. Then the other four are technical electives designed to basically sharpen your STEM, saw, whether it is product management, data science, software management, et cetera. There are two versions of the MEM program. There's the online and the in-residence. Can you go over how they're structured? [4:40] Absolutely. So the campus program, as I mentioned before, has been around for more than 25 years. Our online offering is going to be 15 years in September. Yeah, the time flies. There are a lot of similarities between the two in terms of courses. The curriculum is the same, core courses, four electives, with some small exceptions, but the same instructors teach the core courses, teach the online sections. But then for the online course, Linda, what we do is that we replace the seminars and workshops that are included in the campus offering and we replace those with three weeks of residency where online students get to come to campus ...

Sanyin Siang is Derek's amazing featured guest this week! Sanyin shares highlights from her journey, and how to accept positive affirmations and constructive criticism as data points in your life, importance of being generous, and how to be vulnerable.Sanyin helps leaders launch and create value by focusing on mindset, behavioral change, and team and culture building. Sanyin is a CEO Coach, Advisor, Author,the Executive Director of Duke University's Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) and a Professor with its Pratt School of Engineering.The COLE center is a leadership laboratory that engages all of Duke's Daytime MBA students and convenes high-level think tank gatherings to explore today's complex leadership opportunities and challenges.Sanyin coaches C-suite executives and is in the original cohort of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches. She is an advisor for GV (former Google Ventures), Duke Corporate Education, and the Sports Innovation Lab. Her thought leadership has appeared in Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. She has more than 1 million LinkedIn followers. She is a LinkedIn 2017 & 2018 Top 10 Influencer and a 2018 Thinkers50 On the Radar.Sanyin's board service has included those of The Emily K Center, The Museum of Life & Science, Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center. She is a Sr. Advisor with Dan Ariely's Center for Advanced Hindsight and a faculty with StoryLab at Duke. She has spoken to audiences from the White House to Global Sports Management and Owners Summits.Prior to Duke, Sanyin worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies, and publisher of Science. Her initiatives explored the ethical, social, and legal implications of technological advances before they became reality.Her book The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career, uses behavioral science principles to help readers build the mindset for addressing major change.Sanyin received a BSE in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA from Duke University.Order "The Launch Book": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074JC5L9V/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

Podcast: The PrOTect OT Cybersecurity Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Jonathan Tubb: Unlocking Business Value at the Intersection of IT, OT, Operations, and CybersecurityPub date: 2023-09-28About Jonathan Tubb: Jonathan Tubb is a seasoned cybersecurity expert, renowned for his proficiency in crafting innovative solutions to address the most pressing security issues in the power generation sector. With a background in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University and a Professional Engineer (P.E.) license, he has over 15 years of hands-on experience. Currently serving as the Director of Industrial Cyber and Digital Security at Siemens Energy, Inc., Jonathan also imparts his knowledge as a lecturer for a master's course in Operational Technology Cyber Security at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.In this episode, Aaron and Jonathan Tubb discuss:Navigating the evolving landscape of OT cybersecurityImplementing cybersecurity measures for small modular reactors in the energy industryCross-disciplinary expertise in OT cybersecurity and the need for specialized training programsThe future of IT-OT convergenceKey Takeaways:In the evolving landscape of industrial cybersecurity, the shift from minimal compliance to recognizing the real-world impact and the urgent need for cross-training in IT and OT is crucial to bridging the knowledge gap and securing critical infrastructure effectively.As the energy industry progresses with new technologies like small modular reactors, the existing regulatory frameworks and cybersecurity practices face challenges in adapting to these changes, highlighting the need for flexible and scalable cybersecurity solutions in critical infrastructure.In the complex world of OT cybersecurity, the key to success lies in having the right people with a deep understanding of both engineering and cybersecurity, bridging the gap between the two worlds to protect critical infrastructure and ensure reliability in an ever-evolving landscape.The future of IT/OT convergence holds both excitement and concern, as the integration of these systems could lead to unprecedented efficiencies and insights, but a heavy-handed approach may risk pulling the plug on progress, hindering the potential benefits for both cybersecurity and operations. "I hope that the outcome of all this is positive for both sides of the industry, for practitioners, for the business side, like I see a destination where cybersecurity and operations are holding hands, skipping through a field." — Jonathan Tubb Connect with Jonathan Tubb: Email: jonathan.tubb@gmail.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-tubbHackers Teaching Hackers Event: https://www.hthackers.comGridSecCon 2023: https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/ESISAC/Pages/GridSecCon.aspxConnect with Aaron:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronccrowLearn more about Industrial Defender:Website: https://www.industrialdefender.com/podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/industrial-defender-inc/Twitter: https://twitter.com/iDefend_ICSYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@industrialdefender7120Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron Crow, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

About Jonathan Tubb: Jonathan Tubb is a seasoned cybersecurity expert, renowned for his proficiency in crafting innovative solutions to address the most pressing security issues in the power generation sector. With a background in Computer Engineering from Ohio State University and a Professional Engineer (P.E.) license, he has over 15 years of hands-on experience. Currently serving as the Director of Industrial Cyber and Digital Security at Siemens Energy, Inc., Jonathan also imparts his knowledge as a lecturer for a master's course in Operational Technology Cyber Security at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.In this episode, Aaron and Jonathan Tubb discuss:Navigating the evolving landscape of OT cybersecurityImplementing cybersecurity measures for small modular reactors in the energy industryCross-disciplinary expertise in OT cybersecurity and the need for specialized training programsThe future of IT-OT convergenceKey Takeaways:In the evolving landscape of industrial cybersecurity, the shift from minimal compliance to recognizing the real-world impact and the urgent need for cross-training in IT and OT is crucial to bridging the knowledge gap and securing critical infrastructure effectively.As the energy industry progresses with new technologies like small modular reactors, the existing regulatory frameworks and cybersecurity practices face challenges in adapting to these changes, highlighting the need for flexible and scalable cybersecurity solutions in critical infrastructure.In the complex world of OT cybersecurity, the key to success lies in having the right people with a deep understanding of both engineering and cybersecurity, bridging the gap between the two worlds to protect critical infrastructure and ensure reliability in an ever-evolving landscape.The future of IT/OT convergence holds both excitement and concern, as the integration of these systems could lead to unprecedented efficiencies and insights, but a heavy-handed approach may risk pulling the plug on progress, hindering the potential benefits for both cybersecurity and operations. "I hope that the outcome of all this is positive for both sides of the industry, for practitioners, for the business side, like I see a destination where cybersecurity and operations are holding hands, skipping through a field." — Jonathan Tubb Connect with Jonathan Tubb: Email: jonathan.tubb@gmail.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-tubbHackers Teaching Hackers Event: https://www.hthackers.comGridSecCon 2023: https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/ESISAC/Pages/GridSecCon.aspxConnect with Aaron:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronccrowLearn more about Industrial Defender:Website: https://www.industrialdefender.com/podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/industrial-defender-inc/Twitter: https://twitter.com/iDefend_ICSYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@industrialdefender7120Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Roughly 20 years ago, Neha Krishnamohan arrived as a college freshman on Duke University's Durham, N.C., campus, intent on pursuing a career that would someday grant her the agency to develop a product or therapy capable of solving a healthcare problem. Having grown up among family members with different careers in the medical field, Krishnamohan had inherited a deep interest in medicine—although she felt that her tendency to want to be more “hands-on” might make engineering a more suitable field of study. “As far as I was concerned, I was going to go to work for a Medtronic or a Pfizer, where I would come up with a great new product,” reports Krishnamohan, who after enrolling in Duke's Pratt School of Engineering chose biomedical engineering as her major. As Krishnamohan was ratcheting up her engineering studies, one of her professors made a lasting impression on her by enlivening their discussions with tales of past experiences as a Wall Street banker. “The idea that the financial merits of a company really inform its decision-making and that you as a finance person are at the center of critical decisions that need to be made was intriguing, to say the least,” recalls Krishnamohan, who along the way began thinking of investment banking as perhaps an alternative path along which to achieve her goal of developing a medical product.    As her college years progressed and Krishnamohan applied to a number of investment bank internship programs, eventually she nabbed a spot at Goldman Sachs, which subsequently offered her a full-time position upon her graduation in 2008.   “This was a tumultuous time to be starting a career in investment banking, but I think that it helped to lay a foundation for me with regard to the importance of being prepared for the worst,” explains Krishnamohan, who would remain at Goldman Sachs for a period 13 years, 11 of which were spent inside the firm's healthcare investment banking group. Krishnamohan ended up being named a Goldman vice president in 2015, about midway into her lengthy tenure with the firm. In this same year, while Krishnamohan was tasked with helping a Boston-based client to prepare for an IPO, a snowstorm prevented her manager and Goldman colleagues from attending the company's “drafting sessions,” wherein the firm's management and lawyers would toil for many hours over a period of days to create its IPO documents. As Krishnamohan remembers, “I knew that the room was going to be looking to me for the right guidance, so I embraced this and found myself having a point of view, asking questions, guiding them through the story—and I saw that people were listening. It was a remarkable 3 days.” “Leadership doesn't have to have all the answers,” she adds. “You have to listen and drive toward decisions that have conviction.” –Jack Sweeney

Dr. Dave Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Management Information Systems (MIS) department at the University of Georgia (UGA) and a Visiting Scholar at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. His expertise spans various aspects of information technology management, with a current focus on cybersecurity and enterprise digitization. Dr. Chatterjee's work, which has been published in prominent outlets like The Wall Street Journal and MIS Quarterly, has received over 2700 citations. His book, 'Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach,' was published by SAGE Publishing in March 2021.  In this episode of the 'Let's Talk About SecurIT' podcast, host Philip de Souza engages with Dr. Dave Chatterjee in a riveting discussion covering a range of cybersecurity topics. They explore the landscape of password-less authentication and the influence of generative AI tools in developing innovative cybersecurity solutions. Dr. Chatterjee emphasizes the significance of proactive threat detection and modeling, facilitated by the use of sophisticated AI technologies.  A key theme of the conversation revolves around organizational resilience. No organization can be entirely immune to cyberattacks, but the focus should be on recovery speed and proactive preparedness instead of merely reactive measures. The importance of running automated checks to identify various digital assets on a network is discussed, emphasizing monitoring, logging, processing, and acting on findings promptly.  Dr. Chatterjee presents his Commitment, Preparedness, and Discipline (CPD) framework, also known as the holistic cybersecurity governance framework, containing 17 success factors. A critical point raised during the talk is the necessity to view cybersecurity governance as a core capability. Dr. Chatterjee suggests that strong legislation can motivate higher cybersecurity effectiveness.  In conclusion, both Philip and Dr. Chatterjee share a vision for a global task force, with representatives from across the world, committed to unifying their intellect and resources to tackle the persistent and evolving cybersecurity threats. Tune in for a comprehensive understanding of today's cybersecurity scenario, actionable strategies, and a glimpse into the future.

122. Sanyin Siang - Superpowers “Every score is built on an assist. Someone has to pass the ball to that person who never makes the score…they record assists in hockey. They record the first assist and the second assist.Why don't we do that in the workplace?” - Sanyin Siang “..the F word. Feel. We.. feel feelings…if we're really good about behavioral outcomes, do we also think about emotional outcomes and . he emotional journey? Feeling.” - Sanyin Siang Guest Bio: Sanyin Siang is an investor and advisor to tech founders, VCs, boards, sports industry execs and Fortune 500 CEOs - bringing expertise in culture, leadership growth, and team cohesion as well as a diverse network of influencers. Recognized by Thinkers50 (the Premier Global Ranking of Management Thinkers) as the world's Most Influential Coach & Mentor, Sanyin coaches C-Suite Teams and develops enterprise leadership programs to unleash human capital and tap unseen potential to thrive in an exponentially changing world. She also has a deep love for working with students- sharing with them insights on what it takes to succeed at the different levels of one's career progression and cultivating their innate and distinctive strengths. Sanyin is the founding Executive Director of Duke University's Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at its Fuqua School of Business. The center regularly convenes think tanks to explore cutting-edge issues and is also a leadership laboratory that helps in a baseline leadership experience for every Daytime MBA student. Drawing on her science & engineering background, Sanyin is also an adjunct associate professor with Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, and a Sr. Fellow with Duke Divinity School's Ormond Center, sharing her insights for their work on building thriving communities. A globally recognized thought-leader, she shares out insights with her LinkedIn following of more than 1 million and was named a LinkedIn Top Global Influencer Voices in both 2017 and 2018. She authored the award-winning The Launch Book which gives readers an action plan for leveraging change using behavioral science concepts. Her ideas have been featured in New York Times, INC, Forbes, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. As a speaker, she has addressed audiences from The White House to military officers, Fortune 500 companies, and CHROs. She is host of the Global Sports Owners & CEO Summit's Series - Conversations with Legends. Sanyin is a leadership advisor for GV (formerly Google Ventures), Ripcord, The Sports Innovation Lab, and DukeCE. Her board service has included the Museum of Life & Science, The Emily Krzyzewski Center, The US Congressional Award Foundation Advisory Board, National Governing Board of USA Taekwondo. She is an alumnus of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (the US Department of Defense's most prestigious civilian program). Sanyin received her MBA and BSE in biomedical engineering from Duke University.  R.O.G. Takeaway Tips: Be who you are. What is your superpower?  The value of reflection. Be curious and ask questions. Acknowledge the assists, give recognition and praise for those who are enabling others. Leadership is also a matter of being, not just doing. Character matters. Our values matter.  Know who we are and who we choose to become. Close the gap between being the person that you aspire to become and the person you are now. Resources: Sanyin Siang on LinkedIn (in/sanyin) Superpowers with Sanyin Newsletter MIT Coaching Column Sanyin Siang -  Dialogue Review Network Diversity Index Quiz Coming Next: Episode 123, Building Bridges Coaching Tips for Generous Leaders with Shannon Cassidy. Topic: Habits Credits: Sanyin Siang, Sheep Jam Productions, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc.

If a bank has to make a statement about its safety and soundness, that's usually a bad sign. Sultan Meghji is the former Chief Innovation Officer of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and a professor at  the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Ricky Mulvey caught up with Meghji to discuss: - Where Silicon Valley Bank and the FDIC faltered in the lead-up to the bank run - Ripple effects from the recent bank runs that investors should consider - Hindenburg's report on Block - How to pack a "go bag" for your savings Companies mentioned: JPM, SIVBQ, FRC, FIZN, SQ, SBUX, ORCL Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Sultan Meghji Engineer: Tim Sparks

Tony O' Driscoll is a Professor, Research Fellow and Academic Director at Duke University. His central message emphasizes that the key digital-age differentiator is not technology, but people. Tony is the co-author of the new release, Everyday Superhero: How You Can Inspire Everyone and Create Real Change at Work. His role as adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Pratt School of Engineering afford him the unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge academic research to increasingly complex business challenges. He has spent the bulk of his professional and academic career at the nexus of business, innovation, technology, change, and learning, creating and implementing strategies that enable organizations to realize the full potential of their most valuable asset: human beings. There are few people in the world who have thought as deeply about the interface of technology and human organizations and imagined what the future models might be for how organizations will evolve than Tony. In this podcast, he shares:Why AI is going to transform the way we organize in ways we have never experienced in history The key reasons why strategy execution fails and some tips for addressing them Why attempts at organizational and digital transformation so often create resistance and how you can help mitigate that response_________________________________________________________________________________________"I started to realize at the end of the day, organizations are nothing without humans. The humans literally breathe life into every organization on this planet. And if they don't understand the why behind something or as they disagree with the premises or assumptions upon which any strategy has been formulated, you're going to have a really hard time. It'll be executed in the wrong way; it'll be killed rather than done. And that's where I became really interested in the human part of the system."-Tony O'Driscoll_________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Short preview of Tony's episode00:58—Introducing Tony + The topic of today's episode2:37—If you really know me, you know that...3:55—What's the difference between productive learning vs. creative learning?5:10—How AI has changed the new capabilities to change the human-machine interface7:13—Why is this level of technological revolution with AI and machine learning happening now, and how is it different, and how can we learn what will unfold?10:15—Why do 60-70 percent of strategies fail?11:39—Why humans are at the center of systems and technology12:53—What should strategists be thinking about human-centered transformation?15:48—How do you build accountability alongside trust?19:00—Could you explain how we are shifting paradigms as a global culture?20:39—How can people connect and learn from you?__________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Resources: Personal Page: http://tonyodriscoll.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-o-driscoll-5bb46b5Twitter https://twitter.com/Compleximple1Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZxzoSCU9ZdSE5UwcIGxuw

Tony O' Driscoll is a Professor, Research Fellow and Academic Director at Duke University. His central message emphasizes that the key digital-age differentiator is not technology, but people. Tony is the co-author of the new release, Everyday Superhero: How You Can Inspire Everyone and Create Real Change at Work. His role as adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Pratt School of Engineering afford him the unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge academic research to increasingly complex business challenges. He has spent the bulk of his professional and academic career at the nexus of business, innovation, technology, change, and learning, creating and implementing strategies that enable organizations to realize the full potential of their most valuable asset: human beings. There are few people in the world who have thought as deeply about the interface of technology and human organizations and imagined what the future models might be for how organizations will evolve than Tony. In this podcast, he shares:Why AI is going to transform the way we organize in ways we have never experienced in history The key reasons why strategy execution fails and some tips for addressing them Why attempts at organizational and digital transformation so often create resistance and how you can help mitigate that response_________________________________________________________________________________________"I started to realize at the end of the day, organizations are nothing without humans. The humans literally breathe life into every organization on this planet. And if they don't understand the why behind something or as they disagree with the premises or assumptions upon which any strategy has been formulated, you're going to have a really hard time. It'll be executed in the wrong way; it'll be killed rather than done. And that's where I became really interested in the human part of the system."-Tony O'Driscoll_________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Short preview of Tony's episode00:58—Introducing Tony + The topic of today's episode2:37—If you really know me, you know that...3:55—What's the difference between productive learning vs. creative learning?5:10—How AI has changed the new capabilities to change the human-machine interface7:13—Why is this level of technological revolution with AI and machine learning happening now, and how is it different, and how can we learn what will unfold?10:15—Why do 60-70 percent of strategies fail?11:39—Why humans are at the center of systems and technology12:53—What should strategists be thinking about human-centered transformation?15:48—How do you build accountability alongside trust?19:00—Could you explain how we are shifting paradigms as a global culture?20:39—How can people connect and learn from you?__________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Resources: Personal Page: http://tonyodriscoll.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-o-driscoll-5bb46b5Twitter https://twitter.com/Compleximple1Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZxzoSCU9ZdSE5UwcIGxuw

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Vivek Wadhwa, authors of From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation. Vivek Wadhwa is director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and executive in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; vice president of innovation and strategy at Singularity University; fellow at the Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University. He is a regular columnist for the Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Forbes.com. In February 2012, the US government awarded him distinguished recognition as an “Outstanding American by Choice” for his “commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Toomey is a cartoonist, global ocean advocate, and the creator of Sherman's Lagoon, a daily comic strip syndicated to over 150 newspapers in 20 countries and six languages. Sherman's Lagoon tells the story and misadventures of the great white shark Sherman, his wife Megan, and their friends in the fictional Kapupu Lagoon. Jim completed his Bachelor's degree in Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Stanford University. He later received a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Jim joins me today to share his journey from being a newspaper boy and engineer to a cartoonist and global ocean advocate. You'll get advice on creating an ensemble of characters and learn how different characters drive different kinds of stories. He describes the experiences that inspired Sherman's Lagoon. He also discusses the importance of properly defining and formulating a problem and shares his optimistic outlook for the world's oceans. “Look at the ocean not as a dark, alien world underneath the waves that has nothing to do with us. Look at it—that 70% of the planet—just as lively and vibrant and important to us as the 30% we live on.” - Jim Toomey This week on Kathy Sullivan Explores: Jim Toomey's life growing up in Virginia The birth of Sherman's Lagoon Why Jim pursued a degree in engineering The beginning of Jim's newspaper cartooning career The beauty of going to college Jim's career in the engineering industry and his transition to being a professional cartoonist How Sherman's Lagoon made its way to Sweden and Norway Why Jim went to Stanford for a Master's degree in Liberal Arts and what it was like The creative process behind Sherman's Lagoon Jim's thoughts on storytelling and character development How the characters in Sherman's Lagoon reflect Jim and the people in his life The different ways of being bad and the kind of work involved in producing a comic strip The nature and scale of shark finning Jim's collaboration with NOAA and getting the Shark Protection Act through congress The biggest barriers to being a cartoonist Jim's hopes for the future of the ocean and the environment Our Favorite Quotes: “As a cartoonist, I love drawing. But drawing itself isn't even half the game: as comic strips have become smaller, it has become more about storytelling and writing.” - Jim Toomey “In art, success is about gleaning from a field of complete failure; it's about experimentation, going down a blind alley, and making a lot of mistakes.” - Jim Toomey Connect with Jim Toomey: Jim Toomey Website Sherman's Lagoon Spaceship Not Required I'm Kathy Sullivan, the only person to have walked in space and gone to the deepest point in the ocean. I'm an explorer, and that doesn't always have to involve going to some remote or exotic place. It simply requires a commitment to put curiosity into action. In this podcast, you can explore, reflecting on lessons learned from life so far and from my brilliant and ever-inquisitive guests. We explore together in this very moment from right where you are--spaceship not required. Welcome to Kathy Sullivan Explores. Visit my website at kathysullivanexplores.com to sign up for seven astronaut tips to improving your life on earth and be the first to discover future episodes and learn about more exciting adventures ahead! Don't forget to leave a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts! Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google I Amazon Music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tony O'Driscoll is a Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored two books on learning and organizational performance and numerous articles for publications such as the Harvard Business Review and The Financial Times. In his latest book Everday Superhero: How You Can Inspire Everyone and Create Real Change at Work, a graphic novel co-authored with Gary Zamchick, Tony tells the story of a change champion, Mae B, a middle manager faced with a heroic challenge, hampered by an ineffective traditional approach to change. Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of BCG Henderson Institute, Tony discusses how Mae B's enlightened approach to leadership is a parable for the change challenges that organizations face today. *** About the BCG Henderson Institute The BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group's think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. For more ideas and inspiration, sign up to receive BHI INSIGHTS, our monthly newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Tony O'Driscoll is a professor, speaker, author, and advisor whose engaging message emphasizes that the key digital-age differentiator is not technology, but people.Tony has spent the bulk of his professional and academic career at the nexus of Business, Innovation, Technology, Change and Learning, creating and implementing strategies that enable organizations to realize the full potential of their most valuable asset: Human Beings.His current appointments as Adjunct Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the Pratt School of Engineering coupled with his role as Research Fellow at Duke Corporate Education afford him the unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge academic research to address increasingly complex business challenges.During his 18-year corporate career, Tony held several strategic leadership positions. At Duke Corporate Education, he launched the company's Asian operation and led innovation at CE Labs.  At IBM, he was a founding member of IBM Global Service's Strategy and Change consulting practice where he consulted at the highest level with business executives on creating competitive advantage in increasingly complex environments. He also served as a member IBM's Almaden Services Research Group where he investigated the changing roles of leadership, innovation, and collaboration as enterprises become more global, virtual, open and digitally mediated. At both IBM and Nortel Networks, Tony had strategic responsibility for crafting and implementing enterprise-level learning, transformation, and human performance improvement strategies. A frequently invited speaker at both corporate and academic conferences. He has been a keynote speaker, workshop leader, moderator, speaker and panelist at over 130 national and international conferences. He has also provided expert analysis and interviews to media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Wired Magazine, The Financial Times, India Today, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Training Magazine and for industry analysts such as Gartner and Forrester.Tony has authored and co-authored articles for business periodicals such as Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, Strategy and Business, and Dialogue and writes a column for Training Magazine.  He has also published two books on Learning and Organization Performance: Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration, and Achieving Desired Business Performance. His new book, Everyday Superhero, proposes a revolutionary People-Centered Transformation (PCT) approach to enable sustained and sustainable organization agility.He has contributed to science via publications in journals such as Management Information Sciences Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Performance Improvement Quarterly and the Journal of Product and Innovation Management. His current research and practice examines how rapidly emerging technologies are disrupting existing industry structures and business models. He specifically focuses on how to develop leadership systems that enable organizations to adapt and evolve in increasingly unpredictable and turbulent business environments.Along with his teaching, research and formal speaking engagements, Dr. O'Driscoll maintains an active consulting practice.  His client list includes Fortune 500 companies across a broad range of industries including High-Technology, Banking, Biotechnology, Software Development, Gaming, Energy, Retail and Professional Services. Dr. O'Driscoll holds an Ed.D. in Organization Learning and an M.S. in Management from North Carolina State University.  His B.S. in Electrical Engineering is from Virginia Tech. 

In Today's episode, Joe interviews Dr. Harriet Harriss. Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, ARB, Assoc. AIA, Ph.D., PFHEA, FRSA) is a qualified architect and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to this, she led the Architecture Research Programs at the Royal College of Art in London. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve. Dean Harriss has won various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship, a Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award, a Churchill Fellowship, two Santander Fellowships, two Diawa awards, and a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and Art) Pioneer Award. Dean Harriss was awarded a Clore Fellowship for cultural leadership (2016-17) and elected to the European Association of Architectural Education Council in summer 2017. Dean Harriss' public consultancy roles include writing national construction curriculum for the UK government's Department for Education and international program validations and pedagogy design and development internationally. Across both academe and industry, Dean Harriss has spoken across a range of media channels (from the BBC to TEDx) on the wider issues facing the built environment, is a recognized advocate for design education and was nominated by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019. Dean Harriss had so much to share in our interview and opened our eyes to the world of possibilities Architecture can offer. Whether you are interested in studying architecture or not, you won't want to miss this episode. Thank you for joining us!

Broadcast originally aired December 20, 2021 at 9:30am on WRCR RadioDid you know that we can discover the future by studying the past? The Haverstraw Brick Museum is doing just that!Clare Sheridan's guest was Rachel Whitlow, acting director of the Haverstraw Brick Museum. We discussed the Museum's new innovation series of exhibitions; interesting collaborations with organizations, including the Pratt School of Architecture; and the museum's goal to engage the community through history, STEAM education, and hands-on living history experiences.Learn more at: www.haverstrawbrickmuseum.org***Crossroads of Rockland History, a program of the Historical Society of Rockland County, airs on the third Monday of each month at 9:30 am, right after the Jeff and Will morning show, on WRCR Radio 1700 AM and www.WRCR.com. Join host Clare Sheridan as we explore, celebrate, and learn about our local history, with different topics and guest speakers every month. If you want to listen to the live broadcast, and you aren't local, simply download the TuneIn Radio App on your smartphone or tablet and search for WRCR. We are pleased to announce that we have begun loading our archived podcasts to Apple Podcasts; Stitcher, and Spotify platforms.The Historical Society of Rockland County is a nonprofit educational institution and principal repository for original documents and artifacts relating to Rockland County. Its headquarters are a four-acre site featuring a history museum and the 1832 Jacob Blauvelt House in New City, New York. www.RocklandHistory.org

In an age when technology is changing our lives in so many ways, the FDIC Podcast looks ahead into the not too distant future to imagine how quantum computing may open a new frontier in how our banks operate. FDIC Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Meghji is joined by three of the nation's leading minds in quantum computing from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering: Dr. Jimmie Lenz, Dr. Jungsang Kim and Dr. Chris Monroe.

Claudia Gunsch is the Theodore S. Kennedy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University, where she also serves as the associate dean of research and infrastructure for the Pratt School of Engineering. She says her favorite part of engineering is "defining the problem, solving the problem." In a sense, it's the same process she's applied to finding the right career path of her. On episode 90 of ASCE Plot Points, Gunsch speaks with Brianne Duncan and Lauren Redfern of the EWRI Environmental Health and Water Quality Committee.

Are we creating school environments that allow us to see the “assumed awesomeness” in everyone? Now, more than ever before, school leadership is about modeling hope, resilience, and a sense of possibility, so we can support our communities in developing their collective superpowers.School leadership has never been easy, but at this moment in particular, there are new challenges and opportunities that could completely transform school, for better or worse. What is the role of a leader at this point in time? What are the practices that will help school leaders navigate the ambiguity and uncertainty ahead while staying true to a vision for their communities? This year, and the years ahead, are going to be a test of resilience, trust and courage. And to pass the test, CEO coach, author, and executive director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University Sanyin Siang believes we'll have to make a fundamental shift to prioritizing relationships in our schools.In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon invite Sanyin Siang to apply her learnings from working with top leaders from the military, athletics, and global entrepreneurship to the school setting. What are the essential understandings, skills, and practices school leaders can adapt from other settings to create dynamic and supportive environments for students and staff? How can we learn from the legacies of great leaders like Coach K to transform our own teams and live lives of significance? It's a big topic to tackle at a time when many are focused on just getting students back to school and back to the traditions and systems we recognize. But Sanyin argues that in this moment of transformation, we have a unique opportunity to adapt our practices to help our schools thrive in a rapidly changing world.Examining resilience through the lens of leadership, Sanyin explains how individual resilience must give way to a deeper understanding of collective resilience. She offers insights into the difference between developing learning environments for transactional education—such as knowledge acquisition—and developing learning environments for relational education that recognizes the personal contributions each person can make to a team. And she vividly paints the picture of leadership as an art form that chips away all but the “assumed awesomeness” in each person, leaving every student and staff member ready to develop their own superpowers.Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:How can seeing themselves as coaches help school leaders model more effective practices?How can we see the full range of value and possibility inherent in every person within our school communities? What does it look like to honor the contributions of each person to a larger team dynamic, rather than focusing on individual achievements? How can we measure the impact of great “assists?”What does it mean to live a life of significance, and how do we shift our leadership practices to model and support lives of significance for everyone in our communities?Resource List:The Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics: Learn more about the center's work on leadership and listen to its “Life of Significance” podcast series.Sanyin's Forbes Profile: Read Sanyin's articles on ethical leadership strategy. The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business or Next Career: Sanyin's latest book on leadership and inspiration.How You Build Resilience for the Long Haul: Sanyin's article on resilience, which Lisa quotes during the episode.In This Episode:“When we look at our students, we're dealing with human possibilities here. Why can't we look at our teams the same way and say, ‘Hey, I wonder what awesomeness there is that have yet to be discovered about you, that you don't even realize, and how we can draw that out?'” (5:48)“I know the great coaches all care deeply and want to see only the best things happen for the person they're working with.” (9:03)“I think we're also moving from eras of transaction to eras of relationship. When you think about knowledge acquisition, that can feel transactional. Knowledge is very individualistic. But the world is moving so fast, no one single person could have the answers. And so we now are moving to a world of, instead of individuals, to teams. And so with moving to this world of teams, we have to talk about relationships.” (12:51)“And one thing I know about us high achievers is we tend to play our mistakes over and over and over in our head. Instead of thinking about them as mistakes and failures, can we just reframe failures as simply outcomes different than the ones we had hoped for or anticipated?” (19:39)“And what we've discovered is some key themes such as big moments matter, but to be true in the big moments, you have to be true in the small moments. And moments, moments matter.” (38:20)“What is the real role of education? Is it only about knowledge? Is it creating workers for the economy? Or is it about something bigger, more purposeful than that, which is unleashing human possibilities? Because teachers, I think the reason why we think of teachers, is they were among the first to really see us. And when we see someone that's how we matter.” (39:22)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guest:Sanyin Siang is on a mission to discover and enable greatness in others. Whether it's in her work as a CEO coach, educator, startup advisor, or author, she teaches individuals and organizations to find the champions within themselves and gives them the tools to keep on winning.Sanyin co-founded and leads Duke University's Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at its Fuqua School of Business and is a professor with Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The center is a leadership laboratory that convenes think-tank gatherings across sectors to explore today's complex leadership challenges. Sanyin has worked with four-star generals, world-class CEOs, athletes, and Nobel laureates.Her ideas on leading innovation, storytelling, culture in an age of disruption, and sports business have been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. She was named to LinkedIn's Top 20 Global Influencer Voices in 2017 and 2018. She is a member of the 86th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, the Department of Defense's oldest civilian program. Her book, The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career, inspires readers through stories of different leaders and gives them an action plan for leveraging change using behavioral science concepts.She is also an advisor for GV (Google Ventures) and Sports Innovation Lab, a faculty member with Story Lab at Duke, and serves on the boards of the Emily K Center and North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a very engaging and thoughtful discussion, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmie-lenz-5a80485/ (Dr. Jimmie Lenz, Dir. Master of Engineering in FinTech and Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering), spoke to the importance of a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to cybersecurity education. He emphasized the need for a very pragmatic approach to cyber education where students are taught by active industry professionals and also get to apply the learned skills in real organizational settings. Dr. Lenz strongly believes in empowering future cybersecurity professionals with a broad breadth of hard and soft skills so they develop the necessary technical expertise and business savvy. Memorable Jimmie Lenz Quotes/Statements “When I think about cybersecurity education, I stray away from the theoretical and move towards the applied.” “We have been very very purposeful in designing our classes for the (cybersecurity) program. We have been just as purposeful in finding professors to teach those classes. Pretty much every professor we have in the program also works in the industry.” “I think a breadth of perspectives is really necessary for cybersecurity today. I think part of the problem that you just mentioned around lack of training, lack of skill set, is because people have been taught one thing, and they have gone very very deep on that one thing. But I think today to be successful in the industry and to serve the industry and public in general, we really have to have a broad breadth of skill sets and understandings.” Timestamps 1:46 – Given your experience, how do you relate to cybersecurity education and training? 3:11 – In terms of skill sets, what should students be getting from a cyber education program? 8:20 – When it comes to teaching in the classroom, what does it take to effectively instill some of the cybersecurity skills that you have been talking about? 13:28 – What are your thoughts on providing foundational cybersecurity training and awareness to students from all majors? 17:23 – Can you speak to the importance of instilling in students (future cyber professionals) the mindset and professional savvy of dealing with and navigating through an uncertain and constantly changing work environment? 21:37 – What are your thoughts on instilling in students different types of soft skills such as interpersonal skills? 26:43 – Any final thoughts? Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Subscribe to the Podcast Please subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any new episodes! And please leave the show a rating if you like what you hear. New episodes release every two weeks. Connect with Dr. Chatterjee on these platforms: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ ) Website: https://dchatte.com/ (https://dchatte.com/) Cybersecurity Readiness Book: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-Readiness-Holistic-High-Performance-Approach/dp/1071837338 (https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-Readiness-Holistic-High-Performance-Approach/dp/1071837338)

In a strategic partnership to support technical innovation in the banking and financial services sectors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering recently announced an agreement to collaborate on artificial intelligence, risk management, quantitative research and cybersecurity at the FDIC and U.S. banks. In this episode of “The Buzz” podcast, we learn how the FDIC's Tech Lab (FDiTech) and Duke faculty and students will work together.   Listen as Jimmie Lenz, director, Master of Engineering in FinTech and Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity and Visiting Professor of Financial Economics at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, discusses the arrangement with the FDIC and how the engineering school is facilitating those efforts. Lenz also explains the best ways to prevent and mitigate cyber risks at financial institutions in this Bank Automation News podcast.  

We can't wait for you to join today's chat with Brita Everett! Brita Everett is a registered NYC Architect, a Senior Associate Architect at Huntsman Architectural Group, a professor at Pratt School of Design @pratt_sod, a graduate of the M.Arch at the University of Cincinnati, along with the creator of Circular X Design. We covered a lot of ground in today's chat and Brita per usual had tons of insightful insights, perspectives, and tangible tips to help get us from where we are now to where we want to go. Here is a sneak peek of a few topics we discussed in the virtual studio: Growing in the industry & role of a Senior Associate Cultivating strong relationships on-site & off-site Fostering team-first environments CIRCULAR X DESIGN & infusing stories of sustainability into the industry Carving out a space for yourself in the industry Questions to ask yourself and others when designing We would love to connect with you! Come say hi on the IG! @studio.chats @circularxdesign

Everyone is talking about innovation in banking these days, but what is being done to engineer innovation into our banking sector? FDIC's Chief Innovation Officer Sultan Meghji sits down with Jimmie Lenz of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering to discuss how to build the banking system of the future.

Dr. Prasad Kasibhatla is a faculty member in the Nicholas School of the Environment, and the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. And his expertise lies in atmospheric chemistry, how humans have changed it over time, what that means for climate change, and in turn, what that means for us. In this episode, we get down to the basics. How does climate change even work? Why should we care? Can carbon neutrality fix climate change? And what can we do to help? Visit our website to learn more about Operation Climate and for a full transcript of this episode! Follow us on Instagram @operationclimate! CREDITS: Guest: Dr. Prasad Kasibhatla Hosts: Katherine Li, Emily Nagamoto Producers: Katherine Li, Emily Nagamoto, Olivia Fox, Matthew Brune Music: Cali by Wataboi What u thinking by Wataboi --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/operation-climate/support

Our conversation with Dr. Donna Crenshaw, Executive Director of MEDX, an innovative collaborative venture between the Duke University School of Medicine and the Pratt School of Engineering. Tune in to hear about how her prior experiences as both a researcher and administrator in the pharmaceutical industry inform her leadership role in MEDx and about how the program helped spearhead Duke's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Dr. Mary "Missy" Cummings, is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the Pratt School of Engineering, at Duke University, the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences, and is the Director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory and Duke Robotics. Dr. Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. Dr.. Cummings was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots earning the rank of lieutenant and serving as naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999. Dr. Cummings research interests include human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-systems engineering, public policy implications of unmanned vehicles, and the ethical and social impact of technology. Dr. Cummings is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow, a member of their Board of Trustees, the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, and Veoneer, Inc. Board of Directors. Dr. Cummings previously served as an instructor for the U.S. Navy at Pennsylvania State University, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech in their Engineering Fundamentals Division, and an associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Cummings is also an accomplished author with her book Hornet's Nest: The Experiences of One of the Navy's First Female Fighter Pilots. 

In this season's second episode RAIC Congress on Architecture Steering Committee member Bianca Dahlman talks with Dr. Harriet Harriss about the publication Architects After Architecture and the Climate Crisis curriculum at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.  Dr. Harriet Harriss  Dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture   Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, ARB, Assoc. AIA, Ph.D., PFHEA, FRSA) is a qualified architect and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to this, she led the Architecture Research Programs at the Royal College of Art in London. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve. Dean Harriss has won various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship, a Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award, a Churchill Fellowship, two Santander Fellowships, two Diawa awards, and a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and Art) Pioneer Award. Dean Harriss was awarded a Clore Fellowship for cultural leadership (2016-17) and elected to the European Association of Architectural Education Council in summer 2017. Dean Harriss' public consultancy roles include writing national construction curriculum for the UK government's Department for Education and international program validations and pedagogy design and development internationally. Across both academe and industry, Dean Harriss has spoken across a range of media channels (from the BBC to TEDx) on the wider issues facing the built environment, is a recognized advocate for design education and was nominated by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019. Bianca Dahlman M. Arch Candidate, B.Env.D, B.A., LEED® AP BD+C Bianca works for DFS Inc. Architecture and Design in the field of adaptive re-use and architectural conservation. She strives to preserve resources through honouring and celebrating existing structures. Her student design work at the University of Manitoba was recognized in 2019 by Corporate Knights' Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders and the Canada Green Building Council's Students Leading Sustainability Award. This work was guided by Indigenous Architect, Shawn Bailey, and Bianca's careful application of listening and empathy. While working for Alberta Infrastructure, she promoted net zero energy and net zero carbon design and performance.

Shyni Varghese, Professor & MEDx Investigator, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pratt School of Engineering & Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC USA speaks on "Physicochemical properties of extracellular matrix: Key to function, Clue to mechanism". This movie has been recorded at ICGEB Trieste.

Reaching out to older, more experienced people can be pretty daunting to young professionals. We are oftentimes intimidated by individuals who are very accomplished on paper and are wondering what value we can even add to a conversation with our limited life and work experience.And yet everyone around us keeps stressing the importance of having mentors. But how to find them?This week, we are joined by Sanyin Siang, Executive Director of the Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and adjunct associate professor with Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. Sanyin is currently ranked as the world's #1 Executive Coach by Thinkers50 and she is the author of the Launch Book. Sanyin is not only an incredible mentor herself but also loves debunking some common mentorship myths. On this episode, she shares advice on how to best approach potential mentors and how to be a good mentee. Sanyin strongly believes in the power of paying it forward and shares some beautiful anecdotes on how her mentees have added a lot of value to her life.This episode also features some endearing moments as our host Thamina admits her "girl crush" on Sanyin and how she had been admiring her from afar for years. Don't miss out on  a touching exchange between the two women as Sanyin offers Thamina some incredibly kind words of encouragement.Check out Sanyin's website here.Text "Leadership" or "Join" to 828 237 6119 to text with Sanyin (only available in the US & Canada at the moment)

Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, ARB, Assoc. AIA, Ph.D., PFHEA, FRSA) is a qualified architect and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to this, she led the Architecture Research Programs at the Royal College of Art in London. Her teaching, research, and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve. Dean Harriss has won various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship, a Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award, a Churchill Fellowship, two Santander Fellowships, two Diawa awards, and a NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and Art) Pioneer Award. Dean Harriss was awarded a Clore Fellowship for cultural leadership (2016-17) and elected to the European Association of Architectural Education Council in summer 2017. Dean Harriss' public consultancy roles include writing national construction curriculum for the UK government's Department for Education and international program validations and pedagogy design and development internationally. Across both academe and industry, Dean Harriss has spoken across a range of media channels (from the BBC to TEDx) on the wider issues facing the built environment, is a recognized advocate for design education and was nominated by Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019.

Our conversation with Dr. Bellamkonda, Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of Bioomedical Engineering. Tune in to hear some of the incredible stories he shares about his journey to the US, his passion for conducting research to combat brain cancer, and his outlook on learning and life.

Lauren Cerand, currently based in New York City, is a freelancer and jewelry student. In 2019, she gave up her apartment, sold most of her belongings and moved to Italy to learn how to make jewelry at the Alchimia Contemporary Jewelry School in Florence. We trace her path from a class at the 92Y to Pratt School of Design and finally to Italy. Follow Lauren on Instagram or her project Shop Cerand.LinksAlchimia Contemporary Jewelry School92Y Jewelry programsBrooklyn Metal WorksPratt Arts & DesignJewelry Arts in NYCPonte Vechio in FlorenceShibuichi metal Civilization on PBS: Light and ColorThe Artist's Way by Julia Cameron 

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Public Speaking for Techie's James Taylor interviews Poornima Vijayashanker and they talked about Public Speaking for Techie's In today's episode Poornima Vijayashanker talks about Public Speaking for Techie's. Poornima Vijayashanker is an entrepreneur, engineer, author, and speaker who has made her mark in the tech world. A graduate of Duke University, Poornima was the founding engineer at Mint where she helped build, launch, and scale the product until it was acquired by Intuit. Following the acquisition, Poornima went on to launch Femgineer, an education company for tech professionals and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to build software products and companies. She regularly speaks at industry events around the world and has authored the book, How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products, as well as co-authoring Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking with Karen Catlin. Having served as the Entrepreneur in Residence at 500 Startups, Poornima has also lectured at her alma mater's Pratt School of Engineering. What we cover: Why speaking is a multivitamin Public speaking for techie's and the curse of knowledge Lack of diversity in keynotes and panels Resources: Poornima Vijayashanker Website Please SUBSCRIBE ►http://bit.ly/JTme-ytsub ♥️ Your Support Appreciated! If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show. SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple: http://bit.ly/TSL-apple Libsyn: http://bit.ly/TSL-libsyn Spotify: http://bit.ly/TSL-spotify Android: http://bit.ly/TSL-android Stitcher: http://bit.ly/TSL-stitcher CTA link: https://speakersu.com/the-speakers-life/ FOLLOW ME: Website: https://speakersu.com LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/JTme-linkedin Instagram: http://bit.ly/JTme-ig Twitter: http://bit.ly/JTme-twitter Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/IS-fbgroup Read full transcript at https://speakersu.com/public-speaking-for-techies-sl074/  James Taylor Hi, it's James Taylor, founder of SpeakersU. Today's episode was first aired as part of International Speakers Summit the world's largest online event for professional speakers. And if you'd like to access the full video version, as well as in depth sessions with over 150 top speakers, then I've got a very special offer for you. Just go to InternationalSpeakersSummit.com, where you'll be able to register for a free pass for the summit. Yep, that's right 150 of the world's top speakers sharing their insights, strategies and tactics on how to launch grow and build a successful speaking business. So just go to InternationalSpeakersSummit.com but not before you listen to today's episode. Hi there. It's James Taylor. I'm delighted today to be joined by Poornima Vijayashanker. She is an entrepreneur, engineer, author and speaker who has made her mark on the tech world, a graduate of Duke University. Poornima was the founding engineer at mint where she helped build, launch and scale the product until it was acquired by Intuit following acquisition Poornima went on to launch with femme Junya, which is an education company for tech professionals and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to build software products and companies. Now, she regularly speaks at industry events around the world and she has authored the book how to transform your ideas into software products, as well as co authoring present a techies guide to public speaking with Karen Karen Caitlin, having served as an entrepreneur in residence at 500 startups. Poornima has also lectured at our alma mater, which is Pratt School of Engineering. It's my great pleasure to have her join us today. So welcome Poornima Poornima Vijayashanker thanks for having me today. James Taylor So share with everyone what's going on in your world just now. Poornima Vijayashanker Well, we have started our six week online competent communicator course. And we're in the middle of it. It's great to see so many first time people who have been speaking for a while, learn a new approach and apply that and I know this is where a lot of people realize, wow, this course is tough or this is getting hard. So it's great to see that there's still Sticking with the program that they're getting through it, that they're at least diving in to try our new approach. And that is my sort of day for today is focused on giving them feedback on that new approach. James Taylor I mentioned. You know, obviously, you had this basic set, you've been very successful career in tech. When did the speaking part of you get started? When did you find you develop this love of speaking and speaking to, especially at conferences that you speak today? Poornima Vijayashanker Yeah, well, actually, I have been speaking for a very long time I in my youth was a very shy kid, and I figured around middle school that life was going to be hard if I didn't do something to change that. So I joined my middle school in high school Speech and Debate Team, and I was really glad that I did you know, it helped me Ace my college interview, and then go on to ace my first job interview, and then do more complicated things here in Silicon Valley, like, evangelize the companies into the startups that I started, help recruit and pitch investors. For me. public speaking is definitely a multivitamin and it's Something that Karen Catlin, my co author and I really evangelize it's, you know, it's a thing that people don't recognize. And it's definitely hard to get started in, especially if you have a fear of it, you're not sure if you're an expert, not sure where to speak. But once you get going, you start to see a number of benefits, as well as the people on the receiving end who hear your message. And so I have been applying public speaking any way I can. And I found that I benefit from it in terms of a business and building a personal brand. But the people who are listening also get a chance to connect with me, James Taylor and who are those? Do you have a kind of any early mentors and you're speaking over the particular speakers that you look towards? These are all I like, I like what they do in terms of how they present or how they think, Poornima Vijayashanker you know, I didn't because I didn't know any better. So when I started to speak, I, this was back in 2008. There weren't a lot of resources out there for technical Speaking there were four general public speaking. And I had learned them again in high school. And in college, I had a great debate coach who helped me not only with debate but do things like extemporaneous speaking, and improv improvisation. So I had a great coach in that capacity. But when I transitioned into industry, I noticed that one there weren't a lot of technical folks speaking in general, or the styles is not quite developed. And two, there weren't a lot of women or other folks that I could look up to. So I just honestly started to develop my own style. And then periodically I would come across great resources. You know, Scott birkins, got a good book. There is Reynolds who's got that great book on, on doing slide design. And so I started to pick up elements here and there, but quite frankly, it wasn't until I was pretty deep in that I realized, Oh, I have kind of cultivated my own framework from best and worst things that I've experienced. So I didn't really have somebody that I looked up to initially or had as a mentor. It was a lot of it was just audience feedback, and getting a sense of what was working and what wasn't. James Taylor I mean, you think of, I think of some of the best keynotes I've ever seen. And some of them are actually product keynotes. So I think, you know, the classic Steve Jobs at the Moscone Center near where you you're speaking from today, you know, he's a classic, you know, there's that that but often feels like in, in the kind of tech world in that kind of Silicon Valley world, that a lot of the speakers are in the either the marketing the sales or the biz, biz dev world, they're kind of getting more natural speakers. Are you starting to see that change now, within the more engineering community, you know, the people are actually building the stuff and creating these incredible products actually, you know, coming bit more To the fool there. Poornima Vijayashanker Yeah, it's in the last couple years, just as there's been an explosion in terms of conferences worldwide for marketing and for sales and for product. There has definitely been a interest to do more technical conferences. technical courses have been going on forever, I think. And in my early career, like around 2004 2005, I would go to some of these. But there were pretty big gating factors, you know, you had to really take the time to submit a proposal, there were a couple major conferences happening at Moscone Center around the world. And now you're seeing there's a lot of unconferences. There are smaller regional conferences. There are conferences that have started to add a technical component. And so it's been great that there's more and more interest, but as a result, we need more speakers. And you start to see more technical folks saying, oh, maybe it's time that I branch out, and I do More public speaking to recruit to do product demos, or just to showcase the technical work that I have done in my team has done or my company's done. So you're starting to see more and more of that. But I would say, Yeah, for the last 10 years, it's definitely been on the rise. And I anticipate more technical conferences coming out, just like there are other conferences in verticals. James Taylor So this is the whole Silicon Valley tech sector has also come into the spotlight a lot recently, in terms of lack of diversity as conferences I saw, I saw one the other day and I think it was like 40 speakers at this event and there was not a single woman, you get this. So that's the first kind of like, okay, so I'm getting because you're coming from an engineering what and there's obviously there's that there's a strong sense in the engineering side and take that there needs to be a big rebound in terms of creating greater diversity, more inclusion there as well. What's happening when it comes to the more technical conferences and those kind of events are they Really now having to basically take a look at what they're doing and completely kind of rethink in terms of how they're appealing to speakers how they're bringing in speakers how they're potentially betting speakers. Poornima Vijayashanker Yeah, well, I will say this, there's really no excuse because Grace Hopper celebration, which is the largest technical conference for women, has over 10,000 attendees and grows every year by probably 20 or more percent. And they don't have a problem getting women to do technical talks at every level, whether it's entry all the way up to senior level executive positions and sea level suites, right. So if they can, if they can manage to scrape at you know, that many attendees as well as speakers and turn people away, then I think that there is a big market for getting speakers into some of these other events. So I push back a little bit in terms of how aware people are how much of a priority it is for them. For my personal experience, what I have noticed is there is definitely an interest. You know, women certainly want to get out and speak. They're certainly full of doing it. They have to they're either far enough along in their career or there is even early folks who are like, there's I have something to share, right. And what I've noticed the last couple years, is there are conferences that are adopting a code of conduct in terms of diversity of speakers, diversity across not only genders, but you know, people of color, etc. And so the conferences who are more, I would say aware and with it are adopting these policies, not only to recruit speakers, but also how they conduct the conference itself. And I think it's getting getting with the times and recognizing this because the ones that do end up attracting more attendees, attracting the type of attendees that they want And it ends up being a more vibrant conference that lasts for many, many years. So this is something I think that people have to start to invest in if they are going to consider doing this conference again, having it be successful and having it be profitable because at the end of the day of conference as a business, right, James Taylor the other thing I often think about is a speaker's when we speak at a conference, we keynote a conference, We're often asked by that, that meeting planner, that event conference organizer to recommend a speaker for the next year. And I, I was thinking about it a lot, you know, you and I were in a mastermind group has actually predominantly female as well in that particular group. And, and I was thinking about as well as okay, because this question comes in so often from event planners, like who would you recommend? And I, I used to, I used to be okay, well, I'd recommend this guy because he was very similar to me be spoken with a different subject from me. And so it was, it was I was going into a default position and without without giving any thought, and it was just like it was thoughtless. Okay, this person, I know him, I like him, I think he would do a good job for the client. And it's what it's made me do as a speaker. And in terms of, you know, my continual development is having to rethink, okay, I need to have a much broader sense of who's out there, who's, who's doing like, Great stuff. And so this is a training for me. I don't know if you'll find finding this in terms of, because it's so much business is referral based, you know, for other speakers. Poornima Vijayashanker Definitely. And I mean, you have a sense of who the best speakers are. So, one of the excuses I hear from a lot of folks says, Oh, well, everyone was just too busy. Like, literally all the women who know how to speak. We're just too busy. James Taylor That day, they were Poornima Vijayashanker like, oh, what was it International Women's Day, like, what what was the reason right? And I think what it means is that a they don't think about it early on enough because they're waiting until the last minute, right? It's not Maybe a month or maybe two months out, or sometimes even two weeks, I've heard so many requests from people, sometimes even two days before saying, Oh, can you get me some money, nobody's gonna drop work or even get the time off to come and speak at your event with that much lead time, right? You've got to start thinking earlier, three months, six months, if you want to get on people's calendars, if you want to be taken seriously and be known as a professional, you know, organizations, so start to do it earlier on and make that a priority. And then of course, if you have situations where people say, Oh, I can't do this, or you know, I just happen to have a conflict, then having them suggest somebody else, but but the other place is to have your own watering holes. So for example, earlier this year, my sponsor actually tasked me with putting on a panel. And, you know, the sponsor said, Well, here's a panel for you, please moderate it. And I took one look at that panel, and it was me and I think there was one other woman and the For guys, and I was like, I can't do this panel, you know, and I pushed back. And of course, my sponsor and I have been working together for four years. So I had that ability to speak up and he is a great ally, had he not, I probably would have just said, like, sorry, I'm too busy can't make it right. Or you probably wouldn't be my sponsor. So I took the time and I said, Look, this panel is just not attractive for these reasons. And if you want me to moderate this, here's what I want to see. I need you to cut out at least two spots, and I want to replace them. And I'm happy to bring you people but what I don't want to see is four guys and one woman and then me as the moderator, that's not a very balanced panel. So he kind of tasked cast me with Okay, fine, go find the people make sure that they can speak here's kind of the background. And I already had a couple watering holes. You know, I am part of a couple slack communities. Obviously I have my own network. I have students that I train, so I have a lot of places that I can pull from. I still found it a little challenging. I won't say that people just trickled into me But within a couple days, I was able to get people to say I'm interested. And then from there, I went through their profiles to see that they had spoken. They had either a YouTube video or they had spoken somewhere before that could vouch for them. And I ended up actually, surprisingly, getting to women. And then what ended up happening was one of the guys who was on the panel, I couldn't make it. And so he gave up his spot to a female colleague, and the panel ended up being five women or was like four women and one guy, which is kind of coincidence. We didn't really planned it to be that way. But I gotta say, what ended up happening was, there was a awesome audience turnout, we were pretty much sold out. The people that came out said, Oh, somebody really put a lot of thought into this panel. And a lot of women came out saying, Oh, I looked at the roster. I saw that it was a great representation of women who are doing pretty advanced stuff. I mean, We had somebody who was doing augmented and virtual reality, we had someone who was a product manager for the last 1015 years. So these were not like, oh, let's just find somebody who's a recent grad or flexibly up the street, these were experienced individuals, right? Taking the time to think through who needs to be there, why and how that's going to reflect the audience and how they perceive this panel was important. So you've got to have somebody that's going to push back a little, as well as pluck the folks and say, these are the people that need to be on this. This is how it's going to operate. And that, of course, takes time, I understand. But if you don't put in that effort, then you know, people are gonna be like, Oh, this is just like any OLED panel. You know, why bother? And you're not going to get the response that you want to see. James Taylor Yeah, I mean, I think I was I heard from a speaker in Singapore the other day, saying, Yes, it is. I'm actually getting home our speaker together, we're going to refuse to be on all matters. panels we get things like this normal panels to be basically declined now, and we say okay, we think and we get it sometimes it's it's just, they haven't thought they're just not. It's just like it's like as you say it's last minute, I'll just, you know, they're not really thinking in any kind of way in terms of what potentially is going to be in the best interest of the audience in terms of having diversity of ideas and those people diversity of ideas as well. I'm wondering, so my wife is a an engineer. She's a mechanical engineer by trade. So I often test out my keynotes and her because her brain is very different to mine. She thinks much more analytically, you know, she's into the detail and stuff like that as well. So I'm very lucky I've kind of got that person that I've got that techie person to test out things on. For someone that doesn't have that. How should they be if they're working out their keynote and then knowing they know they're going to be speaking to more technical audience does have to be engineers, maybe scientists are more technical audience anyway. How should they be thinking about preparing If they're not necessarily a technical person themselves, Poornima Vijayashanker so I read a really interesting book recently by Angie Panzer, and it's all about writing for the workplace. And I thought that the takeaways apply to speaking as well. And the one thing that she mentioned in her book was how a lot of times when we write, if the writing is very dense, if it's convoluted, then the reader looks at the writer and says, Oh, this person, just, you know, isn't a very good writer, and isn't a very polished person or professional person, because of the cognitive load they put on the reader. Now, if the writer instead uses simple language, despite what level the reader may be at, right, the reader immediately gets it they kind of flow through the book, and they're thinking wow, I totally understand all these concepts. I was able to finish the book you know, cover to cover and they feel empowered, right. Same same rules apply to being a Speaker, it doesn't matter whether you are going in front of a technical audience or a lay person audience, you have to take the time to say, I'm presenting this information, there may be jargon, there may be concepts that are or things that, you know, I discovered that other people may not know, right, the curse of knowledge. So how can I best convey it in a way that's easily digestible? Not patronizing, you know, so that's the tone depends, and depends on how you how you phrase it and how you deliver it in your tone. But if you can incorporate that, then audiences are going to feel like wow, this was a very polished speaker, a professional speaker, a knowledgeable speaker, because you've done all the work for them. So regardless of who your audience is, whether it's technical or non technical, I always encourage people to do that. And it does work. That's the thing like once you start to do it, you're like, wow, I felt like I had stripped a lot of the content out I made the message simpler. I had a smaller table. takeaways are fewer takeaways. And people were thankful, you know, nobody said it was too watered down. And nobody said it was too dense. It was just right. And that takes a level of practice. But I would encourage your people in your audience to think about that, how can I take my message, regardless of the audience, and make sure that it's simple, because the people on the receiving end are going to are going to judge the quality of the speaker based on how simple you make it. James Taylor It's really that that line, which someone said, Kevin, which famous author said, it's Sorry, I'm having to write you a long letter, I didn't have time to write your shorter letter, because the writing the shorter takes so much more work. And you have to really think, you know, much, much more intensely about how do I want to distill this down. I'm also wondering, now you're saying this, I'm reflecting on some of the some of the speakers I really like and they often speak as three different levels so that there's so even if I'm not attending, I go and listen to them speak. I understand cuz they're speaking of the usual most consistent and things like that. So, you know, they'll relate it to maybe foods or things I get as a non technical person. But then there's another level up, which is maybe the more executive level and that executive executive level to certain using certain concepts there. And then there's another level again, when they using whether it's in terms of certain jargon, or they're giving clues. They're giving a sense at this point. I know what I'm talking about here. But I'm also having to create a create a talk and I think that's, that's must be a fine balance to be able to, to get a get a message across in that way. Poornima Vijayashanker Sure. Well think about this way, even your executive who has a million things going on in their head, they, they've got thousands of people pitching them, they've got emails coming in, they have their own decisions to make, right even if you were to take the time and put something into a simple analogy, or contexts that they're going to get in the first you know, 30 seconds or three minutes. You have just now saved them from having to do that load, right that that cognitive load. And so even for the folks who are like that, I find that it's very, very helpful to make the jargon of the company to demonstrate that you know what they're talking about, right? So if you say something like, Oh, yes, I understand that this company you guys use, okay, ours okrs mean, blah. Here's how I think you know, what I'm talking about relates to that. So you can you can kind of get your foot in the door and demonstrate credibility. But again, think about what that person on the receiving end goes through on a day to day and really take the time to say, How can I present this information? Because my sense is you're going to want to get something out of that relationship later on. You may want to go on to do consulting, you may want to get hired on again, as a keynote speaker, you may want a referral, right? And so when you've done that heavy lifting for them, Then all of a sudden, they're like, Oh, this person was fantastic, right? And it, it becomes this thing that people, like, I can't put my finger on it. But that's essentially what they're doing. And, and storytelling is one format to do that in analogies or another. But you've really got to think about that cognitive load on your audience member. James Taylor I'm thinking that's sometimes the benefit of being the closing keynote speaker, as opposed to opening is if you can get in a few days early to the event, and you can spend time and then you quickly get to hear the language of, of the delegates, what the toys but if it's an industry you don't know about, there's downsides, obviously, to be in a closing keynote, a lot of people thinking about leaving, where am I going to go? Like, I've got to catch my flight, but there's definitely some, some benefits there. So you're, I know you have this this, this course, which is really helping, the more more techies, you know, speak whether that's because they have to go and present product launches or whether they have to present to the teams or selling an idea, maybe to a client as well. What when when you start getting you know, working with those people When people say kind of going through that course, what is the what is the aha moment? Do you see from them where they suddenly go? Oh, okay. Oh, this this concept is just opened up his knees changed my paradigm on how to speak what was the thing that you tend to find there? Poornima Vijayashanker Well, I think the first is because so many of these folks don't tend to be presenters on a day to day basis, like a salesperson or a marketer would be their first resistance is Oh, I'm just not a natural speaker. Right? And, and getting them over that initial hump of you're going to be nervous. Everybody's nervous nerves are okay, here's how to manage that nervousness is the first hurdle. And so we do that through some pretty simple exercises that have nothing to do with anything technical, right? We just, we make it really, really easy. One of the first exercises I do is describe to me your favorite dessert, and that's something anybody can do. Right? And then they see Oh, that was it was kind of challenging to do, but I did it and it works. makes them realize that they can achieve something. The next phase is, I'm not an expert, right? Because even though people may be technical, they may think that they are not as big as the next person. Or maybe they're not far enough along in their career, or they don't have something novel and earth shattering to share. So the second thing that we help them do is really extract their expertise by looking at what they've already done, and realizing that there are people out there who may be less experienced or less knowledgeable than them. And those are the folks that want to learn. And so that's kind of the second breakthrough moment they have. And then the third is explaining to them just like building a product, no writing software or hardware or whatever they're working on has a process, there is a process to creating a talk. Once they get over that, then they're like, Oh, well, now I know like how to put this together, but up until then, they feel like it's a mystery and that you have to be really good. charismatic and you have to be leading like, a billion dollar company like jobs in order to do it. So. So once we get to walk them through these three phases, they immediately have a sense of I can do this going forward. And yes, I'm still going to be nervous. Yes, there's going to be moments where I'm going to need to break down abstract concepts, I'm going to need to practice my talk, right? But those I would say, are like the three pillars that we build on, so that by the end, everybody in our course, is doing at least a five minute lightning talk. And it's, it's pretty transformative, you know, recording them throughout. And then at the end, sometimes they say, Oh, you know, I was really nervous. I don't know how I did. So we make them go back and watch it. And the next day, they're like, Oh, my gosh, I didn't recognize myself. It's like what the majority of students say. So it's fantastic to be part of that process. And to see how awakened they become and to see that they can, they can do it and they just, they just needed somebody to kind of guide them along and to help hold them accountable through each of those steps. James Taylor Now you're in the land of tech. So I want to make a couple of quick fire questions here. What is that app that you're using just now the or the online tool? Do you find really useful for yourself? Especially for the speaking part of you it could be in terms of how you prepare or it could be in terms of how you get your speaking gigs or deliver on your on your speaking What? Are there any tools you really enjoy using? Poornima Vijayashanker Yeah, unfortunately, I don't have a lot of tools that I use to get engagements I find that most of my engagements I have to just do sort of the general sales process of cold calling or cold outreach to people through email following up. I will say that what has helped a lot this year in particular, is my YouTube channel. So having and that I've been building for the last four years. So it's kind of funny that it was only recently that I'm starting to get more and more interest. And the thing about my youtube channel is I have a variety in In terms of the content that I produce, I have some short videos that are about a minute to five minutes long. I have longer videos that are interviews that I do for my monthly or weekly web. And then I have ones that are probably 15 or so minutes. I also take any previous talks that I've done, and I put them up there so that people can see. And that ends up being one a really great source of interest and to credibility, because at the end of the day, if somebody is paying me to come and speak at their conference, they want to know, okay, can this person actually deliver? Yeah, and having that video, no matter how long or short it is, can get your foot in the door and also help close the deal, versus a lot of people I know, don't have a video, and it doesn't have to be something highly produced. You know, one of the earliest videos I did was just me standing in front of a camera speaking to people talking to them about what Fungineer was. I was about three minutes. Long as if you can create a simple explainer video, you can use that in so many places, certainly on YouTube, but in your email signature, you know, as people request a sample, and I feel like that is really, really critical having that piece of video, and if you can emulate a audience setting, because I have a couple where I'm speaking to people, getting those audience reactions can be valuable, because a lot of a lot of organizers want to see how the audience reacts to what you're saying. So I also have my like TEDx talk in there. And that's very helpful. James Taylor No, that's gramming I think YouTube is such a powerful place. Because, you know, when I talk to meeting planners, it's like the number one if they're looking for, let's say, a speaker on innovation, that that they go to YouTube first is that it's the place to go. And then the other interesting when they'll if they're looking at speakers, because of the way that the the, the recommendation engine works on YouTube. If you've got your tagging, right, and your titles and a bunch of other things right, then you can actually get seen by the people who have Wherever you whoever you know that there will be a guru in your topic, you could get seen, you know, after that video, you know the recommended videos as well. So I think that's great. I think that's it. That's a great suggestion. What about books you mentioned Scott Burke and his book was a great book on on speaking, it was another book. It doesn't have to be on speaking, but maybe it could be on. It could be on, you know, the world of tech. It could be some of it some of the topics that you talk on. Poornima Vijayashanker Yeah, well, actually, right now I'm diving into a Patsy rodenburg book on presence, the second circle book, and I did that because I understand how to be present with my audience. I've been doing this for so long, but I need to be able to convey that it to my students, and I need to have a resource to do that. So I've actually found her book really helpful, because she very clearly explains why some people kind of get stuck in their own head or their maybe two outward, you know, it's sort of the overly salesy person or the old Really bubbly person? And how do you kind of rein that in and present with your audience? And again, that's where you develop the connection with your audience. And so for me, I'm, I'm currently reading that, and I think it's I think it's a great read. So I would recommend it for people who have maybe started speaking, but they feel stilted, or maybe they don't feel as connected with audiences, or if they're just looking to say, hey, how can I move better in my own body? How can I be a little bit more dynamic of a speaker? I think it's a great read for them to get started on. James Taylor Great. We'll put a link here as well. What about if you were to let's make you wake up tomorrow morning. You have to start from scratch. No one knows who you are. You've never been booked to speak before. You have your LinkedIn profile is being wiped clean. So what would you do? How would you restart especially the speaking part of your business in your career? Poornima Vijayashanker I honestly say I would go back to basics and basics for me. We're doing some in house training with my team. So when I was at mint, one of the things I did early on was train all the employees because I was literally the first engineer there, right? So I had to sit down with them and explain, here's the architecture, here's how you get started. So and that's a very kind audience. It's your peers, you can't really mess up and they're not going to grade you if you're doing a lot of thumbs up verbal tics, etc. So I started there. And then from that point, I thought, okay, I wonder if I can go out and take this information and spread it to other people. So I actually approached unconferences first, because the thing about unconferences is there's no I mean, they have standards, but there's no high barrier. You don't have to sit down and spend hours and hours crafting your proposal talking to a bunch of organizers. You literally come up with a topic, you throw something up there and then now people have started voting on what they would like to see but still It's pretty simple, and it's very casual. So you can then get an audience of about 510 or 15 people to come to your talk, and start, start there, maybe get a few testimonials from the folks who attended so that they have a sense so that you have them to then go out and get more speaking engagements. But but that's how I would start, I think I would just go back to what I had originally done, because for me, I think that that's a very organic way to do it. And it's also a way where you're improving as you go along. Right? You're kind of starting in a place where you feel safe. Because a lot of people, you know, they're like, Oh, I want to speak at a conference and then all of a sudden they get really nervous, right? So start where you feel safe. go from there, there's no there's nothing wrong and doing baby steps. And then once you get to a level where you're like, Oh, I could give the same talk again and again, I could do it at conferences, etc. Then start reaching out to people But I would, I would kind of follow a bad approach. The key thing though, is setting a milestone setting a goal and saying, I'm going to do at least one talk quarter talk of sense for your schedule. I think consistency is really the key. And like anything else, it's that consistent practice getting out there and doing the speaking. And you'll find that as you start to do it, it has a snowball effect, more people want to reach out to you more people are aware of you. And you then get to be in a position where you decide, you know, what are the things that I want to invest my time in? Where do I want to speak? Who do I want to reach out to James Taylor pretty we could speak about loads of other things related to this topic, especially in terms of being an evangelist and influence so within your industry and within your, with your company, because there's so many different ways to go, where would be the best place if people want to kind of learn more? Where should they be going now, if you want to learn more about you and the work that you're doing, and maybe we can take those next steps, Poornima Vijayashanker feel free to reach out to me on Twitter. I'm @Poornima James Taylor Well, I love that we're going to have that link here. And I'm actually going to be reading that book as well because I want to pick up all these, especially when you're talking about process as well. And I love I love when we can start breaking things down into process. So pretty much thank you so much. It's been a I love just when we have we have our conversations as well. And I think you're doing amazing, amazing things. I look forward to actually catching you on stage at some point really soon as well. And I wish you all the best is engineering creases. Thank you. Poornima Vijayashanker Thanks for having me. James Taylor Today's episode was sponsored by speakers you the online community for speakers and if you're serious about your speaking career then you can join us because you membership program. I'll speak as you members receive private one on one coaching with me hundreds of hours of training content access to a global community to help them launch and build a profitable business around their speaking message and expertise. So just head over to SpeakersU.com to learn more. #speakersU #speakerslife

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Vivek Wadhwa is a Visiting Scholar, School of Information, UC-Berkeley; Director of Research, Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, and Exec in Residence, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University; and faculty member and advisor at Singularity University. He helps students prepare for the real world; lectures in class; and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is also an advisor to several startup companies, a columnist for The Washington Post and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and writes occasionally for several international publications. Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa founded two software companies. During our conversation, Vivek the reason why there is a lack of Blacks in position of power in the tech industry, what Blacks need to do to crack Silicon Valley, the pushback that he has received from a number of people for his views, African American feedback to his views and that there is hope for Black to make it and how to succeed in Silicon Valley. Click on the following link to read Vivek's article "We need a black Mark Zuckerburg": http://wadhwa.com/2011/06/24/washington-post-we-need-a-black-mark-zuckerberg/ You can connect with Vivek via: http://wadhwa.com/ (Website) @wadhwa Wadhwa@duke.edu (email)

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