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In this special episode of Restorative Works!, host Claire de Mezerville López welcomes Kethlin Lorincz and is joined by co-host Maia Chochua, vice chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice (EFRJ), to celebrate Restorative Justice Week. This episode is part of a special series, "Restorative Justice in Local Communities Around the World," created in partnership with the EFRJ. Kethlin shares her unique journey, starting as a victim-offender mediator at just 18, and how her work now focuses on resolving disputes in neighborhoods across Finland. Through real-life stories, she illustrates how restorative practices can repair relationships, rebuild trust, and foster peace—even in situations fraught with tension and fear. From victim-offender mediation to community and workplace conflict resolution, Kethlin highlights Finland's innovative approach to restorative justice. Her work reflects the power of restorative justice to create safer, more connected communities. This episode dives deep into the practical applications of restorative practices in community settings, underscoring the importance of dialogue, empowerment, and compassion in resolving conflicts. Kethlin Lorincz is a lawyer, mediator, trainer, and former peacekeeper. She has been a restorative practitioner since she was 18 years old when she became a victim-offender mediator at the municipality level. Studies in law school and interest in international conflicts took her to the Middle East and the Balkans where she worked in difficult conflict environments in the field of crisis management. Currently, Kethlin works at the Finnish Forum for Mediation NGO where she supervises the Community Mediation Centre as a director. The Centre specializes in mediating community disputes by addressing disturbances, tensions, and difficult situations in neighborhoods and living communities all over Finland. Furthermore, the Centre promotes dialogue, good relations, and general safety by training companies and networks to use restorative tools to diffuse disputes and confrontations in residential communities. Maia Chochua is a lawyer from the country of Georgia, serves as the vice chair of the EFRJ, and is a senior legal adviser in the EU-funded Project Advancing Reforms in the Justice Sector in Georgia. Maia holds the position of Rule of Law Adviser at the DAI Europe Business Unit of Governance and Social Development. With 26 years of experience in justice reform, Maia has held senior roles within USAID and European Union-funded projects supporting the development of justice sector improvement and governance in Georgia. Her expertise encompasses various critical areas such as judicial reform, liberalization of criminal justice policy, capacity building of criminal justice institutions, strengthening the bar and legal aid services, law enforcement and corrections systems, reforming the juvenile justice system, and promoting the application of restorative justice and restorative practices. Maia has been instrumental in developing and implementing the Juvenile Justice Code and restorative practices in Georgia. She is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar on Youth Violence, Safety, and Justice and firmly believes that the widespread application of restorative justice and restorative practices is key to building safe societies. Tune in to hear about the EFRJ's efforts to make restorative justice accessible to everyone across Europe and beyond.

Hello team and welcome back to the Learning Future Podcast! It's been quite a while since our last release, but we're excited to bring you a special episode today. We're taking a moment to reflect on the incredible journey of Season 7, aptly titled "Education Transformed," and offering a glimpse into the exciting content we have lined up for Season 8.Season 7 Retrospective:Season 7 was an extraordinary collaboration with the international think tank, Salzburg Global Seminar. As a multiple-time fellow, I've witnessed firsthand their efforts to bridge divides and foster leadership globally. We kicked off the season with Dominic Regester, Director of the Center for Education Transformation at Salzburg Global Seminar. Dominic set the stage for our discussions on transforming education, moving beyond merely improving the old model to creating something fundamentally new and impactful.Throughout the season, we engaged with 20 remarkable educators, designers, innovators, and thought leaders. Highlights include:Dr. Anantha Duraiappah from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, who discussed the power of cognition and social-emotional learning.John Goodwin and Chris Purifoy from the Learning Economy Foundation, who explored the concept of a learning economy and transferable credentials.Gavin Dykes from the Education World Forum, who emphasized the importance of global collaboration in education.Professor Frank Oberklaid, a pediatrician and public health expert, who spoke on centering child well-being in education systems.Tom Vander Ark from Getting Smart, who shared insights on AI in education and the role of passion and purpose in learning.We also had enlightening conversations with educators like Franco Mosso from Enseña Perú, who dreams of a nation of young changemakers, and Romana Shaikh, who underscored the need for self-transformation for systemic change.Our discussions touched on various themes, from humanizing technology in education to fostering curiosity and resilience. The season concluded with profound reflections from Professor Stephanie Jones from Harvard's EASEL Lab and Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Director General of the International Baccalaureate.Season 8 Preview:As we look forward to Season 8, I'm thrilled to share that we have already recorded eight episodes featuring some of the world's most insightful educators and thinkers.Rebecca Winthrop from the Brookings Institution will discuss agency and relationships in student engagement.Charles Fadel, author of "Education for the Age of AI," will delve into the implications of AI on learning.Mette Miriam Boell from MIT will share insights on building compassionate, living system-based educational models.We also have an exciting series featuring colleagues from the Stanford D School, who will present innovative approaches to creative education.Closing:Thank you so much for joining us on this journey. Your support and engagement are what make this podcast possible. If you have any suggestions or want to share your thoughts, reach out to us at hello@thelearningfuture.com or connect with us on LinkedIn at Louka Parry or The Learning Future. We'd love to hear from you and learn about your work as an educator, innovator, or leader.Until next time, thanks for listening and stay tuned for an incredible Season 8!Stay connected with us for updates and new episodes. Subscribe to the Learning Future Podcast on your favorite platform, and don't forget to leave a review. Your feedback helps us grow and bring you the best content in education transformation.

This week on the Sinica Podcast, a show taped in Salzburg, Austria, at the Salzburg Global Seminar with Kerry Brown of King's College, London, on the prolific author's latest book, China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One.05:22 – Chinese worldview and historical perceptions07:51 – The unease with China's rise10:42 – Chinese exceptionalism vs. Western universalism17:30 – Parallels between American domestic unease and perceptions of China22:27 – Discussion on China's competing belief system33:56 – China's raw form of capitalism40:36 – What the West wants from China46:10 – The internet as a reflection of Chinese power and limitations51:17 – China's syncretism and its impact today55:00 – The narrative of Chinese success and its PR challenges1:05:32 – Revising Western narratives on China's developmentA complete transcript of this podcast is available at sinica.substack.com. Join the community on Substack and get not only the transcript but lots of other writing and audio to boot!Recommendations: Kerry: Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand BraudelKaiser: Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China by Jin Xu; and re-reading Hilary Mantel's masterful Wolf Hall trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Historian Rana Mitter joins Sinica this week in a show taped live in Salzburg, Austria at the Salzburg Global Seminar, in which he discusses efforts by Party ideologists to create a Confucian-Marxist synthesis that can serve as an enduring foundation for a modern Chinese worldview in the self-proclaimed “new era.”01:28 – Is China a revisionist power?02:16 – Right-sizing China's global ambitions09:27 — How China utilizes historical narratives to support political ends10:43 – Marxism and China's Historical Understanding17:07 – China's "New Era" and Party history28:38 – The Confucian-Marxist Synthesis 56:58 – China's ability to reinvent itself1:02:15 – What's the next big question?A complete transcript is available at the Sinica Substack.Recommendations: Rana: Eliza Clark, Boy PartsKaiser: Anthony Kaldellis, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Gary was director of the Walters Art Museum from 1994 to 2013; from 1985 to 1994 he was the museum's chief curator. Before moving to Baltimore, Gary was senior associate at Harvard's Center for Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. A native of Minnesota, he received his BA from Carleton College and his PhD from Princeton University. He serves on the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts of the Salzburg Global Seminar. He has been an advisor to the Getty Leadership Institute, Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology, and the Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University.​ In this episode, Gary and I discussed how to preserve the spiritual impact of Orthodox icons in a museum setting. We talked about the challenges of conveying the unique power of sacred art to a diverse audience while respecting its spiritual intent. Additionally, we discuss the intersections of art, culture, and religion in the context of pilgrimage.

In an environment of rapid academic and technological achievement; what are the potential long-term impacts on individual well-being and societal development should social-emotional learning no be effectively incorporated into our educational systems? What can we do to balance and serve broad diverse requirements of young learners? Ryder Delaloye is the Associate Director for SEE Learning® (Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning) Program at the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-based Ethics which is located within Emory University. He is a practitioner of education and learning, his experience as a teacher and administrator spans from 2nd grade through graduate school. He has taught in public and private schools and universities both domestically and internationally. Prior to his role as the Associate Director of SEE Learning, his research and school engagement focused on whole school and district transformation, district leadership, social studies education, sustainability education, civic education, and teacher and administrator social emotional learning. Ryder believes that education is a vehicle for interpersonal growth and societal change. He is grounded by his wife and children; with whom he loves to play and go on adventures in the mountains. He received his Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Montana.—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation—Transcript available at thelearningfuture.com

What is blasphemy and blasmphemy violence and what drives violence against perceived blasmphemers? Who are the main victims and perpetrators of blasmphemy violence? How did the Salman Rushdie affair shape perceptions and discussions around blasphemy in the Western world and are there risks associated with curtailing freedom of expression? The first episode of Fighting Terror's new series on blasphemy will aim to provide our listeners with a deeper understanding of free speech and blasphemy affairs in Western Europe. Lucinda speaks with Liam Duffy, Strategic Advisor to CEP and together they discuss Liam's recent CEP report on Violence against perceived blasphemers in the West: From Khamenei's Fatwa To The Present and the current state of play in the United Kingdom. Liam is a regular contributor for UnHerd on extremism, and has written on the subject for The Spectator, The Times Educational Supplement, The Jewish Chronicle, and CapX, among others. Liam is also a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. To read Liam Duffy's recent CEP report on Violence against perceived blasphemers in the West: From Khamenei's Fatwa To The Present, please click here.

How do you safely define 'peak humanity' and what would you consider its main characteristics? What ingredients make the education, reasoning, rationality, and creativity for an era of fulfilment for humanity; particularly when faced with dramatic and powerful tools such as AI? Dylan Wiliam is one of the best known educationalists in the world. He's dedicated his entire career to understanding how to ensure learner outcomes are achieved, especially through the study of formative assessment. Dylan is currently Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London. He was previously Deputy Director of the Institute, and has held posts at King's College London and Princeton University. He earned his PhD from the University of London in 1993. We highly recommend one of his recent and many publications about preparing for AI: https://edarxiv.org/372vr/—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation—Transcript available at thelearningfuture.com

Dive into the transformative concept of contributive learning this week with visionary Joanne McEachen, founder of The Learner First! Join Joanne as she explores how education can transcend traditional boundaries and how individuals can be empowered as active participants in their learning journeys. Tune in as Joanne shares her insights on how contributive learning redefines how we approach teaching and learning! You'll get a peek into Joanne's world as she shares her insights on empowering learners, nurturing holistic growth, and reshaping the future of education. --- ABOUT OUR GUEST Joanne McEachen is a celebrated author, speaker, change leader, and executive coach. Her 30+ years of experience span time as a teacher, principal, Ministry of Education leader in New Zealand, and now a globally recognized pioneer in the fields of educational assessment and well-being. Joanne founded Kia Kotahi Ako Charitable Trust, is on the Executive Committee for Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, on the Education New Zealand: North America Advisory Board, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, and co-founder of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). Get Joanne's book: https://bit.ly/3YQ1AYfExplore Joanne's work: https://www.thelearnerfirst.com/ --- SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Overcast | RadioPublic | Stitcher FOLLOW US: Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn POWERED BY CLASSLINK: ClassLink provides one-click single sign-on into web and Windows applications, and instant access to files at school and in the cloud. Accessible from any computer, tablet, or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. Learn more at classlink.com.

I continue my conversation with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan.In the first part, she talks about how she got into Information systems and her career spanning education and startup sectors. How she balanced professional and personal demands and challenges.How she never hesitated to get into new areas and was always ready to learn.In this part of the conversation Shai talks aboutDifferences in teaching approaches for young adults and childrenHow she likes to learn when she is interested in a topic, and not for grades etcPeople learn best when they are invested in itI bring a lot of enthusiasm, by being funny and a pinch of entertainmentGiving interesting assignments (designing assignments that I would want to do)Also taught a strategy class: lot of case studies, that had a lot of learning valueOne of the aspects to address in teaching is to manage short attention spansHow teamwork is important even in academic coursesTrends and concerns related to Evolving Knowledge managementHer career tipsShailaja "Shai" Venkatsubramanyan is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the School of Information Systems and Technology at San Jose State University (SJSU), where she has taught and researched for over 15 years. She has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Arizona, and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a Master Teacher Award recipient.Shai is passionate about using technology and data to solve real-world problems and to make the world a better place. She has also worked as a General Manager at theCoderSchool, a franchise that teaches coding and programming skills to kids and teens, and as a Knowledge Engineer at Kanisa, a Silicon Valley start-up that developed innovative solutions for online customer service. She has expertise in MIS, data analysis, databases, online customer service, and coding education. She enjoys writing, teaching, and learning about various topics related to MIS and beyond.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailaja-venkatsubramanyan-b47742

How does one become the realisation that much of what might be learned over 15 years of schooling was mostly meaningless influence over a person's life trajectory? How might free and untethered gaps help one find personal growth, resilience, and navigation in their life? Sal Gordon dives into the details of his Peaceful Pirate Principle. After Sal's schooling, he quickly realised that most of what he had learned in over 15 years of formal education seemed meaningless. In a way, Sal felt that school had impeded his true education. What was meant to be a gap-year transformed into a gap decade, during which Sal travelled and worked around the world, picking up new languages, customs, and cultures. He took on an array of jobs and enhanced his life skills; from sales to office jobs, from authoring books to driving trucks, from tending bars and restaurants to managing warehouses, working in labs, and building houses. It seemed there was no job Sal hadn't tried – constantly adapting to new environments, building resilience, and nurturing his love for people, learning, and our beautiful planet. Amongst all his roles, Sal's favourite was sailing boats – an experience that profoundly changed his life. He discovered an undeniable, sacred bond between the water, the wind, and a boat. Sal soon recognised that the treasures he once sought weren't just material, like gold or gems. Instead, the real treasures were all around — the breathtaking natural environment, remarkable humans, innate creativity, life's challenges, and love. These became the most valuable to him. Sal believed his true vocation lay in teaching and learning. After all, that had been the essence of his life's journey. He was confident that, as a Peaceful Pirate Principal, he could guide others to discover their real treasures.—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformationTranscript available at www.thelearningfuture.com

I am in conversation with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan, who is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the School of Information Systems and Technology at San Jose State University. She is also a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a Master Teacher Award recipient.A special note on this episode: during this conversation Shailaja talks about some very personal moments in her life that some may find disturbing or moving.In this conversation, she talks about:Wanting to do science, but was influenced to take up commerceEncouraged by her mother, choosing to study accounting in the USATaking up courses in Information systems and computer scienceBeing encouraged by a professor to take up PhD in information science and getting a PhD in Management Information SystemsFinding herself amidst engineers and how she got over the initial fearsTaking up a teaching job at Tulane University, but leaving that after a year to take up a position with a startup in CaliforniaHow she had to do literally a cross country trip one weekend a month for one more semesterEnjoying the work culture in a startup, till they decided to start a familyMoving to San Jose State university after a first meeting at a StarbucksThe hectic and intense pace of life, juggling work and family, with an incident at home that needed help from the Fire departmentRealizing that it is best to focus on one thing at a timeGoing through a tough phase personally, with family health challengesFacing some unfair situations and harassment at workNot getting an empathetic hearing from seniorsHow all these experiences made her more patientWanting to spend more time with her ailing father, choosing to pause her career and focus on familyFeeling happy about her choices as she has a sense of overall satisfactionHow she was able to find her niche, and differentiate her strengths, particularly when among others with more technical backgroundsAn example was about learning what she needed to know for processing satellite dataShailaja "Shai" Venkatsubramanyan is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the School of Information Systems and Technology at San Jose State University (SJSU), where she has taught and researched for over 15 years. She has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Arizona, and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a Master Teacher Award recipient.Shai is passionate about using technology and data to solve real-world problems and to make the world a better place. She has also worked as a General Manager at theCoderSchool, a franchise that teaches coding and programming skills to kids and teens, and as a Knowledge Engineer at Kanisa, a Silicon Valley start-up that developed innovative solutions for online customer service. She has expertise in MIS, data analysis, databases, online customer service, and coding education. She enjoys writing, teaching, and learning about various topics related to MIS and beyond.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailaja-venkatsubramanyan-b47742

David Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy's efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

David Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy's efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha-briefing/message

David Bank chats with Acre Africa's Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. For the full story: https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-climate-change/ Subscribe today: https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

David Bank chats with Acre Africa's Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. For the full story: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-climate-change/⁠ Subscribe today: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha-briefing/message

What conditions in our current learning systems may be hindering our young people's ability to thrive, and how might we address these barriers to foster better learning environments? See some of Cathrine's projects at www.trustforlearning.org and her nature-based learning report published in April 2023, found here.This conversation features a longing to expand into capabilities that make us really human and help us in the new reality of the marketplace, for example, to be problem solvers, risk takers, collaborative, critical thinkers, all important skills of adaption. As an educator with over 30 years of experience in the field of early care and education, Cathrine Floyd PhD (pronounced “Katrina”- it's Norwegian) brings her experience in quality improvement, programming, policy studies and education finance to Trust for Learning and our partners. Cathrine holds a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education and Special Education from the University of Colorado at Denver and a doctorate from the University of Denver in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Her passion for social justice and equity building guides her work to create systems change and positive outcomes for children and families, particularly those from historically underserved populations. Cathrine is a coalition builder with experience in state and federal systems, public and charter school districts, non- and for-profit community organizations and family child care. Her joy in learning and hearing different perspectives enables her to authentically partner and support all voices in collaboration. When not engaging in her work in early childhood, Cathrine enjoys spending time with her family and travelling.—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformationTranscript available at www.thelearningfuture.com

David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa's Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read the full story: https://impactalpha.com/putting-africas-pension-funds-to-work-for-africas-social-infrastructure/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa's Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha-briefing/message

David Bank chats with Empowa's Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines.  “When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just doesn't work,” says Glen Jordan of Empowa, a Netherlands-based social enterprise. “So we have to turn it around and create products that meet the needs of the informal market. And create structures that enable the capital to flow to those structures in a way that's cost-effective.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha-briefing/message

David Bank chats with Empowa's Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines.  “When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just doesn't work,” says Glen Jordan of Empowa, a Netherlands-based social enterprise. “So we have to turn it around and create products that meet the needs of the informal market. And create structures that enable the capital to flow to those structures in a way that's cost-effective.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

David Bank chats with FarMart's Samridhi Singh in the next conversation in our series from the recent Salzburg Global Seminar on “Connecting Capital to Communities,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

Are we truly promoting self-control or just compliance to adult demands? How can we engage students in deep, effortless, and meaningful learning experiences? Stephanie M. Jones is the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Child Development and Education and Director of the EASEL Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research, anchored in prevention science, focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on social, emotional, and behavioral development from early childhood through early adolescence. Over the past fifteen years, her work has centered on evaluation research addressing the impact of preschool- and elementary-level social-emotional learning interventions on behavioral and academic outcomes and classroom practices, as well as new curriculum development, implementation, and testing. Stephanie is also co-Director (with Nonie Lesaux) of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative and Co-PI of the Early Learning Study at Harvard (ELS@H). She serves on numerous national advisory boards and expert consultant groups related to social-emotional development, early childhood education, and child and family anti-poverty policies, including recently as a member of the Council of Distinguished Scientists for the Aspen National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. Her research is published in academic and educational journals as well as in trade publications, and she regularly presents her work to national academic and practitioner audiences. Jones holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Barnard College.—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformationTranscript available at www.thelearningfuture.com

David Bank chats with FarMart's Samridhi Singh in the next conversation in our series from the recent Salzburg Global Seminar on “Connecting Capital to Communities,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha-briefing/message

Have you ever considered how curiosity is a powerful state of mind and being? What feel-good trends are there in modern humanity? Jigyasa says her name means curiosity, and in this conversation, she doesn't shy away from delving into deep explorations of creativity, holism, beautiful futures, and even meeting our dreams. These two deep-thinking changemakers share their insights, free of inhibitions, and encourage listeners to embrace their own curiosity to change the world for the better. Jigyasa Labroo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Slam Out Loud (SOL), where she leads program development, fundraising, and partnerships. SOL uses the transformative power of visual and performing arts like theatre, poetry, and storytelling to build Socio-Emotional Learning skills in children from underserved backgrounds. Slam Out Loud collaborates with state governments and teaching artists, currently working with children across five states in India through their in-person programs, building Creative Confidence in them to find their voice. Organisations across 19 countries have used their online open-source curriculum with a cumulative reach of 10 million children. Jigyasa studied Learning Design as a KC Mahindra scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education and is one of the winners of Falling Walls, Berlin. She is also on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list and was most recently awarded Innovator of the Year 2023 by HundrED, Finland. Jigyasa has been a fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar, WISE- Qatar, Arts for Good- Singapore, and Teach For India. She believes in the power of finding one's voice and engages with music, travel, and coaching to evolve hers constantly.—Slam Out Loud, Educationhttps://slamoutloud.com/—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformationTranscription available at thelearningfuture.com

How can a basic understanding of neuroscience empower children to take control of their reactions and behaviors? How can schools cultivate conditions that promote flow in their students and why is this important for optimal learning and fulfillment?This conversation is a goosebump inducer, an optimistic and can-do showcase of the practicality of practices that can promote flow - high-level performance and deep learning. Dido Balla Speaker, Educator, and Entrepreneur, Dido is currently the Head of Education for the Goldie Hawn Foundation, where his focus is to maximize the impact of MindUP in schools, communities, and families. He is on a mission to make the world a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled place. of Education for MindUp. Dido graduated with a Master's of Science in Secondary Education from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Dido has seven years of experience as a High School teacher, and he is also the founder of a non-profit organization called FitLit, whose mission is to use a blended curriculum of fitness and literacy to empower youth.As an experienced brain trainer, Dido has positively impacted thousands of parents, educators as well as students in the areas of emotional intelligence, mindful awareness, and positive psychology. His work has expanded across the 10 countries.In this episode of the Learning Future podcast, hosts Louka and Dido explore the concept of flow and its impact on health, well-being, performance, achievement, and growth. They discuss the importance of long-term fitness rather than short-term gains, the profound experiences of flow, and the collective nature of this state. Join them as they delve into the depths of flow and share insights on how to cultivate it in everyday life. With inspiring conversations and a focus on honoring the learning journey, this podcast episode is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to tap into their own flow experiences.Educator, Speaker, Entrepreneurhttps://www.didoballa.com/FitLit Chief Vision Officerhttps://www.fitlitters.com/Kindness Matters 365 Board Memberhttps://kindnessmatters365.org/Transcripts available at www.thelearningfuture.com—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation

What are the ingredients, components and other big Cs for human flourishing? What tools are available and what are unneeded to achieve our visions? Alex sets out clear and enactable frameworks and approaches to achieve our visions and ultimately create systems in our work and life geared for human flourishing.Alex Battison is Senior Deputy Head at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, UK. Previous to that, he was on the SLT at Wells Cathedral school in Somerset and taught at Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex, holding a variety of different roles.He is Chair of Educational Futures at Harvard's Human Flourishing Programme and in May 2022 he was one of 51 individuals convened to discuss the future of education at Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria, with the work produced then being published at the UN Conference for Transforming Education in New York last September. He is a Salzburg Global and RSA fellow, has a Masters in Learning and Teaching from Oxford, and is currently in the last year of a Doctorate in Leadership, Learning and Policy from Bristol University.Outside of school, Alex is routinely engaged in exploring and collaborating for educational transformation around the world, following his dream of co-creating the future of education.Alex is also involved in two international working groups that are collaborating to affect systemic change; one that has a focus on supporting school leaders in the UK, and the other investigating inter-generational leadership and methods of co-construction as pathways for greater societal flourishing. Alex consults in other industries where he mentors for both the Premier League and Reluctantly Brave in the areas of leadership and culture change, which exposes him to transformational leadership environments away from schools.Transcripts available at www.thelearningfuture.com—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation

Why do some students have such few hopes for the future where others do, when both have the same potentials and opportunities? What are some revolutionary, brave, and ingenious developments of technology design in education?Lasse Leponiemi is a co-founder and executive director at HundrED, https://hundred.org/ a mission-driven organisation focusing on identifying, amplifying and implementing education innovations.Lasse has been working with the youth education and career planning since 2003. In 2008, he founded an e-student counseling and marketing service whose clientele included everyone in Finland that was interested in university studies, reaching over 100.000 students monthly. When the company merged with the biggest prep-course provider in Finland in 2011 Lasse co-founded the NGO Mentors of Finland, which helps over 400 unemployed young people get a job every year. Since 2012 he has been working at HundrED developing educational concepts. Find out more about Lasse at HundrEDTranscripts available at www.thelearningfuture.com—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation

What does it mean to empower younger generations? Does it shift power away from others, or does it empower the whole?The concept of sharing and building and renovating our spaces, co-designed intergenerationally, enables more broad outcomes and possibilities.This episode features two guests and contributors to Salzburg Global Seminar, this seasons partner. Elo·ise loves to connect ideas, people and places. In her work with the charity Big Change, a catalyst for long-term changes to how we support the next generation, she nurtures Global Alliances. In particular, the Big Education Conversation, which has evolved from a campaign in England to get the public talking about the purpose and future of education into a global invitation launched at the UN Transforming Education Summit. With intergenerational collaboration at its core, the initiative is currently being adopted, adapted and co-created by partners across 6 continents. Elo·ise is committed to the craft of holding space for system transformation, from the personal to the global. This ranges from work to raise awareness and build agency around the Sustainable Development Goals, in her previous role building the World's Largest Lesson and presently with Colombian Charity Worn-en, to her practice as a massage therapist and Circles facilitator with Space To Pause. At the moment, she is particularly curious about the power of listening and attunement. Aliyah lrabor-York is the founder of Pupil Power, a nation wide movement based in the UK which empowers young people to develop their agency in order to reimagine the 21st century's Education system. Since starting her organisation at 16, her work has been awarded and recognised for advising global leaders/organisations on how to embed a genuine culture for youth voice. Currently she serves as the youngest board member for Lyfta Education, as well as an Associate Consultant at Big change. Her expertise include designing, aligning, and implementing collaborative and intergenerational campaigns and programs that transform practice in the Education system. Aliyah is currently studying Education, Policy and International Development at the University of Cambridge. Transcripts available at www.thelearningfuture.com—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation

Rev. Brandan Robertson is a noted author, activist, and public theologian working at the intersections of spirituality, sexuality, and social renewal. Robertson is most known for his work as the “TikTok Pastor”, creating thousands of TikTok videos on inclusive theology which have garnered over 200k followers and 5 million views. A prolific writer, he is the author of nine books on spirituality, justice, and theology, including the INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist True Inclusion: Creating Communities of Radical Embrace. Robertson has bylines in publications such as TIME Magazine, San Diego Union Tribune, The Huffington Post, NBC, and The Washington Post, and is a regular columnist for Bishop John Shelby Spong's Progressing Spirit newsletter as well as Baptist News Global. As a trusted voice on progressive faith and politics, Robertson is regularly interviewed in national and global media outlets including CNN, National Public Radio, MSNBC, Hot Press Ireland, The Independent UK, and The New York Times. In 2021, Rolling Stone Magazine included Robertson in its annual “Hot List” of top artists, creatives, and influencers who "are giving us reason to be excited about the future." Each year, Robertson speaks on a variety of topics across the globe and has been an honored speaker at renowned institutions such as The White House, Oxford University, and The Parliament of World Religions. He's taught seminars for San Francisco Theological Seminary and Disciples Seminary Foundation and currently serves on the faculty of The Lakelands Institute. He has served on advisory committees and working groups for the Democratic National Convention, the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, The Humane Society, and in 2020 was named a Fellow of the prestigious Salzburg Global Seminar. Named by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the top faith-leaders leading the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, Robertson has worked with political leaders and activists around the world to end conversion therapy and promote the human rights of sexual and gender minorities. He works as a national organizer of people of faith on a wide array of social and political issues, and is a founding member of The Union of Affirming Christians, The Global Interfaith Commission on LGBTQ+ Lives, and The Ozanne Foundation US. Robertson received his Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and Theology from Moody Bible Institute, his Master of Theological Studies from Iliff School of Theology, and his Master of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration from Eastern Illinois University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Religion from Drew University. He currently resides in New York City. TikTok: RevBrandanRobertson, IG: BrandanRobertson, Twitter: @BrandanJR --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dear-christians/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dear-christians/support

What does it mean to recognise that education is more than an institution, but a state of being? What are some of the shifts of perspective required for positive systemic transformation?People and their systems are in symbiosis, the relationship between personal and systemic transformations is an inseperable one. Romana Shaikh is the Chief Program Officer at Kizazi, a global non-profit that seeks to catalyze innovation in the design of school models to enable all children to thrive. She has deep experience working across India, West Africa and Armenia with local teams to transform public education to so education is contextually responsive, restorative of culture and identity & relevant to the needs of young people and their communities. Romana practices Presence Oriented Psychotherapy with individuals and groups and is currently involved in collaborative and peace building efforts in India. Through her work, Romana is studying the relationship between personal transformation and systemic transformation. She is a faculty member for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Presence Oriented Psychotherapy. A Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow and an alumnus of Teach For India. Previously, she has been the Director of Training & Impact for Teach For India & a consultant to TFIx, TFAll and various other NGOs in rural & urban India.Romana loves tending to plants, practicing yoga and meditation and learning from various wisdom traditions. She enjoys learning about cultures and the diversity of life experiences people have through reading, traveling & being a part of communities.—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out our partner's publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation

How do projects of Agency across broad ranges and portfolios across Peru impact upon the lives in the community? Hear from a Peruvian expert in education about how a system has empowered hundreds of students into role models and doers of admirable public and community good.Franco is CEO and co-founder at Enseña Peru. https://ensenaperu.org/Franco finds, connects and develops leaders to transform education together. His passion is student leadership. He holds a master's degree in education from Harvard and studies in strategy also from Harvard. He is a TEDx Speaker and Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow. He was a member of the Network Advisory Council of the global network Teach for all. He is also an author, publishing several chapters and articles in UNESCO, Diplomatic Courier, OECD, Teach for All, Harvard Latin Review, Global Education Initiative. In 2018 he was the recipient of the Leadership in Education award from Harvard, as well as the Faculty Tribute award from Harvard. His courses have become public policy in several regions in his country, scaling to thousands of teachers, especially promoting transformations such as student agency and personalized teaching in rural areas. He lives in Peru with his wife and daughter.—-This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/Please check out the partner publication: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation

In this episode, Tamara and Jason chat with Salzburg Global Seminar's Dominic Regester. Dominic is the Director of Education and Director of the Center for Education Transformation he shares insights into education transformation, global citizenship, and social-emotional learning. We also explore the roles capitalism plays in excluding marginalized students.

Christianity. It's a very triggering word in today's climate. You either embrace, hate it, or have completely walked away from it. But what if you could find a way to make it work for you, in a way that says, " I can be Christian and LGBTQIA? Joining the conversation today, is Rev. Brandan Robertson. A progressive Gay Christian, who call us to wake up and take action for the collective good in the ways of Jesus--challenging and inspiring all to believe that a just world is on the horizon. About Rev. Brandan Rev. Brandan Robertson is a noted author, activist, and public theologian working at the intersections of spirituality, sexuality, and social renewal. He currently serves as the Pastor of Metanoia Church, a digital progressive faith community and is the host of The Big Questions Podcast. A prolific writer, he is the author of seven books on spirituality, justice, and theology, including the INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist True Inclusion: Creating Communities of Radical Embrace. Robertson has bylines in publications such as TIME Magazine, San Diego Union Tribune, The Huffington Post, NBC, and The Washington Post, and is a regular columnist for Bishop John Shelby Spong's Progressing Spirit newsletter as well as Baptist News Global. As a trusted voice on progressive faith and politics, Robertson is regularly interviewed in national and global media outlets including CNN, National Public Radio, MSNBC, Hot Press Ireland, The Independent UK, and The New York Times. In 2021, Rolling Stone Magazine included Robertson in its annual “Hot List” of top artists, creatives, and influencers who "are giving us reason to be excited about the future." Each year, Robertson speaks on a variety of topics across the globe and has been an honored speaker at renowned institutions such as The White House, Oxford University, and The Parliament of World Religions. He's taught seminars for San Francisco Theological Seminary and Disciples Seminary Foundation and currently serves on the faculty of The Lakelands Institute. He has served on advisory committees and working groups for the Democratic National Convention, the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, The Humane Society, and in 2020 was named a Fellow of the prestigious Salzburg Global Seminar. Named by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the top faith-leaders leading the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, Robertson has worked with political leaders and activists around the world to end conversion therapy and promote the human rights of sexual and gender minorities. He works as a national organizer of people of faith on a wide array of social and political issues, and is a founding member of The Union of Affirming Christians, The Global Interfaith Commission on LGBTQ+ Lives, and The Ozanne Foundation US. Robertson received his Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and Theology from Moody...

In this special series of Game Changers, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Joanne McEachen, CEO and Founder of The Learner First, to figure out the nuts and bolts of voice, agency, and advocacy. Joanne (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu) is a celebrated author, speaker, change leader, and executive coach. Her 30+ years of experience span time as a teacher, principal, Ministry of Education leader in New Zealand, and now a globally recognized pioneer in the fields of educational assessment and well-being. Joanne founded Kia Kotahi Ako Charitable Trust, is on the Executive Committee for Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, on the Education New Zealand: North America Advisory Board, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, and co-founder of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). A former teacher, principal, and regional and national Ministry of Education leader, Joanne's methodology re-focuses school systems through the eyes of their least-served learners, supporting systems to embrace and celebrate students' cultural identities and individual interests and needs. Our series sponsor is The Museum of Australian Democracy(MoAD)at Old Parliament House. To find out more, visit www.moadoph.gov.au The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aschoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE. The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at learn@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Phil and Adriano via LinkedIn and Twitter. Let's go!

Find out which countries are embarking on true education transformation and discover why transformation might be the best way to articulate the changes we need in schools and education systems. View the report: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformationToday's episode is with educationalist, convenor, and non-profit leader Dominic Regester.Dominic is Director of Education and Director of the Center for Education Transformation at Salzburg Global Seminar, where he is responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs on the futures of education, with a particular focus on social and emotional learning, education leadership, regenerative education, and education transformation. Prior to this he worked for the British Council for 14 years on global citizenship education, teacher professional development, and education collaboration. He works on a broad range of projects across education policy, practice, transformation, and international development, including as a Director at the Amal Alliance, as a Senior Editor for Diplomatic Courier, and as an advisor to the Learning Economy Foundation, and the Power of Zero. Since 2021 he has also served as the Executive Director of Karanga: the Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills. He holds Masters degrees in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African studies in London, and in Education and International Development from the Institute of Education at University College London.In this chat Dominic mentioned the work of bigchange.org, who we are talking to in a future episode. Find out more at salzburgglobal.org and keep transforming.

Louka Parry introduces a season 7: “Education Transformed” a series of conversations that aren't afraid to leave behind past preconceptions to allow for real unhindered bold change and innovation in learning and education - both practical examples and plans for the future.Season 7 is partnered with the Salzburg Global Seminar.Transcription upon request - e-mail hello@thelearningfuture.com

In this special series of Game Changers, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Joanne McEachen, CEO and Founder of The Learner First, to figure out the nuts and bolts of voice, agency, and advocacy. Joanne (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu) is a celebrated author, speaker, change leader, and executive coach. Her 30+ years of experience span time as a teacher, principal, Ministry of Education leader in New Zealand, and now a globally recognized pioneer in the fields of educational assessment and well-being. Joanne founded Kia Kotahi Ako Charitable Trust, is on the Executive Committee for Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, on the Education New Zealand: North America Advisory Board, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, and co-founder of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). A former teacher, principal, and regional and national Ministry of Education leader, Joanne's methodology re-focuses school systems through the eyes of their least-served learners, supporting systems to embrace and celebrate students' cultural identities and individual interests and needs. Our series sponsor is The Museum of Australian Democracy(MoAD)at Old Parliament House. To find out more, visit www.moadoph.gov.au The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aschoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE. The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at learn@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Phil and Adriano via LinkedIn and Twitter. Let's go!

In this special series of Game Changers, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Joanne McEachen, CEO and Founder of The Learner First, to figure out the nuts and bolts of voice, agency, and advocacy. Joanne (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu) is a celebrated author, speaker, change leader, and executive coach. Her 30+ years of experience span time as a teacher, principal, Ministry of Education leader in New Zealand, and now a globally recognized pioneer in the fields of educational assessment and well-being. Joanne founded Kia Kotahi Ako Charitable Trust, is on the Executive Committee for Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, on the Education New Zealand: North America Advisory Board, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, and co-founder of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). A former teacher, principal, and regional and national Ministry of Education leader, Joanne's methodology re-focuses school systems through the eyes of their least-served learners, supporting systems to embrace and celebrate students' cultural identities and individual interests and needs. Our series sponsor is The Museum of Australian Democracy(MoAD)at Old Parliament House. To find out more, visit www.moadoph.gov.au The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aschoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE. The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at learn@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Phil and Adriano via LinkedIn and Twitter. Let's go!

A term that has become a ubiquitous part of public discourse on terrorism and radical Islam ever since the rise of al Qaeda and ISIL/Da'esh back in 2014/15 is the term jihad. In today's last episode of the miniseries on Eye on Islamism, we will shift gear and focus on the current threat of jihadism and its potential evolution.In this episode, Lucinda Creighton speaks with Liam Duffy who is a strategic advisor for the Counter Extremism Project based in the United Kingdom. He is a regular contributor for UnHerd on extremism, and has written on the subject for The Spectator, The Times Educational Supplement, The Jewish Chronicle, and CapX, among others. Liam is also a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar

Today's our special guest is Seba from Argentina! He is a Founder & CEO at Cineastas del Futuro and Smart Film Academy

"How do we create a better free speech culture? How do students learn things like the first amendment in school and in their peer groups? What if at sports events before we sing the National Anthem we recite the first amendment?" First amendment specialist Stuart Brotman joins the podcast, new book in hand. The book, called The First Amendment Lives On: Conversations Commemorating Hugh M. Hefner's Legacy of Enduring Free Speech and Free Press Values, is a series of interviews between Brotman and some of the leading free speech figures of the past half century. From Geoffrey R. Stone to Floyd Abrams to Nadine Strossen and others, Brotman paints a picture of some of the free speech pioneers of recent history. What is the state of free speech today? What is the difference between free speech in a legal sense and a culture of free speech? What are universities doing -- or not doing -- to protect that which we hold sacred? And what does the future hold, as we look to exercise the freedoms of the first amendment in new and robust ways? If you like what we do, please support the show. By making a one-time or recurring donation, you will contribute to us being able to present the highest quality substantive, long-form interviews with the world's most compelling people. Stuart N. Brotman is the inaugural Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media Management and Law and Beaman Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Brotman is an honorary adjunct professor at the Jindal Global Law School in India and an affiliated researcher at the Media Management Transformation Centre of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. He serves as an appointed arbitrator and mediator at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and as a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, where he was a Visiting Scholar in its Academy on Media and Global Change. He also is an Eisenhower Fellow. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Federal Communications Law Journal, Journal of Information Policy and the Journal of Media Law and Ethics, as a director of the Telecommunications Policy Research Institute, and on the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board. He is the first Distinguished Fellow at The Media Institute, where he also serves on its First Amendment Council. At Harvard Law School, he was the first person ever appointed to teach telecommunications law and policy and its first Visiting Professor of Law and Research Fellow in Entertainment and Media Law. He also served as a faculty member at Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy and the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program. He served as the first concurrent fellow in digital media at Harvard and MIT, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Program on Comparative Media Studies, respectively. He held a professorial-level faculty appointment in international telecommunications law and policy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He also chaired both the International Communications Committee and the International Legal Education Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law and Practice.

Jon talks with Nadine B. Hack, CEO of beCause. Nadine works with heads of state, other international leaders, and organizations on tackling obstacles to achieve success, with a particular emphasis on global citizenship, entrepreneurship, innovation, and inclusion. Hack was named Top 100 Thought Leader Trustworthy Business Behaviour often enough to earn Lifetime Achievement Award Trust. She advises business and non-profit executives, heads of state, other international leaders and organizations on clarifying goals and tackling the obstacles to achieve them, with a particular emphasis on global citizenship, entrepreneurship, innovation and inclusion. She was the first woman to be Executive-in-Residence at IMD Business School, where she maintains an active affiliation, to focus on responsible leadership, diversity, sustainability, human rights and other social issues for 21st century business. She was Board Chair of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and served as a non-executive director on other for- and not-for profit boards. An Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advocate; Ethical Corporation shortlist Responsible CEO of Year; Global CEO Magazine ranked her nine of Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Leaders; SustMeme ranks her 75 of world's Top 500 CSR, Sustainable, Green, Ethical Business Influencers. She's accepted numerous awards including International Outstanding Achievement, Enterprising Woman of the Year, Mentor of the Year and Inspiration award for lifetime achievement presented at Säid Business School Oxford University, among others. Featured on Atlantic Speaker Bureau, Hack gives keynotes at conferences, graduations and major gatherings, including a TEDx, Adversaries to Allies. She makes private presentations for boards and senior executives. She's had articles written about and/or published by her in Forbes, The Financial Times, The New York Times, ReWiring Business, The Library of Professional Coaching, Huffington Post, etc. She's appeared extensively on television, radio, the Internet, and is on the international on-line brain trust of women experts, SheSource. Creating connectedness is central to Hack's work: she aids individuals and organizations to connect to core purpose, across silos within their enterprises, with external stakeholders – friendly and even adversarial. She's now writing a book, The Power of Connectedness, with a foreword by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. beCause has 35 Associates from 12 countries on four continents with networks and multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary capabilities. Its sister non-profit Global Citizens Circle works on critical world problems that transcend nations and sectors. A by-invitation Forbes Councils member, her clients include, among others, in private sector Unilever, Omnicom Group, Coca-Cola; in non-profit sector, Ford Foundation, Renewable Resource Institute, Robert Kennedy Human Rights Center; in government and public sector Presidents Nelson Mandela, Corazon Aquino; UN specialized agencies in New York, Geneva, Nairobi; Association German Public Banking Institutions, Shanghai Stock Exchange. See fuller list on website. She's also held senior positions in city and federal government and at the United Nations. Her spectrum of experience includes: develop stakeholder engagement systems within and among organizations; offer personalized coaching for top-tier executives; facilitate leadership development processes; generate multi-sector, cross-border alliances, critical in an increasingly globalized world; sustain social responsibility initiatives, integrated with core business; bolster foundations for trust, ethics, sustainability, gender equity and broader diversity; promote innovation; advance organizational change management initiatives; co-create strategic action plans for new or revitalized enterprises; institute governance structures to achieve these and other goals. Hack still lead sessions in IMD executive education programs, including one-on-one intensives with senior executives and deep dives for business teams or organizations, often in the role of “designated challenger” to help them work through their challenges and chart their future. While Executive-in-Residence she distilled her pioneering work on engagement leadership and its proprietary framework Strategic Relational Engagement (SRE™) into lessons on improving stakeholder engagement to increase productivity, profitability, sustainability and individual/team satisfaction. She's a Fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar and New Westminster College; she created and taught graduate courses at New York University, Southern New Hampshire University; and guest lectured at universities globally. She has Master's degrees from Harvard University and The New School. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience/ Website: https://jondwoskin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big!   Connect with Nadine B. Hack: Website: https://www.because.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nadinehack Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/follow?source=followbutton&variant=1.0&screen_name=nadinehack LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nadinehack Instagram: http://instagram.com/nadine.hack

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Abstract: “You don't want to wait until you already know that there is a culture problem to really understand the culture of your organization. You should constantly be a student of the culture of your company, because we all know nothing can destroy an organization faster than a toxic culture.” - Dottie Schindlinger Culture is top-of-mind in the boardroom. How do you manage it and measure it? What does it look like to act decisively on culture, and what ethical implications come from those decisions? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host David Greenberg talks about the critical role of boards in shaping ethical corporate culture with Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director of the Diligent Institute and co-host of The Corporate Director Podcast for Diligent Corporation. Listen in as the two dig into the relationship between boards and ethics and compliance teams and discuss how that can inspire good governance. The key to success? Empathy.   Additional Resources: Report: LRN Benchmark of Ethical Culture   Featured guest: Dottie Schindlinger is Executive Director of Diligent Institute, the global corporate governance research arm of Diligent - the largest SaaS software company in the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) space.  She co-authored the book, “Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board Director,” and co-hosts, “The Corporate Director Podcast.” Dottie was a founding team member of the tech start-up BoardEffect, acquired by Diligent in 2016. She is the Board Vice Chair of Alice Paul Institute and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.  She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in suburban Philadelphia. Dottie Schindlinger is Executive Director of Diligent Institute, the global governance research arm of Diligent Corporation. She co-authored the book, Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board Director and co-hosts The Corporate Director Podcast. She helped launch and grow the start-up BoardEffect, acquired by Diligent in 2016. Dottie is Vice Chair of the Alice Paul Institute and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, and she is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.   Featured Host:  David Greenberg serves as Chair of the Governance and Risk Assessment Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of International Seaways (NYSE: INSW), one of the largest global crude oil and petroleum tanker companies.  Mr. Greenberg's previous board experience (2006 to 2016) was as the independent director – and member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees --of APCO Worldwide, a private communications and government affairs consultancy and as a director (2013 to 2016) of Clean Tech Group, which creates opportunities for industrial companies to invest in innovative, clean technology.  He also served for 5 years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Keystone Center, a Colorado non-profit that brings together oil, chemical and pharmaceutical companies with leading NGOs to find solutions to complex public policy challenges at the federal and state levels. Greenberg is currently Managing Director of Cortina Partners LLC, a private equity firm that owns companies in the air medical, addiction treatment, bedding, textile and outdoor recreation industries and is CEO of Acqua Recovery, a residential drug and alcohol addiction center.  He also advises boards and executive teams on strategy, compliance, leadership and culture as a Special Advisor for LRN Corporation, and from 2008 through the end of 2016 was a member of LRN's Executive Committee. For 20 years prior to 2008, Mr. Greenberg served in various senior positions overseeing government affairs, corporate affairs, communications and strategy at Altria Group, Inc. – then the parent company of Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris International, Kraft Foods and Miller Brewing – culminating in his role as Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.  As one of five senior vice presidents of the corporation, he served on the Management Committee, which oversaw all strategy and company operations.  He was also a principal architect of the company's very successful efforts to end the ‘tobacco wars' which threatened the company's very existence.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Greenberg was a partner in the Washington D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter and also served as Legislative Director and General Counsel of the Consumer Federation of America.  He attended Williams College and has JD/MBA degrees from the University of Chicago.  Greenberg has testified before the U.S. Congress, the European Union, the Israeli Knesset and other governmental bodies over two dozen times and has appeared on ABC Nightline, the CBS Morning News, BBC Morning, and the PBS News Hour, and has spoken at leading events for CEOs and boards.    

On today's episode of Open Space Radio, I'm excited to be replaying one of the Coffee Talks I hosted at the 2021 NRPA Annual Conference back in September. So, if you weren't able to join us at the conference, I'm glad you'll be able to hear this conversation today with Luis Romahn. Luis is the president, CEO and founder of Parques de México and the National Association of Parks and Recreation Mexico, also known as ANPR. Luis has led ANPR for the last six years, offering its members professional development, networking and employment opportunities. He has been instrumental in shaping the profession in Mexico through research, standards, data and advocacy, and is doing great work to promote the value of parks and recreation in Mexico. Among his many accomplishments throughout his life, he is also the author of the book, “Building My Park – From Citizen Participation to the Administration of Public Space.” Luis is also part of the Emerging Urban Leaders Cohort Program through the Salzburg Global Seminar and World Urban Parks, which is a program that provides spaces for emerging urban leaders to collectively advance critical urban parks work across the globe. Tune in to the full episode below to learn more about Luis and his journey to creating a park and recreation movement in Mexico and beyond. You'll also learn: What led Luis to pursue a career in parks and recreation Why there was a need for creating a national association for park and recreation professionals in Mexico How the profession is growing across Mexico and Latin America How having a network of global park and recreation leaders is helping Luis and ANPR advance their work at home in Mexico How park and recreation professionals in the U.S. can be helpful to Luis and his colleagues in Mexico as they continue to build this movement, and more! Related Links: National Association of Parks and Recreation Mexico (ANPR) Parques de México World Urban Parks

Abstract: “You don't want to wait until you already know that there is a culture problem to really understand the culture of your organization. You should constantly be a student of the culture of your company, because we all know nothing can destroy an organization faster than a toxic culture.” - Dottie Schindlinger Culture is top-of-mind in the boardroom. How do you manage it and measure it? What does it look like to act decisively on culture, and what ethical implications come from those decisions? In this episode of the Principled Podcast, host David Greenberg talks about the critical role of boards in shaping ethical corporate culture with Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director of the Diligent Institute and co-host of The Corporate Director Podcast for Diligent Corporation. Listen in as the two dig into the relationship between boards and ethics and compliance teams and discuss how that can inspire good governance. The key to success? Empathy.   What you'll learn on this episode: [1:52] What was on the minds of those at Diligent Institute during their recent corporate culture roundtable? [5:32] Boards' and Directors' struggles to measure culture and progress. [8:25] Underlying driving factors of conduct. [14:13] - Discussion of cancel culture and reputation preservation. [17:38] - The importance of identifying your company's purpose.  [19:52] - The key ethics issues challenging boards right now. [24:28] - The looming threat of cyber crime. [27:46] - The shifting relationship between boards and ethics and compliance teams.   Additional Resources: Report: LRN Benchmark of Ethical Culture   Featured guest: Dottie Schindlinger is Executive Director of Diligent Institute, the global corporate governance research arm of Diligent - the largest SaaS software company in the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) space.  She co-authored the book, “Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board Director,” and co-hosts, “The Corporate Director Podcast.” Dottie was a founding team member of the tech start-up BoardEffect, acquired by Diligent in 2016. She is the Board Vice Chair of Alice Paul Institute and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.  She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in suburban Philadelphia. Dottie Schindlinger is Executive Director of Diligent Institute, the global governance research arm of Diligent Corporation. She co-authored the book, Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board Director and co-hosts The Corporate Director Podcast. She helped launch and grow the start-up BoardEffect, acquired by Diligent in 2016. Dottie is Vice Chair of the Alice Paul Institute and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, and she is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.   Featured Host:  David Greenberg serves as Chair of the Governance and Risk Assessment Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of International Seaways (NYSE: INSW), one of the largest global crude oil and petroleum tanker companies.  Mr. Greenberg's previous board experience (2006 to 2016) was as the independent director – and member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees --of APCO Worldwide, a private communications and government affairs consultancy and as a director (2013 to 2016) of Clean Tech Group, which creates opportunities for industrial companies to invest in innovative, clean technology.  He also served for 5 years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Keystone Center, a Colorado non-profit that brings together oil, chemical and pharmaceutical companies with leading NGOs to find solutions to complex public policy challenges at the federal and state levels. Greenberg is currently Managing Director of Cortina Partners LLC, a private equity firm that owns companies in the air medical, addiction treatment, bedding, textile and outdoor recreation industries and is CEO of Acqua Recovery, a residential drug and alcohol addiction center.  He also advises boards and executive teams on strategy, compliance, leadership and culture as a Special Advisor for LRN Corporation, and from 2008 through the end of 2016 was a member of LRN's Executive Committee. For 20 years prior to 2008, Mr. Greenberg served in various senior positions overseeing government affairs, corporate affairs, communications and strategy at Altria Group, Inc. – then the parent company of Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris International, Kraft Foods and Miller Brewing – culminating in his role as Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.  As one of five senior vice presidents of the corporation, he served on the Management Committee, which oversaw all strategy and company operations.  He was also a principal architect of the company's very successful efforts to end the ‘tobacco wars' which threatened the company's very existence.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Greenberg was a partner in the Washington D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter and also served as Legislative Director and General Counsel of the Consumer Federation of America.  He attended Williams College and has JD/MBA degrees from the University of Chicago.  Greenberg has testified before the U.S. Congress, the European Union, the Israeli Knesset and other governmental bodies over two dozen times and has appeared on ABC Nightline, the CBS Morning News, BBC Morning, and the PBS News Hour, and has spoken at leading events for CEOs and boards.   Transcript: Intro: Welcome to the Principled podcast brought to you by LRN. The Principled podcast brings together the collective wisdom on ethics, business and compliance, transformative stories of leadership and inspiring workplace culture. Listen in to discover valuable strategies from our community of business leaders and workplace change makers. David Greenberg: Culture is top of mind in the boardroom. How do you manage it and measure it? What's it look like for boards to act decisively on culture? And what are the implications of those decisions? Hello and welcome to another episode of the Principled podcast. I'm your host, David Greenberg, LRN's former CEO and now special advisor. I'm also on the board and chair the governance committee of International Seaways. Today, I'm joined by Dottie Schindlinger, executive director of the Diligent Institute and co-host of Diligent's podcast, The Corporate Director. We're going to be talking today about the critical role of boards in shaping ethical culture. We'll be touching on the relationship between boards and ethics and compliance teams and how that can promote good governance. Dottie is a real expert in this space. She brings over 20 years experience in governance related roles, including serving as a director, officer, committee chair, senior executive, governance consultant and trainer for public, private and nonprofit boards. Dottie, thanks so much for coming on the Principled podcast. Dottie Schindlinger: It's my pleasure, David. It's great to be with you. David Greenberg: Dottie, Diligent sponsored a recent round table for directors on corporate culture. What was on their minds? Dottie Schindlinger: Well, thanks for asking, David. Listen, culture has been a top issue on the minds of corporate directors for a few years now but really very much so in the past two years during this pandemic. It's been really fascinating in our conversations with directors all throughout this period of time, the word that keeps coming up over and over again is empathy. That empathy has now become a key skillset for directors and senior executives of organizations to really make good decisions. And I think corporate culture in particular has been a little bit in the crosshairs because of all the rapid change and the seismic type of change that organizations are going through. Think about back in March of 2020, when basically every company that could had to move to 100% remote operations with no advanced warning and with no planning and think of the impact that it had on corporate culture. When what seemed to be a two week hiatus from the office turned into, in some cases, an 18 month long hiatus from being together in the office. I think the directors are really watching corporate culture very closely. And then of course you have other pressures taking place, everything from ESG, what's happening in terms of our workforces, the huge talent crunch that we are under right now that the competition for talent at an all time high. Culture is definitely on the minds of corporate directors and we spent a lot of time talking about that in this round table. David Greenberg: Speaking of all the time out of the office, what are the directors saying about there are companies and boards being back in the office? Dottie Schindlinger: Well, it's very uneven. For some organizations they've been fully back in the offices for a long time. And by the way, I feel like it's really fair to point out that even during the pandemic, something on the order of 62% of jobs in the US cannot be performed remotely. And so I feel like we have to just call that out for a moment and acknowledge that being a remote worker was really kind of the reality for a privileged few in the workforce and not the many. But having said that, it's still very uneven the experience. We're seeing a lot of interest on the part of workforces when they can perform jobs remotely to continue doing so. And then we're seeing also a lot of desire from people together that they miss each other, that they miss the kind of give and take that happens when you get together physically in a space and you have the opportunity to run into somebody you haven't seen in a long time. Someone who's maybe not on your team but an adjacent team and just have those impromptu water cooler conversations that I think we all treasure. It's a very mixed experience. For some people it's better to stay remote, especially if, for example, you're the parent of young children and childcare continues to be an issue. You may want to have the flexibility that being a remote worker brings to your schedule. It's definitely not a universal and because it's not universal and because this all full disease of COVID just keeps rearing its ugly head and we have new variants happening, it's hard to plan. If you're in any position of leadership and you're having to plan, when should we go back to the office? And what should be the protocol to keep the workforce safe? These questions don't have simple answers and the answers themselves continue to evolve as the disease evolves. It definitely is requiring everyone to be a little bit creative and to stay on their toes. David Greenberg: Got it. Going back to the discussions on culture, did measurement come up? How are boards and directors struggling with trying to measure culture and make real metrics on culture so that progress can be measured? Dottie Schindlinger: Yeah, it's a hard thing to measure, isn't it, David? Trying to measure cultures a little bit like saying we're going to measure love. How do you actually approach that? But we also know that when there is a toxic work culture, it is palpable. People recognize when there's a toxic work culture, you can almost see it in the faces of the people on the team. There are some measurements that are quite helpful. I don't know if you're familiar with a project that was put together by a group called Glassdoor in combination with the MIT Sloan School, something called the Culture 500. And what they basically did was use some AI tools to investigate hundreds of thousands of submissions from Glassdoor reviews of employees to look for patterns. And then they measured companies on the S&P 500 on nine different variables trying to determine the health of culture. And kind of work, I think is really very interesting. If you haven't checked it out, I'd recommend that you look at the Culture 500 and just take a look at that website and see how they approached that. It's that kind of measurement that I think is going to make the difference. When you can really see big data sets and look with AI fueled tools for patterns and try to uncover what can we really learn from all these reviews? You're not looking at individual reviews and reacting to individual reviews but you're looking for commonalities and themes and patterns across thousands of entries. That then does give you a fairly accurate picture of what's happening with culture within a company. I think if you're a director these days, you should be paying attention to these kinds of tools. These are the kinds of things that are going to make it easier for you to provide that kind of oversight on culture, especially because that is so hard to do. I can say this from personal experience, I'm on the board of a small nonprofit organization that recently had some challenges around culture. And we've been meeting remotely for a year and a half because of COVID. We haven't been physically on site at the nonprofit organization and frankly, we didn't really have a good sense for what was happening there day to day. And so it took having some conversations with the staff to try to understand what is actually happening here? And it's just really hard to get the tools that you need to have that visibility if you're not boots on the ground every day. And frankly, that's just not the reality for board members, even outside of the pandemic. We're not boots on the ground every day at the organizations that we oversee. Having these kinds of tools that give us better insight, I think are going to be increasingly important as we start to think about how to measure culture. David Greenberg: The other thing I've seen some boards turning their attention to is kind of trying to capture some of the underlying drivers of conduct, both good and bad. Things like trust, fear, belief that management acts on its values. And if boards can get underneath the surface like that, you were talking about empathy. I think those are the kinds of things that we're going to have to be able to measure and assess because otherwise we're just asking people in engagement surveys how they're doing, whether they go out to lunch with their boss, whether they can bring their dog to work and that's not really what's driving behavior. Dottie Schindlinger: It's really true. And David, one of the recommendations that came out of this round table that I think gets at that question of trust is look, I think boards are very used to evaluating the performance of their C-suite executives and especially of the CEO and really understanding, do we have a feeling of trust with this individual and with this team? Do we have trust in their capability as leaders? But it can be incredibly powerful for the board to get some reports from skip level employees. Not the C-suite and not even their direct reports but one level down and really kind of getting a sense from that layer of the organization, how do they think the C-suite is doing in terms of whether they can be trusted to lead the organization in the right direction? That kind of an approach, sort of that 360 degree evaluation can be so helpful to understanding the culture of the organization, especially if that kind of information is coming anonymously and is done regularly. You don't want to wait until you already know that there's a culture problem to understand the culture of your organization. You should constantly be a student of the culture of your organization because let's face it, we know nothing can destroy a company faster than a toxic culture. Truly. We just see every example of that ripped from the headlines. We know that to be true. And so if you're maybe once a quarter, two times a year doing a big 360 degree pulse check of the whole company to understand the culture, really asking people culture specific questions, that's going to give you, I think, a very good sense for how things are going within the company and just it's not necessarily the only data point that you'll use but it does give you a very different view than what you're hearing just in conversation with the C-suite executives. David Greenberg: Yeah. You mentioned toxic cultures. Do you have any recent examples in your experience of a board acting decisively on corporate culture where there was a problem like that? Dottie Schindlinger: Well, there's many as you know but I'll share just one. And I feel comfortable sharing this one because it has been very widely publicized and we've also featured the executive vice president and general counsel a couple times at events that we've held at Diligent. And that's the story of Wynn Resorts. I think everybody remembers a few years ago that there was a very well publicized #MeToo campaign around Steve Wynn, who was the founder, chairman and CEO at the time and he was found to be guilty of sexual misconduct and he was ousted from the company. What may not be as widely known is as part of that process, about half of the board was also ousted from the company because as they began to do their investigation, what they learned was that it wasn't just a matter of there being one bad apple but it was truly endemic in the culture. There was a culture of intimidation and harassment almost at every level of the organization. It absolutely was the tone at the top playing out through the entire organization. And so they felt that they really needed to kind of start fresh and they brought in many more women onto the board. They brought in much more diversity onto the board and that was true throughout the leadership of the company as well. And they began to really work from the frontline employees all the way up to the top of the organization to really get to know what that culture had been like and what would be the things that they really needed to work on and correct. And one of the things I think is quite remarkable is that when we think now about what was happening during the pandemic, so all of this happened at Wynn a few years ago but then came the pandemic. And at the beginning of the pandemic, Las Vegas was shut down completely and as you can imagine for a company like Wynn Resorts, this was an existential crisis. If they couldn't operate their business at all, it might have very quickly spelled the end but because they'd been doing all this hard work around culture, they knew that one of the most important things that they could do would be to retain their workforce for as long as humanly possible. And so they made cuts every possible little place they could without cutting staff. And they actually did not furlough staff, I think, longer than any other resort or casino in the Las Vegas area. And that's really saying something. Now, eventually they did have to make some adjustments as the pandemic continued month after month. But I think they've now hired back basically everyone that they furloughed. They really just focused so much on retaining their workforce, protecting their workforce and really making sure the workforce knew how valued and how trusted they were. And I think that speaks to the hard work that they did around culture. I don't know that that would've been their priority in years past but they knew moving forward, this had to be priority number one for them and it really showed in the choices that they made. David Greenberg: Very interesting. And I'm speaking to you from one of the Wynn hotels right now, where I'm having some strategy meetings. The service is great, the place looks great so they seem to have weathered the storm. Dottie Schindlinger: That's great to hear. David Greenberg: How are you experiencing and talking to boards, their dealing with all of the issues related to reputational risk and cancel culture? Dottie Schindlinger: Yeah, it's a great question. And I think we hear about cancel culture and the concerns there. I think it certainly is a bigger concern for certain industries, rather others. If you are a consumer products company, obviously this is a huge concern for you. It's something that can absolutely spell the difference between success or failure and really on either side. You can have a social campaign go extremely well as in the case of Nike a few years ago, in terms of their support of Colin Kaepernick, that that actually ended up paying huge dividends for the company and really put them in a strong position. And it can go exceptionally poorly. I think of an example like United Airlines when the video of them dragging a passenger off the plane went viral. And quite frankly, even than three years after that incident, their stock price really was continuing to underperform their peers. You can really see how these things can light a fire and go very, very broadly. We do this report every month at Diligent Institute called the Director Confidence Index. And back in February, we were curious to know, how did directors feel about reputational risk? And in particular, we wanted to know, how did they feel about the fact that CEOs were becoming much more public faces of companies and taking to the podium to speak on issues that are kind of unrelated to corporate performance but are related more to social issues. Things that they felt might be of concern to their key stakeholders. And what we thought was pretty fascinating was that 54% of the directors we asked said that their CEO had made a public statement to address a social or political event occurring in 2020. And that was more than double the rate that we found four years ago. It is absolutely true that there is more happening around reputation management and reputation generation for corporate leaders. But only 16% of the directors that we surveyed said that they encouraged their CEO to speak publicly on any issue he or she deems appropriate. 42% say they would encourage the CEO to speak out but only to the extent that the issue relates directly to the company's mission or values. And about 32% said CEOs should always stay silent on social issues. It's clear that there's not a lot of consensus among directors about the best way to do this. What I would say is I think a lot of directors that we speak with are telling us, "Look, it doesn't matter whether you like it or not, you may have to enter the fray because to be silent can sometimes do more damage than to say something. And so you do have to really think about how are you guarding your reputation? What are you aligning your reputation too? And I think probably the best true north is how does this relate to your company's values? What are the things that you are trying to put out to market as your core values? And how does this relate to what you value? I think that's really the best way to approach when to speak out, how to speak out and who should speak out. David Greenberg: I think it also helps when companies have a clear sense of purpose, why they're on this planet and what their relationship is with society. If they can define that and understand that, then it may help them understand the issues where really there's very little choice and a lot of need to actually speak out because it connects to who they are and why they're here. Dottie Schindlinger: Well David, I completely agree. And I would say in that same survey, 57% of directors told us they're more concerned about reputational risk today than they have been in any prior year. And I think that is because there has been this pressure being placed on companies by institutional investors, by the business round table, by just societal opinion. Again, going back to the fact that we're in this talent war, you've got to attract and retain top talent. And the way to do of that is to make sure that you have a clearly stated company purpose, that that purpose of your company is tied to something broader than generating positive returns for shareholders and that it's something that your workforce, your customer base, your partners can all buy into and sort of see a role for themselves in. And I think that's just a much taller order than we've had in years past. I think that the job of a director is getting precipitously harder but if you can have that stated company purpose, it can make other things easier to say no to and make it a little clearer what you have to say yes to. David Greenberg: And one of the things that I've taken to the boardroom from my experience as a senior executive at what at the time was a Fortune 10 company, is that the truth is making a return for shareholders and all of the compensation bells and whistles that comp committees have ever created, you add all that up and it wasn't enough to get a lot of us up in the morning. If there wasn't a greater purpose to what we were doing the company was really missing something in terms of getting discretionary effort even out of its most senior leaders. Dottie Schindlinger: Yeah. I think that's very true. That connects to sort of what makes us human, doesn't it? That we're all, we're purposeful beings, human beings and we want to know that we're connecting to some broader purpose. It's not just we're doing it for the sake of doing it. And I think that's true for board members too. I think board members feel far more motivated to maybe go on a limb and tap into their personal networks and express empathy and have compassion for things that they feel they connect to. I think everybody wants to feel they belong. David Greenberg: For sure. When we drill down a little bit, what are some of the key ethics issues you see challenging boards? Dottie Schindlinger: Well, first of all, just the number of ethics issues challenging boards has exploded. There's many more things that board members have to keep their eyes on these days. I would say some of the big ones, issues around the pandemic dealing with sort of public health issues, making sure that local regulations and workplace safety are being managed correctly. Again, those are not easy issues, but they need to be thought through. Diversity equity and inclusion is a big one. I think there's been so much energy being put into this area ever since the murder of George Floyd and the many corporate commitments that were made to try to change the nature of systemic racism and really address historic inequity. And these things require ongoing attention. This is not something that gets fixed in a couple of months. We're talking about a system that goes back 500 years, so it's going to take some time to get this right but it needs for us not to take our foot off the gas, to really kind of keep going. Also issues related to sexual harassment, those continue to be things that we see plague companies and just continue to need to be addressed. Those are things I would say are really top of mind over the past couple of years but I would also add there, there's sort of a huge ethical dimension to climate change. Right now we're just finishing up the COP 26 conference that's happening in Glasgow. And there's a lot of concern out there that we're not going to be able to meet the climate commitment that we need to meet to keep the ocean temperature level down to 1.5 degrees Celsius above where it was. And I think that has huge, huge implications for every company. Everything from global supply chain, to workforce, to our ability to just conduct business in this new unknown future with bigger, more horrifying storms. And there's some ethical dimensions there. If we're not making choices that are in the best interest of the planet, not only can they be really harmful to our business and our balance sheets, but they're harmful to our own ability to exist. I would call that a bit of an ethical conundrum and that is a huge issue that I think boards are going to have to get better at addressing, frankly, just better at being able to have those conversations at a strategic level in boardrooms. It really does connect to the ability for the business to exist and thrive. We have to just get better at making sure we're talking about these things all the time. David Greenberg: You've just made a pretty good case that the issues that boards confront and discuss are changing. Do you see a related change in the profile of public company board members? Dottie Schindlinger: We've started to see that. We did a report in July called Beyond the C-suite and it was looking at the changing trends of the profile of new director hires of public companies. And what we saw is that while the vast majority of new hires of directors are still current and former CEOs, CFOs and COOs, there is year over year, a growing number of new director hires that are coming into the boardroom with different skillsets. We're talking about people that come into the boardroom with technology backgrounds, legal backgrounds, ESG, HR, sales and marketing. Just kind of nontraditional profiles for board member hires. And this is not an accident. We are seeing this wide array of areas of risk that boards are now being asked to tackle and really have no choice but to tackle. Things like cyber risk, for example. 10 years ago, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a board meeting that spent a very much time talking about cyber risk outside of a very small number of companies. Now, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a board meeting that doesn't touch on cyber risk probably at least a little bit of every board meeting at most companies. And so we're seeing this big shift in the kinds of things that directors have to deal with. And as a result, you need different talent. You need people that come from different areas of expertise and bring fresh perspective into the boardroom conversation. David Greenberg: Yeah. I can tell you that cyber risk comes up on the board at International Seaways very regularly and every time it does, it scares me to death because it's very hard to deal with. It's very hard to know and you have very good people inside and outside the company who can help but it's really fast moving and it's just one of those things that keeps you up at night. Dottie Schindlinger: And I hate to say it but probably should. Probably should keep you up at night. The terrifying numbers that I hear, I believe that now cyber crime as an industry, if you look at it as an industry, has top $6 trillion a year, which Larry Clinton who's the president of the Internet Security Alliance always has this great line, which is, "If cyber crime was a country, it would be big enough to qualify for entrance into the G7." Thinking about any individual company trying to tackle such a behemoth is kind of outrageous. I think what we need to think about is how are all of us as companies, as governments, as citizens banding together to fight this insane criminal enterprise. It's the largest criminal enterprise on earth. It's I think at this point, something like double the size of the illicit drug trade. It's massive. We all have to play our role in fighting this and none of us are going to be successful alone but of us can take our eye off the ball. We all have to pay attention. We all have to be a little bit paranoid all the time for bad things not to happen. David Greenberg: Yeah. One of the things that worries me, you've referenced the war for talent a few times and I wonder if the good side is winning the war for talent in the cyber area? Dottie Schindlinger: Not even close. Not even close, David. Right now, the estimated number of unfilled cybersecurity professional jobs globally is three million. And there's just not even a pipeline to fill that many roles. Unfortunately this is a definite area of concern. I would say any of you listening to this podcast, if you have a young person in your life who's trying to figure out what career to go into, suggest they go into cybersecurity, we need them in the fight. David Greenberg: One of the things I've seen in terms of the changing profile of directors is that I would say three years ago, you would have been hard pressed to find even one or two members of public company boards who had spent a major part of their time as working chief ethics and compliance officers and now I've identified about a dozen. There's a little boomlet in that area that I hope will continue. Dottie Schindlinger: That's a tiny little boomlet. David Greenberg: I know, I know. Well, you got to start somewhere. Dottie Schindlinger: You got to start somewhere. I would agree with you. I think that's a positive trend. I'd love for it to actually be large enough to be a trend but it's positive to see that we definitely saw that there are more individuals with legal expertise being welcomed on to boards. And hopefully that means that they come in the door with some deeper understanding of ethics and compliance issues maybe than others. And I think we definitely could see more of that because as we've been speaking through this whole podcast, the ethical and moral dimensions of business, I think are getting far more complex. And so you need people who sort of understand ethics and compliance in a real way to be able to help guide strategic decisions that have ethical and compliance dimensions to them, which I think is all of them. I think we could all do with an ethics and compliance expert on our boards. David Greenberg: Here, here. A lot of this audience listening to this podcast today, come from the ethics and compliance community so I wanted to be sure to ask how you see the relationship between boards and the ethics and compliance teams out there and whether it's changing and how it may need to change more. Dottie Schindlinger: Great question. I do think it is changing and I would be disingenuous if I said it was changing everywhere at the same pace. That's not true. It's fits and starts. But I do think that there's a greater recognition on the part of many companies that the ethics and compliance team is not the team to call in when things have already gone wrong but that in actual fact, they can be very strong strategic partners in future decision making. You can bring in the ethics and compliance team to help you think through investments that you're planning to make. You can bring them in to help you think through ways that you could potentially be greening your business to potentially add to the bottom line. You can bring them in to talk through workforce issues and the fight for talent, and retaining and attracting of top talent. What are some ways to think about that from sort of the ethical dimension? Frankly, I think it behooves you to use that team in a strategic way to just help make better, more nuanced decisions and play out in advance what are the ethical dimensions of this decision that we're going to make? Again, business now moves at the speed of a tweet. Never forget that every decision you make is going to be scrutinized and it's going to be scrutinized in the marketplace of Twitter. And so if that's going to be the case, it probably makes sense for you to check in with the ethics and compliance team about what might be some things we should be prepared for as we make this decision? And I don't know that that's been the traditional way that those teams have been leveraged. I think more so they've been brought in after the fact to help fix something that's gone wrong or they've been brought in when there's some check the box exercise around training that needs to happen. And I just think that's an under utilization of a really great resource in your company. David Greenberg: Dottie, that is a fantastic place to end today because we're just about out of time. It has been an enormous pleasure to talk with you about the evolution of boards in shaping culture, ethics and compliance and the role of boards in what is an ever changing world. Thank you for joining me on this episode and I hope we can continue our conversations. Dottie Schindlinger: Thank you so much, David. It's been such a pleasure. David Greenberg: And thank everyone out there for listening. I'm David Greenberg and we'll see you next time on the Principled podcast by LRN. Outro: We hope you enjoyed this episode. The Principled podcast is brought to you by LRN. At LRN, our mission is to inspire principled performance in global organizations by helping them foster winning ethical cultures rooted in sustainable values. Please visit us at lrn.com to learn more. And if you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen and don't forget to leave us a review.

I speak with Joanne McEachen (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu), CEO and Founder of The Leaner First. Joanne has spent over 30 years working as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and education change leader in countries around the world. She is a celebrated author, speaker, change leader, and executive coach, a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, on the Executive Team of Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, and cofounder of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). She creates opportunities for learners, educators, and communities to learn who they are, how they fit into the world, and how they can contribute their gifts to humanity. We discuss: How contribution to ourselves, others, and the planet is the only way to acquire the new wealth of meaning and fulfillment; How we can move toward assessing collective rather than individual efforts; How knowing "where we come from" is the starting point for forging new relationships; How indigenous wisdoms remind us that we are interconnected with all life, which opens up a new (yet ancient) way of understanding learning and action. Read our blog and leave your comments on www.coconut-thinking.design.

In this episode of the Coconut Thinking podcast, I speak with Dominic Regester. Dominic is the program director at Salzburg Global Seminar. He is responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs on education, sustainability and innovation. He is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Commission on Education and Communication and a member of the Executive Committee for Karanga - The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills. Dominic advocates for centralizing social-emotional learning as a way to meet the challenges of the future, for the common good as well as our personal and professional fulfillment. We discuss: How we can change education by changing ecosystems of learning; How social-emotional skills can help us shape the life we want to lead; How social-emotional learning is necessary to solve the metacrisis we face. Join us for another episode and come read our blog on https://coconut-thinking.design/thought-pieces/

Artificial intelligence is a fascinating--and often thoroughly misunderstood--topic, and it's making its way into the world of news. In this episode, we ask: What are the cutting-edge applications of AI in the news industry? How can we deploy it responsibly? Is AI only accessible to the largest organizations with the deepest pockets? And perhaps most importantly, what's next? Our Guest This Episode Felix M. Simon is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and a Knight News Innovation Fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. He also works as a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) and regularly writes and comments on technology, media, and politics for various international outlets. His doctoral work at the University of Oxford focuses on the implications of AI in journalism and the news industry. His broader research interests include political communication in the digital age and the changing nature of journalism and the media in the 21st century. He also takes an active interest in populism and the future of mis- and disinformation. Felix graduated with a BA in Film and Media Studies from Goethe-University Frankfurt and holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the OII. He is currently a fellow at the Salzburg Global Seminar. More Resources For more on this topic, check out: What News Teams Should Know About AI-Powered Search Tools Avid and Microsoft Cloud Contact Us Questions? Comments? Cool ideas? Get in touch: makingthemedia@avid.com or @craigaw1969. Follow Avid at @avid. Credits Host: Craig Wilson Producer: Rachel Haberman Social: Wim van den Broeck Promotion: Keri Middleton, Gina Pryor, and Mary Reynolds Theme Music: Greg “Stryke” Chin

Does the collective good allow for greater individual growth? Are networks evolving to become the heart of peer-to-peer collaboration rather than a tool to elevate an individual's contribution? On The Learning Future Podcast episode, we speak with Dominic Regester, a not-for-profit executive, convenor, educator, and interim-Program Lead for Salzburg Global Seminar. We discuss educating for the common good, the fundamental importance of collaboration, and how to make space for new initiatives that support educating for a different paradigm.Dominic is responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs on education, conservation, and the future of cities. Dominic worked for the British Council for 14 years, primarily on projects connected to global citizenship education, teacher professional development, education collaboration and internationalism in education. Dominic has an M.A. in Chinese studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and an M.A. in education and international development from University College London's Institute of Education. Dominic is a founding member of the Executive Committee for Karanga - The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills, a contributing editor to Diplomatic Courier and a Director of Amal Alliance. He is the co-editor of two recent books, 'Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined: Thoughts and Responses from Education's Frontline During the COVID-19 Pandemic' and 'Beyond and Social and Emotional Learning across the Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Approaches (2020)'.

Episode Notes If you've ever been weighed down by what you "should" do instead of what you "could" do, then this extended-cut episode is for YOU! We catch up with Chloe Hakim-Moore of NEXT Memphis after her wildly popular 2020 TEDxMemphis talk, "Stop Chasing Purpose and Focus on Wellness." She was ahead of her time (in many ways!) by speaking to imposter syndrome and the importance of total wellness just weeks ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic. A few of her many accolades include being named Forbes 30 Under 30, Rhodes College Young Alumni of the year in 2020, Memphis Flyer's 20 Under 30, and Urban Elite Professionals top 40 under 40. She was also awarded the Salzburg Global Seminar's Young Cultural Innovators' fellowship to expand peace and well-being globally. Chloe has wisdom beyond her years, and is living proof that you don't have to wait to chase your dreams or prioritize your health.

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Amy Karle BioArtist. https://www.amykarle.com​. Listen to the the interview to discover why Amy would like to collaborate with an exponential technologist, furthermore her view on the interface between exponential technology and ethics. Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning BioArtist working at the nexus of where digital, physical and biological systems merge. Karle is also a provocateur and a futurist, opening future visions of how art, science, and technology could be utilized to support and enhance humanity while making advancements in the technology towards those goals in the process of making her artworks. Current projects probe who we could become as a result of our exponential technologies and how interventions could alter the course of our future. Karle has shown work in 54 international exhibitions, including at: The Centre Pompidou, France; The Mori Art Museum, Japan; The Smithsonian, USA; Ars Electronica, Austria; Beijing Media Arts Biennale, China; Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Poland; FILE International Electronic Language Festival, Brazil. Karle is also regularly invited to share her innovations and insights as an expert speaker and in think tanks world-wide. She was honored as one of “BBC’s 100 Women”, has been named one of the “Most Influential Women in 3D Printing”, was Grand Prize Winner of the “YouFab Global Creative Award” and is a Fellow with Salzburg Global Seminar. Karle was also an Artist Diplomat through the U.S. Department of State tasked with diplomacy, social innovation, women’s empowerment, and supporting cross disciplinary collaborations using art and technology to address social issues. Her work speaks to a wide audience as it inspires exploration into what it means to be human and encourages us to contemplate the impacts of technology on our future. The long-term goals of her work are to continue to pioneer in bioart and the art and tech fields and make contributions to the advancement of society, technology and healthcare in the process. Discussed in this interview: Amy's human story. How "rich connectedness" within both her personal and professional life has moved her work forward. Her work as a bioartist, futurist and explorer. Her invitation to top exponential technologist to collaborate. ideaXme is a global network that promotes knowledge of the future. ideaXme is a podcast available on 12 platforms, in 40 countries world-wide. ideaXme is also a think tank, a creator series and mentor programme. Want to suggest someone for us to interview for our exponential technology and ethics playlist/alternatively a guest interviewer for this playlist? Please email info@ideaxme.com.

Caitlin Baron, CEO of Luminos Fund, a philanthropic initiative dedicated to advancing education innovations for the world's most vulnerable children, and Dominic Regester, Program Director of Salzburg Global Seminar & Founding Member of the Executive Committee for Karanga, the global alliance for social emotional learning (SEL) and life skills, join to kick off Karanga's Q4 series of online SEL activities this week. We chat about how Luminos Fund and Karanga are supporting education transformation through social and emotional learning.

Joanne McEachen is CEO/Founder of The Learner First (USA/Australia/New Zealand), a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar (Austria), on the Executive Committee for Karanga The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills (Global) and a Board Member for Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE) Global.   A social entrepreneur and a leading voice in the global education community, Joanne brings years of whole system leadership experience, working with and within all levels of education to offer insights and strategies that support communities to discover their strengths and bring them to the surface. The perspective she works from is that people and communities hold the answers and not the experts.   Her experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and whole-country school-system leader and working with over 10 plus countries has enabled Joanne to focus on what matters, on humanities development of SEL and deeper learning outcomes––self-understanding, knowledge, competency, and connection––that lead to meaning, fulfillment, and lifelong success. She has co-authored multiple books and these can be found in schools and homes around the world.   Joanne insights are illuminated by continued, hands-on experience, partnering with people- diverse groups around the world.   She was co-founder of NPDL (Global).    Louka Parry is the CEO + Founder of The Learning Future, an organisation that supports schools, systems and companies to thrive in tomorrow’s world. A former teacher, he became a school principal at only 27 years old and was named Inspirational Public Secondary Teacher of the Year for South Australia. Louka works globally (in English and Spanish) and has supported tens of thousands of educators and leaders globally to increase their positive impact.   A rapid learner, he speaks five languages, has visited over 80 countries, and holds two Masters degrees, one in Instructional Leadership from the University of Melbourne and another in Applied Linguistics, and has also completed executive studies at Harvard University. Through his work, he has acquired expert knowledge in leadership, communication, wellbeing, future learning models and organisational change. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and of the Stanford d.school, working at the forefront of the future of education, innovation and social emotional learning to empower children, educators and communities all across the globe.   Louka brings a range of deep strategic insights as a learning architect and as a sought-after speaker and facilitator. He has worked across all Australian Education Departments and sectors, across international systems from the Dominican Republic to Romania, with corporates like PWC, Microsoft and Apple, and with not-for-profits such as Social Ventures Australia, CASEL and TED. In this age of rapid change, he is driven to transform structures, systems and societies to empower individuals to do their best work and maximise wellbeing, ultimately making our world a better place for all.    

How would you describe the way you experience your city? On this episode of The Future City Podcast we speak with Dominic Regester about the benefits of leveraging a city's ecology and what happens when city makers take the time to consider the emotional experience city dwellers have when they trounce around their favorite parks and gallivant in their beloved city pockets. Dominic is Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar where he is responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs on education, sustainability and innovation, including a series entitled Parks for the Planet. He is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Commission on Education and Communication and is an Executive Committee Member for Karanga – The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills.

With societies more fluid and fragmented than ever, how can we help young people feel confident in their own identities? Leading members of Karanga: The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills, discuss why Social-Emotional Learning is more important than ever in today's world. Featuring: - Jennifer Adams, Chair - Chair - OECD Study in Social-Emotional Skills - Joanne McEachen - Founder and CEO, The Learner First - Louka Parry - Founder and CEO, The Learning Future - Dominic Regester - Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Karanga: https://karanga.org OECD: http://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/social-emotional-skills-study/ Salzburg Global Seminar: https://www.salzburgglobal.org The Learner First: https://thelearnerfirst.com The Learning Future: https://www.thelearningfuture.com ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

A seven year old today will graduate as part of the Class of 2030. How might we set them up for success in our increasingly digital world? On today's episode we speak with Barbara Holzapfel, GM of Microsoft Education, about technology, social emotional learning and the future of work. Barbara works across the entire Microsoft portfolio leading the strategic Education segment across K12 and Higher Education seeking to empower every student on the planet to achieve more. Recorded in person during the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria last year, we explore the role of social and emotional learning and how we can leverage technologies to personalise learning for children and young people as educators and parents. We dive into tangible examples that can help us all support our children and learners to achieve more through enabling increased agency and choice.

Mark Tokola is the vice president of the Korea Economic Institute of America. He's a long serving American diplomat with postings around the world and we discuss a few of them in this episode, including his first posting to Turkey where his main job was helping Americans sent to prison on drug trafficking charges. He also compares his work in the Balkans in the 1990s to Iraq after the fall of Saddam and I think makes an important point about the value of multilateralism to American interests.  We spoke a day after the Security Council passed new a sanctions resolution on North Korea following a nuclear test in September and we kick off discussing the implications of those sanctions before pivoting to a longer conversation about his globe-spanning career. Mark's last posting was to South Korea and we end with some discussion about the political upheaval underway there and whether or not my man Ban Ki Moon may run for president next year.   Mark is an alumnus of the Salzburg Global Seminar which is a podcast sponsor this month and at the top of the episode we also reference a seminar about North Korean human rights in which he participated   

--- Support the podcast! Join the premium subscribers club! --- Tali Nates has a personal connection to Schindler's List. On it was the name of her father and uncle, whom Oskar Schindler saved from a Nazi extermination camp.  She is now the director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center in South Africa and we have a fascinating conversation about how the lessons of the Holocaust are applied and learned in post-Apartheid South Africa.   Tali was born in Israel and moved to South Africa before the end of Apartheid. She candidly describes the moral compunction she experienced during that era and how teaching Holocaust history to white south africans became a method of resistance.    This episode is part of a series that is being created in partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar, which is a forum and meeting space that brings together a cross section of global leaders to take on some of the big global challenges of the day. We kick off discussing her participation on one of the Salzburg sessions before turning to her own family history and contemporary work.  

In this provocative talk that celebrates women past, present and future, Clare Shine explores what it will take for women to overcome the ties that still hold them back—and lead. The Lady White Lecture 2014 at St Johns College. 100 years ago the Great War changed the fate of a generation of women—and all those to come. It “found them serfs and left them free” as women en masse left the kitchen, entered the work place and tasted the delights of greater economic and political freedom. In richer countries, today’s generation of women have never done better at school, have vastly broader choices open to them and are set to live longer than any cohort in history. So why does business-as-usual still dominate the public sphere and why do so many women mute their voices? Can we get beyond contortionist antics of “having it all”? Should we “lie back”, “lean in” or rally women and men to launch a new movement for radical change? Clare Shine has never quite found a way to fit within the box. One of the earliest alumnae, whose international career has straddled business, the Bar, environmental policy and arts journalism for the Financial Times, she is currently Vice President and Chief Program Officer at Salzburg Global Seminar as well as a wife and mother.

In this provocative talk that celebrates women past, present and future, Clare Shine explores what it will take for women to overcome the ties that still hold them back—and lead. The Lady White Lecture 2014 at St Johns College. 100 years ago the Great War changed the fate of a generation of women—and all those to come. It “found them serfs and left them free” as women en masse left the kitchen, entered the work place and tasted the delights of greater economic and political freedom. In richer countries, today’s generation of women have never done better at school, have vastly broader choices open to them and are set to live longer than any cohort in history. So why does business-as-usual still dominate the public sphere and why do so many women mute their voices? Can we get beyond contortionist antics of “having it all”? Should we “lie back”, “lean in” or rally women and men to launch a new movement for radical change? Clare Shine has never quite found a way to fit within the box. One of the earliest alumnae, whose international career has straddled business, the Bar, environmental policy and arts journalism for the Financial Times, she is currently Vice President and Chief Program Officer at Salzburg Global Seminar as well as a wife and mother.

Huddled around a warm laptop while it snows, we discuss Gay German Mayor beats anti-gay German Mayor, can you be against gay marriage but not be anti-gay?, Filipino drag contest held in Italian church, Angela Lansbury knows what causes Lesbians, The Queen doesn't say Gay, Randy Firemen and we talk to John Lotherington from The Salzburg Global Seminar.