Ideagen Global Podcast

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Ideagen Global Podcast

Ideagen is focused on building and enhancing cross sector collaboration between non-profit, corporate and public sector entities for collective impact.

  1. 2019-02-21

    Exclusive interview with Founder and CEO of The Zone Lab, Sheryl Kline

    Sheryl Kline is a dynamic speaker, trainer, and coach who specializes in mental toughness. She has built her career on two decades of studying, researching, and working with world-class athletes and business professionals at major Fortune 500 companies in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and worldwide. Sheryl is a ThriveGlobal contributor and a featured guest for various national podcasts, helping others to develop the mindset required to believe and achieve their best consistently.

    10 min

  2. 2019-02-12

    Exclusive interview with Co-founder of Meylah, Chaitra Vedullapalli

    Chaitra Vedullapalli, Co-Founder of Meylah.com. She is recognized as a Top 100 Small business influencer, holds a Patent and published the "PartnerTweet" book, and was awarded the Women of Inspiration title at the Microsoft Inspire Conference. Chaitra Is fiercely committed to empowering business owners to access digital economy. She is an accomplished business leader thrives on conceptualizing, analyzing, and executing strategic business initiatives to increase customer loyalty, margins, and maximizing sustainable competitive advantages. Chaitra is known for her thought leadership and social entrepreneurship for developing programs such as "Smart Tourism", "Women In Cloud” and facilitating the” Innovateher” pitch showcase for local businesses sponsored by the Small Business Association. Chaitra is a co-architect of Ignite Washington, a city by city digital readiness initiative to foster local economic development, Board member of Women in Cloud, Board member of YMCA Sammamish, and gives back to youth by mentoring Creative Children for Charity, a youth foundation for providing annual ACTON business fair for entrepreneurial kids, and led a 80+ youth Toastmasters group. With over 18 years of corporate experience delivering consistently high business growth through strategic tech initiatives, business development and partnering with customers. She is recognized for leading change, driving digital transformation in the 21st century, formulating public-private partnerships, and creating economic prosperity with modern technologies such as AI, IoT, and Cloud Computing. She is a highly sought after woman of influence and connected lives by the values of “rising tides lifts all boats” and believes that together we can go further.

    16 min

  3. 2019-02-05

    Exclusive interview with the Chief of UNCTAD, Chantal Line Carpentier

    Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier currently serves as Chief of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) New York office of the Secretary-General. Prior to 2014, she was actively involved in the successful negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). During her tenure with DESA, she served as the Major Groups coordinator to enhance non-state actors engagement with the United Nations. She facilitated the participation of more than 10,000 non-state actors -a record- in the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable development and was also the DESA focal point for sustainable consumption and production, food security and sustainable agriculture. Prior to joining the United Nations, she served as Head of the Trade and Environment Program of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (2000-2007), as policy analyst for the Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture (1998-2000) and as post doc for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the Brazilian Amazon (1996-1998). Dr. Carpentier has consulted to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). She was chosen for the Ideagen 2016 100 Individuals and Organization empowering women and girl, is a 2006 Yale World Fellow and a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Who’s Who’s of Women and the Environment. She has co-authored a book on Ethical Investing (2008) and regularly publishes journal, articles, book chapters and Secretary-General reports on the intricate relationships between sustainable development policies, trade, equality and agriculture.

    13 min

  4. 2019-02-01

    Exclusive interview with Burning Glass Technologies CEO, Matt Sigelman

    Matt Sigelman is CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a leading labor market analytics firm. For more than a decade, he has led Burning Glass in harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence technologies that have cracked the genetic code of the job market. Powered by the world’s largest and most sophisticated database of jobs and talent, Burning Glass delivers real-time data and breakthrough planning tools that inform careers, define academic programs, and shape workforces. Burning Glass has helped to fill millions of jobs and its data drive initiatives for more than a dozen state and national governments. Matt is consulted frequently by national media, by researchers, and the White House. He served previously with McKinsey & Company and Capital One. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

    21 min

  5. 2019-01-30

    Exclusive Interview with the Alliance for Children Everywhere, Cari Armbruster

    With a heart for orphans and vulnerable children in some of the world’s poorest countries, Cari Armbruster’s present role as Executive Director at Alliance for Children Everywhere stems from a seasoned career in nursing, healthcare administration, and family advocacy positions.  For 11 years, Cari held a series of fulfilling nursing and organizational roles at Seattle Children’s Hospital before starting her dedicated volunteer path with orphans in 2001.  With a natural affinity for producing health related policies and procedures, and leading teams she helped to develop standards of care for a temporary crisis care facility in Zambia that has been advocating for children and families since 1999.   An Alliance for Children Everywhere Board member for seven years, Cari provided consistent and thoughtful counsel to the Founder and Executive Director before being appointed to the role herself in January 2015. Cari’s leadership has brought the organization through a successful transition from the Founder and expanded its role as a thought leader and model for child and family welfare practices. Her passion for child welfare, family empowerment, and education for the world’s most vulnerable children and their families is evident throughout every aspect of the ACE partnership. Cari has led the organization to be a recognized expert practitioner, and primary partner to the Zambian government as they implement a new care system for children separated from family. Cari resides in Edmonds, Washington (USA) with her husband, Erich, and two children, where they enjoy many Pacific Northwest outdoor activities as well as being active in their local church community.

    12 min

  6. 2019-01-28

    Exclusive interview with the McCrystal Group's, Jeff Eggers

    As a senior policy advisor, security professional, and leadership consultant, Jeff Eggers leverages 20+ years of experience managing strategic efforts and leading high-stakes, high performing teams during his time with the White House, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Navy. A former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for President Obama, Jeff was responsible for oversight of critical and sensitive aspects of U.S. foreign and national security policy. A researcher in behavioral science and a consultant on leadership and organizational performance, Jeff now leads McChrystal Group’s Leadership Institute, managing engagements with Fortune 500 clients requiring assistance with organizational performance, leader-development, and culture shaping. He has taught courses in change management, leadership, and public policy for many organizations. Jeff retired from the U.S. Navy following a successful 20-year career as a U.S. Navy SEAL with extensive operational and combat leadership experience. Jeff has published in esteemed academic journals and media outlets such as Fortune, Foreign Policy, Politico, and U.S. News and World Report.

    18 min

  7. 2019-01-23

    Exclusive Interview with Association of Young American's, Ben Brown

    Benjamin Brown started AYA in his NYC apartment in 2016 and is responsible for leading its growth and strategy, including inking partnerships with AARP, Lyft, CoachUSA and others. Under his leadership, AYA was included in the college history textbook “We The People” as a top interest group for young Americans. Prior to AYA, Ben was a consultant at Enovation Partners where he worked with Fortune 500 companies to develop innovation strategies, invest in cleantech startups, and evaluate market entry opportunities. Before working with some of the world’s largest companies, Ben advised clean energy startup companies as a Manager at non-profit Clean Energy Trust (CET). At CET, Ben oversaw the development of a multimillion-dollar public-private investment fund and advised dozens of startups leading to millions of dollars in follow on funding. Ben studied Physics and Eastern Religion at Middlebury College.

    11 min

  8. TRAILER

    Exclusive Interview with Otis CEO, Judy Marks with Ideagen's George Sifakis

    Join the Movement - Ideagen In her 35th year in industry, Judy Marks has witnessed technological advances while applying emerging and mature technologies in a way that benefits society. She currently leads Otis – the iconic company that remains at the forefront of the elevator industry it created 165 years ago – through a remarkable digital and cultural transformation.  Today, Otis is taking its deep knowledge of the hoistway and using it to create digital solutions that serve customers’ needs in an era of intelligent buildings. This includes IoT-based service solutions with proactive data analytics for predictive maintenance; advanced video analytics and dispatching systems to manage varying traffic patterns; and a new generation of elevators that are connected, smarter, data rich, safer, and more efficient and comfortable than ever.  Judy has held senior leadership roles at three global icons – IBM, Lockheed Martin and Siemens AG. She was serving as CEO of both Siemens USA and Dresser-Rand, a Siemens business, when appointed to lead Otis in 2017.  “People make a decision every day about what kind of work they’re going to do,” she says. “That’s what I love about Otis people – they know that what we do matters. Across 200 countries and territories, we service 2 million units and touch 2 billion people every day to keep the world moving.” In 2017, Judy was named to the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology and received the Excellence in Leadership Award from the International Society of Automation.

    4 min
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Ideagen is focused on building and enhancing cross sector collaboration between non-profit, corporate and public sector entities for collective impact.

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    Ideagen Radio
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    77
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    © Copyright George Sifakis (C/O Blogtalkradio)
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