Changemaker Mindset
Changemaker Mindset is a podcast that explores how individuals can make a meaningful impact on the world, whether in their organization, industry, community, or society. Hosts Greg Satell and Roifield Brown interview bestselling authors, business thinkers, social entrepreneurs, and educators to uncover the mindset needed for transformation. Through inspiring stories of real changemakers, the podcast provides insights and practical advice for driving positive change.
Episodes
Talia-Milgrom-Elcott - Building Networks To Solve Complex Problems
In Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech, he called out the need to train 100,000 STEM teachers in 10 years. Hearing that call, Talia Milgrom-Elcott started 100Kin10 and made it her mission to transform President Obama’s vision into reality. Using the insights she shares in this episode, she hit that goal in eight and a half years. Understanding that complex problems have in
Patricia Letayf: Unlocking The Power Of Refugee Communities
What does the word “refugee” mean to you? Poverty? hardship? Misfortune? What about entrepreneurship, innovation and opportunity?Patricia Letayf is the Executive Director at Five One Labs, a groundbreaking organization that empowers refugees to become entrepreneurs in places like Kurdistan, Iraq and Barranquilla, Colombia. Starting with $15,000 in seed money won in a pitch competition in graduate
Transformational - Jeff Softley, Experian
Experian Was Being Disrupted by Fintech Startups. Then They Turned the TablesWhen Jeff Softley joined Experian’s consumer division ten years ago, things looked bleak. The business had endured 16 quarters of declining revenues. It was being disrupted by venture backed fintech startups that didn’t need to turn a profit for years—if ever.How do you run a business charging customers for what other com
Bob Sutton: Rule #1 - Don’t Be An Asshole
Bob Sutton is among the most influential business scholars today. One of Stanford’s Business School’s most distinguished professors, a bestselling author of seven books including, most recently, The Friction Project, he has advised CEO’s ranging from Pixar’s Ed Catmull to IDEO’s David Kelley.Yet his career didn’t start out in an ivory tower, but in a pizza shop smoking pot. It was through a s
Enyinnah Okere: How Edmonton Developed A Game Changing Policing Strategy
One of the most basic responsibilities of a government is to keep its people safe. In a city, that first line of defense is the police. They are trained to investigate crimes, handle violent criminals and put them in jail.Yet police departments also spend a lot of time on repeat nonviolent incidents. They manage domestic disputes, mental health episodes and sometimes just people who are down on th
Whitney Johnson: Creating Safety Around Disruption
Whitney Johnson was one of the top analysts on Wall Street. Yet when she met Clayton Christensen, she realized her fate path would lead somewhere else. As she would later write in a landmark in Harvard Business Review, she would disrupt herself and leave her top job at a Wall Street firm.Today, Whitney is regularly ranked as one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world and is one of the m
How Russell Lowery-Hart Is Helping To Solve The Upskilling Crisis By Loving Students To Success
We are in the midst of an upskilling crisis. Rapid industrial changes and an increasingly competitive global environment, with countries like China and India emerging as technology superpowers, mean millions of workers need to upskill to remain economically viable.Community colleges play a crucial role in this transformation. Aspen Award winner Russell Lowery-Hart, Chancellor of the 50,000-student
How Aidan McCullen Learned To Become Undisruptable
As a professional rugby player for Europe’s top team, Aidan McCullen knew the value of showing up. He wasn’t born with the most talent, but he made sure he had the most discipline. Yet his biggest challenge was to overcome the disruption of ending his career, to shed his rugby identity and become something else.Today, Aidan helps some of the world’s top organisations to do the same—overcome d
Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Finding Strength Through Adversity
What do you do when you achieve your dreams…and then lose it all.At the age of 25, Yassmin Abdel-Magied was an unbridled success. She achieved prominence at a young age, garnering awards and recognition as a teenager in Australia. She had been a successful engineer, author and TV personality. Her TED talk had millions of views and was named one of the top ten ideas of 2014.Then it all changed in a
Rob Wolcott - Creating Connection In the Service Of Change
Every successful changemaker thrives on connection. It is their ability to connect to different people, places and institutions that makes it that much more likely that they will come across that seemingly random piece of information or insight that helps to crack a really tough problem.Nobody personifies that more than Robert C. Wolcott. As Co-Founder & Chairman of The World Innovation Networ
Alister Martin
Alister Martin's Journey To Make The World Just A Little Bit More Fair When human potential is wasted, we all lose something. Most people who look at Alister Martin’s resume would assume he’s led a charmed life. A medical doctor as well as a White House fellow, he holds dual appointments on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School, he excels in just about every wa
How Stephen Shapiro Turned Away From Downsizing And Started Helping Companies Grow
How Stephen Shapiro Turned Away From Downsizing And Started Helping Companies GrowStephen Shapiro was a superstar. With an Ivy League degree and a hot job at a big consulting form, he spent most days jet-setting around the world, re-engineering business processes to help firms become more productive and efficient. He liked the work, and he was good at it. Then one day a news story changed his
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