Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life
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Special Encore Presentation: Special Mother’s Day Show:...
As a young working mother in 1985, Barbara experienced the difficulties of finding quality childcare in Washington, DC. After being held up at gunpoint at her ice cream shop on Capitol Hill one too many times, she sold her first business and started White House Nannies. White House Nannies has set the gold standard for childcare in the DC metro area. Barbara is a highly regarded industry spokesperson and nanny expert with a reputation for setting the highest standards of professional...
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The Digital Humanitarian: How Big Data and Crisis...
When a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, killing upwards of 220,000 people and injuring many more, Patrick Meier was horrified and wanted to help. Rather than donating to a disaster relief organization, like many people did, Patrick made a map. Through analyzing user-generated data from social media produced by people on the ground in Haiti, Patrick was able map important aspects of the crisis in close to "real time." Seeing this data helped humanitarian workers quickly answer...
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Exploring the World; Engaging Kids with Guerrilla...
National Geographic Explorer Daniel Raven-Ellison is a geography teacher, but not in the traditional sense. Forget memorizing borders and rivers from maps- Daniel’s approach, sometimes called “guerrilla geography,” is all about getting out into the world, exploring anything and everything, and getting kids excited about non-textbook geography. He devises creative explorations, such as walking across the largest cities on Earth, taking photographs every eight steps to reframe how we think of...
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A Shining New Opportunity for Girls: The Courageous...
Inside the walls of the new Kakenya Center for Excellence in a remote district of Kenya, 155 girls are thriving thanks to the determination, optimism and sheer will of National Geographic Emerging Explorer Kakenya Ntaiya. Once a village girl herself, Kakenya bargained with her father to continue her education past the tradition age of 13 in exchange for participating in the local tradition of female genital circumcision. Today, in the region's first and only primary school for girls,...
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Helping Kids Take Flight with Pilot and Education...
Barrington Irving grew up in a rough neighborhood in Miami, convinced that a football career was his best shot at success. Just a few years later, after a chance meeting with a pilot, Barrington became the youngest person and only African-America to ever fly around the world solo. Today, he works to get kids excited about STEM fields through his nonprofit Experience Aviation. Barrington is currently planning another round-the-world flight in a plane he calls a Flying Classroom and this time,...
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Special Encore Presentation: Inspiring People to Care...
“Some believe the golden age of exploration is behind us. On the contrary, I believe we are at the beginning of our greatest age of exploration,” commented Terry Garcia in a recent interview. Since joining National Geographic Society more than a dozen years ago, Garcia has implemented a vision of exploration that has revitalized the Society’s mission programs and defined exploration in the broadest sense. Responsible for the Society’s core mission programs, which support and manage more than...
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From Outrage to Courage to Compassion: The Inspirational...
As a girl growing up in the 50’s, young Anne Firth Murray observed that her brother was allowed to do things that were off limits to her because she was a girl. Later, through jobs at the UN and the Hewlett Packard Foundation, Anne observed the many ways that women were treated differently than men despite the quality of their work. Frustrated by traditional philanthropy’s lack of interest in women’s issues, Anne and three other visionary women forged a new path, founding an highly...
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What 21st Century Leaders Need to Know Today with Dr....
Does the 21st century require a new approach to leadership? Is there a leadership approach or method that creates transformational change? Join Dr. Carol Pearson, author, educator and world-renowned expert on depth psychology and transformational leadership to learn why her answer to these questions is yes. Recently, Dr. Pearson led a three-year research project sponsored by The Fetzer Institute on the theory and practice of transformational leadership. The resulting book, The Transforming...
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Balanced Leadership for a Peaceful Future: The...
Dr. Jalaja Bonheim teaches women a form of leadership grounded in the feminine: circle work. Founder of the Institute for Circlework, Jalaja's process draws on research and age-old practices that demonstrate societies are more peaceful when women hold more power. An international leader whose mission is to support inner and outer peace through the circle method, Dr. Bonheim trains women leaders in the Middle East and other parts of the world to use the circle to heal and build peaceful...
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Special Encore Presentation: Envisioning Women’s...
Women comprise roughly half of the workforce, but only 3.2 percent of the Fortune 500 CEOs. Only 14.4% of executive officers in the Fortune 500 are women. Meet two talented senior executive women who are working to change those numbers. Senior Vice Presidents Karen Dahut and Susan Penfield of Booz Allen Hamilton are bringing along the next generation of women leaders inside the firm and beyond. Join Host Kate Ebner to hear the advice, wisdom and perspective of these two savvy executives...
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Entrepreneurship and Leadership Learning in the Liberal...
Today, many debate the future of higher education and wonder how well a liberal arts education prepares young people for the future. At Middlebury College, Professor Jessica Holmes is demonstrating how a liberal arts education translates into skills and perspectives that develop future leaders. Each January, 40 students set aside their political theory, literature and language textbooks and dive into an intensive program called MiddCore, a highly interactive course that stretches students...
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