Teaching Change

On this episode, we speak with a Dani Chesson who is a Business Transformation Consultant with Chesson Consulting in New Zealand. Dani shares her journey from New York to New Zealand with a few stops in between and shares her excitement for helping businesses to not only becoming more profitable but also more rewarding. Dani's work and passion are in building the capabilities needed for change! Biography Dani Chesson, Ph.D. With a unique blend of design, business, and organizations...

In this episode, Mentor Dida of the International organization Ashoka explains how he and others developed the Change Maker Journey template that is utilized around North America in the K-12 Education system by Ashoka to create change makers. Biography of Mentor Dida I'm a people person who always gets excited about new ideas and possibilities to design meaningful solutions to advance humanity. Advancing humanity is dear to my heart because after having lived through the 1999 Kosovo war, I...

In this episode, we explore some interesting courses called Strategies for Change Making, Be The Change, and Intrapreneurship taught by Josephine Balzac of Rollins College. In these courses, students learn the necessary skills to bring about lasting change in their communities. We also dive into Josephine's own journey into change making and how she approaches her work as an attorney, professor, and activist. Biography of Josephine Balzac Josephine M. Balzac is an Assistant Professor in...

The ever elusive concept of productivity is explored with Workflow Management Strategist and Productivity Coach Deana Kalakay on this episode. Deana has been helping professionals and businesses build confidence and take action using the science of consistency and workflow mastery. Her clients overcome chaos and inconsistency by getting organized, becoming confident and taking the massive action required to meet and exceed their objectives. To learn more go to her website at...

People welcome setbacks like they would a trip to the dentist or a flat tire. In other words, they do not. Setbacks are understandably viewed as impediments to progress and dream crushers. Yet they are an inevitable part of life. We cannot all be perfect one hundred percent of the time, can we? One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us - Mary Kay Ash Click To Tweet On this week’s episode of Teaching Change, Jerrid and Courtney talk the good, the bad and...

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself - Oprah Winfrey Click To Tweet Mentorship is an excellent combination of hindsight being 20/20 and paying it forward. As we traverse our professional lives and interests, we learn the lay of the land through stumbles and hopefully even more successes. Finding someone to show you the ropes is an invaluable connection that helps minimize pitfalls and anxiety-induced moments. Courtney and Jerrid have both been lucky to be on...

The word responsibility may not incite visions of carefree, fun-filled days but it is an important term that we all face throughout our daily lives. Whether it is taking care of your family, work, or paying bills, responsibility guides our decision-making process. The same can be said of the professional world where businesses and organizations strive to reach their goals and earn a profit. Along the way, these entities will formulate plans and operating philosophies that may have a...

In this episode, Jerrid and Courtney tackle the topic of the "ASK". It is the moment when you finally speak up and ask for what you feel you deserve whether it's a loan, partnership, raise, or promotion. The ASK is one of the most stressful and anxiety causing things that social entrepreneurs have to conquer to gain success. In any situation in which there are two or more parties, there is an underlining ask waiting to happen. Sometimes we are too afraid or too shy to get to the ask, and...

Join Jerrid and Courtney for a walk down memory lane as they discuss their personal moments of obligation. In social entrepreneurship, the moment of obligation is when social entrepreneurs realize they have to make a change in their own lives or others for the greater good. However, as is evident in the episode, such realizations occur in many different fields and circumstances. For Jerrid, his moment of obligation came in the form of one of his students. Several years ago, he chaperoned a...

Part two of Chris Castro’s interview tackles the bottom line of social entrepreneurship. Chris has mastered two of the big Ps, people, and planet, but what about the third one: profit? Chris delves into the business side of his enterprises to explain how doing good and doing well coincide with generating revenue. First up is Fleeting Farming, Chris’ nonprofit organization that transforms neighborhood lawns into produce-yielding farms. Revenue mechanisms attached to its services include:...

This episode is brought to you by the three Ps: People, Planet, and Profit. Valencia’s Director of Sustainability, Resham Shirsat, joins the hosts in-studio to chat about sustainability and how it intersects with social entrepreneurship. She is also a fellow member of Jerrid’s Guiding Coalition who helped bring social entrepreneurship education to Valencia. Resham’s passion for sustainability is driven by her own academic journey. As an undergraduate, she enrolled in an elective...

Dr. Leonard Bass joins Jerrid and Courtney for Episode 2. Leonard is the Dean of Learning Support at Valencia’s east campus. As dean, he oversees New Student Experience, the library, Supplement Learning, the Academic Success Center as well as a host of other projects and initiatives. Plus, Leonard is Jerrid and Courtney’s boss! Leonard tells the story of how he became involved with Valencia’s social entrepreneurship work thanks to Jerrid. At the time, Jerrid was working on his doctorate...

Join Jerrid and Courtney as they examine the fine, often interchangeable, line between social entrepreneurship and social innovation. As Jerrid explains it, social entrepreneurship encompasses using business practices to create wealth and social value. In some ways, social innovation can be thought of as the umbrella under which social entrepreneurship falls. This takes into account all of the people who may be socially innovative but not necessarily social entrepreneurs. To this end, the...

In the inaugural episode of Teaching Change, Professor Jerrid Kalakay and Librarian Courtney Moore set the stage to chronicle social entrepreneurship education at Valencia College and beyond. As Jerrid defines it, social entrepreneurship is the practice of using innovative business practices to create social value and wealth. The co-hosts, who both work at Valencia, begin with personal introductions that provide details on their respective backgrounds and interests. At Valencia, Jerrid...