Join us for an interview with Saidah Nash Carter , Co-Founder of Bright Insights Global. Saidah launched her new venture after a distinguished 20-year career at Thomson Reuters, most recently as former Head of Innovation, Africa. We caught up with her in her new hometown, Cape Town, South Africa. This article is a great companion piece further explaining her journey to the Colonizer Reparation Index work. Original music by Lynz Floren ....
May 09, 2022•28 min
Join us for a conversation with Jim Mayer , who has been a daily newspaper journalist, a public administrator and a nonprofit executive. He is a farmer and environmental steward; a member of public and nonprofit boards; and a university professor, strategic advisor and community volunteer. He is irrationally optimistic, let's join him! Original music by Lynz Floren .
May 09, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Join us for a conversation with Kamiar Alaei , who is a professor of global health policy and chairman of department of Health Science at California State University Long Beach. Dr. Alaei has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in prestigious publications including the Lancet Global Health, the British Medical Journal and AIDS. He is the principal investigator of a federal grant to develop culturally relevant public health information technology through a health equi...
May 03, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Join us for a conversation with Christopher Kennedy , who is a commercial leader in the life sciences industry. He has spent the last two decades in executive roles within the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Device, Pharmacy and Clinical Research sectors. Christopher has been nationally recognized for his efforts in pioneering innovative healthcare solutions focused on getting new technologies from research bench to patient bedside. Original music by Lynz Floren ....
May 03, 2022•33 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Join us for a conversation with Jayshree Seth , who is a is a corporate scientist at 3M and has 72 patents for a variety of innovations. She is also 3M’s first ever Chief Science Advocate. She is an award-winning scientist, recognized thought-leader and prolific speaker who was also featured in the 3M docuseries “Not the Science Type. ” Jayshree is the author of two books, with all sales proceeds going to a scholarship for underrepresented minority women in STEM administered by Society of Women ...
Apr 22, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Join us for a conversation with Toby Eduardo Redshaw , who is a global business & tech transformation leader focused on P&L impact, competitive positioning, and future-proofing. He is known for driving competitive advantage through innovative, real-world strategy and speed-of-execution in high growth, high service, and high technology environments. In this episode, Toby shares the impact of teamwork. He looks at this in ways you may not have thought of and explains some of the important ...
Apr 14, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Join us for a conversation with Dennis Meister , who has lived his entire professional life with one goal: "make a meaningful contribution to measurably improving the quality of life of at least a million people a day on a global scale". He worked as a Senior Vice President of Product Portfolio, Product Management and Clinical Development for Siemens Healthineers, and now he is focusing on Climate Change and finding the technologies that could the aid in the abatement of global warming, and leav...
Mar 17, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Join us for a conversation with Virginia Hamilton, Public Sector Innovation Catalyst who is former Regional Administrator at the US Department of Labor and advisor to the Obama Administration. Virginia is an experienced public policy expert who uses Design Thinking to improve policy. She is a change agent always searching for ways to involve more people, encourage creativity and bring truth to better lives. In this episode Virginia shares how at moments everyone can think she’s insane with her i...
Dec 01, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Join us for an interview with Saidah Nash Carter, Co-Founder of Bright Insights Global. Saidah launched her new venture after a distinguished 20-year career at Thomson Reuters, most recently as former Head of Innovation, Africa. We caught up with her in her new hometown, Cape Town, South Africa. Saidah shares how General Colin Powell helped her realize her Catalyst nature early on – realizing that she thinks and works differently from others. He helped her articulate the importance of Noble Purp...
Nov 24, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Join us for an interview with John Morley, Business Design Strategist Hitachi. He has been a wicked Catalyst in some of the world’s largest companies including EMC and Hitachi, AppDynamics and Symantec. John describes how an open, iterative process can help organizations uncover new value. He described how he starts by using his Catalyst superpowers of sensing what needs to emerge through conversations, research, and reading lots and lots. He then identifies the mutual wins with a broad set of s...
Nov 17, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Join us for a conversation with Vice President, Ethics and Compliance Strategy, Intelligence, & Operations at Kaiser Permanente, Shakeya McDow. Shakeya is a thought leader and positive disruptor in the world of ethics and compliance who thrives when working on gnarly and complex problems. In this episode Shakeya explains how clarity and stillness have allowed her to become the leader she wants to be and shifted how others respond to her. She also shares a counterintuitive learning that givin...
Nov 10, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Join us for an interview with Michael Bloxton – CEO of both Nebula Space Enterprise and Bloxton Investment Group where he shares his story about how an early transformative tragedy sent him on his path to becoming a Catalyst and creating massive change. He moves at lightning speed. He creates massive change. When we talk about a range of catalyticness, Michael is on the hyper-end. He spent his 20s creating the financial freedom to pursue his big Purpose, which he now knows is helping humans beco...
Nov 03, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Join us for an interview with CEO at FuTuro Health, Van Ton-Quinlivan. Van is a recognized thought leader in workforce development with a proven track record for implementing large systems while fostering a culture of experimentation, innovation and collaboration. Her distinguished career spans the public, private, and non-profit sectors. In this episode Van shares the transformational impact of making time for mentors and the importance of listening to their feedback to help you progress, “You ...
Oct 27, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Join us for an interview with Chelsey Glasson, Qualitative User Research at Facebook, where she shares how she had struggled with friction between her and her organization and how this friction had caused cycles of burnout. She just couldn’t fully explain the experience until she understood what it meant to be a Catalyst. Even as the concept of Catalyst was resonating early in her journey, she struggled to own the term Catalyst because of how big the word felt. Chelsey describes what it means to...
Oct 20, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Join us for an interview with Catalyst practitioner and former corporate executive, Shannon Lucas, co-founder of Catalyst Constellations and co-author of Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out. Shannon has over twenty years’ experience working with startups, launching her own ventures, and driving innovation into the world’s largest companies, most recently as Executive Vice President of Emerging Business at Ericsson. In this episode Shannon describes what a sense of a relief it was to have the context...
Oct 13, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Join us for an interview with Catalyst researcher Tracey Lovejoy, co-CEO of Catalyst Constellations and co-author of Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out. Tracey is an anthropologist and the research engine behind the Catalyst movement. She spent twelve years at Microsoft leading teams of changemakers and supporting product innovation with customer insights. In this episode Tracey shares her belief that this book wanted itself to be written. She also talks about the two things she hopes Catalysts wil...
Oct 13, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 1
