2021-11
2021-11
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Paul Valentin (episode 66)
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Paul Valentin is an experienced International Director with a demonstrated history of working in the international development sector. He is a strong business development professional skilled in Nonprofit Organizations and International Alliances/Networks. He is a great mentor for professionals in new or challenging roles and has a strong experience in Sustainable Development, Humanitarian, Rural Development, and Gender Mainstreaming. For almost 15 years, he managed the international operations of the British NGO Christian Aid across 50 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean through a largely devolved management structure (38 offices/around 350 staff). His work covered addressing long-term development needs, reducing vulnerability and responding to emergencies affecting poor, marginalized and excluded people. His responsibilities also included overseeing the resource generation from institutional donors, ensuring quality standards and impact measurement. With over 40 years experience in the International Development sector of which 20 years in management at senior level, he is now offering his knowledge, skills and experience to help others tackle organizational and professional challenges.
You can find him on LinkedIn.
Don't forget to check our Spotify Playlist #WalkTalkListen consisting of songs chosen by our podcast guests.
Please let me/us know via our email incubationlab@cwsglobal.org what you think about this particular episode and the previous ones. We would love to hear from you.
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And yes, i just finished the 10th 100mile.org and there are 10 plus ways to get involved. Indeed, one way is to support my walk with a donation. The campaign will continue until the end of the year. #hunger100 #gotheextra100mile #bethechange
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Prospery Raymond (episode 65)
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Andre Prospery Raymond is an agro-economist who worked in the development and humanitarian world for the last 20 years with GRAPH, Oxfam Intermon and UNICEF. He joined Christian Aid in July 2002 as a Capacity building officer; two years later, as a Program Officer and by 2007 as Country Manager for the Haiti Program until July 2010. Prospery was the Caribbean team leader overviewing Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados and the Dominican Republic since August 2010. With the changes in 2013 strategy, Prospery became the Haiti/DR Country Manager.
Prospery became the new DKH/LWF/NCA Country Director in Haiti in March 2021. He is managing a consortium of three European organizations Diakonia, Lutheran World Federation and Norwegian Church Aid, specialized on WASH, Women entrepreneurship, DRR/humanitarian work, Protection and peace building and climate justice.
He is on facebook, you can find him here.
Don't forget to check our Spotify Playlist #WalkTalkListen consisting of songs chosen by our podcast guests.
Please let me/us know via our email incubationlab@cwsglobal.org what you think about this particular episode and the previous ones. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow @mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time!
And yes, i just finished the 10th 100mile.org and there are 10 plus ways to get involved. Indeed, one way is to support my walk with a donation. The campaign will continue until the end of the year. #hunger100 #gotheextra100mile #bethechange
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Marshall Toplansky (episode 64)
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Marshall Toplansky, MBA is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. He is also an advisor of the CWS Incubation Lab. We talked about some thought provoking topics like Artificial Intelligence.
Most recently, Marshall co-authored (along with Joel Kotkin) The OC Focus, a multi-year research publication that has identified strategic directions for the growth of Orange County.
Marshall holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree from SUNY Albany in Political Science/Chinese Studies. He is Senior Advisor at The Cicero Institute, based in Salt Lake City, Utah and serves on the board of directors of Double Check, LLC, Harvard Business School Association of Orange County and until recently also of the global NGO Church World Service.
Marshall began his career in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather. He rose through the ranks over an 8 year period and left to serve as VP, Marketing for US Robotics. Marshall also held top roles such as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Open Environment, VP of Marketing Insight and Strategy at Gateway, and CEO at Core Strategies, Inc. In 2011 he was elected to the Computing Industry Hall of Fame for his role in creating the A+ Certification program, the world’s largest computer service professional certification program.
An entrepreneur at heart, Marshall co-founded the sentiment analysis company Wise Window in 2008, which was acquired by KPMG in 2012. While Managing Director at KPMG, Marshall co-founded the firm’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics. After spending a couple of years as a consultant and board member, Marshall joined the Argyros School in June 2017.
In this episode he talks about the historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari and especially about his hook Homo Deus. He also talks about his podcast with Joel Kotkin.
Marshall is also on Twitter and Facebook
Don't forget to check our Spotify Playlist #WalkTalkListen consisting of songs chosen by our podcast guests.
Please let me/us know via our email incubationlab@cwsglobal.org what you think about this particular episode and the previous ones. We would love to hear from you.
Please like/follow our Walk Talk Listen podcast and follow @mauricebloem on twitter and instagram. Or check us out on our website 100mile.org (and find out more about our app (android and iPhone) that enables you to walk and do good at the same time!
And yes, i just finished the 10th 100mile.org and there are 10 plus ways to get involved. Indeed, one way is to support my walk with a donation. The campaign will continue until the end of the year. #hunger100 #gotheextra100mile #bethechange