Walk Talk Listen Podcast

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Carl Thong (episode 88)

Carl Thong is an entrepreneur and founded the Sunstone Group, a holding company with diverse businesses. Carl started his career as a management consultant with Epistat, specializing in biotechnology and IT. He subsequently moved into a sales role with Orasure Technologies, a NASDAQ-listed biotech where he established distributor relationships in 18 countries. In 1999, GE Capital recruited Carl as CEO for Dynafront, its fintech business. In 2001, Carl established a trading company exporting US consumer products to Asia. He successively founded other businesses including a healthcare provider in Malaysia, a management consultancy, and an external asset management firm. Recently, Carl co-founded and invested in several tech startups, including Restart Bank, a digital bank focusing on serving the unbanked and underbanked markets in the US, and BankingON, a mobile banking fintech. In addition to managing Sunstone, Carl is often engaged as a strategy consultant by MNCs, NGOs and government organizations to drive innovation, leadership, and business performance initiatives. He also sits on several fiduciary and advisory boards. In his personal time, he enjoys cycling with his wife, providing wifi to his teenage kids, reading the Bible and playing musical instruments.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. 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! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Mary Catherine Hinds & Rebekah Belase (episode 23)

Mary Catherine Hinds and Rebekah Belase are two Senior Directors of the CWS Funds Development and Marketing unit who co-lead this piece of work with tremendous success thanks to passion, camaraderie, professionalism and a lot of humor. Please check out this double episode of these two incredible women.
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. 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 (

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Joanne Rendall (episode 22)

Joanne Rendal is the CFO and Senior Vice President at Church World Service. Joanne who joined CWS in 1985 has been mentioned by several WTL podcast guests as a person who embodies what CWS is all about. After all these years with CWS, she is not only still very passionate and committed about the work, but also has a lot of faith in the future: " I do have a lot of confidence in them (younger generation) and it will be better and it will be a different world. Invigorating". You can also follow her on Facebook.
 
We made a special Playlist #CWSsongs consisting of songs chosen by many of our podcast guests.
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. 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!

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Chandelle O’Neil (episode 87)

Chandelle O'Neil are a Sustainable Energy Systems Designer and Human Rights Advocate in Trinidad and Tobago. They have their Bachelor of Engineering (with distinction) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Guelph and worked in process engineering for waste reduction and improving efficiencies. They have worked in human rights advocacy for over 10 years (since they came out) and currently volunteer with CAISO Sex and Gender Justice pushing the LGBTQ+ agenda in TT. They completed their Post-Grad Diploma in Global Leadership focusing on Regenerative Leadership from the University For Peace.
 
They are a social entrepreneur with their own enterprise, Mawu Energy Services, that supports energy efficiency, sustainable design and resource management in residential and commercial buildings/ properties. They were a Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition Finalist in December 2020 and got bronze with UNLEASH Hacks Caribbean in June 2021.
 
You can support Chandelle to ensure that they can participate at COP 27. Go to this link. 
 
They can be found via instagram.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. 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! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Bill Wildey (episode 21)

William (Bill) Wildey, took early retirement from Church World Service following 31 years of service. During his tenure at Church World Service, Bill traveled to many countries around the world. He has taught workshops on effective public speaking, storytelling, major gift fundraising, and more. Bill has hosted and been a guest on many radio and television programs through the years. Early in his career, he worked with singer/songwriter Harry Chapin in his efforts to address global hunger. Throughout his career, he has worked with various performers, including Pete Seeger, Lou Rawls, Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul, and Mary), Tim Janis, and others. Following his retirement, Bill served as Interim Pastor at Zion United Church of Christ in South Bend, Indiana before he and his wife, Maureen, moved to Ponte Vedra. At present he is the Adult Ministry Director of Palm Presbyterian Church in Florida. You can find them on Instagram and Facebook. 

Walk Talk Listen at the UNGA and Climate Week in NYC - episode 1

Reimagining Climate Action and Achieving the SDGs: Our Individual and Collective Work
 
Side Event to UNGA 77 and Climate Week
Panel and Reception
Hosted by Church World Service (CWS)
Monday, 19 September 2022
4 - 7 PM EDT
Location: Church Center of the UN
New York, NY
 
About
 
For fourteen years, Climate Week has “brought together the most influential leaders in climate action from business, government, and the climate community” at the same time as the UN General Assembly High-level meetings. Climate Week aims to increase ambition and accelerate action for urgent climate action, and the timing is more critical during UNGA this year as the world experiences more frequent and severe climate shocks affecting all people, but most disproportionately for the most vulnerable (eg. food insecure, impoverished, indigenous persons, women, smallholder farmers). Climate change is also promulgating unrest and forced displacement; there are more displaced persons around the world now than ever before in recorded human history. 
 
Most people in low and middle income countries are people of faith, and the role of places and leaders of worship, communities and individual action will only continue to be critical to achieve the SDGs. As a faith-based civil society organization in consultative status with the UN, CWS is uniquely positioned to engage with delegates and high-level attendees of UNGA regarding critical matters around the world’s progress - or lack thereof - toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
 
This side event served as a follow-up to CWS’ side event during the 2022 High Level Political Forum entitled Reimagining Our World and Future Together: an integral approach towards sustainable development. In a panel discussion between the Netherlands, UNDP, Seattle University, MPOWERD and CWS, speakers addressed systemic gaps and the value of improving social safety nets and partnerships (SDG 17) to ensure resilience - especially among the most vulnerable - and the achievement of the SDGs. Speakers were asked to consider the role of “Inner Development Goals” (IDGs), or the capabilities, qualities and skills within each person. 
 
The event featured a panel discussion and interactive dialogue with the audience. We would like to thank the audience for their participation and apologize that this summary podcast doesn’t do total justice to the richness of the conversations that took place during the session.
 
Panelists
(Moderator) Maurice A. Bloem, Chief Sustainability and Impact Officer, CWS
Andrew Fuys, Senior Technical Advisor, Climate and Migration, CWS 
Mary Kate Costello, Director of International Policy and Relations, CWS
Sydney Upchurch, Founder, Fleet 
Pooja Tilvawala, Director & Founder, Youth Climate Collaborative
Dr. John Coonrod, EVP, The Hunger Project

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Christine Sow (episode 86)

Christine Sow PhD MPH MA joined Humentum as CEO in 2019 following a 25-year career in international development. A seasoned convener and coalition-builder, Dr. Sow brings deep experience in leading member organizations, having relaunched the Global Health Council in 2013. Prior to joining Humentum, Dr. Sow led Palladium’s development impact bond work in addition to providing oversight to their USAID-funded health portfolio; she also served as Chief Operating Officer of Population Services International, where she led global operations across more than 60 countries. Over the span of her career, Dr. Sow spent more than 14 years in West Africa with organizations including UNICEF and USAID. She holds a PhD in epidemiology from Tulane University and two Masters Degrees from the University of Michigan; she is fluent in French and English.
 
In the episode of Walk Talk Listen, Christine shares especially how her organization Humentum is trying to navigate in the changing NGO landscape while we also touch upon the usual typical WTL questions. I also talk with her about ESG (Environmental Social and Governance), and refers to the three key factors when measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a business or company.
 
Humentum can be found on twitter and instagram and they are also on LinkedIn and Facebook. Christine herself is on LinkedIn and Twitter.
 
The songs picked by all our guests can be found via  our playlist #walktalklisten here. 
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. 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! We also encourage you to check out the special WTL series Enough for All about an organization called CWS.

WTL Special Series: Enough for All - Lenann McGookey Gardner (episode 20)

Lenann McGookey Gardner, is a Harvard MBA coaching individuals and employees in organizations of all sizes to achieve unprecedented results. She is an expert in state-of-the-art new business development skills, a strategist who specializes in being sure you know what to SAY and WRITE when you're selling, to optimize sales results, and a Job Search Coach who will help you GET THAT JOB OFFER. Lenann is also an Executive Coach to senior- and C-level-executives worldwide. Her first book, Got Sales? The Complete Guide to Today's Proven Methods for Selling Services, published in 2007, was nominated for the Axiom Business Book Award, recognizing the best business books of the year. Her second book, Win More Clients, is the fastest way to improve your approach to business development in the new economy, whether you’re new to sales or an experienced rainmaker. Get the DATA about today’s most powerful selling skills in this easy-to-read, simple-to-understand book. Adjust what's optimal to say when you’re selling, and watch your sales results soar! Lenann served for more than 7 years and still actively supports the organization.
 
Lenann's social media handles are: Facebook personal, Facebook company, Twitter personal and Instagram personal.
 
We made a special Playlist #CWSsongs consisting of songs chosen by many of our podcast guests.
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this new series. 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!