Walk Talk Listen Podcast

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!

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Shaurya Saluja & Sydney Upchurch (episode 85)

Sydney Upchurch and Shaurya Saluja are the co-founders of Fleet. Sydney, is responsible for Fleet's Planning & Partnerships and she is an urban planner and designer. She is committed to designing and deploying tech applications to make cities more sustainable, equitable, and efficient. Sydney has a diverse background with experience in fields from public policy to urban analytics. As a graduate student, she explored innovative new mobility solutions and worked on research at the MIT Urban Mobility Lab. She has a Master’s in urban planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Shaurya Saluja is Fleet's CEO and he has worked at the intersection of sustainability, transportation and technology for over a decade. Prior to founding Fleet with Sydney, he led technology and global growth for a private European train operator. Shaurya holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he was also a competitive squash player and a frequent judge at hackathons.
 
You can find Sydney and Shaurya as well as their company on social media: Twitter Sydney, Twitter Shaurya and Twitter Fleet. Instagram of Fleet and Shaurya.
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 - Ellen Andrews (episode 19)

Ellen Andrews was born-and-raised in Durham, North Carolina and graduated from UNC in 2009 with a degree in psychology, minoring in biology. Always thinking she would go into research, it was only after she spent time volunteering and interning at the Carol Woods Retirement Community that Ellen realized she was best suited to an active, dynamic, interpersonal work environment. She started her work at Church World Service (CWS)  in its refugee resettlement program straight out of college, initially as an employment specialist. After helping more than 100 refugees get jobs that first year, she took a post as a team leader, then a supervisor role overseeing program management responsibilities, moved into a director position with the CWS Durham office in 2014. When I spoke with her in 2021 she was the North Carolina area director and at present she is the Regional Director, US Mid-Atlantic.
 
Please let me/us know via our email innovationhub@cwsglobal.org what you think about this 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! Bill Sage you can find on Facebook as well.
 

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Chris Bolman (episode 84)

Chris Bolman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Brightest (brightest.io), the operating system for managing and measuring sustainability, ESG, and social impact. Chris has taught over 15,000 students on strategy, sustainability, brand development, and communications, and his work and writing has been featured in publications like Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, and Scientific American. You can find both Chris as well as his company on social media: Twitter and Instagram for Chris and for his company Brightest: Twitter and 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.

Virtual Walk Talk Listen with Liesbeth Rijsdijk (episode 83)

Liesbeth Rijsdijk, Ph.D., works at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Zwolle, The Netherlands. She is part of the management team of and a senior lecturer at Windesheim Honors College (WHC) that offers honors education for (international) students. Next to teaching and managing, she is a senior researcher at the Research Program Social Innovation at Windesheim UAS. The current focus of her research is on Wicked Challenges, strategic network collaboration & governance, leadership competences, energy transition and climate adaptation. Next to her job at Windesheim, she is the Chair of the Climate Campus Foundation and part of the editorial board of the professional Magazine on Project Management and Agile Management. Before joining Windesheim UAS in 2003, Liesbeth worked as a prevention policy officer for the Child Protection Board and later as the Director of Communication of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, and as an associate Expert in Communication and Development for UNESCO and UNAIDS in the Pacific and Central Asia. Liesbeth will become a professor in Networks in Circular Economy as of the 1st of November 2022, also at Windesheim UAS.
 
During this podcast episode we tackle a lot of different issues and topics, among others one of the program WHC offers is the 4 year fully English taught BBA program “Global Project and Change Management” which is fully dedicated to sustainable development, and which has been a top-rated program for years.  The UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Inner Development Goals are at the heart of the program.
 
You can find the social medial related tools here: Instagram and Facebook.
 
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.