WSOU: Leadership with Darrell W. Gunter - Leadership Begins With You!

Deni Auclair - The Cat Connection (Waltham, MA) a great community service.

The Cat Connection is an all-volunteer (with the exception of our two part-time Shelter Directors) 501(c)(3) nonprofit no-kill organization. 

Our mission is to find a safe and loving home for every cat. 

 

Our Three-Pronged Approach:

The Cat Connection is an all-volunteer (with the exception of our two part-time Shelter Directors) 501(c)(3) nonprofit no-kill organization whose primary mission is to rescue abandoned, abused, unwanted, stray, neglected, and injured cats, and to facilitate their adoption into responsible permanent homes. This includes special needs cats and kittens with conditions that will require a specialized approach to adoption.

We also support our cat community by providing much-needed veterinary and behavior consulting services to caring cat owners who cannot afford to provide basic veterinary care to their beloved pets, including spay/neuter, vaccinations, and microchipping.

The third aspect of our mission is to help control the feral cat population through our Trap Neuter-Return-Maintain (TNRM) program and through the trapping and socialization of feral kittens.

Ed Keating Chief Data Officer Cannabiz Media

Ed discusses the Cannabiz Media success story.  Cannabiz Media manages the award-winning Cannabis Market Intelligence Platform that facilitates growth opportunities, reveals financial insights, and safeguards compliance.
We are a team of real researchers, developers, marketers, and strategists from across the country. Now celebrating our 10 year anniversary, over a third of the current Cannabiz Media team has been together from the start, granting us a staggering amount of expertise. There is nothing artificial about our intelligence!

Lisa Peskin, CEO Business Development University, Sales Success Workbook

Lisa Peskin, CEO, has more than 25 years of experience in sales performance and management. Throughout her career, she has developed an award-winning reputation as a motivational and results-oriented sales professional. After a successful career as Vice President of Sales for Automatic Data Processing (ADP), running a 40 man sales force, Lisa launched her own sales training, consulting and coaching business in 2003. Since then, Lisa has helped thousands of sales professionals and sales managers increase their sales through training, just in time support and programs designed to maximize opportunities and drive ROI.

Dr. Chris Bonneau and Jordan Fields of the book, “Civic Pedagogies” Tearing Down Walls: Teaching Political Science in Prison

The Pitt Prison Education Project offers credit-bearing courses taught by University of Pittsburgh faculty members to combined classes of traditional university students (Outside students) and non-traditional students (Inside students) held in nearby correctional facilities. Courses are developed and taught by individual instructors following the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program (IO) framework. In collaboration with their home universities and local carceral institutions, faculty members and Outside students travel to the prison to hold in-person classes with Inside students.

Blues Boy ODIN S talks about his Blues music journey!

Blues Boy ODIN S talks about his Blues music journey!

Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis talks about talk about Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis is a licensed psychologist (Australia) and mental health counselor (New York), adjunct professor at Columbia University New York, and is affiliated with several major psychological associations and societies − including being a Member of the Australian Psychological Society, Member of the Association for Psychological Science, and an International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association. She has a doctorate in alternative medicine (MDAM) from the Indian Board of Alternative Medicine in affiliation with the World Health Organization, from whom she also received a gold medal (1993) in recognition of her service to the field of alternative and holistic medicine.

Brian H Cameron & Whynde Kuehn discuss The Executive Challenge....

An expert playbook for effective strategy execution with a focus on proven, real-world, implementation

In The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale, a team of renowned strategy execution researchers and consultants delivers a practical and insightful new take on how to effectively execute strategy in today's complex, fast-changing environments. The authors focus on the often missing “HOW” of strategy execution — exploring the holistic perspectives, skills, and approaches needed to inform and translate strategy and create and maintain a “line-of-sight” between your strategy and its execution. You'll find proven techniques that you can implement to ensure that changes in business strategy are reflected in complementary changes to the organizational project portfolio. The Execution Challenge includes over 70 diagrams and figures, an organizational assessment, and reusable frameworks. 

Authors Maurice Tyree and Katie Singer - The Darkest Parts of My Blackness A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution

Maurice Tyree went to prison thinking that life was disposable. He came out knowing that he had a story to tell.

This is his story, told through letters and poems written during and since his time in prison. An honest and reflective narrative, this epistolary autoethnography provides a glimpse into the experience of a person who committed and served time for pre-meditated murder, and used his time incarcerated to reflect on and transform his life.

Ideal reading for students of Incarceration or Carceral Studies, Criminal Justice, Social Work and Family Studies, Sociology, Literature, and related courses, Mr Tyree offers first-hand insight to the experience of the US criminal legal system for an African-American man.

Sarah Einstein & Randy Quarterman discuss their book, Reparations Project!

Discover the intertwined histories and life stories of a descendant of enslavers and a descendant of the enslaved in rural Georgia.

Tamsen Webster - Author SAY WHAT they can't UNHEAR, the 9 principles of Lasting Change!

As Executive Producer of TEDx Cambridge, one of the largest and longest-running TEDx Talks in the world, Tamsen coached everyone from a 10-year old sartorialist to a pervasive roboticist to a bioethics pioneer to build their RedThreads™ into Ideas Worth Spreading.

Now, she’s a globe-hopping keynote speaker on storytelling, branding, change management, and idea development, and a go-to consultant for enterprise companies like Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, and State Street Bank who want their big ideas to have an even bigger impact.

 

Her upcoming book SAY WHAT they can't UNHEAR, the 9 principles of Lasting Change, she shares the secret sauce as to how she helps the CEO and team to achieve their strategic objectives.