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🔍 AI Governance: Servant or Master? A Conversation with Lord Tim Clement-Jones 🎙️

In this episode of Leadership with Darrell W. Gunter, I sit down with Lord Tim Clement-Jones, a leading voice in AI governance and policy and author of Living with the Algorithm: Servant or Master? AI Governance and Policy for the Future. As former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on AI and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, Lord Clement-Jones has been at the forefront of shaping global AI regulations. With AI evolving at an unprecedented pace, we discuss the critical questions: ⚖️ What kind of international AI governance is needed? 🌍 How can global organizations collaborate on AI policy? ⚠️ What are the risks of unchecked AI development? 🔍 How do we ensure transparency, accountability, and fairness in AI? 🚀 Can the UK become a leader in ethical AI regulation? Join us for an insightful discussion on the opportunities, risks, and the future of AI governance. Don’t miss this deep dive into the policies shaping our digital future!

Karen Leies CEO The Seeing Eye

"Our guest today is Karen Leies, President & CEO of The Seeing Eye, a renowned philanthropic organization dedicated to enhancing the independence, dignity, and self-confidence of blind individuals through the use of expertly trained Seeing Eye® dogs. With a deep passion for service and leadership, Karen has played a pivotal role in advancing the mission of The Seeing Eye, ensuring that those who are blind or visually impaired have access to life-changing guide dogs. Today, we’ll discuss her leadership journey, the impact of The Seeing Eye, and the transformative power of these remarkable service animals. Welcome, Karen!"

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.