Episodes

Sept. 15, 2022

How a Brain Injury Made Her a Better Catalyst - Jennifer Cotie Kangas

Join us for an interview with Jennifer Cotie Kangas , a Catalyst with an interesting Hero's journey. In 2020 an accident gave her the gift of a beginners mindset. She had to relearn everything - how to talk, to how to walk, a...

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Sept. 9, 2022

Ask for Help: You Don't Have to Create Change Alone - Justin Lokitz

Join us for an interview with Justin Lokitz , who is a Catalyst, Entrepreneur, Advisor, Author and Professor. In this episode, Justin shares how he has learned to ask for help to drive success. When he reflects back on things...

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Sept. 9, 2022

Maximize Your Change Making Superpowers - Carina Wong

Join us for an interview with Carina Wong, who is the former Deputy Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She talks about how stepping out of a managerial leadership position into a Senior Advisor position helped...

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Sept. 2, 2022

Guaranteed Basic Income & Tackling Systemic Change - Dr. Dawnté Early

Join us for an interview with Dr. Dawnté Early , who is President & CEO of United Way California Capital Region. She is tackling systemic poverty through a data-driven ecosystem approach. She shares about the importance of st...

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Sept. 2, 2022

To Net Zero or Not - Chris Librie

Join us for an interview with Chris Librie , who is a Director of ESG at Applied Materials. He shares about his journey driving sustainability into some of the world's largest companies. Chris shares about the challenges and ...

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Aug. 29, 2022

Creating Change Through Growth Mindset Organizations - Bernhard Kowat…

Join us for an interview with Bernhard Kowatsch , who is the Head of the Innovation Accelerator at United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). We discuss creating large scale change through building a growth mindset organizati...

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Aug. 27, 2022

The Two Paths - Jane Craig

Join us for an interview with Dr. Jane Craig who led global leadership development at Mars Inc. as she talks about the importance of Catalysts working on themselves to support their external change work. There is a path of pe...

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Aug. 22, 2022

Unleashing Creativity & Innovation Through Psychological Safety - Jac…

Join us for an interview with Jacci Johnson . She shares about the role psychological safety has in allowing teams to be creative and innovative, what it feels like to be on both a safe and unsafe team, and how each impacts u...

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Aug. 19, 2022

Changing Society by Catalyzing Others - Mai Vang

Join us for an interview with Mai Vang , who is a City Council Member for the City of Sacramento. Mai identifies the biggest challenges to be solved and catalyzes the community to make big changes happen. She was the eldest o...

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Aug. 12, 2022

Connecting the Dots to Enable Change - Guido Jouret

Join us for an interview with Guido Jouret , who is the Former Chief Development Officer at Plume. Dr. Guido Jouret has had an incredible journey leading change in some of the world's largest organizations. In our conversatio...

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Aug. 12, 2022

Catalyzing Change - Tyrome Smith

Join us for an interview with Tyrome Smith , who has spent almost 20 years honing his skills in enterprise strategy and value clarification. Providing trusted advisorship to senior leadership to assist in organizing problem-s...

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Aug. 5, 2022

Creating by Example - Ryan Clark

Join us for an interview with Ryan Clark . For Ryan it isn't just a quick conversation, it is about developing a relationship and really letting people see you like family and finding a way to support Catalysts around you by ...

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July 29, 2022

Exploring New Ideas - Eric West

Join us for an interview with Eric West , who's career started on the manufacturing floor of the Black Hawk Helicopter, to DARPA-funded R&D projects. More recently, he is working on external-focused resources across open inno...

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July 29, 2022

Building Diverse and Inclusive Environments - Faye Sahai

Join us for an interview with Faye Sahai , Partner at Telosity Ventures, investing in digital wellness and behavioral health startups with the Telosity Fund and advising corporations on innovation. She has served an Advisor a...

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July 18, 2022

A Diverse and Inclusive Metaverse - Giselle Mota

Join us for a conversation with Giselle Mota , who is a Principal Consultant on the Future of Work. Named a Top 100 Future of Work Thought Leader, she brings simplicity, humanity and innovative perspective to the sometimes ab...

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July 18, 2022

Organizing Your Catalysts Thoughts - Chad Sowash

Join us for a conversation with Chad Sowash , who is an army veteran and has successfully worked in partnership with hundreds of major Fortune 500 companies, federal, state, and local government to build specialized programs ...

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July 18, 2022

Impostor Syndrome - Christopher Cravens

Join us for a conversation with Christopher Cravens , who is a Silicon Valley veteran with a quarter century of successes delivering measurable value for high-growth enterprises. He was the first CIO at Zynga and Uber, helpin...

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July 18, 2022

Systems and People - Navin Kunde

Join us for a conversation with Navin Kunde , who leads the Open Innovation group at The Clorox Company, a US-based consumer goods company in the Fortune 500. He has over 20 years of research, operations, innovation and strat...

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July 18, 2022

Connecting the Dots - Ashleigh Brookshaw

Join us for a conversation with Ashleigh Brookshaw , who is a Senior Manager of Digital Customer Experience at NICE CXone. She is responsible for the analysis, strategic recommendations, and change initiatives for the digital...

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June 28, 2022

A Universe of Possibilities - Michael Bloxton

Join us for an interview with Michael Bloxton , CEO of both Nebula Space Enterprise and Bloxton Investment Group. He moves at lightning speed. He creates massive change. When we talk about a range of Catalytic-ness, Michael i...

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June 24, 2022

Innovation in the Public Sector - Virginia Hamilton

Join us for a conversation with Virginia Hamilton , Public Sector Innovation Catalyst who is former Regional Administrator at the US Department of Labor and advisor to the Obama Administration. Virginia is an experienced publ...

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June 24, 2022

Psychological Safety in EHS - Kahlilah Guyah

Join us for a conversation with Kahlilah Guyah , who is the CEO, Founder and Principal EHS Consultant at EHS Compliance Services Inc. She partners with business leaders to identify and mitigate environmental, health & safety ...

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June 18, 2022

The Actors of the Future - Parminder Jassal

Join us for a conversation with Parminder Jassa l, who is the CEO of Unmudl Public Benefit Corp. and the Founder/CEO of SocialTech.ai. She is also the Founder of the “Work + Learn Futures Lab” at the Institute for the Future ...

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