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Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Until recently, he chaired the Advanced Management Program, the flagship senior leader executive program, at the school. Professor Gulati studies how “resilient” organizations—those that prosper both in good times and bad—drive growth and profitability. His work bridges strategy (establishing clear strategic pillars for growth), organizational design (reimagining purposeful and collaborative organizational systems), and leadership (fostering inspired, courageous and caring execution). Professor Gulati was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. His research has been published in leading academic journals of business, the Harvard Business Review, and a range of other outlets. He is the author of a number of books. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC and other media outlets. Professor Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe. He also frequently leads small-group workshops focused on helping leadership teams of high-growth companies enhance the growth trajectory of their businesses. Some of his representative speaking and consulting clients include: Abbott Laboratories, Adidas, Aetna, Allergan, Bank of America, Bank of China, Baxter, Berkshire Partners, Blackrock, Boston Scientific, Bristol Myers Squibb, Brown Brothers Harriman, Caterpillar, Credit Suisse, Expedia, Ford, GE, General Mills, Google, Henkel, Hitachi, Honda, Hospira, IBM, Iron Mountain, Kellogg Company, Keybank, KPMG, LaFarge, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Metlife, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Novartis, Ochsner, P & G, Qualcomm, Sanofi, SAP, Target, Temasek, Unilever, and Vertex. He has served on the advisory boards of several entrepreneurial ventures and has appeared as an expert witness in business litigations. Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master’s Degree in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor’s Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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Kitara Johnson is a highly sought speaker and trainer for state agencies, schools, businesses, hospitals, and municipal organizations. In addition to working at her own firm, she also serves as the Chief Human Resource Officer at the second largest Behavioral Health Organization in the Inland Northwest. Kitara's experience as a former Chief Diversity Officer within a large complex organization, where she managed and supported strategic organizational development, Health Equity Outcomes, Community Health partnerships, and training. Kitara was awarded Top 100 Chief Diversity Officers in the United States in April of 2021 by the National Diversity Council and was a presenter at the National Diversity and Leadership Conference. Kitara earned her Master’s in Organizational Leadership and Management at Webster University, a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Workforce Education and Development, and her Associate of Applied Science degree in Early Childhood Education and Development, and a graduate of Cornell University’s Diversity & Inclusion for Human Resources Certificate Program. Kitara is a graduate of Leadership Spokane and is an alumnus of JustLead Washington, a year-long diversity, equity, social justice leadership, and professional development training program. Kitara has written and developed training for over 15 years.
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Sean Goode is the executive director of Choose 180, and the definition of an intentional leader. Both of his parents struggled with mental health issues, and his brother was sent to prison when Sean was only six. Along with dealing with those issues, he struggled with a lack of stability as he moved to twelve different places during twelve years of school. Despite all of those struggles, Sean was able to break the stereotype and dedicate himself to being everything others thought he couldn’t. Today, Sean transforms the lives of kids by steering them clear of the traditional school-to-prison pipeline. He provides them with a sense of community rather than shame and imprisonment. Outside of his work, Sean’s a family man at heart. He has a wife who he considers his best friend and children of his own that he’s raising.
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Tony Schwartz is the founder and CEO of The Energy Project, a consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations more skillfully manage their energy so they can thrive in a world of relentlessly rising demand and complexity. Tony began his career as a journalist and he has been a reporter for the New York Times, a writer for Newsweek, and a contributing writer to New York Magazine and Esquire. At the Energy Project, Tony has coached many CEOs and senior leaders. He has also delivered keynotes and training to companies around the world, including Google, Unilever, Apple, PWC Facebook, Whole Foods, EY, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Medical Center, the National Security Agency, and Save the Children. He has also written extensively about leadership, transformation and the modern workplace for The New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review. Tony is the author of six books, including “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time” which spent 28 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working,” also a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Tony graduated with honors from the University of Michigan. He is married to Deborah Pines, a psychoanalyst, and they have two grown daughters and four grandchildren.
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Trey Lamont is chef and owner at Jerk Shack in Seattle, a Caribbean restaurant full of spiced meats and fresh cocktails -- what he calls “the food of the sun.” Born and raised in Seattle, with roots in Jamaica and Trinidad, Trey first developed a passion for food in his grandmother’s kitchen. He now runs a successful restaurant with business partner John Devine -- the only 100 percent Black-owned restaurant in the neighborhood. It’s also a place that’s as much about community-building as it is about food. The restaurant serves beer from the only Black-owned brewery in Seattle and its walls serve as a gallery for local artists; almost everything is for sale and Trey doesn’t take a commission. He’s also raising funds to launch a second location in a predominantly Black and brown neighborhood in South Seattle. The goal: to provide as many economic opportunities as possible to the community there.
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Trymaine D. Lee is an award-winning journalist who has focused on racial justice and the Black American experience for most of his career. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and then moved on to report for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, always with a strong emphasis on powerful stories impacting the Black community. In 2012, he was one of the first reporters to cover the killing of Trayvon Martin and bring it to a national audience, for which he won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. He then joined MSNBC as a national reporter, where he covered the shooting of Michael Brown and its aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri; communities affected by poverty across the country including Flint, Michigan; and much, much more. He now also hosts the podcast “Into America,” which is a show about the Black American experience, and explores, as he says, “what it means to hold truth to power and this country to its promises.” We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Trymaine!
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Femi Akinde is a Principal Program Manager for Azure Global at Microsoft and a co-founder of Reskill Americans, a nonprofit that provides historically underrepresented racial minorities with tuition-free software development training and mentorship. Femi is also a successful tech entrepreneur, having received a TED Global Fellowship in 2011 for establishing Africa's first mobile commerce platform. He wants to see the tech industry become as diverse as the rest of the world, and he discovered that part of the issue is that most recruit training programs are either pricey or demand prior coding knowledge. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Femi Akinde!
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Jamie Winship, a former Metro DC police officer, spent more than 25 years in the Muslim world, teaching people to listen to God and live in his kingdom. Jamie and his wife Donna speak around the US and across the entire world spreading their message. They act together as catalysts to help people find their identity given by God and live a life of liberty. Jamie teaches in a way that allows people to experience the reality of hearing God's voice in their daily lives through dynamic storytelling and real-life application. Thousands of people have been helped by his teachings to discover their true identity and destiny. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Jamie Winship!
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Mitch Landrieu is a politician, attorney, author, nonprofit leader and staunch advocate for racial equity. He served as the 61st mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018 and as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. As mayor, he helped tackle some of the toughest problems his city faced; he developed lasting criminal justice reforms, created jobs, and awarded nearly half of all city contracts to firms owned by women and people of color. In 2017, he rose to national prominence over his decision to pull down four Confederate monuments across New Orleans. The following spring, he published the best-selling memoir, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, both a personal story about his own journey around race and a call to action for white Americans, in particular, to confront the truth of America’s past. Later that year, Mitch launched E Pluribus Unum Fund, a nonprofit organization that aims to build an equitable and inclusive South through empowering leaders in racial equity, dismantling the narratives that perpetuate racism, and promoting transformative policy change. We can't heal the past we all carry, he says, “unless we set our minds to an honest reckoning with that past and a search for solutions grounded in genuine truth and justice.” We’re so excited for you to hear this conversation with Mitch Landrieu!
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Sir Mix-a-Lot is a rapper, songwriter, and record producer from Seattle, Washington, best known for his 1992 smash hit, “Baby Got Back.” He’s had two platinum records and a Grammy award, among other accolades, and he’s done a lot over the years to give back to his hometown community. This year, in particular, Mix has been a real lifesaver for Washington artists and venues struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s the co-chair of Keep Music Live, a fundraising effort launched in 2020 with the goal of raising $10 million for Washington’s small venues. He’s been putting so much of his own money, time, and performances into the effort -- doing what he can to keep the soul of Seattle neighborhoods afloat. At least one business owner has called him “as selfless as it gets.” We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Sir Mix-a-Lot!
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Alicia Garza is a civil rights activist, writer, political strategist, and organizer; she’s principal at Black Futures Lab, an organization that builds independent political power for Black communities; she’s Special Projects Director at National Domestic Workers Alliance, an organization that seeks equity for a profession made up primarily of immigrant women and women of color; and she’s a co-creator of #Black Lives Matter, a global justice movement that truly needs no introduction. She’s the author of the new memoir, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, which includes lessons from her many years of bringing people together to create change. And she hosts the weekly podcast Lady Don’t Take No. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Alicia Garza!
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Dr. Harry Edwards is a renowned sociologist and civil rights activist best known for his focus on the vital connections between race, society, and professional sports. Known as a “giant of sports activism,” and “the father of sports sociology,” Harry has spent the past half-century advocating for the rights of Black athletes and the need for Black leadership in sports, from the NFL to the Olympics. In 1967, he was a co-founder and lead organizer of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, a movement designed to expose how America used Black athletes to lie to the world (and to itself) about institutional racism. From 1970 until 2000, he taught sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now Professor Emeritus; and since the 1980s, he’s worked as a consultant for individual teams and as well as entire leagues in professional sports, helping them to bring more diversity into their leadership, their players, and their thinking. He is the author of four books, including The Revolt of the Black Athlete and The Struggle That Must Be: An Autobiography, and countless essays and articles about sports, race, and sociology. To this day, his fight for justice endures. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Harry Edwards!
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Adia Barnes is the award-winning head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Arizona and a former professional basketball player. In college, she played for the University of Arizona Wildcats, where she now coaches; she then went on to play seven seasons in the WNBA, for the Houston Comets, Seattle Storm, Minnesota Lynx, and Sacramento Monarchs. She began her coaching career as assistant coach for the University of Washington Huskies and returned to the Wildcats as head coach in 2016. In 2021, she brought her team to the NCAA Championships, the first time ever for the school. Adia has long advocated for equal rights for women and women of color in basketball and beyond. She brings a lot of heart, love, and joy to the court, and is known for really listening to and empowering her team; she sees her role as a mentor above all else and makes no apologies for always being herself. “My job is to help other women,” she says. “And I’ve been doing it every day.”
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Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey, a former Democratic Presidential candidate, a former mayor of Newark, an attorney, and a lifelong fighter for civil rights. He began his political career in 1998 when he was elected to the Municipal Council of Newark, after launching a nonprofit organization to provide legal help to low-income families and tenants. In 2006, he was elected mayor of Newark, where he served until 2013, when he moved on to the U.S. Senate. Cory is the first Black U.S. Senator from New Jersey and has been consistently advocating for racial and economic justice since, proposing and passing legislation to reform the criminal justice system, end mass incarceration, reduce wealth inequality, combat climate change, and promote equitable access to healthy food and affordable health care. And Cory has made compassion the cornerstone of all of this work. In 2016, he published a book called "United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good." When he was a Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential race, he campaigned on love: “We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves,” he said. “If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.”.
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Resmaa Menakem is a healer, author, master coach, and trauma specialist. He helps people, communities, and organizations heal from and build resilience around historical and racialized trauma through body-centered psychology. He is the best-selling author of several books, including “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies,” a deep exploration of how trauma (and especially the trauma of white supremacy) affects us all. In addition to his work as a writer and therapist, he focuses his expertise on coaching other leaders to learn this embodied approach, including police chiefs, nonprofit executives, CEOs, athletic directors and managers, government leaders and many more. “While we see anger and violence in the streets of our country, the real battlefield is inside our bodies,” he says. “If we are to survive as a country, it is inside our bodies where this conflict needs to be resolved.”
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Anna Malaika Tubbs is an author, advocate, consultant and educator whose groundbreaking new book, "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation," shows just what intersectionality really means. A longtime activist supporting the rights of women of color, she has a bachelor’s degree in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies. She’s now a PhD candidate at Cambridge in Sociology. She grew up in half a dozen countries around the world, and brings those diverse perspectives to her writing, her research, and her advocacy, which began in earnest at Stanford, where she was President of the Black Student Union. She’s also spent several years teaching high school students at Aspire Langston Hughes Academy in Stockton, California, and works as a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant for both individuals and organizations.
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Jamie Hodari is CEO and co-founder of Industrious, a workspace company that reimagines the modern office by meeting people where they are. With over a hundred locations across the country, Industrious strives to create flexible, community-oriented spaces that allow people to focus, collaborate, and be their authentic selves. It has the highest satisfaction score in the co-working space industry and is growing fast -- in fact, in 2020, it made Inc. magazine’s list of 500 fastest-growing companies. Jamie studied at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale, and has worked in a variety of industries; he’s been a journalist at the Times of India, a project finance lawyer, a hedge fund analyst, and an entrepreneur who co-founded Kepler, an organization that brings accessible, internationally-recognized higher education to the neediest parts of the world. His approach to leadership and entrepreneurship is grounded in listening to his clients, employees, and community; he creates an environment that gives others respect and autonomy while encouraging experimentation and creativity. Industrious’ Seattle location is where we do our work here at Amplify Voices, and we love it! We’re so excited for you to hear this conversation with Jamie Hodari!
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Rachel Maddow is a television news host, author, and political commentator best known for her MSNBC primetime program, “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Within weeks of its debut in 2008, she’d more than doubled MSNBC’s audience for her time slot. After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, her viewership doubled again, and then tripled. In early 2021, she was the most-watched host in cable news in the United States. A Stanford and Oxford-educated Rhodes scholar, she’s also the author of three bestselling books, most recently “Blowout,” a deep dive on politics, corruption, and the oil and gas industry. She’s the winner of several Emmys, and even a Grammy for the audiobook version of Blowout. She’s a trailblazer, a fearless intellectual, and a dogged journalist -- someone who literally says to her critics, “Bring it.” We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Rachel Maddow!
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Angela Duckworth is a scholar, psychologist, and author best known for the groundbreaking book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, which digs into what really helps people succeed. She’s a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty co-director of both the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative and Wharton People Analytics. A former math and science teacher in low-income schools, she’s also the founder and CEO of Character lab, a nonprofit that advances scientific insights to help kids thrive. She’s the co-host, with Stephen Dubner, of the podcast No Stupid Questions…. and her TED Talk is one of the most popular TED Talks of all time. Also, she’s a friend of Pete’s! We are so excited for you to listen to this conversation with Angela Duckworth!
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Van Jones is a TV host, author, attorney, and change maker known for his bridge-building approach to politics ... and his tireless fight for social justice. He’s the host of The Van Jones Show and The Redemption Project on CNN, as well as a frequent CNN political contributor. He’s been fighting for criminal and environmental justice for more than a quarter century. He’s launched or helped launch a huge number of nonprofits and initiatives, including Color of Change, Green for All, Dream Corps, Rebuild the Dream, REFORM Alliance, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He’s also the co-founder of Magic Labs Media, the production company behind “The Messy Truth,” a web series about the divides exposed by the 2016 presidential election. And Jones is the author of three bestselling books, including, most recently, Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together, a deep dive on how the country can learn and heal from 2016. Over the past year, he has helped put a major spotlight on the need to reform American policing; helped pass legislation to transform probation and parole laws in California, Louisiana, and Michigan; and won an Emmy Award for “The Messy Truth VR Experience.” And the list goes on. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Van Jones!
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