renewal
TRANSFORMING BUSINESS, SOCIETY,
AND
SELF / business summit
November 12, 2015
New York City
about
A transformative, groundbreaking One-Day Business Summit that will gather business leaders, business executives, business owners, educators, social entrepreneurs, the curious, and everyone interested in making businesses work better -- to discover the new leadership tools, ideas and systems that can truly transform, business, society, and self. The summit features 20+ speakers from some of the worlds leading thinkers from Google, McKinsey, Time Warner, New York Times, ABC News, New York University, KRW International and NBBJ.
*Lunch & Cocktail Reception included.
why attend
The way we're working isn't working. In a volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous (VUCA) world, increasing numbers of people are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and disengaged.
We need new mindsets, new systems, and new skills for leading and living in this era.
This groundbreaking Summit signals a new transformative journey for leaders and teams. You will discover new models of leadership, unique and engaging marketing skills, personal development skills, and systems that awaken the best in people and organizations.
Join us, and learn what visionary organizations are doing to create thriving workplaces where people are less stressed, happier, innovative, and more productive.
Jeffrey is the founder and President of Bridg-it. He decided to find a solution to bullying and cyberbullying after enduring a difficult experience being attacked online. It was during that period that he realized there needed to be a technology-based solution for a problem that is destroying lives and has spread online, making it so much more difficult to avoid or escape.
Mr. Ervine is an investment professional with over 25 years of experience in accounting and finance. He is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School. He was recently featured on ABC News.
Mark Hurst, founder and CEO of Creative Good, is a pioneer of the customer experience discipline in business. Since 1997 he has spent his career writing, speaking, and advising teams how to improve by creating better customer experiences. In 2015 Hurst released the brand new 2nd edition of his book Customers Included, which describes how teams and organizations can create successful products and strategies by including customers in the process.
Hurst is also known for running the Gel conference, which he founded in 2003, spotlighting the world's top innovators in customer experience.
Hurst also pioneered the "empty inbox" method of managing email (and wrote a book about it: Bit Literacy). He also created Good Todo, the mobile productivity platform, the world's first cross-platform 'todo' list.
Mark Hurst holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from MIT and lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Adarsh Alphons, is the Founder and Executive Director of ProjectArt, a non-profit organization that provides free arts classes for New York City public school children. The art classes are held in libraries, and at the end of each semester, the children exhibit their art in galleries. Since 2011, ProjectArt has expanded from one branch in Harlem to a network of 11 libraries throughout the city. The group has reached roughly 1,000 children.
Adarsh was recently chosen as a CNN Hero and is an American Express-Ashoka Emerging Innovator, a NYC Rising Star by PAVE, a Columbia University Community Scholar, and recognized as the New Yorker of the Week by NY1 News, for his work with ProjectArt. He received his Masters from Boston University and his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Adarsh's artistic credentials include exhibitions across the globe, projects for Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa, and a commission from the Pope for the Pontiff's 1999 Holy Mass in New Delhi.
Dr. David Bach is the founder and president of The Platypus Institute; a research organization devoted to the study of peak performance technologies. He is a Harvard-trained scientist, physician and serial entrepreneur. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and worked as a research scientist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to starting The Platypus Institute, he founded and built three $100 million healthcare service companies; Touchstone Health, Empyrean, and Leprechaun. He has also been a management consultant, a venture capitalist and a professional cellist.
After a decade-long quest to maximize his own mental and physical performance, during which time he personally tried out over 75 different approaches to rewire his brain and body, Dr. Bach created The Platypus Institute with two goals in mind: 1) to bring scientific rigor to the growing field of human performance optimization and 2) to identify the most efficient technologies and approaches we can use today to radically enhance our effectiveness and life-experience.
Bonita Coleman Stewart is Vice President for strategic partnerships, North and South America at Google, she is a veteran marketer and one of the highest-ranking women in Google's New York operation. Bonita is a frequent speaker at numerous marketing and interactive conferences and has been featured in Fast Company, Crains New York Business, Advertising Age, and USA Today.
A Harvard M.B.A., Ms. Stewart started in brand management at IBM and later moved to DaimlerChrysler AG, where she headed Chrysler Group interactive communications and Chrysler brand advertising. She is currently a Corporate Director at Deckers Brands [NYSE: DECK] and is on the Advisory Council of American Ballet Theatre Project Plie and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Anand Giridharadas, a man who writes about people and cultures caught amid the great forces of our time, is a New York Times columnist and the author of two books, The True American and India Calling, in which he chronicles how the extraordinary economic, political and technological changes of our time shape the way we live, love, parent, vote, revolt, consume, strive and dream.Educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford and Harvard, he is a former consultant for McKinsey & Company and later reported from Bombay for the Herald Tribune and The Times.
He has appeared regularly on television and the radio in the United States and internationally, including on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, "The Daily Show" and beyond. He has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Sydney Opera House, the United Nations, the Asia Society, PopTech and Google. He has been a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University. At his recent TED2015 Talk, he received a standing ovation and to date, the talk has garnered nearly 1 million views.
Jamie Zimmerman, M.D. is a physician, meditation teacher and author, who lectures internationally on "meditation medicine" and living your calling. A meditator since age 16, Jamie has had the privilege of studying with many of today's leading instructors, teaches in Spanish and English, and offers free guided meditations at www.jamiez.tv.
She has been featured on ABC.com, Yahoo News, MindBodyGreen, and The Huffington Post. Passionate about global health, Jamie has lived and worked around the globe - from Belize, Haiti and the Thai/Burma border, to Congolese refugee camps and the Amazon rainforest - all before age 30. As a teenager, Jamie acted on such shows as 7th Heaven, Boston Public and The Practice. She is currently a medical journalist at ABC National News, where she teaches her colleagues to meditate. Jamie studied at UCLA and Mount Sinai Medical School, where she received the Physicians for Human Rights "Emerging Leaders" award. She is a TEDX presenter.
We are deeply saddened that Jamie passed on Monday October 12, 2015. She will be recognized and honored during the event. RIP Jamie.
David Gelles is a business reporter for the New York Times, covering mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and Wall Street. He is also the author of Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out. He has practiced meditation for over a decade, and spent two years traveling the U.S. unearthing stories about the uses of meditation in business.
Before joining the Times, David spent five years with the Financial Times, where he covered technology, media and M&A. In 2011 he conducted an exclusive jailhouse interview with Bernie Madoff, shedding new light on the $65 billion ponzi scheme. He speaks frequently about mindfulness at Renaissance Weekend, Wisdom 2.0, Authors At Google, and SXSW, and appears frequently on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, NPR, and the BBC. He has a Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
Fred Kiel, Ph.D., the cofounder of KRW International, a leadership consultancy, is also the coauthor of two influential books, The Return on Character and Moral Intelligence, and the speaker in the popular TEDx talk "Psychopaths in the C-suite." He brings over 30 years of experience with Fortune 500 CEOs and senior executives, on building organizational effectiveness through leadership excellence, and aligning organization with mission. Fred asserts in his new book Return On Character: The Real Reason Leaders and their Companies Win (Harvard Business Review Press), that "character" is the mystery ingredient that enables some leaders to excel and - more importantly - inspire their organizations to outperform their competitors.
Fred received his B.A. and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota and was appointed to the first licensing board of psychologists by the governor of Minnesota. He has also served on the boards of several philanthropic organizations, including Augsburg College Youth and Family Institute, and Graywolf Press.
Hakeem Rahim holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University and dual masters from Teacher's College, Columbia University. He is certified in de Bono's Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking methodologies. Hakeem is a graduate of iPEC, an accredited life-coach training institute. He is the Co- Founder and Co-President of UFEE and is a certified NAMI In Our Own Voice speaker. He is the owner of Live Breathe, LLC, a professional consultative services company that focuses on educational consulting and mental health advocacy.
In March 2014, Hakeem testified on Capitol Hill in front of the Energy and Commerce Congressional Committee where he shared his experience living with bipolar disorder. He has been featured in major news outlets for his advocacy work, including USA Today. Hakeem is a member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's national board. He is also the author of Magenta Your Conscience and is a recorded spoken word artist.
Michelle Gadsden-Williams is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ceiling Breakers LLC, a management consulting firm based in New York City specializing in diversity management, executive coaching, leadership & organizational development and multi-cultural marketing to Fortune 500 clients. Ms. Williams is the former Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Credit Suisse AG and has held positions of global responsibility in the diversity management for large multi-national corporations such as Novartis and Merck & Co, Inc.
She has been profiled in numerous publications, including Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence, Fortune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. More recently, Michelle has been appointed as a member of the Global Advisory Council on Gender Parity for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
She has been profiled in numerous publications, including Black Enterprise Magazine, Essence, Fortune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. More recently, Michelle has been appointed as a member of the Global Advisory Council on Gender Parity for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
She has an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the boards of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, the SLE Lupus Foundation in New York City, and is Chair of the Board of Black Girls Rock, Inc. Michelle is an executive committee Member of the Women's Leadership Board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from Kean University.
Lisa Garcia Quiroz, is President of Time Warner Foundation and Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Time Warner Inc. Before being named the company's first Vice President, Corporate Responsibility in 2003, she was the founding Publisher of People en Espanol and founder and General Manager of Time for Kids. A New York City native, Quiroz received both her bachelor's degree and an MBA from Harvard University.
Garcia Quiroz is an active and visible champion for the U.S. Hispanic community and for greater diversity in the arts. She serves on a number of significant nonprofit boards including the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Public Theater and the Apollo Theater. Recently, Garcia Quiroz served as Chairperson of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a position to which she was appointed by President Barack Obama.
Manish Chopra is a partner at McKinsey & Company in New York. He has been with the Firm for over 13 years, and was previously the Managing Partner for McKinsey's Singapore office. Manish focuses his work on serving healthcare institutions in the private and public sectors in the US, Asia, and the Middle East. He grew up in India and attended college at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi before completing his masters and PhD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
After experiencing a personal transformation four years ago, while learning an ancient meditation practice called Vipassana, Chopra has been an active practitioner, and has enthusiastically introduced mindfulness practices at McKinsey through training programs for colleagues in New York. He also supports efforts to bring similar programs to McKinsey offices globally. Chopra has found that his meditation practice has led to significant improvement in work productivity, general stress levels, overall well-being and interpersonal dynamics which he chronicled in his book The Equanimous Mind.
Michelle Lopes Maldonado is an intrepreneur, Business Leader, Author and Vice President at American Public University System. She launched AWAKE@APUS, the University's employee mindful meditation program, and inspired a thought leadership series for individual and workplace transformation. Michelle has a passion for creating 'conscious' cultures that support successful and sustainable leaders, organizations and stakeholder communities, and is Chair and Co-Founding Member of the Northern Virginia Conscious Business Alliance.
She is a teacher-trainee for the best-in-class, Google-inspired, twelve-month certification program integrating neuroscience, emotional intelligence and mindfulness with leadership development, "Search Inside Yourself." A graduate of Columbia University and George Washington University Law School, she is a former Senior Legal Counsel at AOL. Maldonado is a recent recipient of the 2015-2016 inductee VIP Woman of the Year Circle from The National Association of Professional Women.
Yael Shy is the founding Director of Global Spiritual Life Center at NYU and the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership. She is also the Founder and Director of the Mindfulness Project at NYU, one of the largest campus-wide mindfulness initiatives in the country, and has been teaching and lecturing on mindfulness, meditation, and multifaith engagement at universities, community centers, and organizations across the globe for the past seven years.
She is also a bar-certified attorney. She has been published in Inquiring Mind, The Sports Lawyers Journal, the Clinical Journal of Social Work, and the NYU Journal of Law and Social Justice. Shy completed her undergraduate degree at NYU, where she studied Sociology and Gender Studies, and received her law degree from the School of Law at Northeastern University.
Tim Leberecht, author of The Business Romantic, frequent speaker, and the former chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global design and architecture firm founded in 1943, is a man who helps spark and nurture new thinking. For the past two years, NBBJ has been named as one of the top 10 most innovative architecture firms by Fast Company. Previously, Leberecht was the chief marketing officer of Frog Design, a product design and strategy firm acclaimed for its work with Apple and various other Fortune 500 brands.
As a renowned expert in marketing and workplace innovation, he has been featured in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortunes, and Wired. Leberecht is the co-founder of the 15 Toasts dinner series and an advisor to The Human Agency, a collective of social change-makers. He serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Values, and on the board of Jump Associates, a strategy and innovation consultancy. His TED Talk "3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand", has been viewed by nearly 1 million people to date.
Miko Branch is the co-founder and CEO of Miss Jessie's LLC and author of best-selling business book, Miss Jessie's - Creating a Successful Business From Scratch - Naturally. She is celebrated for transforming the hair care industry by establishing an entirely new category of products specifically for natural and curly hair. She was featured on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, Beauty Inc., as a trailblazer, and Ebony listed her as one of its Power 100 Innovators and Influencers. She has also been honored by New York University and Delta Sigma Theta. Miss Jessie's has been featured in O, Oprah's Magazine, Teen Vogue, Redbook, Essence, Cosmo Latina, and other magazines.
She co-founded the business with her sister and best friend, Titi Branch, who recently passed.
Rita Ewing is a serial-entrepreneur and currently owns the health and wellness Massage Envy Spa in Manhattan. She received her degree in nursing from Howard University and is a published novelist of works, which include Homecourt Advantage and Brickhouse. As a non-practicing attorney, she co-owned and operated HueMan, a successful bookstore in Harlem, N.Y., which eventually became the country's largest and best-known African-American retail bookstore.
Ewing is the former wife of New York Knicks basketball player Patrick Ewing and created the "Patrick's Pals" children book series. She received her law degree from Georgetown University.
Kate Otto is the Founder & Executive Director of Everyday Ambassador, a best-practice network of global citizens and organizations that believe that human connection, even in an increasingly digital world, is the key to lasting, positive social change. Kate is also a global health consultant who has worked in Indonesia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique and Haiti for The World Bank, USAID, and various grassroots organizations. She designs, deploys, and researches innovative mobile phone-based technologies to improve health service delivery within low-resource health systems.
Kate is the author of Everyday Ambassador: Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World and also writes for Huffington Post. Kate graduated from New York University with a BA in International Relations and an MPA in Health Policy and Management, and is currently pursuing her MD at the NYU School of Medicine. She is a proud Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship, Starting Bloc Fellow, Truman Scholar, Luce Scholar, member of the Academy of Achievement, and Global Shaper. She is a TEDx presenter and delivered the 2009 NYU commencement speech.
speakers
agenda
8:00am - 9:00am
Registration
9:00am - 9:10am
Opening Remarks
9:10am - 10:00am
Anand Giridharadas, Author & New York Times Columnist
The Power of Storytelling - Reconciliation of a Flourishing and Wilting Society
10:00am - 11:00am
Panel: Evolutionary Leadership
Leading from the Inside Out
David Gelles, Author & New York Times Reporter
Manish Chopra, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Michelle Lopes Maldonado, Assistant Vice President, American Public University
Yael L. Shy, Director, New York University Global Spiritual Life Center
11:00am - 11:15am
BREAK
11:15am - 12:00pm
Miko Branch, CEO Miss Jessie's in conversation with Mark Hurst, Founder & CEO of Creative Good
A Tale of Grace, Grit, Resilience and Entrepreneurship
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Dr. David Bach, Founder and President of The Platypus Institute
Elite Performance - Rewiring Your Brain and Body for Peak Performance and Happiness
12:30pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH, BOOK-SIGNING, BOOKSTORE
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Fred Kiel, CEO KRW International
Return on Character - The Real Reasons Leaders and Their Companies Win
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Panel: A Conversation on Diversity + Identity
Beyond Race and Gender
Lisa Quiroz, President Time Warner Foundation & SVP of Time Warner, Inc.
Bonita Stewart, Vice President of Americas, Google
Michelle Gadsden Williams, Former Managing Director, Credit Suisse
Hakeem Rahim, CEO of Live Breathe, LLC
3:15pm - 3:30pm
BREAK
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Panel: Doing Well and Doing Good
Social Entrepreneurs Making a Difference in the World
Adarsh Alphons, Founder & CEO, ProjectArt
Kate Otto, Founder & Executive Director, Everyday Ambassador
Jeffrey Ervine, Founder, Bridg-iT
Rita Ewing, CEO, Massage Envy Clinic
4:00pm - 4:50pm
Tim Leberecht, Author and former CMO NBBJ
Beauty, Business & Love
4:50pm - 5:00pm
Closing Exercise
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Cocktail Reception & Connection
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