Kim Samuel with On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation
HBE Engage online eventKim Samuel is an activist, educator, and movement builder. She is the founder of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness and an academic lecturer at institutions including Oxford, Harvard, and McGill Universities. Samuel was recently named visiting scholar at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford and the first-ever Fulbright Canada ambassador for diversity and social connectedness. She lives in Toronto. About On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation In an age of social isolation, what […]
Robert Waldinger, MD with The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Dr. Robert Waldinger is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and cofounder of the Lifespan Research Foundation. Dr. Waldinger received his AB from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he directs a psychotherapy teaching program for Harvard psychiatry residents. He is also a Zen master (Roshi) and teaches meditation in New England and around the […]
Heidi Gardner with Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work
Heidi K. Gardner is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School and a former professor at Harvard Business School. Previously a McKinsey consultant and Fulbright Fellow, she is the author of Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos, a Washington Post bestseller. She was named by Thinkers50 as a Next Generation Business Guru and is cofounder of both the research and advisory firm Gardner & Co and Smart Collaboration International. About Smarter Collaboration: A New […]
Jacqueline Baker with The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You
Jacqueline M. Baker is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Scarlet and operates as a global trainer in the areas of everyday leadership and modern etiquette. As a speaker on the leadership-for-all concept and the author of Leader By Mistake, she hosts training sessions at Fortune 500 companies and community organizations around the world, geared towards continued leadership development. About The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You Effective leadership isn’t confined to easily identifiable silos. It appears everywhere, and […]
Jacqueline Baker with The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You
Jacqueline M. Baker is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Scarlet and operates as a global trainer in the areas of everyday leadership and modern etiquette. As a speaker on the leadership-for-all concept and the author of Leader By Mistake, she hosts training sessions at Fortune 500 companies and community organizations around the world, geared towards continued leadership development. About The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You Effective leadership isn’t confined to easily identifiable silos. It appears everywhere, and […]
Cathy Hackl with Into the Metaverse: The Essential Guide to the Business Opportunities of the Web3 Era
Cathy Hackl is a web3 and metaverse strategist, tech futurist, speaker and author. She's worked with metaverse-related companies such as HTC VIVE, Magic Leap, and AWS, and currently consults with some of the world's leading brands, including P&G, Clinique, Ralph Lauren, Orlando Economic Partnership and more. Hackl is one of the world's first Chief Metaverse Officers and the co-founder of Journey, where she works with luxury, fashion, and beauty brands to create successful metaverse and web3 strategies and helps them […]
Amy Sample Ward with The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World
Amy Sample Ward is driven by a belief that the nonprofit technology community can be a movement-based force for positive change. They are the CEO of NTEN, a nonprofit creating a world where missions and movements are more successful through the skillful and equitable use of technology. Amy’s second book, Social Change Anytime Everywhere, was a Terry McAdam Book Award finalist. About The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World Changing the way […]
Adam Gopnik with The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has won three National Magazine Awards for essays and for criticism. The author of numerous best-selling books, including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City. About The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our mostbeloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: How did the […]
Paul Scharre with Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Paul Scharre is a former U.S. Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author of the award-winning study of autonomous weapons, Army of None, he is currently vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security. He lives in Virginia. About Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives―and cause profound disruptions in the […]
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière with Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement
Cassidy R. Sugimoto is Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is President of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics and a past program director at the National Science Foundation. Vincent Larivière is Professor of Information Science at Université de Montréal, where he also serves as Associate Vice-President of Planning and Communications. He is Scientific Director of the Érudit journal platform and Associate Scientific Director […]