Dani Higgins is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in trauma-informed therapy and working with clients from diverse backgrounds. In this talk, they debunk some of the common myths around mental health and therapy, and explains what people can really expect when seeking out a therapist.
,1,In partnership with #IamRemarkable Week, tennis superstar Venus Williams discusses what being remarkable means to her, and discuss the importance of recognizing our own achievements. She will also talk about her dedication to âplaying it forwardâ by using her voice to empower others to make a difference.
With 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 Wimbledon championships and 4 Olympic gold medals, tennis champion Venus Williams is arguably one of the most accomplished and inspiring women in the history of sports. Beginning with her rise to the top at the age of 14, she quickly took the world of tennis by storm, climbing to the top-ranked position, breaking countless records, and winning numerous championships.
Encouraged by her mother at an early age to explore her creative side, Williams enrolled in fashion school where she was instantly drawn to the world of fashion and interior design. Venus parlayed her business acumen with her healthy competitive spirit into two successful design ventures. In 2002, after obtaining an Interior Decorator certification, she founded V Starr, a full-service commercial and residential design firm, which recently announced their partnership with Airbnb partner Niido. And in 2012, Venus obtained an Associate of Science in Fashion Design and launched the fashion-forward activewear brand, EleVen by Venus Williams. Her entrepreneurship has continued in the health, wellness and beauty spaces and includes her role as Chief Brand Officer to Asutra as well as her plant-based protein company, Happy Viking, which she launched in 2020.
In 2009, Venus, along with her sister Serena, became the first female African-Americans to have a stake in an NFL franchise after joining the ownership group of the Miami Dolphins. The following year, Venus published her motivational book, Come to Win which reached number five on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Throughout her career, Venus has been a steadfast advocate for equality. In 2006, UNESCO, the United Nationsâ cultural organization, titled her as the first Promoter of Gender Equality. In 2007 she led an unwavering fight, which resulted in Wimbledon awarding female players the same pay as their male counterparts. Most recently, she launched an awareness initiative called the #PrivilegeTax in conjunction with EleVen to bring attention to wage inequality and unveiled a platform of resources for young women to get inspired and address the issue on a grassroots level.
Venus' achievements throughout her legendary career have merited her a plethora of additional accolades, including the Americanism Award, honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Glamour Magazineâs "Woman of the Year," ESPNâs "WTA Player of the Year," and Forbesâ "Celebrity 100," among others.
Moderated by Nelson Boyce.
#IamRemarkable Week, 28-30 September 2022, is a digital experience celebrating the power of diversity, inclusion and allyship. Get inspired through virtual talks, online workshops and confidence boosting challenges. Join us and celebrate your achievement. Learn more & sign up!
,1,Aliza Knox discusses her book "Don't Quit Your Day Job: The 6 Mindshifts You Need to Rise and Thrive at Work," which presents the six empowering, essential mindshifts necessary to rise and thrive in your career â and to love your life at the same time. Driven by Alizaâs four decades working in and leading some of the worldâs most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other peopleâs successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life. "Donât Quit Your Day Job" provides a global outlook that reveals how to excel in todayâs hybrid, often dispersed world of work. Whether youâre just starting your first job or youâre ready to rise to the C-suite, it will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3JYAbfa.
Aliza Knox built and led APAC businesses for three of the world's top technology firmsâGoogle, Twitter and Cloudflare. Named 2020 APAC IT Woman of The Year and Top 100 Women in IT (Singapore), she spent decades as a global finance and consulting executive, and is currently a non-executive board director and a senior advisor for Boston Consulting Group. Aliza now shares her passion and lessons learned with the next generation of business leaders, guiding companies across new frontiers while building and maintaining strong connections between teams around the world. Aliza has been featured in outlets like Business Insider, Quartz, The Muse, TechCrunch and The Economic Times, and is a regular columnist for Forbes, where she shares her wisdom (and humor) to help professionals who dream of "doing it all."
Moderated by Madhuri Duggirala.
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,1,Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett discuss their book "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection". Curious about something? Google it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to "Curious Minds", what gets left out in the conventional understanding of curiosity are the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection. It connects ideas into networks of knowledge and it connects the knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.
Perry and Daniâidentical twins who write that their book ârepresents the thought of one mind and two bodiesââharness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences (specifically, philosophy and neuroscience) to identify three distinct styles of curiosity: the butterfly, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy networks.
They go on to explain that many of us are all three types but to differing degrees, and that those degrees can change over the course of our lives and even daily, depending on the task at hand. Whatâs more, they suggest that a true understanding of what happens in the curious brain can pave the way for a curiosity-centric educationâan inclusive one that embraces everyoneâs innate style of learning. Just think of the possibilities such a paradigm shift would engender.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3KiMnHS.
Perry Zurn is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University and the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.
Moderated by Sanders Kleinfeld.
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,1,Dani Higgins is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in trauma-informed therapy and working with clients from diverse backgrounds. In this talk, they debunk some of the common myths around mental health and therapy, and explains what people can really expect when seeking out a therapist.