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...insights into every industry, they serve as guideposts for women from every walk of life, but their knowledge isn’t reserved only for other women; it can serve to educate and inspire any type of audience, from entrepreneurs to healthcare workers.   Julie Zhuo is a top woman keynote speaker, management expert, and the former VP of Product Design for Facebook. A thought leader who led the development of some of Facebook’s most popular features, including the news feed and “like” button, she has been featured in the New York Times and Fast Company.   Our top booked woman keynote speaker...

...levels in technology, law, business and government who spent most of her career building and advising some of the country’s most innovative companies 5) Julie Zhuo Julie Zhuo is a top management keynote speaker, former VP of Facebook product design, and the bestselling author of The Making of a Manager. Julie has led teams behind some of Facebook’s most popular mobile and web services, such as Facebook’s News Feed, the “like” button, and user profiles. 6) Carolyn Everson Carolyn Everson is a top leadership keynote speaker, advertising legend, angel investor, and the former Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions at...

Businesses in the scientific disciplines face a unique set of hurdles when it comes to staying abreast of new developments and making use of new technologies. This is not merely a matter of survival in a highly competitive business market; as the companies that produce our medicines, help monitor the weather and partner with farmers to feed the world, it is a necessity that they constantly develop and improve their processes. These biotechnology speakers are breaking ground in one of the most timely sciences, straddling rapid advances in technology with social impact and concerns around sustainability. Tried and tested as...

...others is to treat everybody like it’s their birthday. That doesn’t mean buy them a present, but it does mean that every person is worth celebrating. And it stops you from punching them in the face when communication breaks down. Choose to hug the haters There will always be people who are unhappy or having a bad day. But Montague wants to remind us we have a choice in how we respond to hate. He says “haters gonna hate, but huggers gonna hug.” When Montague had negative comments in his Twitter feed, he and Novak responded with love and empathy,...

...each other. This style of communication gives ownership to a team’s actions, which inspires hope that they can change situations. Gill adds the science of hope is not just for millennials and startups. In her coaching and keynote talks, she has found she gets the biggest response from leaders in mature companies, who are seeking new ways to handle changes affecting their industries. And for them, she has one message, “Feed hope and people will follow.” Kyle Crocco is the Content Marketing Coordinator for BigSpeak, an appreciator of microbrews in Santa Barbara, and writes a column on Medium and Born2Invest....

...attendees were paired with other women who were expecting. There were numerous test runs of the live video itself, which, to the planners’ delight, actually worked half the time. (It would only be a one-way feed, saving costs and eliminating the cruel potential of Adi Etot residents having to glimpse a sea of untouched water glasses.) By any measure, the stunt worked. Charity: Water had raised nearly $3.2 million by night’s end. The figure is not record breaking for the sector. But at a time when galas are often loss leaders, the evening was remarkable: It posted an 8-to-1 return...

...to have higher costs due to increased taxes and regulations. Sanders policies are very Keynesian and New Deal oriented, Sanders sited FDR as his role model: “You know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933 at a time when 25 percent of the American people were unemployed, the country was in incredible despair… He said we’re going to use all of the resources that we have to create jobs, to build homes, to feed people, to protect the farmers, we are a nation which if we come together there is nothing that we could not accomplish.” Clinton...

...Not that you need to use kid gloves with your more junior players, just be aware that they’re still learning and customize your feedback with that in mind. 3. Make it timely. Your feedback should be immediate, either as soon as the infraction occurs or as soon as you learn of it. By hesitating, you send a message that it’s not that big a deal or that you’re too much of a wimp to criticize. Or both. 4. Give positive feedback, too. Instead of the praise model where you lump the good and bad together, diluting both in the process,...

...more water just to get the same amount of irrigation to crops. Rain patterns are also changing: The interval between rainfalls has been growing as has the intensity when it does fall. The longer intervals without rain have led to a hardening of surface soil. When the rains do come, much of it runs to sewers and rivers, or sits on the surface before evaporating, but either way it is lost because the rainwater can’t permeate the ground. Tainted Water. Pollution is also reducing the amount of available water. Growing food for so many people and feed for so many...

...their leadership and their talent pool of future leaders, and enter into external vendor relationships and strategic alliances. In other words, it impacts every aspect of how a business is run. But if you don’t have the intelligence about the demographic shift and can’t articulate how the unique qualities of say, the Hispanic culture, impacts business, it will be very difficult to get buy-in to the opportunity. This is why so many companies continue to try – and inevitably fail to authentically engage and sustain a two-way dialogue with their employees and consumers/clients to feed the right kind of cultural...

...For example, “Terrific email this morning, I loved how you summed up the meeting for everyone. I’m going to let the Big Boss know how helpful it was. ” 5. Feed a feedback culture. Make it clear that it’s always okay for your team members to ask for feedback. Model the appropriate way to ask without seeming like an approval-seeking suck-up. That is, “Hey, let me know what you thought about how I conducted the off-site. I’d love any notes you have so I can improve the next one.” What are your favorite tips for giving Fearless Feedback? Please share!...

...becomes to provide comfort and compassion—not to diagnose disease or to prescribe medications. In other words, computers will be also taking over some of the jobs of our doctors, and we won’t need as many human doctors as we have today. It will be like the future that Autodesk CEO Carl Bass once described to me: “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” Summers is wrong, however, in his belief...