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POWER TALK

Topic: The Four Pillars of Co-Creative Impact: Sustainability, Consonance, Innovation and Celebration

Speaker: Cynthia A. Phillips, PhD, Writer, Producer, & Social Entrepreneur

We are at a critical moment in a time that tests our resilience and creativity as well as our values. To build back better and to truly contribute to solutions that build a better world for all, we need to lay a solid foundation. The 4 Pillars of Creative Impact is an invitation to discover and lay that foundation as individuals and leaders. We will explore the 4 Pillars of Creative Impact: Sustainability: Sustainability Is not just a buzz word about saving the environment. To thrive Sustainability must be at the core of our well-being, communities, the health of the planet, and our companies. Consonance: Assuring our intentions and preparation align with our goals. Innovation: Harnessing a new mind and models of partnership to build solutions that inspire, disrupt, and enchant. Celebration: We can become mired down in what haunts us and the work of creating a better world. We also need to remember to meaningfully celebrate our personal and partners’ milestones along the way. The practice of gratefulness is critical. As leaders, people are trusting us with their future, the practice of celebration builds trust and can inspire and sustain us all through even the darkest days.

POWER TALK

Topic: The superpower that is technology: How I used engineering to escape from a fundamentalist religion and build a life in the outside world.

Speaker: Miriam Haart, My Unorthodox Life Netflix, Founder, Eazitt

About 60% of the world’s population has direct access to the internet. This enables billions of people the ability to learn almost anything right from their computer screens. I grew up in a fundamentalist religion in upstate New York. Where women were covered from head to toe and were raised to be solely caregivers and mothers. Just like many women across the world, it was not I who had access to a computer but my brother. However, I used his computer to teach myself how to code. This enabled me to have a voice outside of the world I grew up in. By building apps, my voice wasn’t just loud, it was everywhere. It lived online and can be heard by anyone. The tech industry is hungry to close the gender gap. This hunger gave me the opportunity to leave my community and move to San Francisco to further pursue my interest in Computer Science. Technology can be used as a superpower to enable women to be financially independent and to have a voice. It can enable them to create the world they want to live in with their own knowledge. They just need three tools: a computer, the internet, and the drive to learn.