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Send us Fan Mail How can you make an impact with your money? Jason Vein, Senior VP at Morgan Stanley and Director of Investing with Impact, specializes in investing to build capital and create a positive impact. Under the investment framework of Intentionality, Influence, and Inclusion, Jason uses the 17 Global Goals as a North Star to identify valuable solutions achieved through Impact Investing....

Send us Fan Mail Georgette Boulegeris, Grand President of Daughters of Penelope, and Jimmy Kokotas Supreme President of The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association are leaders in promoting the Hellenic values of virtue, excellence, and ongoing improvement and progress. Hear how Jimmy and Georgette's mentors and personal experiences personify the work them their organizations are...

Send us Fan Mail How do partnership's drive sustainable change and empower organizations? Gretchen O'Hara, Grace Clack, and BJ Moore are leading the way to foster cross-sector collaboration to promote sustainable outcomes for Splunk, Microsoft, and Providence Health. Joined by a shared ethos at Microsoft, Gretchen, Grace, and BJ discuss the value of connecting the companies values to you...

Send us Fan Mail Howard Wright, Global VP of Startups sits down with Ideagen CEO George Sifakis to discuss his mission of finding the most innovative, captivating start ups across the world, to drive global change. As a powerful ally, AWS is a valuable partner that helps enable thousands of startups to promote the shared ethos of the Global Goals. Learn how Howard's personal background has sh...

Send us Fan Mail Yanna Darilis, President and Executive Producer of Dorian Productions, discusses how her organization promotes for the completion of UN SDGs through presentations and content creation. While an advocate for all the SDG's Yanna's particular connection to goals 1, 2, and 3 embody the work she deems crucial to satisfy the Global Goal's purpose. To learn more about Yann...

Send us Fan Mail Moderated by WOCIP founder Patricia Cornet, this panel focuses on the partnerships necessary to expand representation and opportunities to minority populations within the spheres of Health and Education. Joined by Emmanuel Ajavon, Associate Director, Business Leadership Programs, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, Metra Lundy, CEO & Owner, Kinetics Personal Training & Gro...

Send us Fan Mail Sheri Hashemi, Director of Engineering at L3Harris sits down for a conversation with her colleague Michelle Wilkerson, Sr. Director Corporate Insurance & Risk Management, at Sierra Space. We have entered the Orbital Age, a period in human history defined not by space exploration but by commercialization. Sierra space is at the forefront of this era by combining cutting-edge te...

Send us Fan Mail Joined by Summer Discovery CEO Adriane Thorpe, Dean of Academics Esteban Olivares, and President of ACS Schools Peggy Pelonis, George Sifakis sits down to discuss the value of the UN SDGs in education and how partnerships enhance the capabilities of schools, educators, and students. Derived from years of experience, Esteban, Adriane, and Peggy reflect on how leaders today from the...

Send us Fan Mail Ideagen CEO George Sifakis sits down with Interim President & CEO of the Points of Light Foundation, Diane Quest.    Founded in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, The Points of Light Foundation is the world's largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. By aligning and equipping hundreds of non-profits, educating and engaging corporations to focus on community en...

Send us Fan Mail Margot Copeland, board member at AARP, discusses AARP's initiatives and impacts centered around UN SDG #3, Good Health and Well-Being.    AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit/nonpartisan organization established to empower Americans over the age of 50 to live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives. Today, Americans are living and working longer, and AARP is dedicated to supp...

Send us Fan Mail Ideagen, The Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations, and UNCTAD welcome you to Ideagen's 2022 Global Goals Summit, hosted at the United Nations. Ideagen thanks all our sponsors for their unwavering efforts to support our mission and The Global Goals.

Send us Fan Mail Mental health is one of the most rapidly growing problems in the world today, but why are we lagging in our understanding of how to treat those with mental illness? Rawle Andrews Jr. of the American Psychiatric Association sits down with Ideagen CEO George Sifakis for a discussion about the issue of mental health and how to combat this growing concern by making mental health mains...

Send us Fan Mail Consequential of the Covid-19 pandemic, the workforce has undergone radical changes that are here to stay. Due to new workforce preferences around flexibility and personalization, an effort to create responsible workplaces, and organizations' desire to empower their constituents, companies must find new ways to maintain their talent. Hear Robert Reiss and Sanjay Rishi of JLL...

Send us Fan Mail Randy Kurtz, Executive Vice President of Opportunity International, leads this panel focusing on economic and workforce access for women in America and abroad. Hear first-hand stories from Opportunity International Senior VP Simona Haiduc, President of the Visa Foundation, Graham MacMillan, and Sarah Gesereich, Principle at 127 Global Strategies, on how they create economic opport...

Send us Fan Mail Gretchen O'Hara of Splunk and BJ Moore of Providence sit down with Ideagen's George Sifakis to discuss what their organizations are doing to satisfy the Social Development Goals. With advanced technologies and capabilities through partnerships, Splunk and Providence are using their resources to achieve not just one, but all of the SDGs. Hear personal experiences from BJ...

Send us Fan Mail Moderated by Kim Smith, Global VP at IBM, this panel focuses on personal and professional leadership within the values of the UN SDGs. Hear how our speakers align their values to their work and instill personal leadership lessons to empower themselves and their organizations.

Send us Fan Mail Partnerships are crucial to achieving the SDGs. Whether through investments in DEI, Corporate Responsibility, or community involvement, learn how leaders from companies and non-profits utilize partnerships to create mutual benefits for their businesses and the communities they serve.

Send us Fan Mail CEO Whisperer Robert Reiss sits down with world-renowned author and speaker Deepak Chopra. Deepak and Robert discuss the status of the world today and how each of us can be a solution to modern-day problems. Personal and insightful, hear the secrets and mindsets Deepak and Robert have learned from years of experience with CEOs from across the world.

Send us Fan Mail SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being, is a fundamental goal that applies to everyone. Featuring Patricia Cornet and Kemi Olugemo of Women of Color in Pharma, and Dr. Nicole Hayre of the Cosmetic Dermatology Center, our panelists have dedicated years to advanced medical research and explored how access to quality healthcare can be expanded to those support those currently underserved.

Send us Fan Mail In our featured Keynote, Gretchen O'Hara, Vice President of Worldwide Channels & Alliances at Splunk, discusses the power and potential of big data through her work with Splunk. Known as the "Data Divide," Gretchen outlines how big data, crucial for commercial success, can have an equally as powerful impact on the Social Development Goals.

Send us Fan Mail In this panel from Ideagen's 2022 Global Goals Summit titled, "Educating the SDG Leaders of Tomorrow," hear a diverse group of students and educators sharing their experiences with the SDGs. Individuals in this panel include Peggy Pelonis, President of ACS Athens Schools, Taylor Smith a student and UN Ambassador, Georgette Boulegaris Grand President of the philanthr...

Send us Fan Mail As we approach 2030, where do we stand in achieving the SDGs by the next decade? In this panel, non-profit and SDG leaders identify where we are falling behind and how we can get back on track through outreach, partnerships, and involvement guided by the tenants of the Social Development Goals.

Send us Fan Mail What kind of impact can organizations have by making a Net Zero Pledge? Grace Clack Director of Product Marketing at Microsoft sits down with Ideagen CEO George Sifakis to give a compelling explanation of why big businesses should invest in sustainability.

Send us Fan Mail A conversation on Technology Innovation with Microsoft's Ashley Haynes-Gaspar, COO - US Business Applications

Send us Fan Mail Ed sits down to talk with FBI Weapons of Mass Destructions Directorate Donald Alway on this episode of Authentic Leadership. Show less