Pass The Mic

Listen to this brief conversation exploring the advantages and impact of the AcornOak Think Tank. Diverse viewpoint is the biggest driver of innovation!

Welcome to the Women & Power, Money & Growth Workshop Series! Despite progress, the 2021 Fortune Global 500 listed only 23 women CEOs, signaling a need for change. We've crafted five transformative workshops aimed at women ready to uplift their personal and professional lives and advance in their careers. Each session is designed to challenge limiting beliefs, drive change, and enhance pro...

Should Your HR Team Really Be Using AI? Our distinguished panel, featuring three renowned Fractional Executives, will offer their invaluable expertise on the integration of AI into HR strategies. Our panelists include: Lisa Schenk, Ph. D., Fractional Chief People & Talent Officer Laura Woolford, Fractional Chief People Officer Carol Fraser, Fractional Chief Human Resource Officer Hosted by Vir...

Welcome to the AcornOak Leadership Series. AcornOak is a community of fractional executive women who present an incredible opportunity, especially to founders and CEOs of small and mid-sized companies, because they can tap into executive leadership expertise at a fraction of the traditional cost. If you want to learn more about our community of Executives, Advisors and Coaches in all areas of expe...

Welcome everyone to Planning as a Strategy. Tips from Fractional Executives. This event is hosted by AcornOak, a community and marketplace of fractional executive women. For those not yet in the know about this groundbreaking future of work trend, embracing fractional executives is nothing short of a business revolution. They are a game-changer for businesses. You have now the ability to hire exec...

The rise of fractional work has disrupted traditional corporate hierarchies and opened up new opportunities for both companies and executives. As a result, it has become an increasingly popular trend in the business world and has the potential to fundamentally change the way work is organized and executed in the future. Listen to this panel discussion their role and responsibilities as Fractional...

Bienvenue dans le podcast Pass the Mic où nous abordons des idées complexes et des questions difficiles avec des personnes curieuses, capables de remettre en question leurs propres croyances et de manière objective, à l'écoute des idées partagées des autres. Bienvenu dans l'épisode 29 avec Jean-Francois Noubel. Aujourd'hui, j'ai le plaisir de discuter avec Jean-Francois Noubel qui se décrit comme...

Welcome to Pass the Mic Podcast where we tackle complex ideas and difficult questions with people who are curious, able to challenge their own beliefs, and who have the willingness to objectively listen and learn from the shared insights of others. Today, I have the pleasure of discussing with Jean-Francois noubel who describes himself as a temporary human being. For more than 20 years, Jean-Franc...

Welcome to episode 27 of our 2nd Season. Today we’ll be discussing Artificial Intelligent Machines and Consciousness. In this discussion, we’ll try to understand if AI machines are conscious and what legal rights might they be given in the future. Did you like this discussion? If you find this content useful, please pass it on and share it with someone you 💙 and subscribe to our channel. Our Pane...

Interview with CEO, Bruno Larvol - Running a company in the Metaverse Bruno Larvol, CEO of LARVOL is running the business from the Metaverse using virtual and augmented reality to explore the next frontier of technology, remote work, and cancer data visualization. There are many conflicting opinions about the Metaverse. It concept has generated a great deal of controversy. Some people believe that...

Today we’ll try to understand what are the new emerging Leadership Models. with Celine Schillinger and Charles Matheus. It's clear to say that our global health crisis has put our leaders to the test and many failed not understanding the new societal values. As a result, the pandemic just gave many workers an opening to act on these shifting values. One of those is the way we see leadership. We us...

The pandemic gave us a chance to reflect on our education obsolete processes and methodologies: Based on our Industrial Revolution, our current system focuses on IQ in a one-size-fits-all model to “produce citizens ready to take part in employment processes that are destructive to the environment we live within” as Nora Bateson shared during our Episode #23. As a result, many people feel an urgenc...

Our current education system is built on the Industrial Revolution model and focuses on IQ, in particular memorization and standardization, and a one-size-fits-all model. The pandemic offers a chance to reflect on habitual established processes and methodologies and question how they can develop the future of learning in education and the workplace. The education transformation is going to start w...

Listen to Belinda Noakes exploring Wealth in Part 4 of the Holochain Workshop: Becoming the Artists of the Invisible. Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ag0BiRHQ8iM

Listen to Virginie Glaenzer challenging our beliefs around economics and how money is created and exploring the emerging economy, in Part 3 of the Holochain Workshop: Becoming the Artists of the Invisible. Video also available on youtube https://youtu.be/GomEachT-OM

Listen to Siddharth Sthalekar exploring How Holochain Can Manifest in Part 2 of the Holochain Workshop: Becoming the Artists of the Invisible. Video also available on youtube youtu.be/PaiADEnfEbQ

Listen to Paul D'Aoust exploring Holochain in Part 1 of the Holochain Workshop: Becoming the Artists of the Invisible. Video also available on youtube https://youtu.be/etT894YEd4c

In this 3rd conversation, we discuss how Holochain is a paradigm as it requires us to think differently about transactions, wealth and adopt a global worldview. We need to change our mindset in order to understand the design of a distributed application and business.

Today, Jean-François Noubel continues where we left off to discuss more in depth the vision behind this vegan economy made possible by the Holochain technology.

In our twenty one episode, our guest Jean-François Noubel explores the possibilities of a Vegan Holochain Economy.

Pass The Mic Season Two starts with a conversation to discuss how four strangers built a trusted relationship from a distance to revisit their long-time assumptions on Marketing and Leadership.

Original music by Benjamin Schlez, guitarist, composer, producer. Art is part of SenseMaking, a series of reflections and thoughts in a pursuit of making sense of our world. These spoken words are the highlights and thoughts emerging from our unscripted group discussions. Read the inspiring blog post: https://www.acornoak.net/post/can-art-improve-our-organizations-well-being Discover Benjamin Schl...

Original music by Benjamin Schlez, guitarist, composer, producer. Activist is part of SenseMaking, a series of reflections and thoughts in a pursuit of making sense of our world. These spoken words are the highlights and thoughts emerging from our unscripted group discussions. Read the inspiring blog post: https://www.acornoak.net/post/activism-in-the-absence-of-trust-why-wait Discover Benjamin Sc...

A growing number of surveys around the world highlight the continuing erosion of trust in our major institutions. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer revealed that only 48% of the U.S. population trusts business as an institution. This crisis in consumer trust affects business brands, one of the biggest factors in consumers’ purchasing decisions: brand trust drives loyalty. Listen to John Hagel leadi...

Welcome to Pass the Mic Season Two! In our first season with 20 episodes, we gathered 4 to 6 people to tackle one question at a time in an attempt to challenge the status quo and our own beliefs on various topics like communities, mindfulness, rituals, trust, regenerative practices and many more. We brought together more than 60 passionate people to discuss: - What are the real powers of communiti...