The More the Brainier

🎙️💭How do we live the divide between our vision of success, what we truly want and reality?  Lesly Simmons was formerly Head of Community Innovation at Amazon, she left it this year to acquire and run a toy company, Mobius Toys. This move builds upon Lesly’s work with The Dollhouse Project that produces inclusive experiences for children and families. As she moves closer to work that is trul...

🎙️You’re sailing along in your career, you’ve got the experience and respect to go with it. Then you realise to do what you really want to do, you’ll have to change tack, change your boat, let go of the hard-earned position, the esteem of your colleagues/peers and head off into the unknown. How do you navigate these transitional waters and the feelings that come with change?  Marni Heinz , Go...

🎙️You need to follow the regulations but they’re not necessarily “just” and they’re moving. How do you work towards equity in ALL senses of the word? What can help you navigate these waters? What if we saw capital as a potential healing agent for our society? These a just a few of Noel Pacarro Brown 's thoughts that come up in this episode. Author and Thought Leader in Sustainable Finance, No...

🎙️How do we change the status quo? Conventions tend to be, well, conventional. Mingling people in rooms for a few days has been the default for a long time: the challenge is getting the delegates on board to try something new.  Mara Sandoval designs the gatherings for high-level decision makers. For her, experience design plays a key role in generating outcomes when people gather and it needs...

🎙️How do you find the people you need when you don’t know where to look? Cindy Gallop 's mission is to help end rape culture globally through education and awareness. Cindy has solid experience getting her message across and getting things done: after identifying a lack and a need in the market back in 2012, Cindy created the online platform, MakeLoveNotPorn, a subscription service aimed at provid...

🎙️ How can nature and humans thrive in cities together? Alex McLean , started beekeeping at 15 and it’s taken him around the world and into business as Co-Founder and CEO at Alveole, a turnkey urban beekeeping company. Alex negotiates partnerships with commercial real estate across North America and Europe; one of his main challenges is translating the need for nature alongside us in cities for th...

How can we have a tangible impact on the world? How does change begin? In his role as Creative Director of Cities at Moment Factory and also through events he has organised within his community, Fady Atallah works by creating experiences but he's still frustrated that he can't feel a tangible impact. He feels we can do more. Fady enlists the help of:  🔹 Jennie Glazer , CEO at Coqual, The Cen...

🎙️If you had 100 plus global multinational Fortune 500 member companies working arm in arm with you, to what would you draw to their attention? Our second guest in this series: Jennie Glazer, works with C-suite leaders whose businesses have an impact on the lives of thousands in her role as CEO at Coqual, the Centre for Talent Innovation. She sees her privileged position as an opportunity to ask q...

Do you want to be part of someone else's mission—or is it time to launch your own? What’s the mission only you can launch? Our first guest in this new series: Paul Propster recently retired from his position of strategist at NASA and having worked for many years for someone else’s purpose and mission, now seeks a purpose and mission that resonates more closely with his own values.  Paul exami...

Polarisation, extreme views, lack of curiosity and unwillingness to listen: How do we bring people closer to the middle-ground? How do we maintain and nourish a vision of the future that doesn't just include the idea of peace but a future in which peace is an attainable outcome? In our sixth episode of The More the Brainier , Co-Founder of The Knowledge Society , Navid Nathoo , Head of Impact at T...

An amazing youth leadership accelerator that equips 13-17 year-olds with a skillset to solve real-world problems using cutting-edge technology and methodologies: the alumni are proving the programme's impact, the kids know about it but the parents don’t.  Eleven years after founding The Knowledge Society, one of Navid Nathoo ’s biggest hurdles is reaching parents: so in this fifth episode of...

In this fourth episode of The More the Brainier , Logan McClure Davda asks Navid Nathoo and Ella Robertson McKay how to maintain the impact she’s making in her career while also remaining fully present and available for her young children. Covered in this episode Travel /family rituals  How do I make the world a better place while taking August off to paint shells with my kiddos? work/life ha...

In this third episode of The More the Brainier , Vinod Rajasekaran of Future of Good asks Rekha Magon, Felix Rundel and Christine Renaud, how we can have curious conversations in divided times. Covered in this episode How can we unlock the potential of changemakers? Future of Good’s answer is to enable them to make a greater social impact in their work through journalism, professional learning eve...

In this second episode of The More the Brainier, Felix Rundel of strategy studio Future Hain asks Vinod Rajasekaran, Rekha Magon and Christine Renaud how he can leverage his work and communities for more impact when surrounded by geopolitical uncertainty and the feeling of diminishing hope. Covered in this episode Felix talks about Future Hain and how it supports science and technology-driven orga...

In this first episode of The More the Brainier , entrepreneurs Felix Rundel and Vinod Rajasekaran join Christine Renaud in a peer-led coaching circle with Rekha Magon who asks how to protect one’s time while wearing multiple hats.  Rekha shares her experience as a founder of Boundless Life, a program designed for families to live, work and learn while traveling. The discussion delves into the...