Lisa Leopold: Professor of Education and Storyteller

Lisa Leopold is an associate professor and program coordinator for The Middlebury Institute’s English for Academic and Professional Purposes Program. She brings over a decade of experience teaching survival and academic English to adult immigrants, refugees, children, and community college, university, and graduate students on five continents. Professor Leopold has delivered over 50 presentations at … Read more

Kathryn Finney: Author, Entrepreneur, Activist, and Advisor

Kathryn Finney is an author, researcher, investor, entrepreneur, innovator and businesswoman. She is the founder and CEO of digitalundivided, a social enterprise that leads high potential Black and Latinx women founders through the startup pipeline from idea to exit. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guy Kawasaki: How to Product Launch Like a Boss.

Usually Guy Kawasaki’s podcast features interviews with remarkable people, such as Jane Goodall, Steve Wozniak, Arianna Huffington, Margaret Atwood, Martha Stewart, Sir Ken Robinson, Roy Yamaguchi, Kristi Yamaguchi, Stephen Wolfram, Gary Vaynerchuk, or iJustine. But every once in a while, he likes to change things up and provide a mini keynote. The goal for these … Read more

Melanie Perkins: CEO of Canva

This week’s remarkable person is Melanie Perkins, CEO of Canva. Melanie co-founded the start-up from her mother’s living room. Canva, an online design software company, is based in Australia, thousands of miles from tech’s Silicon Valley power corridor. Getting a meeting—much less funding—proved tough. Perkins heard “no” from more than 100 investors. Let’s listen to … Read more

Nancy Gianni: Founder and Chief Belief Officer of GiGi’s Playhouse, Author, and CNN Hero

This week’s remarkable person is Nancy Gianni, Founder and Chief Belief Officer of GiGi’s Playhouse, Author of GenerationG, and CNN Hero. After her daughter GiGi was born with Down’s Syndrome, Nancy started GiGi’s Playhouse to change the way the world views Down syndrome and to send a global message of acceptance for all. See Privacy … Read more