Yolanda Wisher: Building Community Through Poetry

BIF team member Courtney Lester puts the "human" in "human-centered design." Courtney shares an inspiring practitioner view of how LunaYou, BIF’s personalized wellbeing platform, helps women improve maternal health outcomes puts equity and inclusion at the core.

Jeff Leitner believes that if we want to create a new future together we have to start by uncovering the unwritten rules. Unwritten rules are remarkably powerful, informal suggestions about how we’re expected to behave in social settings. They're the single biggest influence on our daily behaviors, setting the norms for how we interact with each other. Change starts by discovering the unwritten rules all around us. Tune into this episode of the Business Model Sandbox podcast to hear Saul Kaplan and Jeff Leitner explore the evolution of social innovation and how to discover the power of unwritten rules to enable transformation change that matters.

A leading transformational thinker, Matthew Milan has spent the last 20 years solving tough software innovation challenges for organizations ranging from small tech startups to large fortune 500 companies. Since 2008, Milan has served as the Chief Executive Officer at Normative, a software innovation firm helping organizations decide which projects should be invested in, how to manage innovation risks, how to build stakeholders' confidence, and how to get the right ideas to market efficiently. Milan joins Saul Kaplan on this episode of the Business Model Sandbox podcast to discuss software innovation and design, emerging technology and the (not so distant) future of human - technology interaction.

On this episode of the Business Model Sandbox, Saul Kaplan sits down with BIF's newest team member, Chief Impact Officer Ben Seigel to discuss the ins and outs of social impact investing, harnessing emerging technologies to unleash personal agency and new personalized business models. Ben joins BIF after serving as the Global Social Impact Project and Partnerships Lead at ConsenSys. While there, Ben ideated, built, and activated the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition, and led the ConsenSys Social Impact efforts in both client acquisition and the delivery of strategic initiatives, partnerships and client services. Focusing on areas such as human rights and financial inclusion, Ben is a leading voice in equipping social impact organizations with blockchain solutions. We are excited to have Ben on the BIF and Personalized Medicine by Design (PMxD) team!

Actor and activist, Joe Wilson, Jr. shares how the stage became a platform for community engagement, and how he learned to turn transactional relationships into transformational relationships.

Genetic futurist and founder of the Genome Project, Andrew Hessel breaks down the landscape of our genomic future as we get into all things emerging technology as part of our series for our project on for Personalized Medicine by Design.

Poet, singer, and educator, Yolanda Wisher masterfully alchemizes the beauty of people and place into poetry, connectivity, and story. 

Data privacy and control has become one of the fastest growing hot buttons in today's marketplace. What would it look like if you actually owned the rights to your personal data to decide when, where, and how it is being used? Etwaru and his team have elevated the issue to one of a basic human right, one that puts the power and monetization back in our own pockets.