Greg Power: The Fine Line Between Speaking & Being Heard
“Stories are powerful, great stories can last forever. Stories are also illusive, capricious and need to be handled with care.” Greg Power has an ongoing fascination with building bridges between a message and an audience with the hope of influencing attitudes and actions. He believes that the fine line between speaking and being heard, is […]
The Food Bill: 160-2 (2010)
It’s a spanner in the works. The first record of that phrase in print is in P. G. Wodehouse’s ‘Right Ho, Jeeves’ 1934. John Lennon used a play on this phrase in his book ‘A Spaniard in the Works’ and like most Brits in the 1950s he was a fan of ‘Professor’ Stanley Unwin, a […]
Robin Lim: Peace Begins at Birth
Robin Lim (Mother Robin or Ibu Robin) is a Midwife and founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) Health Clinics. Since 2003 she has worked with her team to combat Indonesia’s high maternal and infant mortality rates. She was recently awarded the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year award by the CNN News […]
Danielle Morrill: Building Great Start-Ups
Danielle Morrill is an expert in grass roots marketing, supply-side marketplaces, hacking the process and hustling for results, developing self-service sales processes and optimising online marketing. In her talk Danielle questions why we ask people what they are going to be instead of what they are going to make?
Lisa Ling 凌志慧: Reimagining My Purpose
Lisa Ling is a Journalist. She reflects on her 20 years of experience as a Journalist covering stories on rape, sex trafficking and child soldiers all around the world. She speaks about how these horrifying stories forced her to reimagine her purpose.
