The Job of the Mother, More Than a Summation of Tasks
60 min. from Tue May 12 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work host - and mom - Elane V. Scott for a special Mother's Day conversation with her daughter, Stefanie. Far from being a theorizing academician with no real experience in the field, Elane began as a mother 30 years ago. At that point, the focus of her life proudly became how to enrich, draw out, and anchor life's experiences so her kids could approach life with a confidence that comes from understanding process and the ability to...
From Science to Fiction, with Guest Bill Scott
60 min. from Tue May 5 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in welcoming writer, editor, author, and engineer Bill Scott for the final installment in Birth2Work Radio's "Telling Your Story" series. In 22 years with Aviation Week magazine, Bill had many opportunities to tell his stories by answering the five "Ws" of Writing 101. But he began to see that certain stories kept repeating, like in the areas of national security and space technology. And yet, he realized...
Using Narrative to Connect the Social and Economic Dots of Society, with Ro
60 min. from Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Social scientists tell us that we organize reality into stories every day. It's essential for organizing the complexities of the world we live in. Join hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with consultant, executive coach, and thought leader in the field of narrative communication, Robert Dickman. The fourth show in Birth2Work's revolutionary "Telling Your Story" series, shares the value of, and reasoning behind, the use of...
Engage the Media. Be the Media. With Guest Michael Benner
60 min. from Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - The third installment in the "Telling Your Story" series brings together Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens, with former Los Angeles-based talk radio host Michael Benner, who now owns his own business, Personal Development Strategies. As we continue to discuss the necessity for stakeholder leaders to reevaluate the stories they tell in and about their own communities, today's program invites leaders to both effectively...
The Business of Entertainment: The Most Influential Education System in the
60 min. from Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join hosts Elane Scott and Rick Stephens for the second program in Birth2Work Radio's "Telling Your Story" series. In a provocative conversation with Brian Dyak, CEO/ President of the Entertainment Industries Council, the three discuss the necessity for "accuracy in depiction" of critical social and health industries in the stories presented in film, on TV, and in music. Why? For better or worse, the entertainment industry is the largest...
New Stories for a New Economy with Vicki Haugen and Kim Kuchenbrod
60 min. from Tue Apr 7 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for the first program of Birth2Work Radio's new series entitled "Telling Your Story." Vermilion Advantage President and CEO Vicki Haugen, with co-worker Kim Kuchenbrod, the company's Workforce Development Specialist, join the hosts in a dynamic conversation about what's been happening in Vermilion County since first introducing Birth2Work's Six-Step Process to stakeholders over a year ago. Two lyceum...
Be Your Own Best Health Advisor, with Jim Ehmke
60 min. from Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for the final program in this season's wide-reaching series on health, with Jim Ehmke, CN, a licensed clinical nutritionist and health counselor. This eye-opening program initiates the conversation about personal responsibility of one's own health, health education, and understanding of how the body functions. Jim is able to draw clear, honest lines between the benefits and...
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Neuroanatomist and New York Times Best Selling Autho
60 min. from Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Co-Hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens welcome Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, one of TIME Magazine's reigning "100 Most Influential People in the World," to anchor Birth2Work Radio's wide-reaching Health series. Given a research "opportunity" few would ever wish for, Dr. Taylor actually studied her own stroke as it was happening. It took eight years for Dr. Taylor to successfully rebuild her brain. She did so with the support of her mom who...
Childrens' Communication Skills and the Future Workforce Implications, With
60 min. from Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - The skill set of the future workforce is contingent upon more than where they went to college. Long before people reach working age they are children, primed from birth through their engagement with the world to learn and mature. Join hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stevens talking with Community Stakeholder leader Joyce Muraoka. As a speech and language therapist, Joyce's focus is helping children who show language development and articulation...
The Stakeholder Doctor, With Dr. Alberto Gedissman
60 min. from Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with pediatric specialist Dr. Alberto Gedissman. A native of Argentina, he is the Medical Director of PowerPlayMD-OC the first comprehensive medically based Pediatric Weight Management Program in Orange County, CA. As a member of local, state and national medical associations, he lectures in schools and other forums to parents, teachers and healthcare personnel about...
Childhood Development and It's Impact on Education and Workforce Readiness,
60 min. from Tue Mar 3 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens, in conversation with Judy Towne Jennings, PT, MA, discussing the critical importance of "tummy time." This regular time babies spend on their stomachs while they are awake and supervised is mandatory for developing their early motor skills and core strength. Without this time, starting in baby's first weeks, the child suffers developmental, cognitive, and organizational skills...
Stakeholder Leadership in the Healthcare Field: When it Really is Life and
60 min. from Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Neonatologist Dr. Bob Roth is the guest for part 2 in the Birth2Work Radio series featuring stakeholder leaders from the health sector. Recently retired from a prestigious career in the San Francisco Bay Area,Dr. Roth brought education and passion to his position. Throughout his tenure he sought alignment of vision and language between hospitals, insurance companies, patients, government, and social services to create cohesive, sustainable...
Igniting Healthy Leadership in the Health Care Sector with Kevin Buck
60 min. from Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens welcome principal and co-founder of Emergent Success, Inc., Kevin Buck, for a dynamic conversation on the inclusive style of leadership necessary to solve complex social problems. This is the first program in our series talking with stakeholder leaders from the health sector about the challenges and opportunities facing them every day and in the long term. Although a leader from the...
Workforce Development Coordinator Gladly Takes Her Work Home, with Lucia Ca
60 min. from Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Join co-hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Lucia Cape, a stakeholder leader in Huntsville, Al., as well as a working mom with a mission. Appointed Huntsville's first Vice President for Workforce with the city's Chamber of Commerce, she was charged with establishing its Workforce Division in response to the challenges brought on by the region's economic growth. Even as our country's employment picture currently worsens...
The Interconnectedness of Business and Education, with Lou Mervis and Jeff
60 min. from Tue Feb 3 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - As part of the Birth2Work series featuring "a different kind of community organizer," Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens welcome Lou Mervis and Jeff Mays, prominent businessmen and community stakeholder leaders in their respective Illinois communities. Their conversation ties together the rapid changes in the region's education system as a result of shifting dynamics between local and state supervision, concurrent with profound business and...
A Community Organizer of a Different Kind, with Vicki Haugen
60 min. from Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Join co-hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Vicki Haugen. Since 1982, Vicki has been at the helm of Vermilion County, Illinois' venture of mass transformation. Once prosperous from agriculture and heavy industry in the region, globalization took that away and forced massive layoffs and closures in the 1980s, threatening to leave Vermilion County as a dying part of the "Rust Belt." Refusing to passively let their county...
Sharing Responsibility for Enriching Our Communities, with Jordan Brandman
60 min. from Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - On a special Inauguration Day show, join hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens with civic leader Jordan Brandman, discussing personal responsibility in advancing and enriching our communities. In this time of high political expectation, fraught with nerves related to the workforce, economic, healthcare, and education crises, it?s tempting to turn to Washington and demand bullet point answers for fast changes. In truth, though, each of these...
From Science to Fiction, with Guest Bill Scott
60 min. from Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Join Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in welcoming writer, editor, author, and engineer Bill Scott to Birth2Work Radio. In 22 years with "Aviation Week" magazine, Bill had many opportunities to tell his stories by answering the five "Ws" of Writing 101. But he began to see that certain stories kept repeating, like in the areas of national security and space technology. And yet, he realized the people reading his stories were people within his...
The Foundation of Birth2Work - Igniting Community Leadership - Part 2
60 min. from Tue Jan 6 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Join co-hosts and Birth2Work co-founders Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for Part 2 of The Foundation of Birth2Work. Over the past decade, citizens and leaders have brought together their resources, committing substantial time and energy, and roughly doubling the number of philanthropic organizations from 500,000 to over one million. Each brings solutions that are aimed at solving society's vast ills, but often render temporary if any results....
The Foundation of Birth2Work - Igniting Community Leadership - Part 1
60 min. from Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Join co-hosts and Birth2Work co-founders Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for a robust program critical to understanding the fundamentals of Birth2Work. Over the past decade, citizens and leaders have brought together their resources, committing substantial time and energy, and roughly doubling the number of philanthropic organizations from 500,000 to over one million. Each brings solutions that are aimed at solving society's vast ills, but...
Holiday Encore Presentation: Igniting the Vision of Leadership, with Georgi
60 min. from Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in welcoming teacher, artist, and author Georgia Lambert to the show. From traversing the globe as an "army brat" child, Georgia recognized early that people are all generally seeking answers to the same life questions: "Who am I?" and "What am I supposed to do here?" Many address these questions in the wrong order, though, focusing on what they are supposed to do (through work) vs....
Igniting Community Stakeholder Action, with Angela Phillips Diaz
60 min. from Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in welcoming Angela Phillips Diaz, Special Assistant to the Chancellor of the University of California Riverside. In response to three crucial pieces of data - that SoCal's Inland Empire is projected to grow in population, yet high school drop-out rates are substantial and only 28% of the region's high school graduates currently go on to post-high school education - the chancellor...
Aligning Stakeholder Leaders to Create Engaged Citizens, With Doug Porter
60 min. from Tue Dec 9 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Hear Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Doug Porter, CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities(r) of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana. Doug is a visionary community stakeholder leader who, upon reading Birth2Work's first book, "The System: Igniting the Soul of Commerce," realized the tremendous potential and value in helping to develop a community-based leadership model right where he is, in Oak Lawn, IL....
Exploring the Issues Underpinning the Education and Resulting Workforce Cri
60 min. from Tue Dec 2 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Tables are turned on Birth2Work Radio, when host Elane V. Scott takes a guest seat and B2W Radio producer Matt Small moderates the conversation with guest Sean Geoghegan. Recently awarded National Board Certification, Sean is a math teacher at Hope High School in Providence, RI. The conversation offers in-the-classroom and broad cultural perspectives on the challenges facing America?s education system. With numerous books and media programs...
Early Childhood Development and It's Impact on Education and Workforce Read
60 min. from Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens, in conversation with Judy Towne Jennings, PT, MA, discussing the critical importance of "tummy time." This regular time babies spend on their stomachs while they are awake and supervised is mandatory for developing their early motor skills and core strength. Without this time, starting in baby's first weeks, the child suffers developmental, cognitive, and organizational skills...
The Essence of Leadership and the Importance of Stakeholder Collaboration,
60 min. from Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in a dynamic conversation with Kevin Buck, principal and co-founder of Emergent Success, Inc., discussing the inclusive style of leadership necessary to solve complex social problems. In alignment with Birth2Work's mission of bringing community stakeholders from the 6 sectors of society - business, education, health, media, government, and non-profits - together in order to address...
Igniting the Vision of Leadership, with Georgia Lambert
60 min. from Tue Nov 4 00:00:00 CST 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in welcoming teacher, artist, and author Georgia Lambert to the show. From traversing the globe as an "army brat" child, Georgia recognized early that people are all generally seeking answers to the same life questions: "Who am I?" and "What am I supposed to do here?" Many address these questions in the wrong order, though, focusing on what they are supposed to do (through work) vs....
Trust, Ethics, and Law in a Democracy and at the Community Stakeholder Leve
60 min. from Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 CDT 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio co-hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Dr. Linnea B. McCord, Associate Professor of Business Law at the Graziadio School of Business and Management of Pepperdine University. Dr. McCord ignites a fiery, timely conversation on the issues of trust, ethics, and a shared code of conduct as the fundamentals of a functioning democracy. A lack of trust among the populace creates dissonance which, during a...
Active Civic Leadership With Guest Jordan Brandman
60 min. from Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 CDT 2008 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with civic leader Jordan Brandman. Since high school, this young man has held a firm stake in his community, from his early role as a student ambassador on multiple councils and committees, to the far end of the spectrum, spending four years in state government as a policy adviser in the Governor's Office for the Secretary of Education and later as a legislative aide...
Leading at the Local Level, with Mayor of La Mirada, Ca Hal Malkin
60 min. from Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 CDT 2008 Show - Businesses need innovative thinkers. Communities want responsible, engaged citizens. Today, both are in short supply, yet the process for creating both is the same. Why is the education system the only target for change? Join co-hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Mayor of La Mirada, Ca, Hal Malkin. As a member of the City Council for 14 years, local business owner for 23 years, and as a community resident and dedicated...