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The Art of Systems Thinking in the Media, With Linda Seger and Pamela Jaye

Tue, Jul 14 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for a discussion on "systems thinking" in the media, with script consultant Linda Seger and writer Pamela Jaye Smith. Similar to systems thinking is what the guests call "web thinking" (not the internet web, but spider webs). It's widely accepted that seeking interconnectedness and collaboration yields greater results, more often, than solo action. Consider the coach of a football team,...

Looking Beyond Symptoms to the Whole System, With Dr. Peter Levy

Tue, Jul 7 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jul 7 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work Radio hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Dr. Peter Levy discussing whole-patient, or "systems thinking," in healthcare. The human body is the ultimate, efficient, "system" - a dynamic and complex whole, comprised of interdependent elements, interacting as a structured functional unit. And yet the medical field, for myriad reasons, has taken a reductionist approach to caring for patients. Doctors dealing...

The Thinking Behind the Internet, Harnessing Its Power to Align Stakeholder

Tue, Jun 30 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens in conversation with Rebecca Donatelli, founder of Next Door Search.com and Chairman of Campaign Solutions. In this third program in our systems thinking series we discuss the thinking behind the internet, its capabilities, and its application as an affordable and efficient tool for the sharing of information in the non-profit and government sectors. Offering a basic primer on how we got to where we...

The Roots of Standards and Decision Making in the Education System - With P

Tue, Jun 23 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for a discussion on systems thinking in education, with one of the nation's foremost authors and speakers on school reform, Phillip Schlechty. Organizations that excel, in education, business, or elsewhere, do so when leaders have aligned their language, vision and values, and clearly articulated them for everyone within the organization to work from. In so doing, everyone is able to make...

From Solar Systems to Social Systems, Discussing Systems Thinking in Busine

Tue, Jun 16 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for the launch of an exceptional series on systems thinking, beginning with Dr. Ray M. Haynes, Director of University Strategic Alliances for the Technical Development Office of Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. From solar systems to social systems, successful systems are the result of tradeoffs that ultimately beget optimization. In technical systems, that means aiming toward repeatable...

Stories From the Trenches of Business, Health, Education, and the Public Se

Tue, Jun 9 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jun 9 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - A first on Birth2Work Radio, hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens ask multiple guests from four economic sectors to respond to a single topic: crisis. Exercisefriends.com founder Patrick McCluskey and web master Kenneth Collins respond to the crisis in business - how they overcame the dot-bust and have succeeded in the face of globalization. Dr. Bob Roth, neonatologist and hospital CEO, discusses living in a constant state of responding to...

Seeking Alignment in Healthcare Takes a Visionary

Tue, Jun 2 Listen
60 min. from Tue Jun 2 00:00:00 CDT 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...

Preparing for Quality Life Long Learning Begins at Birth

Tue, May 26 Listen
60 min. from Tue May 26 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for the second in an extraodinary two-part series with Janet Doman, Director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The Institutes introduces parents to the field of child brain development. In today's program, Janet continues the discussion initiated last week on issues related to early childhood development. The Institutes teaches parents how to give their kids visual,...

Where There Is Life There Is Hope: Learning to honor every child's right to

Tue, May 19 Listen
60 min. from Tue May 19 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Join Birth2Work hosts Elane V. Scott and Rick Stephens for part one of two extraordinary programs with Janet Doman, Director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The Institutes introduces parents to the field of child brain development. In today's program, Janet discusses issues such as the contemporary treatment of well babies--as if they have a benign illness for which we bind them and put them in wheel chairs--as...

The Job of the Mother, More Than a Summation of Tasks

Tue, May 12 Listen
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

Tue, May 5 Listen
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

Tue, Apr 28 Listen
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

Tue, Apr 21 Listen
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

Tue, Apr 14 Listen
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

Tue, Apr 7 Listen
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

Tue, Mar 31 Listen
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

Tue, Mar 24 Listen
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

Tue, Mar 17 Listen
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

Tue, Mar 10 Listen
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,

Tue, Mar 3 Listen
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

Tue, Feb 24 Listen
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

Tue, Feb 17 Listen
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

Tue, Feb 10 Listen
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

Tue, Feb 3 Listen
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

Tue, Jan 27 Listen
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

Tue, Jan 20 Listen
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

Tue, Jan 13 Listen
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

Tue, Jan 6 Listen
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

Tue, Dec 30 2008 Listen
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

Tue, Dec 23 2008 Listen
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....

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