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Frontrunners Innovate
by Mary Kurek
Podcast is a companion to www.frontrunnersinnovate.com and includes interviews with global innovators and leaders creating solutions to the world's problems. Opportunities exist in every single interview to collaborate, network, conduct business, and more. Frontrunners Innovate Producer & Impact Business Developer, Mary Kurek, conducts interviews. Guests are invited and usually members of The Frontrunners League. For Member details, visit: https://www.frontrunnersinnovate.com/frontrunners-league-membership/
Episodes
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AGE Africa Helps Girls in Malawi Find Success Through Commitment to Education
Concepción Gaxiola is the Executive Director of Advancing Girls' Education-Africa (AGE-Africa). She is normally found at the organization's Washington DC headquarters, but, just days after our podcast recording, she was flying out to Malawi to spend some time with the staff and girls. AGE Africa...
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Dr. Teta Banks and the World Federation of UN Associations Bridge Community Gaps for UN SDGs
The World Federation of UN Associations (WFUA) and it's many global UN Associations operate as a sort of bridge between the United Nations and civil society to bring more localized concerns to the forefront. The Hon. Dr. Teta Banks, chairman of WFUA talks with Frontrunners Innovate about the work...
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Gift Global Creates Sustainable Impact Projects that Lift People and Brands
Keith Kirkwood and Manna Dabholkhar founded Gift Global Initiative to create broader and more specific opportunities for corporations to give charitably while receiving brand recognition. Working within several countries, the two have developed aid programs based on a "hand up" model that creates…
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Andy Mashaile is a Strategic Advisor Fighting Crime with Policy and Victim Advocacy in South Africa
Ambassador Andy Mashaile is a retired Interpol Ambassador for the Turn Back Crime Campaign with a coverage of 195 countries. He is also an Executive Committee Member of the International Cybersecurity and Investigations Committee. He holds many titles where he has been in a leadership position on...
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Justin Breen Helps You View Business Processes Differently So That Epic Outcomes Can Emerge
In the Frontrunners Development world, innovators take center stage and many of them fill the dual role of entrepreneur/innovator and are super focused on the innovation where it is easy to get stuck, frustustrated, and cause family-time deficit. Justin Breen, founder of BrEpic Communications and...
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Dr. Brooke Newman Talks About Reducing Carbon and Redirecting Overages for a Greener Supply Chain
Dr. Brooke Newman is the Founder and CEO of Before3020, Inc., a company that helps corporations, finds sustainable supply chain solutions with potential cost savings and new income as well as hit the climate action target. In this conversation with Frontrunners Innovate Host, Mary Kurek, Dr.…
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A Conversation with Stefanos Fotiou – Director of the Office of SDGs in the FAO of the United Nations
Stefanos Fotiou is an expert on the UN Sustainable Development Goals with many years working within the United Nations organization in a variety of roles that support expertise and current leadership. Working in the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN) out of his headquarters in…
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Imari Walker-Franklin is an Environmental Engineer Chasing the Serious Impact of Microplastics
Imari Walker-Franklin is a young chemist, environmental engineer, microplastics researcher, and most recently, an author. She is a smart and well-spoken activist for people and planet; a sort of watcher who understands how these tiny particles of plastic can impact so much of our lives....
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Lina Constantinovici Helps Innovators Shorten the Gap Between Funding and Commercialization
Lina Constantinovici is a problem solver, but, before that, she was a researcher. Before that, she worked in a place where innovation was rampant, but, the trek toward commercialization for most innovation was long, laborious, and often a threat to the innovation, itself. Lina founded Innovation...
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Dementia Spring Models How Artistry Brings Joy to Patients and Builds Community Bonds
Dr. Marc Rothman has a history of experience working within the aging space, becoming a subject-matter expert in related topics like palliative care, but, particularly dementia. In 2019, he helped to found Dementia Spring, a non-profit 501c3 organization focused on improving the lives of people...
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Private Security Pros Launch New Podcast to Spotlight Those Who Work Behind the Seen
Dean and Alana Stott are accomplished private security professionals with international experience that puts their intelligence at expert level. Their perspective is to work from a strategic knowledge base as opposed to violence whenever possible. It's that smart style of working that has been so...
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Real Connections Pro Ben Albert Offers GrowGetters Monthly Networking Events To Actually Network
Ben Albert is a professional at creating connections that matter and helping people to find ways to network that feel more like attracting good contacts than working hard. Ben is also a podcasting expert, hosting Real Business Connections, as well as consulting through is company, Balbert...
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Dr. Nawab Mir Nasir Ali Khan is a Diplomat for Kazakhstan and a Sustainability-Focused Developer
HE Dr. Nawab Mir Nasir Ali Khan serves as the Honorary Consul of Republic of Kazakhstan for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh while living and working from India. His diplomatic work requires him to promote economic development for Kazakhstan and represent its virtues in public settings. As well, as a...
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Tiffany Potter Helps Businesses Find Carbon Credit Opportunities and Maximize Them Through Bitgreen
Tiffany Potter is a "Carbon Therapist" and the Chief Carbon Officer of Bitgreen, operating as a purpose-built blockchain for bringing uninhibited capital to impact investing markets. Bitgreen's Carbon Marketplace program, managed by Potter, aims to put carbon credits on-chain with key carbon...
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Ann-Marie Coore and the Coore Foundation Brings Africa Reunion Event to Washington DC
Ann-Marie Coore is the Founder and CEO of the Coore Foundation (Maryland) focusing on health and education initiatives aimed at helping at-risk youth. Coore has spent a good many years working in the healthcare space, making use of her contacts and years of experience. Her Caribbean roots provide…
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Xiaochen Zhang Enables Responsible Emerging Technologies to Help Solve World Problems
Xiaochen Zhang is the Founder and CEO of Fintech4Good (Chicago), a global network that collaborates with startups, industry leaders, nonprofits, and investors to harness blockchain, AI, metaverse, and cloud computing for social good. He is an investor, impact fund developer, educator, and...
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Saji Prelis Leads Globally on Youth Peace and Security From a Podium Built on Policy Activation
Saji Prelis is the Co-Chair at Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security, an organization working on shaping the policy and practice agenda on youth, peace, and security collaboratively with UN, INGO, Inter-Governmental bodies, and youth as partners. Additionally, Prelis is the Director for...
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Kiwoba Allaire and Girl STEM Stars are Giving Silicon Valley Another Reason to Shine
Kiwoba Allaire is using her veteran experience living and working in the tech hub of Silicon Valley to showcase the best of that world to young girls who haven't seen role models for a tech career. Kiwoba, founder of Girl STEM Stars, says girls in that area don't see women who look like them.…
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Don Turner and H2 Energy Group are Pioneering a Green Hydrogen Highway in the US
Don Turner is COO of H2Energy Group, a company dedicated to changing the way we create and use energy, transitioning us away from fossil fuels in order to achieve a net-zero energy system. Don explains in this interview how H2 Energy Group uses sustainable and renewable biomass to produce the...
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Diplomat and Women’s Rights Activist Marjorie Margolies Talks About Women’s Campaign International
Marjorie Margolies has held many roles, not the least of which is mother of a large family, 25-year host to a refugee family, award-winning journalist, courageous Congresswoman, and women's rights activist. Leading by example, Margolies serves as President of an organization she says she was…
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Nathan Ohle Leads the International Economic Development Council with a Rural Development Spirit
With a background rooted in rural economic development, Nathan Ohle, who now serves as President and CEO of the International Economic Development Council, has a strong sense of "grassroots" economic solutions. Central to all development is stakeholder accessibility and Nathan talks about that…
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Michael Kintu Personalizes Impact Through the World Fund for Planning and Development
H.E. Michael Kintu is the Secretary General for East Africa for the World Fund for Planning and Development. From Nairobi, Kenya, the Secretary General activates programs that reach deep into communities at the grassroots level, providing sanitary kits for school girls, bringing clean water to...
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Life Coach Kristin Taylor Talks with Women Leaders About Courage While Innovating
Kristin Taylor has spent years working with women entrepreneurs and executives on taming the inner demons that plague leaders who are innovating. In this podcast episode, she has an honest conversation with Dr. Joy Vaughan (Resilience Coach), Maria Dolores (Founder, The Human Contract), and Host,...
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Dagmar Turkova with European Women's Assoc Talks with Women Leaders About Claiming Their Spotlight
Dagmar Turkova is a VP in the UAE with the European Women's Association. In this interview and conversation, she talks with Penny Heyes (UK), Amb. Ghazala Khan (Pakistan/Saudi Arabia), Kristin Taylor, and Tsegga Medhin (US) about women stepping into the spotlight. Mary Kurek, Frontrunners...
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Hon Amb Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Amb Richard Swett Discuss Solutions for African Development
Hit the subscribe button on this podcast to meet more Frontrunners you want in your network. Hon Amb. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim serves as the SIDS Amb. for the World Diplomatic Academy. Her background is rich with experience in science, academics, and government leadership. Amb. Gurib-Fakim served as…
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Chris Conant Talks About Chipset Farm Ownership Opportunity That Produces Rental Income
Hit the subscribe button on this podcast to meet more Frontrunners you want in your network. In Chris Conant's world, you will find a very crypto-savvy network and people with a bend toward tech. Chris is steeped in both subjects, owning businesses that blend enterprise with return-value in...
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Mohammad Abu Rashed Uses His Expertise in PPP Structuring to Create Programs That Support Peace
Mohammad Abu Rashed is the UAE National Chancellor for the International Association of Educators for World Peace. A global expert in PPP development and policy-making, Rashed has spent years working with the United Nations and the World Bank Group at the most influential levels of govenrments...
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Dr. Toby Malichi, Hon.D.Bus., D.H.L. is a Business Diplomat With a Peace-Building Mission
Dr. Toby Malichi, Hon. D. Bus., D. H. L., is an international businessman with credentials in corporate leadership that go back to his early twenties. The migration from his first roles at General Motors moved him to the diplomatic side of the global business environment when he started speaking...
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Tech Her 2 Greatness Provides Training That Leads to Internships For African Girls
Sadiya Murtala is a leader and digital skills trainer with the Mentor Her to Greatness Program produced by the Center for Peace Advocacy and Sustainable Development, headquartered in Nigeria. This year, the program launched a digital marketing and skills training course for African girls called...
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Paul Barry Shows Us How to Flip Instinct to Get to Intuition That Transforms Impact
Paul Barry is an actor, director, teacher, consultant, and TEDx speaker. He has perfectly navigated his skillset in acting, memory retainment, and teaching into a message that moves us beyond our own limiting instincts to connect us to the intuition that craves to move us forward. He does this...
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Princess Tshepi Motloung is a Cultural Leader Who Expands Opportunities for South African Women
Princess Tshepi Motloung is a cultural leader in South Africa who builds sustainable pathways for women's empowerment and community development using her extraordinary communications and project-building skills. Princess Motloung who is also the founder of the Future Lift Foundation involves...
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Maha Jouini Opens Pathways to AI and Digital Tech for African Women
Maha Jouini is an AI expert and passionate advocate for women interested in working in technology and developing digital skills. Her challenging journey from Tunisia to Mauritania to founding the African Center for AI and Digital Technology is filled with hard-won points for women like herself.…
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Marissa Fayer on Women's Health and Women's Innovation Funding Opportunities
Marissa Fayer is the Founder/CEO of HERhealthEQ based in the US. Her work spans many projects in several countries but focuses on women's health. Along with sourcing hospital equipment for re-use in hospitals and women's clinics in areas of the world where needed, she also conducts screening…
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Linda Mac Dougall Educates and Advocates for Healthy and Safe Aging
Linda Mac Dougall has been working in the aging space and within disabled communities for most of her career. Her expertise and education credentials have landed her on boards and with a client base who appreciates her holistic approach to managing the health stresses of aging. She shares her...
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Fundraising Ideas and Grantwriting Tips for Nonprofits and Charities
Frontrunners Development, Inc. President and CEO, Mary Kurek and Frontrunner Aaron Smith, PhD, have a combination of over 30 years of experience in fundraising and grant-writing successfully. After several global charities and nonprofits reached out with interest in finding funds, Kurek and Smith...
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Raising Capital is What Greg Downey Does and What He Teaches
Greg Downey is the founder of Purim Ventures, a venture capital company that specializes in advisory and training services. Greg has over 25 years of helping disruptive innovations get to market and has helped companies already on market to expand. Over the last 15 years, he has successfully…
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Women's Empowerment on a Global Scale - What That Looks Like When an Empowered Latino Woman Leads
Irma Sanchez is a Latino woman, mother, and entrepreneur living in California. Proudly providing leadership in women's empowerment, she's creating an impact through the Women's Economic Forum as their representative in the Silicon Valley area. But, that's only one of the many roles she fills in...
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Pareena Has a FoodLoop Ecosystem Model That Turns Concrete Cities into Waste-Reducing Farms
Pareena Prayukvong lives and works in Thailand where soil is rare and big buildings dominate the landscape. When you are dedicated to reducing waste and toxins in the air, you have to get creative, and she has. Pareena is a trainer and co-creator at The Network, an NGO focused on sustainable...
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Angela Unufe-Kennedy Takes Innovative Solutions to the Source of Impact
Dr. Angela Unufe-Kennedy is the Founder of the Migrant & Minority Disability Network Europe and the CEO of MENÀ Humanitarian and Healthcare Awareness Foundation (AFRICA). She is a leader in creating and facilitating innovative solutions where she sees the gaps to be filled. Relentless in her...
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Maya Shetreat Makes Healing Options More Visible for All
Maya Shetreat took her conventional medical background into natural medicine about the time her son's chronic illness created the open door for research in the space. Her experience pushed her further into exploring the healing properties of plants, herbs, and even crystals. Now considered an...
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Genya Dana is Helping to Prove the Genomics Diagnostic Role in Disease Prevention
Dr. Genya Dana believes that diagnostic capability is the best factor in the prevention of devastating diseases and is proving the weight of genomics as a great vehicle for diagnosis. Genya has extensive experience in the science of genomics and is also an experienced policy expert and negotiator...
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Toku Eyes Answers: What if an Eye Scan Could Diagnose Heart Disease?
Ehsan Vaghefi is the Founder and CEO of Toku Eyes, headquartered in New Zealand. And, the answer to the title of this podcast is "it can." Ehsan and the Toku team have innovated an easy, affordable, accessible means of scanning the back of the eye to secure valuable diagnostic health information...
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Alfredo Toro Hardy is the Venezuelan Diplomat with Tough Advice for International Relations Problems
--For opportunities to be featured, visit https://www.frontrunnersinnovate.com/your-own-spotlight/--Hit the subscribe button on this channel to meet more Frontrunners you want in your network. The Honorable Ambassador Alfredo Toro Hardy has been named the "scholar diplomat" and for good reason....
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Chukwuemeka Orukwowu Delivers New Global Platform for Youth Opportunities
Chukwuemeka Orukwowu is a young leader in Africa who is using his talents to help other youth around the world find their path and create sustainable success. As the founder of Audacious Agenda Youth Network, Chukwuemeka realized as he was growing into his own role in society that it was quite...
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Bijal Hayes-Thakore and Tejal Thakore are Inspiring Women Toward Leadership in the Space Industry
Bijal (Bee) Hayes-Thakore and Tejal (Tee) Thakore are sisters born in India who were seemingly hard-wired from a tender age to lead. And, lead is what they are doing now, but, in a field that involves an engineering mind and a love of the stars. The space industry has pulled these young ladies...
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Kevin Albin Advocates for Climate Action and Conservation Through Adventure Storytelling
Kevin Albin's advocacy work today looks a bit different from what it did pre-pandemic, but, no less effective. As much an educator as an advocate, Kevin uses story-telling using voices from the historic statues of London to bring to life lessons on planet stewardship. His book, Stonechild, shows…
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David Wofford and the UN Foundation are Working Toward Improved Accessible Workplace Healthcare
David Wofford serves in the capacity of Senior Director at the UN Foundation with his current work wrapped around equitable workplace healthcare and the corporate policies that have widespread impact potential. He talks with Frontrunners Innovate, Mary Kurek, about the Universal Access Project's...
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Moses Busher Coordinates Life Changing Support for Villagers in Malawi
Ambassador Moses Davide Busher is the Regional Director for Africa (stationed in Malawi) for the Yorghas Foundation, which is headquartered in Poland. The organization focuses on women's maternal health, human rights for youth and women, and proper education. Most recently, though, Busher tells…
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UN Women Leader Tsegga Medhin is Paving Diversity Pathways for Corporations and Schools
Tsegga Medhin fills the leadership role of UN Women President in NC and that of founder and president of The Pearl Leadership Institute - both with a mission of women's empowerment. Tsegga will tell you that SDG2030 is her human GPS; a focus she's had since 2015 when she addressed the UN as a...
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Anita Sanchez Brings Indigenous Groups and Their Wisdom to Diversity and Inclusion Impact
Dr. Anita Sanchez brings her native learnings to the forefront in her work as a diversity and inclusion expert. As an award-winning best-selling author, in her book, Four Sacred Gifts - Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, she guides people through a transformation that results in how to live a…
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Podcast is a companion to www.frontrunnersinnovate.com and includes interviews with global innovators and leaders creating solutions to the world's problems. Opportunities exist in every single interview to collaborate, network, conduct business, and more. Frontrunners Innovate Producer & Impact Business Developer, Mary Kurek, conducts interviews. Guests are invited and usually members of The Frontrunners League. For Member details, visit: https://www.frontrunnersinnovate.com/frontrunners-league-membership/
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