It's a Zig-Zag Path, with Greg March

It's a Zig-Zag Path, with Greg March

Greg March is the Business Development Manager for ImpactHK, an NGO that seeks to bring an awareness to the struggles of the homeless population in Hong Kong. Our conversation focused on Greg’s long journey to Impact HK and how it wasn't anything close to a straight line.   And as I think is common, at least in terms of the people I have spoken to, after working for a number of years as a professional in the events management industry, Greg's inner voice encouraged him to do something that would be more personally meaningful while also making a positive difference in the world. In addition to his work with Impact HK, Greg has also written three children's books based on different Zen parables, which is how I was first introduced to him by reading these books to my son.  Greg's Children's Books [https://kidsmindfulness.net/] Impact HK [https://impacthk.org/]

TEDI London Does Engineering Differently, with Matthew Wilks

On this week's episode, I am joined by Matthew Wilkes of TEDI London, a new engineering school that formed out of a partnership with University of New South Wales, Arizona State University, and Kings College London.  TEDI aims to do things differently, deploying a Project Base learning model that is principally delivered through maker space engineering labs where students are learning by doing, that is, working on real world projects alongside an academic. They also intend to admit students differently, seeking to diversify the field of engineers so that individuals who are design engineers are representative of the people for whom they are designing.   TEDI London [https://tedi-london.ac.uk/ ] Music by Holly Mak

The Seemingly Innocuous Elevator Conversation - Ines Kaempfer

This episode features Ines Kaempfer, the CEO of The Centre for Child Rights and Business.  Our conversation focuses on navigating a career and how sometimes a random conversation in an elevator can change your life.  Growing up in Switzerland and not being particularly driven toward any one professional goal, Ines mostly let her interests inform the direction of her life and it seems to have paid for her.  Her bio is below.  Ines Kaempfer brings over 15 years of experience in supply chain sustainability where she has been deeply engaged in issues related to child rights and business in the manufacturing and agriculture industries in Asia.  Since 2014, Ines has been serving as the Executive Director and since 2021, the CEO of The Centre for Child Rights and Business (which was known as CCR CSR up to 2020) in Asia, a social enterprise that helps businesses improve their direct and indirect impact on children, particularly in supply chains. In her role as CEO, Ines leads strategic design and implementation of overall operations and stakeholder engagement, working closely with major multi-national clients and partners around the world.

Revisiting Harvey Mudd

In the spring of 2020, I had a conversation with the Vice President of Admission and Financial Aid at Harvey Mudd.  That conversation predates the launch of this podcast on Anchor, so I wanted to make that available now.  I hope you enjoy.

Revisiting Scripps College

The following episode was released internally to the THS community during the winter of 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic.  At the time, I had yet to make our podcast public.  As we are now starting the college/university search and selection process at our school, I thought it would be good to revisit, and make public, some of these internal episodes that are more specific to this time of year.  Scripps College [https://www.scrippscollege.edu/] is located about one hour east of Los Angeles and is part of the Claremont Colleges Consortium.  It is such a unique institution, and perhaps singular in some sense, in that it is an all-women's college that is part of a co-educational consortium, meaning, men have access to the Scripps coursework (but not all of it).  How it differs from a school like Smith [https://www.smith.edu/] or Bryn Mawr [https://www.brynmawr.edu/] is that it essentially shares a campus with the other consortium schools.  For all intents and purposes, the Claremont Colleges collectively feel like a typical university campus,  but remain independent and self-determined for all intents and purposes.  One might suggest it's the best of both worlds, depending on your criteria.  This podcast was the result of my campus tour and interview with my student guide.