The pathways to fundraising and mentorship aren’t easy, especially in a pandemic. Our candid chat with founder, Anne Kim reveals the importance of relationships when growing a startup, the human side of management and why less is more.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) is not just the latest buzzword in corporate culture. It’s critical for your business to work and for your people to innovate together. And you can’t get there with a one-off workshop. Marie Roker-Jones takes us through a primer on this critical aspect of human interaction and understanding and shares her company, Essteem’s innovative process for helping companies achieve their goals in this area.

When your mind is healthy you can curb anxiety and remove your ego, which leads to the kind of listening that’s required to be the leader in your category. President of FutureProof Retail, Di Di Chan shares her top tips for supporting your stakeholders, which have been critical to her team’s success even before the pandemic hit.

The most successful social innovation comes from great questions, not someone’s whim. In college, Waterfield Farms’ John Reid posited a compelling question, took a chance on a subject he’d never considered before, and decades later continues to feed people affordable, quality food while improving multiple environmental situations. The silver linings of 2020 helped advance his team’s mission, bringing them closer to a breakthrough solution to the climate crisis.

Plenty of leaders claim to have open door policies, but are you truly using feedback effectively in your business? Nick Gallo, Chief Servant and Co-CEO of ComplianceLine, gives an in-depth training on the ‘Six A Feedback Framework’ and reveals the many layers of complexity that so many of us bring to our professional interactions, which actually hurt us instead of protect us.