Jessica Alba: Hollywood Heroine To The Rescue
Better known for her role as the Invisible Woman in The Fantastic Four, and being voted “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007, actress Jessica Alba has an entrepreneurial side that aims to redefine the idea of the family brand. In 2008 Alba became the mother of a little girl, Honor, and three […]
Is This The World’s Most Affordable House?
Forty percent of all energy demands comes from real estate, so if you can solve that, you will be richly rewarded. After all, the cleanest and cheapest energy is energy saved. A zero energy house that guarantees no energy bills for 10 years is capturing the attention of communities and may redefine home ownership. “Our […]
Business-For-Purpose Pioneer Awarded Order of Australia
Audette Exel, founder and Chair of The Adara Group, has been awarded an honorary Order of Australia for her work with women and children living in extreme poverty in Nepal and Uganda. Exel established The Adara Group 18 years ago after witnessing appalling conditions in Humla, in the Himalayas, and in the Nakaseke district of Uganda. Since then, […]
Will.i.am Talks Trash
Hip hop celebrity Will.i.am has approached leading brands and offered them solutions on how not to let waste go to waste. Most music fans are accustomed to seeing their favorite celebrity walking around with the obligatory plastic water bottle glued to their hands. It’s almost become a fashion accessory for some and has been adopted […]
The Way The Cookie Crumbles
Wendy Ruiz Cofiño has turned her creativity and technology into solutions for real life problems. If you where to learn that one of the top apps of the last ten years to be honored by the United Nations World Summit Award was not from Palo Alto, but from Guatemala, would you be surprised? Many are, […]
Adapt or Fail – Why 70% of Your Team Isn’t Committed to Your Success
Whenever you work really, really hard and fail, it is because you’re missing something. Usually it’s reality. It is tempting to deny that anything has changed. Or that you need to know something that you don’t. Or that others aren’t inspired by the same things you are. Or that you’re going to have to take […]
Comic-Book Heroes Help Change Image of Islam
Naif Al-Mutawa has developed a series of superheroes who’s main mission is to change perceptions and educate, while still being entertaining. As provocative as Wonder Woman, but in an entirely different way, Batina the Hidden is a character in the hit comic book series “The 99” who is not only a Muslim girl from Yemen, […]
The Rise of the Human Age
Jeff Joerres has identified a new era that will put unprecedented value on talent as the main driver of business success, forcing governments and business leaders to re-examine how they leverage human potential in an increasingly volatile world. At a time when the average tenure of a public company CEO is typically measured in months […]
Danny Glover Confronts Chevron in Ecuador
The famous American actor and social activist Danny Glover arrived in Ecuador yesterday where he plans to visit an area of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest were the multinational oil giant Chevron operated, and was sentenced by a local court to pay a multibillion-dollar fine for a massive environmental contamination. Ecuador’s vice president, Jorge Glass, announced Saturday that Mr. […]
Sheryl Sandberg: Disrupting The Status Quo
The COO of Facebook argues that in order for change to happen, women need to break down societal and personal barriers by striving for leadership roles. Her global movement is encouraging women to lean in to positions of leadership to ensure that more opportunities are created for everyone. Mark Zuckerberg once told me,” says Sheryl […]
