The Creative Call: Igniting Innovation

Sarah Wendt has been a successful HR Executive focused on solving complex challenges that unleash the capability of people, teams, and organizations. She's served within a variety of fortune 500 companies overseeing diverse global teams and played a critical role in integrating acquisitions as large as $16 Billion. She is now Head of HR at NISA, a dynamic investment advisory firm that manages assets for some of the largest institutional investors in the world. In today's interview, she shares her origin story, pivotal moments within her leadership journey, and more.

Welcome to this episode of the Social Origin Podcast. The show that explores culture creativity and business. In today's episode we meet with Tobi Skovron, an entrepreneur and one of the Co-Founders of CreativeCubes.Co and their current CEO.

Tobi is an ambitious thought leader with an unquenchable drive toward success and more. He uses his creativity to pioneer new initiatives and deliver on the promises he makes with passion & integrity.

Today we dive into his story and explore his purpose and passion for building community in the modern workplace. 

Thanks for joining us.

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Welcome to this special episode of the Social Origin Podcast. We are presenting a special series exploring business startups and the foundational principles that form the foundation for health and wellbeing. Today we are joined by clinical psychologist Valerie Ling.

Valerie Ling is the Clinical Director and founder of the Centre for Effective Living, a group psychology practise dedicated to clinical excellence in mental health and Centre for Effective Serving a training and consulting arm dedicated to workplace wellbeing and burnout prevention. Valerie is a Clinical Psychologist, speaker, published author and Clinical Supervisor with a passion for helping people find their voices and continue to write their life’s story.  She has a special interest in the prevention and treatment of burnout. Her career began as a consultant in the corporate world, working internationally in talent assessment and development. As such she is able to engage with those facing career transition or work related stress. At an organisational level Valerie is involved in consulting to optimise resiliency and mental health wellbeing. Valerie has worked with agencies to create and implement wellness programmes that target systemic burnout. She is a sought after speaker presenting industry-specific and up to date research and strategies in burnout prevention.

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Today's episode features special guest Rhonda Vetere. She is recognized as one of the most Powerful Women in Technology with an impressive background in leading global teams of more than 20,000 leaders at top Fortune 500 organizations. She is a two-time author, mentor, athlete, and advocate. In this interview, Rhonda is joined by Navy Seal Veterans Monty Heath and Alex Othmer. Together they will share about the new initiative they've partnered to launch called Aligned Alliance. Its mission is to save lives by generating awareness and support to prevent Veteran and First Responder Suicide. 

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Thank you for joining us for this special episode of Social Origin. Today you'll meet Ian, he's a Civil Engineer, Father, Husband, and now the Co-founder of Sanyou Tasmanian made baijiu - the first of its kind outside of China.

Baijiu, which translates to ‘white spirit’ or ‘white wine’, is the national drink of China and the largest spirit category on the planet. 99% of baijiu produced never leaves China which for many centuries has made baijiu a relatively unknown spirit outside of the Asian continent.

In this episode, Ian shares more on the age old tradition and unique characteristics of this spirit along with the significant role it plays in being the bedrock of gifting and celebration in Chinese culture.

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Today on the Social Origin Podcast David Alexander and Daniel Alexander discuss keys to success healthy mindsets and practicals tips you can use for your business startup.

They discuss the author of the Startup Playbook David Kidder and the importance of strong company values and unwavering vision which drives alignment on the path toward success and longevity.

Also special mentions to Hannah and Rachel Vasicek from Francesca Jewellery for the incredible work they are doing to end sex slavery through one of Australia's fastest-growing businesses.



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Join us for a special interview with Alik Hinckson,  the CFO of Rainforest Alliance, an organization with over 2.3 million farms using its standards to create more equity for farmers and their families across the world.

In this episode of the Social Origin podcast, Alik shares his origin story of what drove his inspiration to live a life of impact, keys to innovation at Rainforest Alliance, and he provides current strategies to create more diversity and inclusion within the workforce.

Prior to joining the Rainforest Alliance, Alik was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Pact, an international NGO focused on providing access to healthcare, financial services, and natural resource management to vulnerable communities in more than 30 countries. He started his career at Deloitte in its Cosourcing Practice, providing international clients with financial analysis and internal audit services.

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Sri Chellappa is the President and Co-Founder of Engagedly, one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. on the Inc. 5000 with 577% growth over the past three years. 

His heart for impacting people is embedded within Engagedly as a “people-centric talent management platform.” It's designed not just to manage processes for top executives, but to help employees feel valued and supported.

He is a passionate entrepreneur and leader in building high-performance organizations that care about their people, Sri brings over 20 years of experience in leading organizations in software development and consulting in the U.S to his current role. Having developed an extensive amount of experience from managing teams in his previous roles at EY and Capgemini, Sri understands the value of investing in employees and the overall impact it not only has on their individual performance but the success of the company.

In addition to entrepreneurship and technology Sri has produced five feature films, with budgets that have ranged between $100,000 to just under $1 million. They've been streamed in over 60 countries, aired on cable channels including Showtime, NBC Universal Fox International Channels, Sky World internationally; and digitally on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and Redbox across the United States. His unique blend of insights within culture, creativity, and business make this a powerful episode you won’t want to miss!

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Welcome to 2022, we are so excited for Season 3 and everything that's ahead at Social Origin. We've been hard at work engaging in conversations with some of the world's top technology leaders, innovators, and creative minds. In this new season, we'll bring you the latest content across a wide range of topics from individuals and experts. Speaking across culture, creativity, and business. Come with us as we deep dive into these stories, learning how they've built incredible success principles that have guided them along the way. We also collaborate with some incredible friends along the way who continue to shake things up and keep things fresh.

Thank you for listening! Make sure you share, subscribe, follow and review this podcast as it really helps us extend our reach and impact.

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April Koenig is a fierce entrepreneurial force and industry leader who is the CEO and Founder of Creatives On Call, a national talent network designed to match incredibly innovative talent with top CMOs and CEOs across the Country needing to scale and support their creative teams.

As the leader of one of the most distinguished woman-owned national creative network organizations in the Midwest, her organization has positioned thousands of their associates into teams, projects, short and long-term contracts. After seeing the powerful impact her team was making over time April launched an additional business called VennQuille as a consulting firm.

Her down to earth authentic personality, insights, and perspective on innovation make this an extremely powerful episode.

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