Her Excellency, Ghazala Khan, is a United Nations Diplomat and Mission Head/Ambassador at the Federation of International Gender and Human Rights (FIGHR) to The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Her twenty-year background in finance, business development, training, and mentoring in the private sector and all sizes of NGOs supports the Ambassador’s current efforts at developing systems and process solutions for huge …
Monica Kretschmer Supports and Inspires All Women Through The Universal Womens Network™
The Founder and CEO of The Universal Womens Network™, Monica Kretschmer, has a challenge-to-success story of her own that has allowed her to put the framework together to support other women. Monica celebrates women (and the men who support them) through awards, mentors, education, publicity, and more. The Universal Womens Network™ is a global platform committed to advance gender equality, …
Kingsley Aikins Trains Networkers Worldwide on How to Build Their Best Asset
Kingsley Aikins has traveled the world as a professional in trade and promotion. From 2013-17, Aikins served as Chairman of Linkedfinance. Linkedfinance is Ireland’s first crowdfunding company aimed at SMEs, and was established by Peter O’Mahoney who is the founder and former CEO. Aikins’ keen knowledge of how to organize and engage diaspora adds another important element to his expertise …
Joe Hamel is the US Government’s Secret Innovation Weapon in the War Against Major Health Disasters
Joe Hamel is the Director of Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) for Innovation and Industrial Base Expansion (IBx) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He received his BA in molecular biology from Colgate University and his MS in biotechnology from John Hopkins University. Prior to joining the ASPR, Hamel worked as a …
Ethy Levy Uses Her Background in Trade and Diverse Network to Help Innovators Achieve Impact
Ethy Levy is absolutely fascinating, especially to someone who works in impact. She is a strategic advisor, founder, and impact fund manager plying her talents and intelligence through Kinnerect Impact Ventures (Israel’s leading tech hub for agritech, water, and sustainability) and the Bridge Hub headquartered in Australia (but also extends to Israel.) What makes Ethy especially interesting is her diverse …
In Celebration of International Yoga Day by Chaitali Sinha
One of the young poets from our Daughters Global Leadership Mentoring program has penned a poem in observance of a day honoring a form of wellness that she’s come to embrace as a way of life. We are happy to post this lovely celebratory offering of words and love from Chaitali Sinha that also serves to commemorate her 18th birthday. …
The Honorable Mark Siljander Uses Faith and Fellowship to De-escalate Global Conflicts
This interview is the first in our Frontrunners in Faith Series. Former US Congressman and United Nations Ambassador, Mark Siljander, is what we call an Extreme Conflict Peacemaker. The work he does (with the support of his family and a traveling team) is to end wars, get hostages released, and stop the genocide in some pretty tough spots around the …
Enrique Mendizabal Helps The World’s Researchers Develop Better Think Tanks
Enrique Mendizabal comes from a think tank background. He’s been involved in studying think tanks and evidence-based policy and policy entrepreneurship for over 20 years. In 2010, he headed the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme at the Overseas Development Institute where he led the organisation’s research and practice on think tanks, networks, research communications, and policy influence. RAPID’s …
Chancellor Dinesh Shukla Builds Medical Universities in Africa
Chancellor Dinesh Shukla of the American International University and his team have been educating medical professionals from eighteen countries in their state-of-the-art medical university campus in West Africa for the past eleven years. They’ve graduated several hundred medical professionals certified on the American curriculum who are all working in clinics and hospitals today, a challenge he says that has been …
Investor Series: Paulina Tenner Helps Entrepreneurs in the UK Obtain Funds From Government Sources
Paulina Tenner is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder of GrantTree, a UK-based consultancy aimed at helping entrepreneurs raise funds by taking advantage of government grants and other forms of alternative funding that have probably never crossed your mind. Paulina is an innovator advocate and an expert at working with clients who need as little as a review to check …