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Unreleased successes are places within where the dreams, goals, innovations, ingenuity, and unrealized potential reside. Unreleased successes are an undiscovered state; yet to be released out to the world. There is a process of discovering and searching within ourselves for more.

In this very moment, each of us is standing in the middle of our own acres of diamonds. If we only have the wisdom and patience to intelligently and effectively explore ourselves, we will find our possibilities and potential.

Top-rated by audiences and described as a roaring ball of energy Lori is one of today’s most inspirational
keynote women speakers. A survivor of COVID-19 Lori is no stranger to overcoming adversity and life
challenges. Lori grew up facing challenges of poverty, sexual abuse, and teen pregnancy. Lori changed
the direction of her life against the odds and has been on a DREAM journey of success as a 25-year
entrepreneur educating and inspiring over 10,000 people through many years of speaking. Lori retired as
an award-winning real estate broker|owner with 17 years of sales experience and over $33M as her sales
history. She is the CEO of Girlgobegreat Lifestyle Success Co. LLC, a personal and professional
development company for women providing award-winning success and business coaching. Lori is truly fascinated by the power of inspiration as a need of the human spirit and at the core of change and love. People have said, “her level of energy to inspire a room of
people is contagious.”
Top-rated by audiences and described as a roaring ball of energy Lori is one of today’s most inspirational keynote women speakers.
A survivor of COVID-19 Lori is no stranger to overcoming adversity and life challenges. Lori grew up facing challenges of poverty, sexual abuse, and teen pregnancy. Lori changed the direction of her life against the odds and has been on a DREAM journey of success as a 25-year entrepreneur educating and inspiring over 10,000 people through many years of speaking.

Lori retired as an award-winning real estate broker|owner with 17 years of sales experience and over $33M as her sales history. She is the CEO of Girlgobegreat Lifestyle Success Co. LLC, a personal and professional development company for women providing award-winning success and business coaching. Lori is truly fascinated by the power of inspiration as a need of the human spirit and at the core of change and love. People said, “her level of energy to inspire a room of people is contagious.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Like a person who puts together a puzzle, this talk pieces together subject-matter experts, philosophers, theologians, and poet’s perspectives on what it means to be human.

Trained in Strategic Leadership at the prestigious Oxford University Saïd Business School and Corporate
Governance at Harvard, Dr. Cindy Trimm is a former senator, sought-after thought leader, and widely
respected business and life strategist. Drawing from her remarkable life experiences and multi-faceted
career, Dr. Trimm inspires audiences around the globe with life-changing perspectives on human potential.
She is the recipient of many awards and accolades, including former President Barack Obama’s
Presidential & Lifetime Achievement Award, BCNN1’s 70 Black History Makers & Leaders of Influence, and
Ebony magazine’s Power 100, and has received commendations from the Queen of England, Duke of
Edinburgh, and Governor of Bermuda. Dr. Cindy Trimm is the visionary founder of Trimm Institute for Global Leadership, Trimm Global Charities, Cindy Trimm Ministries International, and Trimm International, Inc. and the author of many bestselling books
Trained in Strategic Leadership at the prestigious Oxford University Saïd Business School and Corporate Governance at Harvard, Dr. Cindy Trimm is a former senator, sought-after thought leader, and widely respected business and life strategist. Drawing from her remarkable life experiences and multi-faceted career, Dr. Trimm inspires audiences around the globe with life-changing perspectives on human potential. She is the recipient of many awards and accolades, including former President Barack Obama’s Presidential & Lifetime Achievement Award, BCNN1’s 70 Black History Makers & Leaders of Influence, and Ebony magazine’s Power 100, and has received commendations from the Queen of England, Duke of Edinburgh, and Governor of Bermuda. Dr. Cindy Trimm is the visionary founder of Trimm Institute for Global Leadership, Trimm Global Charities, Cindy Trimm Ministries International, and Trimm International, Inc. and the author of many bestselling books. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Centuries of inequality can’t be solved with access to technology alone — we need to connect people with training and support too, says tech inclusionist ‘Gbenga Sesan. Sharing the work behind the Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise in Nigeria that’s empowering young people with digital resources and skills, Sesan details a vision for creating life-changing opportunities for generations of people across Africa.

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Defining values is one thing, living them is another
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Defining corporate values is increasingly important to organizations and society—which is why consulting firms are making millions of dollars helping organizations define their values.
What we’re seeing consistently, says social innovator Aaron Hurst, is this is not working.
You can print values on posters and talk about them at conferences, but these values often fail to become part of the fabric of the organization. They remain upper-management-speak.

You could start to fix that problem in one hour, says Hurst. Try his recommended exercise: Connect your employees in pairs and ask them to talk about how a given value has shown up in their career, what does it mean to them? Values are only legitimate if everyone in your company can tell genuine stories about how those values have shown up in their daily jobs.
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AARON HURST
Aaron Hurst is a globally recognized entrepreneur who works to create communities that are empowered to realize their potential. He is the CEO of Imperative, a B Corp advocating for Purpose-Oriented Workers and supporting the organizations that embrace them. Hurst is the author of The Purpose Economy (2014) and a regular advisor and thought partner for many global brands.
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AARON HURST: I think we’re recognizing more and more the importance of values. And when you ask people about their preferences for work and where they want to work, they often cite they want a company that has strong values that are aligned with theirs. So you see more and more CEOs, more and more leaders, investing in the articulation of their corporate values.

You see consulting firms making millions of dollars helping organizations, you know, define their values. What we’re seeing consistently is this is not working. What’s happening is CEOs are defining the values of the organization. They’re putting them on a beautiful poster boards. They’re putting them on websites. They’re promoting them out there. They might be getting on a stage at a large conference for their employees and sharing the values and sharing why they matter to them. Maybe they’re going down to that next layer of leaders and saying, we really want you to connect to these values. We want you to be able to tell stories about why those values matter to you. But even still, at that point, you’re not getting the values lived by the organization.

The majority of people can’t name the values of their company, much less actually be able to figure out how to change their job to align with those values. If you truly want to bring your values as an organization to life, everyone in your company needs to be able to tell stories about how those values show up in their daily job. If inclusion is one of your values, every employee needs to say, ‘How does that show up on my job? Why does that matter to me?’

You know, if integrity is a value of your company, every employee needs to be able to articulate how that shows up in their work. And this is not as challenging a process as you may first think. The simple process of connecting your employees in pairs and having them talk about how has a given value shown up in their career, what does it mean to them?

Maybe the two of them think about that in a different way. And they can actually have a really meaningful conversation about what integrity means to you versus them. That helps them truly understand what that value is. And then to see: How does it show up in their job today and how could they do more around that value?

So picture in one hour if every employee in your organization sat down with a colleague and had a conversation about one of your values, and really went in-depth, and talked about how they see it differently, how it shows up for them, how they plan to build it into their work, how that one hour would completely transform your organization.

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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery—but it still remains legal under one condition. The amendment reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Today in America, big corporations profit of cheap prison labor in both privatized and state-run prisons. Shaka Senghor knows this second wave of slavery well—he spent 19 years in jail, working for a starting wage of 17 cents per hour, in a prison where a 15-minute phone call costs between $3-$15. In this video, he shares the exploitation that goes on in American prisons, and how the 13th Amendment allows slavery to continue. He also questions the profit incentive to incarcerate in this country: why does America represent less than 5% of the world’s population, but almost 25% of the world’s prisoners? Shaka Senghor’s latest venture is Mind Blown Media.

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SHAKA SENGHOR

In 1991, Shaka Senghor pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and spent the next 19 years behind bars, seven of them in solitary confinement. Today, Senghor has become a vocal advocate for prison reform, and tackling the problem of mass incarceration, in all its complex ugliness, head on. Senghor’s memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison, was released in March 2016 and debuted on The New York Times Best Seller List as well as The Washington Post Best Seller List.

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Shaka Senghor: So prisons in America specifically are some of the biggest, most dysfunctional businesses we have in our society, and they are a business because of the cheap and free labor.

When you read the 13th Amendment—that basically was the amendment that broke through slavery and freed the men and women who were enslaved at the time—there is a clause in there that allows for the re-enslavement of people in the event that they’re convicted of a crime. And so in prisons throughout our country, you have people who are working for basically free, and if they’re not working for free they’re working for wages that, if we saw that happening in another country, we would be very critical of.

When I was in prison I worked for $0.17 an hour; that was my starting rate working in the kitchen. But there are also big corporations who invest in prison labor because they can get this labor for $1.50 an hour. The sad part about it is that, in turn, they don’t even hire these men and women when they’re actually released from prison. Everything in prison has inflated costs. It costs us—inside prison, when I was inside—anywhere between $3 and $15 for a 15-minute phone call.

We don’t have to pay that out here in free society. There is a way that we can send emails to men and women inside prison, and it cost five cents every time we send that, whereas out here in society we can send emails without any charge. And so there are so many ways that the prison is exploited: the cheap labor, the cost of services and goods, and it’s a model that, sadly and unfortunately, has affected a large segment of our society.

I think most people aren’t aware of why the business models of prison exist, because most of our society has been left clueless in regards to how our judicial system works. And it’s largely been through the effect of campaigns that politicians have run for years, this whole idea that one of the greatest fears you should have is crime in America. When you’re operating out of a space of fear you’re not thinking clearly, so you’re not willing to examine things that are right in front of us.

And so the way that the prison system has developed and evolved over the years, is it originally started as government-run, state-run institutions, and then people started seeing investment opportunities when the states and couldn’t keep up with the budgetary cost of incarcerating so many people. We currently have over two million men and women incarcerated throughout the country, and we represent five percent of the world population, yet we incarcerate 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated people.

And so, at some point, states could no longer keep up with those budgets, private investors moved in and seized an opportunity, and then they started structuring laws in a way that ensured that people continue to be incarcerated for the mo…

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Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis met as ambitious students, keen to make their mark on the working world. Yet, after years of striving for promotions and pay rises, they realised that the traditional career ladder wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. In fact, it was holding them back from their true potential. Now, Helen and Sarah are champions of squiggly careers, shifting the focus from titles to talents, from career plans to possibilities, from learning that is limited by level to learning that is limitless for all. Helen and Sarah invite us all to embrace this new way of working and become advocates of squiggly careers.
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis are the founders of Amazing If – an award-winning company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. They are the co-hosts of the UK’s no.1 careers podcast, Squiggly Careers, which has had over 1m downloads, and are authors ofThe Sunday Times number one bestselling business book, The Squiggly Career. Before launching Amazing If, they led teams in organisations including Virgin, Microsoft, Barclays and Sainsbury’s. Helen is a trustee for Working Families charity and Sarah is Co-Chair of the Mayor of London Workspace Advisory Group. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

How can we know if the cost of love is worth is? Writer and performer Haley McGee was on the phone with her credit card company, promising to pay her bill by having a yard sale, when she realised the only items she could sell were all gifts from her various ex-boyfriends. What followed was a year-long exploration of the cost of love. Haley consulted with experts, interviewed her exes, worked with mathematician to create a formula that translates sentimental value into cold, hard cash and performed an autobiographical play about the process. In this talk Haley chronicles this journey and reveals what can be gleaned from applying mathematics to heartache. Actress and writer This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

The UK is famous for elite education. Mention education and the UK abroad and people will probably think of Oxford, Cambridge or the private schools that have educated many world leaders. But is this actually a good thing? Who benefits from an educational system which concentrates financial and cultural wealth into a handful of institutions? Is this model of unequal prestige, selection and hierarchy actually compatible with a desire for a more equal society? Other more egalitarian systems of education are possible and necessary for a positive future. Moving beyond elitism in education is the educational challenge of this century. I am a sociologist and a geographer of education with a strong commitment to the politics of education and envisaging alternative futures for education and society more broadly. My interests lie at the intersection of sociology, geography and history and the central theme running through my work is how structures and experiences of power and inequality in education are reproduced over time and through different local and regional geographies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Vishal Malik is a multifaceted corporate professional with almost 21 years of work experience with McKinsey & Company where he played six different roles. Besides having credible expertise in driving large scale change management and internal business transformation, Vishal is also a seasoned trainer and coach. With over 15 years of rich global experience in conducting capability building workshops, he conceptualized Management/Leadership Jams which are unique Management/Leadership development workshops involving music. Vishal is a singer, composer and songwriter who has also represented India in an international music concert in Russia called the “Voice of Asia”. During his college days, Vishal also lent his voice to several radio/TV ads. In his talk, he gives us 5 beautiful musical lessons to embrace change, to embrace entropy! Vishal Malik is a multifaceted corporate professional with almost 21 years of work experience with McKinsey & Company where he played six different roles. Besides having a credible expertise in driving large scale change management and internal business transformation, Vishal is also a seasoned trainer and coach. With over 15 years of rich global experience in conducting capability building workshops, he conceptualized Management/Leadership Jams which are unique Management/Leadership development workshops involving music. Vishal is a singer, composer and a songwriter who has also represented India in an International music concert in Russia called the “Voice of Asia”. During his college days, Vishal also lent his voice to several radio/TV ads. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

A satirical look at the world of public speaking through the eyes of TEDx organizer and multi-time TEDx speaker, George Andriopoulos. George hypothesizes that the problem with public speaking is that a large amount of stages provide a platform for speakers to sell, which creates a precedent for the wrong kind of impact. Enter TEDx, a platform for spreading ideas with the caveat that the speakers MUST follow the “TED Commandments.” No selling. No political agenda. No religious agenda. No bad science. Can the TED Commandments be the answer that will save the future of public speaking? Explore this idea of hopeful change as we journey through the dichotomy of “the power of the voice” versus “the power of the stage.” George Andriopoulos is the award-winning founder and CEO of Launchpad Five One Six, a New York based management consulting firm providing organizations with the tools and resources to innovate and thrive. George is veteran of the stage as a keynote, motivational, and soon to be three-time TEDx speaker delivering talks that spark inspiration and change. George also owns a digital marketing agency, is the host of “The Launchcast,” a top rated podcast about leadership, and has recently begun providing leadership coaching services through The Leadership Experience, his company’s leadership coaching division.

George also provides public speaking/writing coaching as a guest coach on other programs. He is the executive producer of TEDxFarmingdale and he co-produced TEDxDeerParkWomen in 2020. A co-founder of the non-profit Shannon’s Fight that provides financial aid to families in medical crisis, George also volunteers with the speaker’s bureau at Ronald McDonald House Charities. George’s first book, “Once Upon a TEDx,” will be released in 2021, fresh off of his win as 2020 Business Executive of the Year from IAOTP. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

What can science fiction teach us about the origins of human language? In this talk, Hannah will take us on a quick comedic tour of how humans might go about solving the seemingly impossible task of communicating with aliens, and what this sci-fi themed thought experiment can tell us about how language may have originally come about in our ancestors. Considering this “language grounding” problem not only shines light on human origins, but also poses one of the most difficult problems for artificial intelligence. How can we communicate without any pre-existing communication system, conventions or shared knowledge? I am a senior lecturer in Science Communication. I teach at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels on topics including digital communication, public speaking, and research methods. I also teach on science in public spaces, including comedy, games and citizen science.

At the level of research, my main interests are the use of methods from cultural evolution to look at how scientific information is transmitted online, in the lab, and in the real world. Current research projects are looking at escape rooms, twitter and science comedy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Expressions like “feeling down” or “feeling low” are more literal than we think, says Lost Connections author Johann Hari. A 30-year field study of wild African baboons by the incredible Stanford University professor Robert Sapolsky has shown that there is a remarkable relationship between depression, anxiety, and social hierarchies. Male baboons—who live in a very strict pecking order—suffer the most psychological stress when their social status is insecure, or when they are on the bottom rung, looking up at the luxuries of others. Does it sound familiar yet? “If you live in the United States… we’re at the greatest levels of inequality since the 1920s,” says Hari. “There’s a few people at the very top, there’s a kind of precarious middle, and there’s a huge and swelling bottom.” It’s no coincidence that mental health gets poorer as the wealth gap continues to widen: depression and anxiety are socioeconomic diseases. The silver lining is that this relationship has been discovered. Could an economic revolution end the depression epidemic? And, most curiously, what can we learn from the Amish on this front? Johann Hari is the author of Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions.

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JOHANN HARI

Johann Hari is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream, which is being adapted into a feature film. He was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK. He has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the Nation, Slate, El Mundo, and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was a lead op-ed columnist for the Independent, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, for nine years. He is a regular panelist on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. His TED talk, “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong,” has more than 20 million views.

 

 

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Johann Hari: When I feel depressed, like loads of people I say, “I feel down,” right?

And as I was learning about the causes of depression and anxiety for my book ‘Lost Connections’ I started to realize—I don’t think that’s a metaphor. There’s this amazing professor at Stanford called Robert Sapolsky who, in his early twenties, went to live with a troop of baboons in Kenya. And it was his job to figure out: when are baboons most stressed out?

So his job was to hit them with little tranquilizer darts and then take a blood test and measure something called cortisol, which is a hormone that baboons and us release when we’re stressed. And baboons live in this hierarchy—so the females don’t, interestingly—but the men live in a very strict hierarchy. So if there’s 30 men, number one knows he’s above number two. Number two knows he’s above number three. Number 12 knows he’s above number 13. And that really determines a lot; it determines who you get to have sex with, it determines what you get to eat, it determines whether you get to sit in the shade or you’re pushed out into the heat. So really it’s significant where you are in the hierarchy.

And what Professor Sapolsky found is that baboons are most stressed in two situations. One is when their status is insecure. So if you’re the top guy and someone’s circling which comes for you, you will be massively stressed.

And the other situation is when you feel you’re at the bottom of the hierarchy, you’ve been kind of humiliated. And what Professor Sapolsky noticed—and then it was later developed by other scientists—is, when you feel you’ve been pushed to the bottom, what you do is you show something called a submission gesture.

So you, baboons will raise— I say “you,” I assume no baboons are watching this, maybe they are—a baboon will put its body down physically or put it’s head down or put its bottom in the air and it will cover its head. So it’s clearly seems to be communicating: “Just leave me alone. You’ve beaten me, okay? You’ve beaten me.”

And what lots of scientists, like Professor Paul Gilbert in Britain and Professor Kate Pickett and Professor Richard Wilkinson, also in Britain, have really developed is this idea that actually what human depression is, in part—not entirely, but in part—is a form of a submission gesture. It’s a way of saying, “I can’t cope with this anymore,” right. Particularly people who feel th…

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Significant pieces of the globe are literally not on the map: they’re missing from the most widely used mapping platforms, like Google Street View, leaving communities neglected of vital services and humanitarian aid. In this globetrotting talk, photographer Tawanda Kanhema takes us along on his journey to map 3,000 miles of uncharted areas in Zimbabwe, Namibia and northern Canada — and shows how we can all contribute to building a more connected world.

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Have you ever dated yourself? Umama Kibria shares how this weekly investment into our wellness ecosystem fuels our mental, physical and social wellbeing. She vulnerably shares her story of transforming her life as a first-generation Bengali American entrepreneur using fitness to fight adversity. Implement her tactical strategies for dating yourself, creating movement, and finding a community to generate psychological momentum in your life. Umama Kibria is passionate about connecting people through fitness. After working out at 400+ gyms and connecting with 100k+ on social media, she founded SweatPack. As a proud Forbes 30 Under 30 leader, she’s building brand loyalty, traction, and impact. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Even seasoned warriors for social justice can struggle to come to terms with sexual abuse in their own lives. Naomi Seligman knows because she’s one of them. Three years after Harvey Weinstein’s exposure spawned the #MeToo movement, it’s time to adapt and expand our thinking about abusers and survivors and learn #HowToMeToo. That means not only taking action but also developing a larger network of support and expertise so other survivors, famous or not, can win back their voices and take back their agency. Naomi is a powerhouse communications executive who has helped bring down corrupt politicians, undermined the NRA and its allies, fought for gender equity, and crafted crisis and litigation strategies for corporate leaders, elected officials, and high-profile advocacy organizations. Her passion is to help those in need to find their voice and advocate for change. As a sexual assault survivor, she has come to realize that those people include herself. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Democracy needs an update — one that respects and engages citizens by involving them in everyday political decisions, says writer and researcher Max Rashbrooke. He outlines three global success stories that could help move democratic systems forward and protect society against the new challenges this century is already bringing.

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Dr. Steer showcases the current influence and changes of our world economy. “We are now ready for a change in a way that we were not before. We have a window of opportunity to break through that inertia.” Dr. Andrew Steer is the President and CEO of the World Resources Institute, a global research organization whose 1000+ experts work in more than 80 countries, with offices in Brazil, China, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dr. Steer joined WRI from the World Bank, where he served as Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2010 – 2012. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Director General at the UK Department of International Development in London. Dr. Steer is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Adaptation, a Global Agenda Trustee for the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, the Energy Transitions Commission, the Champions 12.3 Coalition to reduce food loss and waste, and the Sustainable Advisory Groups of the Bank of America, HSBC, and Temasek. In earlier years, Andrew held several senior posts at the World Bank, including Director of the Environment Department. He was also World Bank Country Director in Vietnam and Indonesia, and served as chief of the Country Risk Division and director and chief author of the 1992 World Development Report on Environment and Development. Dr. Steer was educated at St. Andrews University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University. He holds a PhD in economics. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Louise Johns traces her journey as a documentary photographer and how it has shaped her relationships with people and the natural world. She has found that being present and listening inspires images that can open hearts and transcend boundaries. In her attempt to bridge understanding, she has also learned something about herself.
Louise Johns is a documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer based in Montana whose work examines relationships between people and place. She has a master’s degree in Environmental Science Journalism from the University of Montana, where she also studied photojournalism. She works with a variety of outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, and Patagonia, and she also teaches photojournalism. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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What drives society’s understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable — from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat — and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to more ethical behavior.

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Shortly before starting his graduate studies at the University of Toronto, David Wosnick began experiencing difficulties with his health and soon found himself in severe around-the-clock pain. Years later, he learned he was battling a rare disease known as Ehler’s-Danlos Syndrome. Despite feeling the world on his shoulders, Wosnick continued to pursue neuroscience research in hopes of gaining an understanding of the world he was so deeply immersed in—chronic pain. With his back against the wall, Wosnick found solace in opioid therapy and eventually was able to move forward with the completion of his Master of Science degree at the University of Toronto. Following recent crackdowns on prescriptions of opioid pain medications due to the opioid crisis, Wosnick has found himself amongst thousands of other chronic pain patients who have been left empty-handed in managing chronic pain. While the stigma surrounding opioids continues to inflate, Wosnick has made it his mission to educate others about what you think you know about prescription opioid medication. In breaking the mold, Wosnick sets out to show that like many others to himself, he is not your average drug user David Wosnick is amongst thousands of chronic pain patients who have been left empty-handed in managing chronic pain. While the stigma surrounding opioids continues to inflate, Wosnick has made it his mission to educate others about what you think you know about prescription opioid medication. In breaking the mould, Wosnick sets out to show that like many others to himself, he is not your average drug user This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Short videos — 60 seconds or less, made and shared on apps like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram — are more than just a fun way to pass the time; they’ve transformed how we work, communicate and learn. Digital strategist Qiuqing Tai explores the explosive rise of bite-sized content and forecasts its promise as an economic and social force.

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Nesse talk, Sonia Santos fala como você faz para atingir seus objetivos e como usar a inteligência emocional para isso. Além disso, ela acredita que a educação é um pilar fundamental para o desenvolvimento do ser humano! Sonia Santos é administradora de empresas, com mais de 30 anos de experiência no mercado financeiro, dentro de grandes bancos, ajudando pessoas com suas finanças. Pelo qual é verdadeiramente apaixonada, This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx