Local Talent On A Global Scale: HR Strategies For Sustainability
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Session Description
This interactive session looks at cultivating talent throughout an organisation for scale and impact, whether you are working to convert local beneficiaries into operational staff, building a team to scale your organisation at a global level, or strategising around succession planning. Draw on the experience of top-level social entrepreneurs, consumers-turned-managers, and sector consultants to help you problem solve your toughest HR challenge.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:30, Thursday, April 15, 2010
BST
Speakers
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CEO, D.light Design
Sam Goldman is D.light’s co-founder and CEO. He has founded and managed ventures in India and Africa for 10 years, including improved agriculture and construction businesses, an agricultural training centre, and a for-profit NGO cultivating the miracle tree Moringa. He has distributed low-cost latrines, cook stoves and rain cisterns in rural Africa. Sam has lived in Cameroon, Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, India, Rwanda, Canada and USA. He has an MSc Biology and MBA from Stanford. Read Sam’s blog on Social Edge.
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, Oxford Mobile Robotics Group
Rohan is an innovator, roboticist and an aspiring social entrepreneur. A Rhodes Scholar from India and IIT Delhi alumnus, he is presently a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group. He has co-invented mobility devices for visually impaired persons and steers an industry-academia-NGO alliance to bring these products to market.
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Executive Director, Third Sector Partners
Pari Jhaveri heads Third Sector Partners, a high end executive search firm which recruits senior management and boards across verticals of NGOs, CSR, BOP markets. Pari is Co-founder of barefootjobs.org, India’s first interactive job portal for NGO sector and Katalyst, an initiative for underprivileged girls enabling their higher education and economic emancipation.
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Sébastien Marot is Founder and Executive Director of Friends-International, an award winning global social enterprise which supports over 200,000 marginalized children and youth each year. He has led the expansion of the organization into 18 countries across 4 continents, developing best practice programs that provide protection and social reintegration services including access to employment for youth and parents, school reintegration for children and family conservation. Friends-International also established and powers the award-winning ChildSafe Movement that selects, trains, certifies and supports key actors of society to better protect children. It has also developed an international network of over 60 organizations (3PC), working together to develop and coordinate best quality services. To support this expansion, Friends-International utilizes a series of social business models providing training opportunities and financial sustainability.
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Mai Siriphongphanh received her MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship in 2002. In 2004 she participated in the Global Social Benefit Incubator Program. In 2008, she received the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship. When joining DDD, Mai took the spirit of leadership, refining its social enterprise model, focusing on human development and re-innovating it as a mechanism for training a new generation of leaders.
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Director, EDGE in Tech initiative at UC
Jill Finlayson heads up mentoring and designs and runs incubator and SU Ventures programs at Singularity University, whose mission is to educate, inspire, and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges. She has 20+ years of experience as a strategic leader building online communities, growing thought leadership, and leading marketing and branding for Silicon Valley nonprofits and startups. She ran the Toys category for five years at eBay, managed a community of social entrepreneurs at the Skoll Foundation, led marketing at various startups, and consulted for the World Bank. She has also mentored TechWomen and coached entrepreneurs and judged student startup competitions. Finlayson is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
