Some "origin" thoughts on product development and the cultural power of femininity in leadership practice. In memory of some incredibly badass women today. Prontopia #startups #Sustainability #womenintech #femalefounders #womensequalityday medium.com/@shannonleeken…

Super impressed with production quality of the Phocuswright Europe Online 2020 event 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese proverb. For my systems thinker friends today TEDxSantaBarbara

Big up for Shannon Kenny that will be the protagonist of Making Waves discussion at TEDxSantaBarbara next Wednesday talking about Prontopia and how we put the people back in the equation! We think that nowadays everything is digit…lnkd.in/etdf4eY lnkd.in/eaB6zBt

“We are vital and sustainable people” - an inspiring conversation with Wampanoag elders on ancient traditions of gratitude and inclusive approaches to celebrating Thanksgiving 🍁 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all… All My Relations #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #Thanksgiving2020

A big shout out & thanks to Lolita Taub , networker extraordinaire! We closed on an investment today due to an intro from her Startup Investor Matching Tool. 🙌🏽💪🏼💫 All of the investor intros we’ve had have been high quality & aligned with Prontopia notion.so/Startup-Invest…

The ROI on investing in community has been phenomenal for us at Prontopia . There are a lot of varying ideas about what “community” means. We started with embracing our common humanity. And we are building from here. 🌎

“To survive, you must tell stories.” -Umberto Eco

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” - Bishop Desmond Tuto. Pondering on how we can all do better by each other as we head into a New Year? Joel Shapira @SimonNowroz Zécca

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The elderly deserve our respect... The mark of a decent society is that it resists the temptation to spurn the defenseless. It is almost a truism that the moral fabric of a society is best measured by how it treats the vulnerable in its midst.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

There are only two priorities: Inequality + Climate Change

This made my day. Thanks Reuters ⛸❄️

The time is now to re-examine values across the caregiving ecosystem, for the benefit of us all. “on being an unpaid carer during the pandemic ‘This is nothing new to me, We are part of the infrastructure of our whole society. We hold everything together.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Some ponderings on how Prontopia ’s mission to embrace our common humanity has carried us far linkedin.com/pulse/how-resi… #resilience #startups #Socialimpact Twitter shoutouts to Zécca Lolita Taub

The best marketers don’t just know the most about some tool or tactic. They know the most about... people.

A silver-lining to the tragedy COVID-19 lockdowns: city dwellers could hear the birds singing again, which reduced stress and re-established human connectedness to nature #biodiversity #cities #wellness euronews.com/living/2021/03…

On average, caregivers spend 23.7 hours per week providing care according to AARP