FountainBlue’s October 8 When She Speaks online program on the topic of ‘Local Input, Global Impact’. Please join me in thanking our hosts at Cisco and our esteemed panelists.
Our inspiring and outspoken panelists each had their own way of stepping up and stepping in to their full selves, whole-heartedly delivering results locally at work and at home.
They each excelled in multiple roles, organizations and industries, morphing their skills and learnings to solve complex people, process and product issues, delivering value locally, with impact globally.
They each showed up as their full selves in their personal ways, ever pushing the envelope for themselves, their teams, their companies.
They each leveraged their values and their principles to ensure quality results are delivered, while also ensuring that others benefit from the product or service offered.
They each drive innovation, but in different ways. It might be an innovation of thought, or an innovation which helps improve processes. It might be innovations which help us better understand the problem- set, the patients served. It might be innovations which help us better grow and expand the needs of the customer, and even better anticipate risks or problems. It might be innovations on the way we treat others, the way we welcome divergent people and thinkers.
Their personal missions are as inspiring as they are practical. Indeed, we all stand on the shoulders of women like these.
Below is a compilation of advice from our esteemed panel.
- Be fully and unapologetically yourself.
- Create and connect communities and networks of partners, focused on collectively bringing value across the ecosystem.
- Let the voice of the customer decide how you can serve them locally, and impact the greater cause globally.
- Adhere to your values – always do well while doing right.
- Collaborate to leverage technology to solve a social problem.
- Build a support system around you which will help you be authentically, confidently, fully yourself, with clarity on the thoughts you have, the words you speak, the actions you take.
Our panel has challenged us all to be fearlessly, relentlessly, authentically and unapologetically yourself, choosing how you act locally, so that you make that global impact.
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