"A practical, empathetic and effective mentor"
Thanks Jeff Abbott, VC and founder of the Global Scaling Academy, for this fab recommendation at LinkedIn!
"She’s a practical, empathetic and effective mentor whose broad experience and constructive feedback allow her teams go on to perform in the top tier, while also improving the overall program she is a part of."
TBT, tracking the election in a 100-day live blog
My team of media producers tracked social media reactions and global news about the election on a new social publishing platform. You can view the 100-day live blog here.
Building a multidisciplinary engineering program for scale
...you need to systematize the curriculum and delivery.
Here's a day of Challenge Lab training led by Ken Singer at UC Berkeley, to get a set of potential instructors for 2018 on the same page.
This was a really fun day! Got to connect with my fellow European Innovation Academy mentors Tommaso Di Bartolo, Mike Kyriacou & Stephen D. Torres, among other new friends & colleagues.
A delegation from Finland was also there, because this multidisciplinary Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology class in the engineering school is being built for scale. Really cool to see it happening and take part.
TBT, adapting a novel for the screen
Remembering the screen adaptation I did of an action comedy novel by Jennifer Lawler...
The main characters in this enduring ensemble story are star-crossed lovers who also happen to be mercenaries — and 17th century English scholars. Think the good-humored violence of RED with a younger group.
The Mercenary's Tale, screen adaptation of the novel Not Quite a Hero. We spent two years (1990-2) adapting the story to the screen format.
Here's what a 379 page 20 year old manuscript looks like. After I read the funny, classic love story for the first time in 1987/88 I couldn't forget it...
Always looking for an illustrator to convert the script into a graphic novel for iPad, btw.
We rewrite the screenplay every now and again. It's renamed COY MISTRESS. And Jennifer found a place for those Greek sailors she loves so much!
Learn more about Jennifer Lawler.
TBT, the World Cattitude app
TBT, 2012: Sneak peek at our next MoodReport iPhone app -- this one's for cat staff all over the world to report their boss's "cattitude".
Named "one of the best mentors" at 2017 accelerators
This is music to my ears!
Thanks to
academic advisor Selvi Kannan in Management & Innovation at Victoria University, Australia
Gigi Wang, director of UC Berkeley's Sutardja Center for Technology & Entrepreneurship
for passing on the feedback they received from their startup teams (both students and experienced professionals) at accelerators where I was pleased to mentor this summer.