Named one of football's most influential women by NFL.com, Hannah Gordon, Chief Administrative Officer and Counsel for the San Francisco 49ers, is an advocate for winning authentically. Hannah has been recognized as a Sports Business Journal Forty Under 40 and Game Changer, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and a SVBJ Woman of Influence.
She has negotiated over $1B in sponsorship and broadcast agreements for Levi’s Stadium while leading the San Francisco 49ers community efforts which resulted in an ESPN Humanitarian Team of the Year Award in her role as the team’s Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel. Hannah’s mission is to leverage her professional and personal experiences to curate safe environments that empower and protect individuals and communities.
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The Benefits of Global Internships: How, Why, Where led by Adrian Rosado; President, Zion Leadership Group, Friday April 30 10:00 AM EST
GlobalMindED Reboot Resilience: Rebound Remarkable Technology Week May 3-7, 4:00 EST
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Tech Empowering Students Before, During, and After Covid: Closing the Digital Divide, led by Dr. Michael Torrance, President Motlow State, May 3
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Advancing Equity in Highly Selective High School and College Admissions - Ed Equity Lab, Partners, and Students, led by Alexandra Slack, National Education Equity Lab, May 4
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Student Leaders Speak To College Presidents, CEOs, and Government Leaders, led by Dr. Jessica Rowland Williams, Director Every Learner Everywhere, May 5
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Driving Change through Intersectional Philanthropy Increasing Representation and Leadership, led by Dwana Franklin-Davis, CEO Reboot Representation, May 6
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STEPS to Skills on the Go - Cell Phone Learning Advancing Equity for Adult Students, led by Waukecha Wilkerson, Director of Coaching, Cell-Ed, May 7
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Hannah, how did you end up as an executive in professional football?
I came to the game late. EY studies have shown that 94% of women in the C-suite played sports so I guess I am in the other 6%. After getting a little taste of watching football on television in middle and high school, I fell fully in love as a freshman at UCLA. I was homesick and started to watch a ton of sports and my favorite was Monday Night Football. That led to me working for the student paper covering football which led to internships in sports television and then full-time work in sport public relations. I went to Stanford for law school with the intention to return to sports and I did with the NFL League Office and now I have been with the San Francisco 49ers for a decade.
Now you have a book, SZN OF CHANGE: The Competitor's Playbook for Joy on the Path to Victory, do we need to be football fans to read it?
Definitely not! SZN OF CHANGE is for everyone. The book is an eight-week guided journal that uses principles that I've learned in football that apply to all of our lives, no matter what we wish to succeed at.
Why structure it as a guided journal?
I wanted to create a tool that will actually change outcomes for people and the best way to learn is by doing. Often, we attend an inspirational talk and we walk away feeling great but two weeks later, we have not actually implemented what we heard in the talk. The book is designed to take only ten minutes a day and the eight weeks are so that you develop the habit of journaling for long enough that you can carry it on after the eight weeks are over.
I know a lot of people who say they don't have time or they've started and quit journaling before so do you need to be a journaler?
No, the book is designed to serve first-time or reluctant journalers. When people say they don't have time for something, what they are communicating is that it is not a priority and sometimes it is an active choice and sometimes there is an underlying fear. That's why the prompts are bite-size: there is no big, blank page staring back at you and the daily time commitment is brief.
The first chapter of the book is called "Film Study," what does that mean?
Athletes, coaches, and those who evaluate talent (scouts) all watch film of practice and games to know themselves in order to become better, in order to become great. All of us as human beings have the opportunity to develop the same skills of self-observation and self-knowledge to better ourselves and become great in whatever arena we choose. We start the book with who and where we are before we can develop the vision for who and what we want to be and then the game plan for how to get there.
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We focus on short-term projects, 5-20 hours to complete.
Students have completed projects like:
- Designing PowerPoint decks
- Website Development
- Creating Infographics
- Social Media Creation, Management, Campaigns
- Online Research
- Virtual Assistant
- Writing Blogs
- Logo Design
- Lead Generation
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Watch our Earth Week sessions:
International Youth: Strategies for Inclusive, Just, and Equitable Climate Leadership Ash Pachauri; Co-Founder and Senior Mentor, Protect Our Planet Movement and Drishya Pathak; POP Movement, India lead this panel of international students including Summer Benjamin; POP Movement Peter Gruber International Academy, US Virgin Islands, Caroline Sandberg; Tahoe Expedition Academy, USA, Tsague Dongfack/Willy Endelson; POP Movement, Cameroon, Ricardo Delgado; POP Youth Mentor, Arturo Michelena University, Venezuela, and Zoe Ricardo Rivera; CEI University, México
How Environmental Justice and Equity Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis Part 1 Courtney Knight; Founder and Managing Member, Capstone Capital Advisors and Susan Kidd; Executive Director, Center for Sustainability , Agnes Scott College lead this panel discussion with Anamarie Shreeves; Environmental Education Programs Manager, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Eriqah Vincent; Network Engagement Director, Power Shift Network, Dr. Dana Williamson; EPA Environmental Health Fellow, Assoc of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and Gwendylon P. Smith; Executive Director, Collier Heights Association for Revitalization, Resilience, and Sustainability.
How Environmental Justice and Equity Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis Part 2 Dr. Kyle Whyte; Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, leads panel discussion with Ka’illjuus / Lisa Lang; Executive Director, Xaadas Kil Kuyaas Foundation, Dr. Kelsey Leonard; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Brittany Judson; Just Growth Consultant Partnership for Southern Equity, and AJ (Andrea) Grant; President, Environmental Communications Associates.
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Click below to watch the Inclusive Leader Award Ceremony featuring inspirational messages from the diverse Award Winners
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GlobalMindED and the SDG Impact Fund are delighted to announce GlobalMindED's Donor Advised Fund. 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Women's Declaration and Action Platform. Many from around the world are thinking of 2020 as the gateway to our most vital decade for delivering equity, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a world where all can thrive. Our key time for these outcomes is 2020-2030.
GlobalMindED DAF and the SDG Impact Fund are a powerful combined force for good as the 2019 year comes to a close and we reflect on the gratitude and the commitments we make to the causes we care most about. The DAF offers immense power and flexibility for giving prior to the year's end as you plant seeds of generous intention for 2020 and the decade ahead.
When you contribute to GlobalMindED, you support First Gen students. We have served more than 400 students by connecting them to role models, mentors, internships and jobs. Your generous support will allow us to take our work 10x and reach these talented students at scale who lack the resources and support we provide. Your support also helps teachers who can't afford the conference fees, faculty at colleges which are under resourced and students who persist at those universities despite food insecurity and/or housing insecurity.
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Links to read about Inclusive Leaders, many of whom are African American and people of color:
Curated sessions from GlobalMindED 2020 YouTube channel:
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Listen here for an interview with Pam Newkirk, GlobalMindED speaker and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business.
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Meet GlobalMindED Founder, Carol Carter as interviewed by Tim Moore on his podcast Success Made to Last: From Success to Significance
Listen to Part 1 of Carol's interview
Listen to Part 2 of Carol's interview
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Recent GlobalMindED Newsletter Profiles:
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Since 2006 when the flagship TGR Learning Lab opened its doors in Anaheim, CA, TGR Foundation has had a lot to celebrate, including its most recent milestone of one million students impacted by TGR EDU: Explore, alone.
Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, TGR EDU: Explore is a free digital resource library that offers interactive web experiences, lesson plans, training videos and tools for educators, students and families to explore new disciplines and gain skills for a modern and expanding workforce.
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As you start the New Year, are you looking for ways to re-engineer your classroom culture? Check out Designing the Future: How Engineering Builds Creative Critical Thinking in the Classroom. The associated website has lots of activities, projects, and resources you can implement immediately. Our fall workshops using the book as a roadmap for change have been highly successful. Start designing the future today - try using the customized Study Guide for a book study in your PLC. Or contact ProjectEngin or Solution Tree to learn how you can bring professional development based on Ann's book to your school, district, or conference.
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THE FLYOVER NATION
Energy's Role in a Troubled Heartland
By J.C. Whorton
A unique and timely discussion of the challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland.
Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has played a historic role in shaping its communities. Today, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population.
As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”?
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J.C. Whorton is a senior level energy and financial professional with over forty years of essential experience. Having a ranching and Native American heritage, Mr. Whorton is a strong advocate for rural education and economic development initiatives.
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