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How to Nail a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

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How to Protect Your Mental Health When Starting a Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

shared his experience around starting a business, the effects it had on his mental health and his advice on taking care of yourself and your business. So instead of trying to strike a balance, I just try to be fully present in the priority of that moment. Andile Khumalo, founder and CEO of KhumaloCo., Same principle.

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What entrepreneurs need to know about unconscious bias

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

It is vital for entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders to understand unconscious biases that may be present in their journey to growing their business or organization. Biases can affect every aspect of a person’s life, including education and career trajectory. Education is key. These are particularly evident in hiring practices.

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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Through years of production and education, the community has begun to reflect sustainable values by creating their own clothes through upcycling old materials. The COVID-19 pandemic has also presented unprecedented obstacles for Cinthya’s company. Advice for Network members. What’s in the future for Beleaf?

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Breaking boundaries together in Ecuador

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

EcX Labs develops deep-tech, low-cost solutions for a variety of products, including volcanic activity sensors, air and water filters, and even educational systems that can be used to improve social outcomes in Ecuador, Central and South America, and all over the world.

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Your board should protect you!

Berkonomics

Once again, there is a need to educate board members that in conflict of interest cases, the corporation comes first. The duty of care is the legal responsibility of each board member and cannot be shed because the member was elected to protect a particular class of shareholder.

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Ashna Mahepal to Young Entrepreneurs: Identify Your Source of Empowerment

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

As an independent woman with a go-getter attitude, she shared insights with us into her life as an entrepreneur and what it was like getting YHS off the ground, as well as her advice for other young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Origins of Young Help Suriname (YHS). You have to find balance.