Nan Mac Issac gave her daughter up for adoption in 1966. She was 16 at the time, her child born out of wedlock, and she picked her daughter’s new family out of a line up of photographs. Her book, “Healing the Hole in a Heart”, chronicles her nearly two-decade drive to reunite with her child through the emotional and social barriers of adoption.
Shabbir Karim is in the import/export business. While his career sounds like the stuff of after-midnight B movies, he brings to the table a wealth of understanding in the international marketplace, manufacturing, and cultural savvy.
Nate Kositsky is an activist. He’s a revolutionary. And he has branded some of the most notable products and companies on the airwaves in his years as a marketer. He’s called “The Experience” by those who know him, and today, we get to find out why. Marketing legend Nate Kositsky on Tuesday, Noon for October 31, 2006.
Mary Fine joins us to talk about her business as a headhunter for lawyers. She’s been holding the line as an HR specialist in the legal field and has a special bent for the ethical woes plaguing our working world.
Human resources, a department lauded in most organizations as cops on the block. What’s it like to work in the field? On today’s show, the delightful Linda Kroner joins us to talk about life as an HR professional, the sometimes fine line between employee and employer balance, and what it takes to succeed in the field.
On today’s show, Arnold Candray joins us to take on globalization and international trade. Candray’s years of military service have taken him around the world, giving him a distinct expertise in the military’s role in commercialization of developing markets to trade in a global economy.
Clay and Cindy Cooper join us to introduce us to their new company and website, Speakshop.com. They’ve been partnering Spanish language students with instructors in Guatemala through their site and walk us through the perils and pitfalls of new product development, start-ups, and being do-gooder in the era of globalization. All that on Tuesday, Noon for October 3, 2006.
With so much focus on the Middle East in the media today, it’s easy to minimize the political, geographical, social, and economic turmoil that’s happening right across our boarder to the south. How do we step up as good neighbors in the politically charged, economically driven hornet’s nest in Central and South America?
What is it about the “Echo Boomers” that we don’t understand? How do demands on time, work, education, and technology define this generation, and what are we doing to help? This week, Mark Alexander of University of Phoenix joins us to take on the next generation and the fantastic challenge this poses on institutions to step up and meet their needs.
Threats of terror and cultural bifurcation in our country call to question just how diverse a nation we really are. Are We The People really able to understand one another for our differences and move forward together, or are we embroiled in a demographic quagmire at home, work, and in the media?