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A World of Difference

A World of Difference

著者： Lori Adams-Brown
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A World of Difference is a leadership podcast for executives and organizational leaders navigating change across cultures, industries, and continents. Hosted by Lori Adams-Brown, a strategic transformation executive with over 20 years of C-suite advisory experience, the show explores organizational effectiveness, executive development, and leadership development through real conversations with leaders who have built and led across borders. Each episode features leadership stories from places and travel destinations spanning six continents, bringing listeners cross-cultural communication insights drawn from lived experience, not theory. Lori's own background, including over 15 years as an expat in Indonesia and Singapore, shapes every conversation with a global mindset rarely found in mainstream leadership media. Topics covered include human intelligence in AI transformation and change management, global leadership and cultural intelligence, executive coaching and talent development, organizational behavior and behavioral science, C-suite advisory and board governance, workplace culture and employee engagement, human capital strategy, and international business leadership. Through leadership interviews across the world, listeners gain practical frameworks for leading through disruption, building trust across cultures, and aligning fast-moving technology adoption with the human systems that make it stick. With more than 300 episodes, 153,000+ downloads, and listeners in 100+ countries, A World of Difference ranks in the top 3% of podcasts globally. It is essential listening for world leaders, HR executives, CHROs, CPOs, organizational development leaders, management consultants, and anyone building or leading global teams across industries and across the globe.© 2023 Lori Adams-Brown アート 文学史・文学批評 旅行記・解説 社会科学 経済学
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  • Change Makers EPS 61: Allan Wind on the Andes, USAID and Peace Corps

    Change Makers EPS 61: Allan Wind on the Andes, USAID and Peace Corps
    2026/09/06
    Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), having worked off and on with the Agency primarily overseas on diplomatic assignments from 1990 to 2019 in the Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Africa and the Southern Africa Regional Missions. In these roles he provided oversight to U.S. government foreign aid development and humanitarian assistance and supported U.S. Ambassadors as their senior development officer on multiple U.S. Embassy Country Teams. In South Africa he helped establish the Southern Africa Regional Leadership Center as part of President Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative, and contributed to other youth development efforts and business incubators. He previously worked as the Global Programme Coordinator for the International Save the Children Alliance Secretariat and as a Country Director and Health Sector Coordinator for different nonprofit private voluntary organizations including CARE and PLAN International in a range of countries including Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom. Mr. Wind began his career as a Rural Public Health U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1980-1982, where he was widely known as “Doctor Alonzo.” The Alonzo nickname stuck throughout life in many countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He graduated from the University of Chicago. He is originally a New Yorker, and as a high schooler he was a “subway rat” attending the famous Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. There he studied creative writing for two years with his teacher, the famous Irish American writer Frank McCourt. He has always been an avid science fiction fan and sometime writer, and notes that writing science fiction and creative writing under Frank was invaluable for future U.S. government work. He and his wife currently reside in Fairfax County Virginia, while their adult daughter is in Africa on her own adventures. Mr. Wind serves on the Boards of Directors of different non-governmental organizations, including Hunger Relief International, supporting the efforts to help the neediest in Guatemala and Haiti, any way he can. His memoir is Andean Adventures Website: https://enableennoble.net ANDEAN ADVENTURES: https://tinyurl.com/AndeanAdv AVENTURAS ANDINAS: https://tinyurl.com/AventurasAndinas The A World of Difference Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Missio Alliance. Stay In Touch: Connect on Facebook and Instagram with thoughts, questions, and feedback. Rate, review and share this podcast with anyone that would love to listen. On Clubhouse . Find Us Online: on Instagram and on Facebook on Twitter at or Interested in one-on-one or group coaching on how to live a life that makes a difference? Check out: https://www.loriadamsbrown.com/coaching If you are facing some big decisions, here is advice . Mentioned in this episode: Do you want to go deeper? Join us in Difference Makers, a community where we watch and discuss exclusive content that truly makes a difference. Give us $5 a month (the price of a latte), and join in on the conversation with our host Lori and others who want to make a difference. We'd love to have you join us! Patreon Join Difference Makers Join us in our membership community for exclusive content for only $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/aworldofdifference. We go deeper with each guest, and it makes such a difference. Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 分
  • Why Your AI Transformation Is Failing (Hint: It's Not the Technology) with Shaara Roman

    Why Your AI Transformation Is Failing (Hint: It's Not the Technology) with Shaara Roman
    2026/09/02
    What if your AI transformation isn't stalling because of the technology, but because of the culture, trust, and leadership behaviors you've built (or failed to build) around it? Shaara Roman has spent years inside global enterprises watching AI initiatives launch with fanfare and quietly fall apart, not because the software failed, but because the people strategy was missing. In this episode: Why AI should be treated as a team member, not just a tool The six pillars of AI change management: strategy, org design, culture, workforce capability, motivation/metrics, and ethical guardrails Why most AI adoptions fail — and why the human side, not the tech, is the real bottleneck Surprising diagnostic findings: middle managers are consistently the least ready for AI adoption Three telltale signs an organization isn't ready for AI How Shaara's third culture kid upbringing across India, Nigeria, and England shaped her adaptive leadership approach Guest bio: Shaara Roman is the founder and CEO of the Silvering Group, where she advises CEOs and executive teams on leading through AI transformation. A former senior HR executive at Visa, Fannie Mae, and CGI, she is the author of The Conscious Workplace and creator of the SPARC AIQ Diagnostic. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Shaara's TCK journey across India, Nigeria, England 04:30 AI as a team member, not just a tool 08:00 Where leaders get AI adoption wrong 12:00 Why hiring systems aren't built for adaptive leadership 18:40 The six pillars of AI change management 26:40 Three signs an organization isn't ready for AI 32:50 Inside the SPARC AIQ Diagnostic 38:30 Where to find Shaara and her work Find Shaara Roman at: LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/shaara) | Website (silveringroup.com) Join us for an exclusive bonus episode with Shaara on Patreon. Subscribe, leave a review at https://www.aworldofdifferencepodcast.com/reviews/new/, and share this episode. Visit https://www.aworldofdifferencepodcast.com for more resources. Thinking about a life abroad? I use and recommend Expatsi to help navigate the move — https://www.expatsi.com/?ref=2kJ926HZ. As an affiliate, I may earn a small commission. Curious what your own leadership identity is built on? Take the VOICE assessment: https://www.bravaglobaladvisory.com/voice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 分
  • From Cameroon to Berkeley: Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne on Failing, Faith, and Finding Purpose in Silicon Valley

    From Cameroon to Berkeley: Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne on Failing, Faith, and Finding Purpose in Silicon Valley
    2026/08/26
    What does it actually take to walk into rooms where no one looks like you and not just survive them, but change them? Dr. Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne's story begins in Cameroon and leads all the way to the highest levels of Silicon Valley tech leadership, and the lessons she's learned along the way will change how you think about your own journey. Topics covered: Growing up in Cameroon, community, and the moment an aunt told her "girls don't go to the moon" Working full-time at minimum wage while carrying a 26-unit course load to graduate as valedictorian Failing her PhD prelim at UC Berkeley, imposter syndrome, and the mentor who told her "I believe in you" Becoming the first African-born woman to earn a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley Her PURPOSE framework and the biblical story of Esther behind her memoir's title Balancing rapid AI innovation with empathy, ethics, and inclusion of global voices in tech Guest bio: Dr. Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne is a global technology executive, product strategist, and award-winning author whose 15+ year career spans Meta, Amazon, Yahoo, Roku, McAfee, and Intel. Her memoir, For Such a Time as This, chronicles her journey from Cameroon to Silicon Valley leadership. Timestamps: 00:00 — Cold open 00:47 — Welcome and guest introduction 01:02 — Redefining success: growing up in Cameroon 04:46 — Coming to the US with $15,000 and a dream 10:11 — Barriers at UC Berkeley and imposter syndrome 15:38 — Failing the prelim, and the professor who changed everything 17:25 — Becoming the first African woman to earn this PhD 20:19 — The courage to write a memoir 21:41 — The story of Esther and "for such a time as this" 29:43 — AI, speed, and the ethics gap in Silicon Valley 39:26 — Where to find Marie-Ange and her book Join the exclusive bonus episode with Marie-Ange on Patreon. Find Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-ange-eyoum-tagne/ Book, For Such a Time as This: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDJDBGQG Website: https://www.forsuchatimebook.com/ Thinking about a life abroad? I use and recommend Expatsi to help navigate the move — https://www.expatsi.com/?ref=2kJ926HZ. As an affiliate, I may earn a small commission. Curious what Brava Global Advisory could do for your own leadership? Take the VOICE assessment to find your starting point: https://www.bravaglobaladvisory.com/voice Subscribe, leave a review at https://www.aworldofdifferencepodcast.com/reviews/new/, and share this episode. Visit https://www.aworldofdifferencepodcast.com for more resources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 分
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