Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - June 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our May edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Acceleration Summit, hosted at the Embassy of Ethiopia! This months covers features speakers: Alan Miller, Sharon Price John, Susan Cotton, Winston Chang, Georgette Boulegeris, Jane Oates, Theodoros Bizakis, & Samson Arega!
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our May edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Acceleration Summit, hosted at the Embassy of Ethiopia!
This months covers features speakers: Alan Miller, Sharon Price John, Susan Cotton, Winston Chang, Georgette Boulegeris, Jane Oates, Theodoros Bizakis, & Samson Arega!
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REFLECTIONS FROM "STORIES &<br />
HEART CONTINUED<br />
Sharon: We put this book together with a workbook inserted inside with lots of fun<br />
reflections on everything back to my childhood, but it's also a loose narrative of my<br />
business career through the trials and tribulations of being on Barbie at Mattel, being the<br />
head of the US toy division at Hasbro, and even some of the difficulties of the turnaround<br />
with Build-A-Bear and the retail apocalypse during Covid. I wrote this book during<br />
Covid because we signed the deal with Forbes right before it hit, and I stretched out the<br />
writing so I could reflect on that experience to find meaning in what we went through to<br />
get Build-A-Bear to an entirely new place during some of those difficult moments for<br />
everyone, particularly retail environments where 90% of our revenue stream was shut<br />
down because we closed down all of our stores across the globe in a 48 hour period in<br />
March of 2020. That takes a different kind of leadership team to maneuver, things like<br />
that.<br />
Looking back on it now, I think it was a remarkable experience and almost cathartic to<br />
capture that while it was going on, but the outcome has been humbling and amazing.<br />
We're on the bestsellers list in many categories, including business and mentoring, and<br />
I've been touched by some of the feedback and am so excited to have completed it and<br />
fought through it because it was not simple.<br />
"Stories & Heart" by<br />
Sharon Price John<br />
available now!<br />
Click the link below to learn more<br />
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