Lisa Witter has always played to win. Since coming into the world "with a bang" after her mother went into labor at a demolition derby, she has focused on the intersection of politics and communications. Running for president on Showtime's American Candidate, writing The She-Spot: Why Women are the Market For Changing the World and How to Reach Them with Lisa Chen, becoming the head of Fenton Communications at age 25. These are just a few of her wins.
As Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical, she has married behavioral science with public policy and created a peer-based learning platform to teach public servants the skills to help society flourish. Bureaucrats are not just people, she tells Eric, they control forty percent of global GDP.
By the way, she's also released a webinar entitled How to Persuade Others Using Behavioural Science. Believe us: after listening to Lisa, you'll be running to sign up for this master class.
She and Eric sit down to talk about her colorful career and how brain games help her do her job. It'll both entertain and teach you (just like Seinfeld's wife's beet chocolate cake), but most importantly, this episode may just change the way you think about communications for social change.
Fatima Angeles of the Levi Strauss Foundation Challenges Foundations to Fund their Partners "Like We Want Them to Win"
Inside Philanthropy’s David Callahan Gets All Carrot-y Stick-y With It
Heather McGhee Talks About the Amazing Future that the Multiracial Governing Coalition Will Bring
Robert Pérez and the Genius of Upstairs, Downstairs
Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies Takes on the Trust Challenge
Chris DeCardy, the President of the Heinz Endowments, Convinces us that Pittsburgh is the Center of the Universe
A Marriage Made in Heaven! - Elena Chavez Quezada of Gov. Newsom’s Office and Don Howard of the Irvine Foundation Talk Partnerships
Oscar Nominee John Hoffman Tackles the Racial Wealth Gap with his Amazing Film, “The Barber of Little Rock”
Ed Begley, Jr. and Eric Go Way Back
Anat Shenker-Osorio – The Magical Message Whisperer of Progressive Causes
Don Chen of the Surdna Foundation Kicks off Season Six of Let’s Hear It
Holiday Re-Release - Shanelle Matthews of the Radical Communicators Network
Holiday re-release - the Great Jim Canales
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Alison Smart is Changing How We Talk About Climate Change
Larry Kramer’s Hewlett Foundation Exit Interview
Jen Carnig, the Brand-Spanking-New Head of Spitfire Strategies
Ashwath Narayanan is Proof That There’s Hope for the Future
Stacy Palmer of the Chronicle of Philanthropy Reflects on Thirty Five Years as a Watchdog and Cheerleader for the Field
Dena Kimball and David Brotherton on the Kendeda Fund’s Epic Journey
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