Sonja Kristiansen’s love story with the hair salon Blo began in her hometown of Vancouver. No one else could tame her thick Scandinavian mane. In 2012, the 20something (aka, “Blonde, James Blonde”), put down the puck at her marketing position with…more
Futurist and author Derek Woodgate is the CEO of The Futures Lab, a futures-based consultancy based in Atlanta, with six satellite offices around the world. The firm specializes in creating future potential for major corporations and institutions, especially…more
From modern classics to items that are great for gifting, BeGood Clothing on Union Street in San Francisco will have you responsibly dressed from beanie to socks. Every item purchased donates back, which is still a somewhat novel concept in the world of…more
Educator Charles Best came up with a very big idea one day back in 1999 while eating lunch with his fellow high-school teachers in the Bronx. “My colleagues and I were talking about books that we wanted the students to read, field trips we wanted to take…more
Matthew Porter of Communication Arts Magazine has called Robert Meganck “a delightfully fuzzy-headed raconteur.” Style Weekly named him one of Richmond’s top 25 most influential artists in September 2007. And those are just a few of the accolades that…more
Back in 1997, Taqueria el Poblano founder and chef Glen Adams landed in DC, his latest stop in a career that led him through the States and Europe. By 1999 the California native was eager to showcase the food he grew up with in LA. From the taco trucks of his…more
Dale Marie Pfeifer was the Program Director at the 2013 Professional BusinessWomen of California Conference. An innovator and entrepreneur, Dale designs, launches and run programs and networks. She have worked extensively with foundations and non-profits in…more
Nick Jankel is the founder of the cutting-edge futures firm, WeCreate Worldwide: www.wecreateworldwide.com. Focused on designing, building, and supporting ethical, social, and sustainable projects at the vital intersection between creativity, compassion, and…more
Mansour Javidan, Garvin Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird University, is former dean of Research at Thunderbird School of Global Management. This multiple award-winning executive educator and…more
Sharon Meers, head of Sales & Business Development at X.commerce, a division of eBay, leads business development for X.commerce, the open commerce platform division of eBay, helping merchants grow with better technology. Prior to joining X.commerce, Meers…more
Joanna Strober is the managing director of Private Equity of Sterling Stamos, a private investment management firm that invests globally using an endowment approach to asset allocation. Strober has spent more than 20 years making direct investments in private…more
Founder and CEO of Inspired HR, and a Lean In Circle Champion, Debby Carreau has been helping teams deliver superior business results by making strategic decisions about human capital for more than two decades. In any industry you can’t beat real-world…more
Are You Ready to Super-Size Your Small Business? The Inkandescent Group’s founder Hope Katz Gibbs moderated a panel on entrepreneurship, featuring InkandescentSpeakers.com Kristine Carlson, co-founder of the Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff series, and…more
Joel Goodman is an Emmy-winning composer who has written music for more than 100 films. His work has appeared at every major film festival in the world and collaborated with an impressive array of distinguished directors and producers including Wong Kar-wei,…more
Author Kristine Carlson is a nationally known spokesperson on women’s issues, and the co-founder of the “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” series with her late husband Richard Carlson. Her most recent books include “Don’t Sweat the…more
Dubbed the “queen of putting people’s lives in order” by USA Today, Julie Morgenstern is a New York Times bestselling author who has published numerous books that are reference guides featuring techniques and observations culled from her 20 years of…more
American illustrator and painter Sterling Clinton Hundley made his debut as a fine artist in 2009 with a solo art show, entitled “Emergent,” held at the Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond, VA. It featured 104 new works of art. A 1998 graduate of Virginia…more
Hello! This is Hope Gibbs, your host for the Inkandescent Entrepreneur Show. We are thrilled to be here to today with marketing master, author, and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki. We first met Guy at the Empowered Women’s conference in Miami soon after he…more
Banana Republic founders Mel and Patricia Ziegler insist that living life on the wild side is the only way to fly. Five years after opening their exotic retail company, they’d sold it to The Gap, had opened 101 stores, and were doing $250 million in…more
Restaurants that Shine: Castagnola’s Seafood & Chophouse Since 1916 This restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf is a seafood and chophouse that Thomas Castagnola opened in 1916 soon after he created the Dungeness Crab Cocktail for the San Francisco…more
Buddy Teaster is changing the world—one pair of shoes at time. As the CEO of Soles4Souls.org, Teaster runs the Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you. The charity distributes…more
The Inkandescent Radio Network is proud to have been invited to cover the Conscious Capitalism Conference 2013 in San Francisco, April 5-6. We interviewed the leaders of the Conscious Capitalism movement, headed by chairman Raj Sisodia—a marketing professor…more
Jeff Klein is the CEO of Working for Good, a conscious marketing-and-business-development company based just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County. He’s also the author of “Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living,” and its…more
Roy Spence is chairman and CEO of GSD&M Idea City, a national marketing communications and advertising agency. Under Spence’s leadership and its Purpose-Based Branding™ philosophy, the agency has helped some of the world’s most successful brands…more
Tara Sheahan is rocking the world one soul at a time. It won’t take long, she believes, before everyone is a little more conscious. That’s the mission of her organization, Conscious Global Leadership, which is igniting global social harmony by…more
Laura Roberts wants to change the way the we play with the chemicals that pervade our lives. The CEO of Pantheon Enterprises, Inc., may just change the world. “Sustain better life,” is the mantra by which this avid environmentalist and elementary…more
Steve Leveen is the CEO of Levenger, which since 1987 has designed and sold high-end products geared toward reading, writing, and working with ideas. Founded in Boston with his wife, Lori Granger Leveen (pictured together, at right), Levenger started doing…more
Carrie Freeman Parsons is the vice chair for Freeman, a world-class provider of integrated services for face-to-face (F2F) marketing. Based in the company’s Dallas headquarters, Carrie has held various positions across the enterprise that her…more
Jay Coen Gilbert is the co-founder of B-Labs, a nonprofit based outside of Philadelphia that envisions a new sector of the economy, harnessing the power of private enterprise to create public benefit. It promotes legislation allowing companies to formally…more
Teju Ravilochan is unreasonable. “I want to live in a world where every human being can be the master of their own fate, unbound by the chains of poverty, oppression, or injustice,” says the CEO and co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute.…more
