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Professor Frick is a health economist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (with joint appointments at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine). For 30 years, she has been at Johns Hopkins performing a variety of teaching, mentoring, research and administrative roles. In her spare time she loves to walk or run for exercise, cook, and write poetry which occasionally gets turned into song.

Check out our Q+A with Vina in our July blog feature, and be sure to read her full article in our July issue of En Root!

🌱 https://www.outgrowthtoday.org/post/small-moments-of-impact

Our lives and careers are designed in doses. Small habits, disciplined routines, and consistent steps forward, rather than large overhauls, are the patterns that lead us to achieving our goals. Building a business lives in the small moments of consistency, and not as much in the more visible wins that the general public gets to witness. Similarly, those moments that shape us, inspire us and propel us to change course aren’t typically housed in large-scale, often impossible-to-find experiences, but rather are woven into the fabric of what would be an otherwise ordinary day.

Read more in the July issue of En Root, released
today!

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https://tinyurl.com/5a9zs98y

I’ve always said that I am not an island, and neither is . From the very beginning, the work that I do has been supported by a wonderful community of people who believed, and still believe, in me. I owe so much to those special individuals who were the first ones to take a chance on me - from my first board members to my first clients and partners, to the ones who were cheering me on from the sidelines.

Ever since those beginning days, I’ve made it a part of my personal mission to support other rising female leaders, in the hope that I can give back and pay tribute to those who came before me. I know how much it can mean, as our featured writer Renee Whitby says, to get “tapped on the shoulder,” and my hope is that I can serve as a voice of encouragement and empowerment as others young leaders venture into the unknown.

This month, we bring focus to female leadership, and feature the incredible Renee Whitby who brings this topic to life. Renee is an all-star female leader, so who better to share her experience and wisdom on this topic?

This issue hit inboxes on June 1- check it out here!

➡️ https://shorturl.at/viBAE

Shanice Webb is all about helping individuals and organizations innovate, grow, and thrive in their work. Through principles of design, Shanice can guide you in tackling challenges, unlocking creativity, and achieving meaningful outcomes. Her mission is simple: to support you in reimaging what’s possible in your work—and take bold, purposeful action to bring it to life.

Read more about Shanice in this month’s blog Q+A!

➡️ https://www.outgrowthtoday.org/post/building-internal-safety

I’ve spent years building and evolving a company that centers around immersive experience, believing that we need to embrace the new and the unfamiliar to discover who we are at our core and to design our future state. Novel experience in this way becomes the catalyst for rapid growth.

Understanding different communities, learning about different ways of working and living, becoming familiar with the diverse perspectives and experiences that exist right outside of our own silos - these aren’t just opportunities to expand our professional skill sets, develop our worldview and boost our cognitive flexibility. These are chances for us to explore possibility within our own trajectories.

We need to be able to go beyond our traditional ways of thinking, to get off of the conveyor belt (as I call it), and question what could be. If we don’t have new frames of reference, how are we ever to make informed decisions about our futures? I’ve always advocated that we should be intentionally seeking and even charging toward new experiences that will enrich our lives. This is what gives us a revamped lens through which to see the world, and our path in it.

Read more on Building From the Inside Out in the May issue of En Root! ➡️ 🍃 https://shorturl.at/DfYqL

Danielle Staton is the Executive Director of Jeremiah Program’s Baltimore campus. She has spent her professional career dedicated to expanding equity and access to underserved communities in educational spaces.

Over the last 15 years, she has served in several capacities that align with the two-generation model of Jeremiah Program, including Head Start and early childhood education programming, family and community engagement, college access, and workforce development.

She most recently served as the founding Senior Director of Programs with iMentor Baltimore, leading the strategy and implementation of iMentor’s school-based programming in the organization’s newest region.

Our Q+A with the inspiring Danielle is in this month’s blog feature! ➡️ https://www.outgrowthtoday.org/post/how-community-transforms

This season of spring is all about emerging from hibernation and beginning to reconnect with the outside world in meaningful ways. As we get into full swing, I’ve designed our spring issues of En Root to cover topics that can ignite our curiosity and spark our purpose, as we re-awaken interests and connections that may have remained dormant during the winter months. Specifically, I focus on topics around community and reconnection.

In March, we covered the topic of Community-Led Futures, with the help of the inspiring Amalia Deloney. I discussed how, at our core, believes in fully committing to doing the work that impacts our world by starting at the ground level, where the most core stakeholders and the greatest champions for good reside. Now, taking this one step further, how can we as individual stakeholders begin to activate our own communities?

How can we, as Danielle Staton states, see community as a verb, where we are intentionally and actively showing up and extending support, regularly? I am thrilled to feature Danielle’s story this month, along with some great resources that can get us building and re-investing in our communities, all through small, manageable moments of connection.

🌱Read the April issue ⤵️

https://tinyurl.com/5xpktvfr