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Episode 5 - Professor Sukari Pinnock-Fitts

This week we spoke to Professor Sukari Pinnock-Fitts who is an Adjunct Professor in the Human Resources Masters Program for the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. She is a Coach Assessor for Georgetown’s Leadership Coaching Certificate Program. Believing strongly in an “action-oriented” approach, Pinnock-Fitts works with individuals and organizations to maximize human potential, cultivate talent and enhance group and individual performance. In the two decades spent as an Executive with a mid-sized nonprofit organization, she developed a unique understanding of the need for effectiveness, efficiency and commitment in both mission and profit-driven organizations. Pinnock-Fitts believes that in bringing about small shifts – in awareness, thinking, behavior, intention and action – significant change can emerge to help propel her clients forward. Her coaching style is characterized as “direct” and her coaching approach is designed to support the client’s a

The top 100 most inspiring people over 70 - #99 Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber is possibly the most successful English composer in modern musical theatre. I wouldn’t even attempt to list the series of awards he has won with such shows as Evita, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Family life Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, in full Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton was born in 1948 in South Kensington, London. Andrew comes from a musical family. His father, William, was an organist, composer and director of London College of Music. His mother, Jean, was a piano teacher and violinist; she ran a Kensington prep school where pupils later included Hugh Grant and Princes William and Harry. William and Jean married during World War II and both parents were clear music enthusiasts. They both worked, and it was Jean’s mother, Molly, who looked after the boys and ran the house. Andrew’s younger brother, Julian, is a British solo cellist and advocate for music education. He is now the principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. J

The top 100 most inspiring people over 70 - #100 Elizabeth Loftus

Elizabeth Loftus is an American cognitive psychologist. Best known for making psychological science more influential in the real world; she is responsible for changing how the police and courts deal with eyewitness testimonies. Currently, she works in the departments of Psychology and Social Behaviour, Criminology, Law and Society. She is also a colleague in the Centre for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Early life Loftus was born on 16th October 1944 in Los Angeles to parents, Rebecca and Sidney Fishman. She grew up in a Jewish family in Bel Air. Even though the family was not religious, she took a day off school every year for Yom Kippur. Her parents met in World War II; her father was a U.S. Army physician and her mother was a librarian. Both Loftus and her father were proficient in mathematics, “that was the one thing we had in common to talk about” , she states. As an adolescent, Loftus became interested in crime books and television. Loftus dealt with several tragedie

Episode 4 - Professor Moustapha Diouf

Moustapha Diouf started his inspiring journey as a militant Trotskyite from Senegal before moving to Paris to study Sociology. This is where his inspiring work began as he continued his career in academia producing groundbreaking research on the beauty of compromise, political diplomacy between African nations and the US culminating in his role today as Associate Professor at the University of Vermont inspiring students from all walks of life. Through his work at the University of Vermont, Moustapha is a dear friend of Bernie Sanders where he pushes a similar agenda of social pacificism and social equality. He cares so much about the improvement of our society and our politics and has shown this through his tenure as President of the Millennium Challenge Account, a £500m fund from the US to nations in Africa as well as being the special advisor to the ex-prime minister of Senegal Aminata Touré. Listen to our podcast on the audio player above or click on the logos a

Episode 3 - David Busse

This week we spoke to David Busse who taught us a little bit about the value of the community, how to get through adversity and getting through life with comedy to make everybody smile! David has enjoyed a successful career in sales within the engineering and food processing industry. He worked his way up the commercial ladder to Sales Director of a major international company and within a matter of years and progressed ultimately to set up his own business. Following the sale of his business he has combined his passion for the Jewish community, culminating with a successful sales career working for KLBD (KosherLondon Beth Din), promoting WorldWide Kosher certification on food ingredients and raw materials. He has been very blessed to have travelled the World and learnt from many different cultures. In addition as a skilled mimic he has been performing very successful comedy evenings within his communities recalling the famous radio shows of the 50s, 60s and 70s, a

Episode 2 - Joy Wolfe MBE

Listen to our podcast on the audio player below or click on the logos and discuss the episode with us on Twitter Benji Fisher and Benji Hyer or Facebook Up and down the country, communities have been coming together to help each other in our greatest time in need, this has been a refreshing sign of collective spirit. A few weeks ago, the Government appealed for 250,000 volunteers to support our National Health Service in the United Kingdom. They received 750,000 applications in a matter of days. Now, more than ever we are learning about the intrinsic value of local cooperation so we thought it would be nice to speak with Joy Wolfe MBE who has dedicated her life to serving her local community and the Jewish community. Born in 1938 and a fanatic Manchester City FC fan; Joy Wolfe MBE has played a part in over 25 different charity, community, educational and political organisations. She is an inspiring lady and can share a lot of lessons which I hope w