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Listen to podcasts of inspiring lectures by leaders in the social change sector below!
For the last three years we have presented a stimulating series of lunchtime lectures in Vancouver. Each lecture featured a cutting-edge leader who uses creative thinking and courage to create positive change in the world. Explore the tactics, creativity, pitfalls, and challenges of what it takes to create change. In a potent mix of storytelling and skill sharing, these leaders reveal their personal struggles and the leadership lessons that have made all the difference. Come away with information, insights and inspiration to make change in your community and beyond.
Brought to you by Hollyhock and Simon Fraser University Centre for Dialogue.
Generously sponsored by Vancity. 
2010 LECTURE SERIES brought to you by Hollyhock and UBC Continuing Studies.
NICOLE RYCROFT 
Building a Conscientious Marketplace:
How Harry Potter Helped to Secure the World's Largest Conservation Agreement.
Nicole Rycroft is the Founder and Executive Director of Canopy and a recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship and a Canadian Environment Award Gold Medal. Named one of Canada's 50 Most Influential People in Graphic Communication for the past four years, she has also accepted numerous awards on behalf of Canopy including the Benny Award for Outstanding Corporate Campaigning. www.canopyplanet.org
Click here to listen to the October 2010 podcast.
LAUREN BACON & JASON MOGUS
Are You Web Ready? Key Learnings in Working Online for Change.
Lauren Bacon is a partner at Raised Eyebrow Web Studio. Lauren’s work can be seen amongst some of the premier websites in the non-profit, government, and progressive business communities. www.raisedeyebrow.com.
Jason Mogus is the CEO of Communicopia, a digital agency that helps local and global social change organizations become more open, collaborative, and citizen-driven by deeply embracing the web.
Click here to listen to the November 2010 podcast.
ROSS MCMILLAN
Reinventing Social Action: Is Collaborating with Opponents Selling Out or Smart Strategy? 
Ross McMillan is the President and CEO of Tides Canada. Ross was a principal architect of the Great Bear Rainforest project – one of the most significant conservation programs in North American history. Ross has extensive experience managing organizations and coalitions to achieve success in complex circumstances. www.tidescanada.org
2009 LECTURE SERIES brought to you by Hollyhock and UBC Continuing Studies.
David Van Seters is President and CEO of Spud!, the Vancouver based organic delivery service which has grown to be the largest in North America. David talks about the intersection of social entrepreneurship and sustainability and lessons from his work furthering food sustainability and conscious consumerism. www.spud.ca
Click here to listen to the September 2009 podcast.
Coro Strandberg
Leveraging Sustainability: Creating Tipping Points for Sustainability in the Marketplace 
Coro is the Principal of Strandberg Consulting, an associate with Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, and a member of UBC President’s Advisory Council - Sustainability External Advisory Board. Learn the vital role that leadership from boards, purchasers, human resource professionals, trade association executives and investors play in scaling up sustainable business in Canada and beyond. www.corostrandberg.com
Click here to listen to the October 2009 podcast.
Faye Wightman
Beyond Just Survival … It Is Still About Progress 
Faye Wightman is President and CEO of Vancouver Foundation, Canada’s largest community foundation. Faye will share lessons and insights on the type of leadership needed to ensure our non-profits and our communities not only survive this economic collapse, but continue to move forward. www.vancouverfoundation.bc.ca
Click here to listen to the October 2009 podcast.
Gabor Maté, M.D.
Healing the Hungry Ghost: Addiction, Suffering and Possibility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 
Gabor is a physician, counsellor, seminar leader and bestselling author. For over ten years Gabor has worked as staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and also at Insite, North America's only supervised injection facility. Moving far beyond traditional treatments, Gabor proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. www.drgabormate.com
Click here to listen to the November 2009 podcast.
2008 LECTURE SERIES brought to you by Hollyhock and UBC Continuing Studies.
Give Me Shelter- Bringing Homeless Voices Out Front 
David Eby is a lawyer with the Pivot Legal Society and will share the tactics and stories that have led both to victory and defeat in the struggle to protect low-income housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He is a regular contributor to the website MatthewGood.org and maintains his own blog at davideby.blogspot.com
Click here to listen to the September 2008 podcast.
Tzeporah Berman is Program Director and Co-Founder of Forest Ethics, and a leader in a number of key BC campaigns including the Great Bear Rainforest and Clayoquot Sound. Hear about the effective and revolutionary anti-brand that got a global giant, Limited Brands, owner of Victoria's Secret, to go green. www.forestethics.org
Click here to listen to the October 2008 podcast.
As the former CEO of Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada’s most popular outdoor gear retailer, and now as CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation, Peter Robinson has often played the role of uniting environmental perspectives with business, government and the public interests. Learn about what’s effective in getting business and government to take heed of environmental priorities. www.davidsuzuki.org
Click here to listen to the November 2008 podcast.
Building Power without Domination 
Judy Rebick is the Sam Grindin Chair for Social Justice & Democracy at Ryerson University. Judy will talk about new approaches to social and political change that build on the knowledge and practices of the women’s movement but are going well beyond it. Judy will share her insights and experience with power at a personal, social, and political level and how they can interact towards a politics of transformation.
Click here to listen to the December 2008 podcast.
