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Shruti Ramaswami is the Vice President of Strategic Relationships and Strategy at TechSoup. In her role, Shruti manages corporate relationships to help technology companies distribute and engage with the civil society sector. She also helps lead TechSoup’s overall strategy with a goal of supporting TechSoup’s sustainability while supporting the evolving needs of the sector and championing values of equity, inclusion, and diversity.   Shruti holds a Masters in International Business and Development Economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, with a focus on the role of the private sector in sustainable development. She currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two young sons. She is also a member of Chief, a network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders, with the hopes to cultivate and support more women in leadership positions. Support TechSoup and the digital transformation of civil society today!   #NPTech #NonprofitPodcast #Nonprofits #NPData TechSoup supports nonprofits, charities and libraries around the world by providing access to mission-critical technology solutions, resources that build professional skills, and opportunities to engage in community.@TechSoup

Cover-art of Because You Need To Know Céline is a global Engagement Influencer, and helps leaders and organizations succeed and grow by engaging their clients, partners and employees.Engagement is the active mobilization of many talents, to deliver value together. This requires new leadership methods, tools and behaviors.Thanks to a rich experience in the corporate world acquired over 3 continents in large and small organizations Céline has driven award-winning engagement innovations in business and industrial environments. Book page (publisher’s website): https://www.figure1publishing.com/book/dare-to-un-lead/Book page (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Lead-Relational-Leadership-Fragmented-ebook/dp/B09QBRYQ6H/ref=sr_1_2Book page (my website): https://weneedsocial.com/the-book #leadership #unleadership #DareToUnLead #WeNeedSocial

BYNTK Neil Wagner, Carolina Trigo, and Jorge Ricardo Calejo Carolina Trigo is passionate about what she does, she has been a project manager at DevScope since 2018. With a background in Hospitality and Digital Marketing, having worked in Spain and Mozambique, she is a proactive person and loves to make omelets without breaking any eggs. Avid for knowledge, she will be in a constant search for learning, she has a creative mind and is a people person and a problem solver. Last year, Carolina won the gold award “Young Project Manager of the Year 2021”, an initiative promoted by APOGEP (Portuguese Association) and IPMA Young Crew Portugal. Neil Wagner graduated with a B.Comm in 1976 and an MBA in Finance from Concordia University in 1978, and went to work at Bell Canada in Ottawa, where he quickly applied his financial and quantitative skills to write the first financial plan for the Computer Communications Group of Bell. After 2 years, Neil was recruited by an old professor from Concordia to teach Finance at the University of Calgary and considered doing a doctorate in Finance. Neil spent four years as a full-time faculty member at the university but realized that he did not have the passion to be an academic. As a believer in giving back to the community Neil is the Volunteer CIO for the Calgary Counseling Center, a not-for-profit counseling and educational institution, where he has guided the implementation and adoption of a highly sophisticated technological footprint designed to tightly support the organization’s business & research goals. Neil was a long-serving member of the Deans Advisory Committee for the Computing in Business program at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Jorge Ricardo Calejo is the Portals Team Manager at DevScope and has over 17 years of experience working with Microsoft Technologies, from .NET to SharePoint and Office365. He loves to design new solutions, leader of a great team, passionate for tech and problem solver. Father of twins is also Co-Founder and Evangelist of the Portuguese Community for Power Platform.

Amit Taneja serves as the inaugural senior vice president and chief inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) officer at Chautauqua Institution. He provides leadership on several institutional priorities to make Chautauqua more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible, including the creation of the IDEA strategic plan, training, policy issues and practice updates. Amit engages with the leadership of various Chautauqua community groups and all Chautauquans on IDEA related initiatives. He consults with Chautauqua Institution groups or individuals that want to create their own IDEA related goals that support the larger IDEA strategic plan. He is especially passionate about engaged dialogue and partners with several institutional offices and personnel to infused IDEA principles and practices in the work of the staff, board and community organizations. In his personal time, Amit enjoys gardening, flying kites, and making bow-ties, and he is a techno DJ with his own podcast. He put his bow-tie-making efforts on hold during the pandemic and made and donated more than 200 masks to essential workers, those working in health care facilities, and those at higher risk of COVID-19. He and his husband, Christopher live with their two feline overlords – Calvin and Hobbes.

John Antill is currently a Knowledge Manager at US Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce. With over 14 years of progressively responsible knowledge management experience in complex technical roles – both military and civilian – requiring exceptional project coordination, problem solving, and management skills, John has established a track record of success by leveraging a collaborative leadership style to accomplish all short- and long-range objectives. An engaging and articulate communicator, he is able to clearly convey complex technical information and propose novel solutions to build consensus with key project stakeholders, including high-value clients and executive leadership. Furthermore, his consistent focus on remaining at the forefront of rapidly evolving technology allows him to drive enterprise-wide innovation and maintain a competitive advantage. He is an accomplished international author, writing 58 articles on knowledge management. John has spoken at several conferences nationally and internationally.  John is on the Board of Minority Empowerment Through Technology which provides under-served college STEM students to get the technology they need to be successful in their course-ware and projects. John holds a Master of Science in Knowledge Management from Kent State University and a Master of Certified Knowledge Management from the KMInstitute. https://realkm.com/author/john-antill/

With over a decade in the KM field, Brett Patron is a Senior Knowledge Management Advisor for the Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer of US Army Training and Doctrine Command.  Previously, he was a Deployable KM Strategist with Joint Enabling Capabilities Command (JECC), based in Norfolk, Virginia.  With JECC he deployed on over 30 missions globally over 4 1/2 years, including twice to Afghanistan.  Brett served in the US Army for over 22 years (enlisted and officer) and then spent over a decade as a Senior Defense Analyst before joining JECC in 2017. Brett was born and raised in Queens, NY but now calls Yorktown, Virginia home. He is married, with two children. He presented KM topics to both KM World (2021) and the ISKO Singapore (2021).  He is also a subject matter contributor to the Association for Talent Development's "Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management: Keys to a Culture of Learning" publication (2020). He holds the KMI Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM).   He holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Excelsior College in NY and is a 2021 Masters of Science graduate from Columbia University of the City of New York, earning a degree in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS). His IKNS cohort developed new strategies for NASA's Apollo/Challenger/Columbia Lessons Learned Program. 

Kevin Moffatt, Co-Founder and CEO of Valencor, is a hands-on executive leader with over 20 years of experience leading multi-national teams providing innovative enterprise solutions and services in challenging operational environments. His focus on enabling and aligning high performing teams and evolving technical approaches has consistently delivered results across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including targeting, Counter-IED, strategy and assessment, national capacity building, ISR operations, and intelligence analysis, in support of US Government and Multi-National Coalition operations around the world. He spent over two years, cumulatively, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during this time, working directly with stakeholders to understand and meet critical operational needs with agile solutions—credited by senior commanders with saving lives and resources. As comfortable in the boardroom as he is in the field, Kevin led organic revenue growth of a new business portfolio in a small company to over $60M per year in seven years, which was instrumental in the company’s success. Following an acquisition by private equity in 2016 and subsequently by a large defense integrator in 2018, Kevin led successively larger business units in the C5ISR domain, ultimately managing a Profit & Loss center with over $600M in annual revenue, providing full lifecycle software development and engineering services to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Kevin has an MS in Management Information Systems from Bowie State University and a BS in Legal Studies from the US Air Force Academy, where he was a Distinguished Graduate. He previously served as a US Air Force intelligence officer.

Moya (Deacon) Radley serves as Manager of Technical Capability at IAG New Zealand and is an experienced data, information and knowledge management professional, with a track record of leading teams and delivering projects. She is passionate about developing people, and encourage a collaborative and safe culture to help team members become the best that they can be, which helps to enable the delivery of valuable outcomes for organizations. Moya started her career as a social anthropologist – and worked in that field for around 10 years in South Africa. She was particularly interested in African Philosophy, indigenous healing, and indigenous knowledge networks. After the closure of the Social Anthropology department at the university where she was teaching. Then Moya up-skilled into computers and completed an MCSD. Her career has included both knowledge and information management roles, especially understanding that knowledge management critically needs to support what we teach our people in the corporate environment. It is a key enabler for people to be setup for success in their roles. Moya has been fortunate to have had opportunities to grow in other domains too, such as business analysis, agile, data governance and learning design and change management. Moya stated, "These skills all work together and intersect to aid my passion for adding value to people and helping to set them up for success – no matter the role I am in."  

Kelly Barrett has worked for the IRS for 23 years, starting as a Data Entry Transcriber and worked his way up to a Human Resources Education and Knowledge Management Specialist.  Kelly has over 15 years of training project management experience with an expertise in eLearning course development and is a certified Instructional Designer (ISD) and Online Training Professional (COTP). In 2014 Kelly began researching MicroLearning Videos and how they can increase retention of training. With his Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcasting, he started a program called Self-Help Online Tutorials (SHOTs).  He has since grown the program to an enterprise-wide initiative with nearly 700 SHOTs videos for all 84,000+ IRS employees to view, anytime they need to.  Kelly designed these videos to be 3-minutes or less, which are narrated, and either demonstrate a specific process or action, or they provide information or overviews on a wide range of topics. Kelly recently won the Training Officer Consortium’s Innovation Award for his SHOTs program, and he also personally won the Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA) Pioneer Award for SHOTs. MicroLearning IRS SHOTS Kelly met his wife while working in Data Entry at the IRS and now has two children.  He also is the head volleyball coach for the local Jr High School and coaches his daughter’s Club Volleyball team.  Kelly and his wife enjoy cooking and even published their own cookbook with over 190 recipes and are currently working on their 2nd cookbook. https://www.govloop.com/author/kellyb94 12 Articles I wrote for GovLoop.  It’s basically a brain dump of my SHOTs program.

Dr. Cynthia “Cindy” J. Young is the Founder/CEO of CJ Young Consulting, LLC, a knowledge management consulting firm, as well as a curriculum developer and instructor with Leidos. About a decade ago, she retired as a Surface Warfare Officer after 23 years in the U.S. Navy which is where her love for knowledge management began. She holds professional certifications as a Project Management Professional, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and as an ASQ-Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence. Cindy is a past-Chair of ASQ Tidewater, Section 1128 in Virginia Beach as well as having held terms as the Vice Chair and Secretary. Her doctoral study, Knowledge Management and Innovation on Firm Performance of United States Ship Repair, provided her the opportunity to gain additional professional and academic expertise to facilitate improvements in organizational knowledge management.  In September 2020, she gave a TEDx Talk called “A Knowledge Mindset: What You Know Comes from Where You Sit." Pioneer Knowledge Systems has my permission to download and share on their site the following free Knowledge Management Short Guides as resources located at: https://www.cjyoungconsulting.com/kmshortguides/ as delineated below: A Short Guide Using Your Email to Improve Your Organizational Knowledge Management Practice (Without Being Obvious)A Short Guide to Help Organizational Leaders Have the Potentially Uncomfortable Conversations About Knowledge HoardingA Short Guide to Reusing Knowledge That In The End Buys You Time To Do More Important Things to Pay Those BillsA Short Guide to Managing Organizational KnowledgeA Short Guide to Starting a Knowledge Management Program in Support of Organizational Goals and Demonstrating Proof of ConceptA Short Guide for Identifying the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Needed for Knowledge Transfer in Support of Succession PlanningA Short Guide to Help Organizations Identify, Share, and Transfer Knowledge After Getting the Dreaded Two-Weeks Notice"