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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortez. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortez. Welcome back to

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the Working on Purpose Show. Thanks
for tuning again this week. I'm your

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host, Elise Cortez, joining you
from Dallas, Texas, which is home

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base for me. This program is
all about helping people more meaningfully and productively

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connect with their work and equipping organizations
do the same for their employees. I

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bring on guests with a particular perspective
or experience that I think expands the conversation

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about meaningful and productive work. And
I often drawn the meania work research I've

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been doing over the last fifteen years, as well as my own consulting variance,

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as well as the work that I
do it in the same name,

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which is a global management consulting company. I'll get to the program in just

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a secondment. Let me think.
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you can always catch it via recorded
podcast. We were on the air with

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Jeff Hayden, who is the author
of the motivation myth how high chieb has

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really set themselves up to When we
talked about what he's learned by interviewing famous

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people about how they navigate their lives
and manage themselves, their goals, and

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their motivation. If you are struggling
with how to create the life you want

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or can't seem to achieve the goals
you want in the time that you want

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them, this show is for you. With us this week is Keimo Kippen.

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He is an advocate for lifelong learning
and talent development and the president of

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Aloha Aloha Learning Advisors. He is
the former Chief Learning Officer and Vice President

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of Global Workforce Initiatives at Hilton,
where he was responsible for creating lifelong learning

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solutions for Hilton's hundreds of thousands of
employees worldwide. Chim Will also enjoyed a

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career at Marriott International for twenty one
years or he was responsible for the Center

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of Excellence for Learning, and that
before that he was at Renaissance Hotels and

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Resorts in North America. We'll be
talking in this episode about what he's learned

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over his extensive career about developing a
workforce, his perspective on the future of

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the work for such disruptions as artificial
intelligence and robotics, among other things.

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He joined It to Day from Washington, DC. Chimo, Aloha and welcome

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to Working on Purpose Alohas and thank
you so much. It's a pleasure to

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be here with you. It's really
wonderful to continue this conversation with you on

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air. Absolutely so we have just
a sure amount of time together and there's

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so much I want to extract from
you. So before we talk about what

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you're currently up to at Aloha Learning
Advisors, I think it would be kind

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of fun to start with what are
some of the best things you've experienced in

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your learning development career and why are
they important to you? Some of these

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things that really stand out for you. Yeah, when I reflect upon this,

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sire shape the opportunity to be able
to share what I would just call

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some of these stories of from my
background and experience, and so I would

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relate what are probably some of the
most formative things that have happened to me

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in my life. And I think
you know when I always start with every

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conversation with a lah and if you
were to, you know, take that

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word apart. The first syllable of
is a l o, which is al

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which means basically to give and ha
the end of the word of aloha.

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The second half of alaha would be
to give life. So if you think

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about the word of laha, what
it really means is to give life or

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to give energy, to give spirit. And you know, that's what I

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aspire to be doing and to be
part of in this connected world that we

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live in. And so I would
think some of the things that were really

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formative when I look back and reflect
upon, I could really go back to

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my childhood and I think, you
know, as as you continue to explore

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really this whole notion of purpose,
and when I think around the focus for

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me around particularly around purpose and why
I've chosen the journey I have in my

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life. And again I think we
all have many choices, and we make

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these choices ourselves. Is going back
to I think when I was six years

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old, and I can remember just
having a love for learning. Even at

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that time, I wanted to set
up a school. I set up a

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school in my backyard. I had, you know, I had groups and

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I had students. I set up
a library. I had books, and

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I had you know, I put
in every back of every book that I

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had, I put a little thing
where you would take out the slips so

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that you could you know, in
fact, you know, these are the

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days when libraries were very president but
I had a whole library. I had

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a bookstore. So again I was
at that early age, I was you

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know, you know, commercializing you
know, my school, and so I

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ran that. But I say that
in the spirit of even at that young

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age where I I was very interested, I think in in learning and helping

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people to learn, and I just
I enjoyed that. I think as I

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continue to again, I think being
from Hawaii has been very influential for me

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because I think when you grew up
on an island in the middle of the

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South Pacific. You know, when
you think about traveling and going, you

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know, even to an outer island, that was a big deal. So

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as a kid growing up, but
to go on a twenty minute flight to

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go visit my grandmother on the island
of Kawaii. Keep in mind, we've

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I'm three quarters Hawaiian, I've lived
in my family has been there for eight

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generations. But to go and visit, you know, my grandmother was a

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really big deal. And and then
my first trip to the mainland at the

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age of basically eleven and a half, almost twelve, I had pleaded with

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my parents to go to Disneyland for
years and just years I was like,

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let's go to Disneyland, let's go
to So my first trip to la and

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to Anaheim, I think was a
very influential and I think maybe that's where

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I also got this travel bug where
I think learning through experience and that kinesthetic

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style of learning and learning through travel
and learning through this coust cultural experiences are

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really I think influenced a big part
of who I am today. Where you

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know, I if I were to
share with you one of my aspirations in

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life, it would be to be
what I would call it a cow,

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which by the way, that's an
acronym for a citizen of the world.

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And I would aspire to be this
a better cow, which is always being

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curious and always wanting to learn,
you know, from others. So I

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have you know, been blessed in
my life through my life in work experiences

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to really take that to the end
degree by doing a great deal of work

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internationally living abroad. My dream was
actually to live in Rome, and that

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came to fruition where I actually was
able to move to Rome live in Rome

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my first year of marriage. I've
been married going on twenty seven years,

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but our first year of marriage was
in fact in living in Rome. What

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an amazing experience to be there in
you know, the eternal city Leachita Eternata

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as they say, just an amazing, amazing experience. And then you know,

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having the opportunity to move from there
to Monte Carlo and living in Monaco

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for the next seven years, again
just a great experience. So I continue

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to thrive off of you know,
these what I would call these global world

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experiences were you know, hopefully through
learning, we're making an impact and making

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the world a better place through learning, and so you know, last year,

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I did about one hundred and ninety
thousand miles and had a chance to

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travel extensively, you know, around
the world. This weekend, I had

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just gotten back from Casablanca, Morocco, and I spent a week there and

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it was, you know, just
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And every time I go to a
country or a place that I haven't

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been, and it can be you
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outside of in Virginia for example,
or where it can be a capital city

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around the world, I'm I just
kind of pinched myself and tell me it's

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true that here's this well, I
would say this little boy who's from Hawaii

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in the middle of the Pacific would
be able to have these types of life

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experiences, to really you know,
to be a student of the world and

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to have these wonderful experiences. I'm
also blessed because you know, I've I'm

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very fortunate to have my significant other, my better half and you know,

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my partner. Uh. And she's
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a completely different part of the world. She's you know, was you know

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from her families all from Poland.
Uh. She speaks eight languages fluently,

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you know, so being you know, connected to someone that really again sees

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the world from a different perspective.
I just so much. I value that

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incredibly so and I and I want
to be I want to have more of

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that, and I want to have
more of those types of experiences to learn,

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to learn from others. Oh my
gosh, Kimo, we have some

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wonderful things in common. I don't
obviously don't have a spouse, but I

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also grew up in a very small
town in Oregon, very similar kind of

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thing that you talked about, you
know that, feeling very isolated and definitely

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jumping out into the world. I
appreciate that. I want to have more

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of these big international experiences that you've
had. So I'm going to write in

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your coattails and I'm going to in
the meantime develop my experience and live likecariously

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through yours. Okay, do you
think you absolutely? But I would also

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add, I don't think you know
you miss you said isolated. I don't

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know if I would say I think
you know you love Also, you know,

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home is home, and I whether
it be Oregon, you know,

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there's such a there's something so unique
about having a sense of place and also

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such an important part of I think
one's I can say just from my experience

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about how important that is to one's
identity. So I you know, and

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again I think a lot of times
you don't make who you get the opportunity

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to experience that. You know,
it's like a true gastalt right until you

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have the opportunity to see it from
a different perspective than when you see that

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figure against in this case, whether
it be Hawaii or again, you get

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to see it against the frame of
another you know, it really helps,

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I think for you to appreciate and
value, you know, with that place

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that you call home. I respect
and appreciate that. And of course you

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know, I'm riveted on identity too, So I can really go down a

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rabbit trail there, but I will
because I want to stay on track O

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what I promise the listeners they would
get. So I want to ask you

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next if I can Chemo and you've
you've had a wonderful career and it continues

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to grow and develop, and who
knows where you're going to go next.

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What are just a few of the
key learnings are taking ways that you've had

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in terms of like lessons learned in
your space. Well, first of all,

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I wo just want to take my
hat off to you by just saying,

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you know, what your your life
work and what you're focusing around purpose

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resonates so much with me and the
work that I have been doing and I

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am doing and I hope to focus
on for the future. And that is,

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you know, really truly the work
around purpose, around purpose for self,

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and if I were to share you
know that little insight into what makes

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me tick when I think of purpose, you know what my purpose would be

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to know significant and unconditional love.
To say that again, my purpose would

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be to know significant and unconditional love. And I feel very fortunate to know

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that I have that in my relationship. Both my parents have passed, but

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having had that relationship with my parents
and now with my better half, my

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partner in life, I really and
you know, dear friends and family,

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I do really feel that sense of
great appreciation, uh for having that purpose

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to know significant and unconditional love.
I think because with that and having that

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that alignment, uh, and knowing
that it's unconditional, uh, and having

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that level of trust, UH,
there's just it's amazing the level of confidence

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and self confidence. That particularly it
gives to me just to know that I

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have that and that it's and that
and that I cherish it, I value

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it, I respect it. I
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it. Uh and you know,
and and that that has truly been you

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know, I would say a big
lesson learned and a gift in life.

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And I think the other part of
that is to really appreciate that life is

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very short. And while you know
our you know, our life expectancy is

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the good news. It's continuing to
expand and to grow, and at the

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same time, it's still when you
think about it, it's still very very,

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very short. So I do hope
that you know, my time here

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on earth is one that will make
this a better place, and that I

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too would be able to learn from
that experience. If I were to say

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a couple of other things that come
to mind, you know, particularly when

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I think about learnings, I would
I would just this whole notion of curiosity,

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being curious, being also humble,
being appreciative, being grateful, the

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appreciation for context, that I really
understanding that context is pretty much everything.

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And then when I think about you
can relate that to a personal level,

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or relate that to the business level. That how important to understanding context in

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any situation and both cultural geographical,
you know, all the different forms,

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different aspects that are working within the
sense of context. I think that's really

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important. And then that relates directly
to me around this the importance of culture

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and how the culture of an organization
is critical. And and then asking yourself,

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I think the question are you listening? Are you hearing what that culture

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or what that culture is saying to
you? So I try to keep that

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in mind, you know when whenever
I enter into a situation is to listen

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and to listen well. And then
I just think about the importance of you

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know, having a vision, a
sense of again linked to that purpose of

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with purpose. Then what is your
vision and where are you going? And

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then what is your mission and what
are the values that support that vision and

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mission and purpose? And then I
just think about the aspects of the importance

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of a team and leading that team
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and that team and that all leads
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results are very important, but it's
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place. Oh my gosh, that
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just want to acknowledge really quick,
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you just really do exude all of
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thousands of employees worldwide. Prior to
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International for twenty one years, where
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Excellence for Learning. I'm your host, Alice Cortez, so Kimwa. Before

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you've gotten from your career, and
it was just so nicely rendered. Where

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I want to go next is I
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little bit. So where would you
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exciting time I think to be in
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when I hear the word disruption,
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to be able to learn, to
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be flexible. How can we create
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innovation? You know, And and
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warp speed, and you know,
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in three months. So it's it's
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what of the what do I think
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turning around the next corner. But
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of these before, so I'm not
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don't want to beat a horse here, but you've heard many of these.

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that is, you know, is
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more interesting is really this whole notion
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task skills, opportunities, jobs for
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aging and and you know, you
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at the end of the day,
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the sort of paradoxes that we should
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a paradox. So I think while
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of purpose to be able to achieve
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organization's higher purpose and my case,
Chemo's higher purpose of to no significant and

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unconditional love. How did those tools
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world. And of course from a
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us learn, I think are really
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have it, we are able to
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very small, and so again I
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that it be it'd be relevant to
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form of the media of which I
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of those things matter matter significantly.
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micro bursts of learning that are taking
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want it all matter. And then
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that again very very personal, and
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attention span now is about for the
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than a goalfish, you know,
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then and again here's another paradox,
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is happening so quickly in our with
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we then drive for greater focus to
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then serve us in a way that
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life. And again that's these paradoxes
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enablers. You know, they are
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Instagram and Facebook for example, and
you know that we chat for you

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know, you pick, pick your
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necessarily being you know, actually generating
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really answering to a more or to
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looking at so many of these social
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everyone else's life and you're saying,
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other experiences so that you can have
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the life that you should be chasing
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that you should be chasing is one
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be tremendously different, you know,
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like I said, I've been married
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all you know, we're very much
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the way that she interfaces or experiences
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or how she wants to experience the
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or what she can appreciate can be
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I have to be I have to
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purpose, because it's just a matter
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and keeping that in balance and being
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You said so many amazing things in
that chemo that I could comment on.

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somewhere and when I was ridding up
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recognized your accomplishments in learning and you
clearly have got a fantastic command of it

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obviously over your years, but they
recognized you naming you Chief Learning Officer of

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the Year for twenty fifteen. No
surprise. But how did that honor come

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about? And what was the basis
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just I think, let me tell
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I'll start with the and then you
know, so I was very very honored

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to have received this award. And
truth be told, is the organization and

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or the individual you actually have to
apply for this honor with the CLO media.

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Uh And you know, so you
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I'm I'm informed that I have to
go to this event. And again you

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don't really know until the last last
minute. And so you know, when

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I got this recognition. By the
way, I almost missed the plane to

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get there, so that was a
whole nother story. But literally, I'm

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I'm getting there like minutes before the
banquet is to start, and you know,

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I get to get to the table
and the speakers are starting to speak,

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and you know, so you know, my name gets called and it's

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of course, I'm I was so
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have received this recognition. Uh.
And I had. There are a couple

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of colleagues that were there and they
they actually what they told me, and

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this is the part that I think
was so interesting. They said, you

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know, Chimo, we had actually
applied for you to receive this award two

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years earlier, and that was unbeknownst
to me. So I knew that we

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had applied in twenty fifteen for that
fifth for that recognition. What I didn't

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know is that my colleagues, my
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prior and I didn't get it.
And that's, of course totally all cool

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and fine. But the fact that
they, you know, they put my

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name forward two years earlier without me
even knowing, was probably the most significant

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part of this award. It wasn't
that recognition, that external recognition, which

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of course is very was important and
appreciated, but the fact that my team

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recognized me, you know, two
years wanted to recognize me two years earlier

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by submitting it, by submitting a
nomination, is what really made my day.

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So you know, so that's really
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But I think, really what this
recognition just you know, symbolize the represents

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as really you know, experiences in
leadership roles to demonstrate you know, ones,

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command capability, thought, leadership around
the space of learning, and you

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know what that means to the world, and uh, you know, and

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I'm so appreciative that there are organizations
like CLO Media or you know, there

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are many many organizations similar to this
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importance of learning, the craft of
learning, the skill of learning, the

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importance of how we develop people to
have those skills to learn, and how

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we you know, so in this
case that you know, the cobbler's kids

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actually have shoes, and that we
have to dedicate and spend time, you

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know, you know, actually learning
just doesn't happen. You know, it's

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a profession and it requires skills,
capability, competencies to be able to do

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that. And that's why I think
we have to you know, dedicate resources

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and it is a profession and therefore
to be recognized amongst one's peers for that

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is really, really was quite the
honor, well deserved, well deserved.

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And it strikes me, Keimo that
it's it's kind of an interesting time.

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It wasn't that long ago that you
won this award and now here you've finished

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your corporate career with with Hilton and
you're off with Aloha Learning Advisors. What

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are you doing? What are you
up to? Well, it's been you

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know, it's date so I concluded
my corporate role on the end of the

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of the end of seventeen, so
we're actually we're on date twenty two.

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So yeah, so it's very fresh, it's been very exciting, it's been

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very busy. It's been a whole
new day. I can say that I'm

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in a tremendous learning mode. Uh, you know, I would say very

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tactically. The biggest shifts were,
you know, I had to give up

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my corporate computer that I was on
Outlook, and then I had to shift

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to out You know, I'm now
shifting to Gmail, which already was on

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Gmail. But you know, living
and living in a Gmail world is has

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you know been you know, that's
been a learning curve for me. Shifting

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from an iPhone, I moved to
an Android. You know, all the

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tools that you know to help you, you know, manage and operate your

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business. That's been a course of
a huge learning curve, the technology piece

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of this. And then I had
to set up a business to set up

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you know, Aloha Learning Advisors and
setting up an LLLC and you know,

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so those are you know, that's
that's been important. Setting up a website

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and you know, so these are
the many, many things that have,

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you know that I've been taking on
and learning. At the same time,

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I've been you know, very much
involved in my craft or in that of

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it, advising and spending time you
know now, trying to how do I

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influence and advocate for lifelong learning,
the learning form, workforce development, for

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filling the skills gap, for apprenticeships, and how do I move that agenda.

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So it's been I've been focused on
my craft as well as if you

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will, setting up setting up the
entity or the business to be able to

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do that. And again, I'm
really in this time now and this I

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would call moving to a more modular
space you know now and as you know,

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as a whole learning advisors, it's
really wanting to be an advocate for

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all these things that we're talking about
and allowing me to have the time to

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choose and to pick what are those
things that I want to give attention to

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and to give light to so that
we can move that agenda. So I

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will. I've been you know,
my my mission to be able to go

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to Morocco last week was at the
invitation of USAID and the country of the

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Kingdom of Morocco has an unemployment uh
you know, a youth unemployment rate of

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twenty four percent, and so you
know, my that's rather high, and

448
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so my my desire to be there
to be part of that, and I

449
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got, you know, to be
on the ground there for a week to

450
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help them to do that was really
you know, quite an honor to be

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able to help to advocate for again
lifelong learning and what they've done, which

452
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is very exciting to see. This
is a five year initiative that USAID had

453
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has and they're in year three of
this, but it's really setting up these

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career centers around the country to help
people to pick up you know, what

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they refer to as SAW skills.
I refer to them as the non cognitive

456
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skills that are so important to to
success, which is around things like you

457
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know, reliability, dependability, trustworth, biness, showing up on time,

458
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you know, addressing and being able
to interpersonal skills, you know, these

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types of skills that are so important
life skills that are so important to be

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able to be successful so that they
can reduce the rate of youth unemployment.

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So that gives me a great sense
of I would say, uh, you

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know, fulfillment. To be able
to be part of this last week where

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you know, addressing such a huge
initiative around youth unemployment, and you can

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and I say the same for you
know, what we experience here in the

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United States. And you know,
one of the things I've been very focused

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on in the recent past is around
again lifelong learning. I don't know if

467
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you know the statistic, but seventeen
percent of the US population does not have

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a high school degree or its equivalent. Uh, And that's very concerning for

469
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me. So I really want to
again be an advocate for how do we

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give light and energy to you know, helping people to gather and to garner

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these skills for lifelong learning, like
their geed or their equivalent or their high

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school degree and or apprenticeships. So
those are the types of things that you'll

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see being more focused on, and
I'll speak to that and become an advocate

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for it. This whole notion of
skills gapped within the US and that are

475
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.119
startling statistic is that there's five million
jobs that are open in the US right

476
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now, and the truth is we
don't have the skills or the talent to

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fill those skills. So it's a
big deal, and it's such a big

478
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deal that we need to address this, you know, from a policy perspective,

479
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we need to and I'm very interested
in that. We need to address

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this from a work perceptive, from
a business perspective, from colleges, universities,

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not for profit organizations. We need
to address this from all fronts,

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at the community level to the unit
of one for how we're going to help

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people to garner and to gather the
skills that are going to set them up

484
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for success in the future. And
another quick styling statist, we're going to

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have to go and break it really
quick. Sorry, I don't I hate

486
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to interrupt to you, but I
want to get more of that hold that

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thought. And I've got an idea
for you to connect to with somebody else

488
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as well. Okay, I'm Elise
Cortez, your host. We were on

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the air with Keimo Kippen, who
was an advocate for lifelong learning and talent

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development and president of a low Hot
Learning Advisors. He is the former Chief

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Learning Officer and Vice President of Global
Workforce Initiatives at Hilton, where he was

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responsible for creating lifelong learning solutions for
Hilton's hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide.

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He joined the Day from Washington,
DC. After the break, we'll let

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him finish what he's up to and
then learn more about workforce transits that are

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going to affect us. All stay
with us, We'll be right back.

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and development catalyst. She designs and delivers

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She will help ignite meaningful development within
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Thanks for staying weppus and welcome back
to Working on purpose if you're just

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tuning in. My guest is Chimo
Kippen, who is an advocate for lifelong

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learning and talent development and president of
a low Hot Learning Advisors. He is

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the former Chief Learning Officer and Vice
President of Global Workforce Initiatives at Hilton,

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where he was responsible for creating lifelong
learning solutions for Hilton's hundreds of thousands of

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employees worldwide. Prior to joining Hilton, Chemo work for Marriott International for twenty

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one years, where he was last
responsible for the Center of Excellence for Learning.

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I'm your host, Alice Cortez.
So just before the break, I

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had to cutch a short there Chemo, and I wanted to hear what else,

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if there is anything else you wanted
to presence for us listeners about what

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you're up to at Alohall Learning Advisors. I I'm totally thrilled. I'd love

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to help you anyway that I can. I love your mission, it's fantastic.

519
00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:42.559
Thank you so much. No,
as I said, it's an advocate

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for all of these things. And
so I'm I'm now, you know,

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really being trying to give thought to
being very intentional, to stay strategic,

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to be able to you know set
this year, you know, as we

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kick off the year to really you
know and looking to the future, sure

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of how I am able to achieve
that to really to you know, and

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this is right, I think I
have to say, I have to be

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careful for myself. Is I want
to be the most impactful or to be

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the most strategic in this space.
So I think that just the matters of

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being intentional, staying focus, and
being strategic about it, that sounds really

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really really exciting, very alluring.
I'm just thrilled for all the impact that

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I know you're going to have,
Chemo. It's fantastic. Well, for

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this last little bit of time we
have together, I want to talk about

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some some workforce trends that I think
really make a difference to how people both

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experience work and what companies need to
do to be able to respond and help

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develop and support their employees. And
you alluded to the idea of artificial intelligence

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before. I'm very intrigued with that
that in robotics. I'm intrigued with how

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it's impacting how workforces try to respond
to that, adapt to it, et

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cetera. So you mentioned organizations supporting
their employees before, what do you think

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companies need to do to prepare their
workforces to really adapt and work with artificial

539
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:12.599
intelligence robotics to kind of marry those
worlds together a little bit, if you

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00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.440
will. Yeah, I think let's
it goes back to what I think.

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It goes back again to what we
talked about earlier. I think first of

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all, it starts with purpose.
So what is the purpose of the organization?

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Where are they going? And however? You know, I think so,

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I think it starts with really the
customer. So I think the question

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really then becomes is what's important to
the customer? And that can also you

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know, whether it be customer or
a product. And then what are you

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how are you enabling that or how
are you making that? You know,

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come to fruition. So and then
how do these tools like AI or robotics

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or VR or augmented reality, How
does that give how does that enable again,

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what your purpose is? So I
say that a little bit with intention

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because I've made then this is probably
one of the biggest learnings I had in

552
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my career. Don't be enamored by
the shiny toy, you know, so

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it can be so easy, and
it particularly from a learning perspective, It's

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like you could be so enamored with
a new form of technology or a new

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toy, but you know, unless
that new toy is actually solving a business

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problem, you know, why are
you doing it? So And this is

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the learning I had in the past
where I had this wonderful shiny toy that

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I was you know, enamored with, and yet I didn't have a problem

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that it was trying to solve.
So you know, I therefore no one

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needed that, right So, and
I had spent a lot of time and

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money to to talk about that,
that that shiny toy. So so I

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want to say that you know,
again it has to be intentional. But

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I think what you just which you
look at the way that you know,

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the way things are moving, and
how AI is playing into that space,

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and how robotics if you just look
at the shift that that's taking places,

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is really moving from again from the
in essence the doing of it. And

567
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then let you use, I use
the guiding principle that anything that is scalable

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or repeatable, you know, that
could be a candidate for that would be

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something that we would either want to
outsource or look to how we can use

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AI or technology to enable it.
But when it comes to critical thinking and

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it comes to making decisions where it
involves you know, eye to eye or

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ear to ear, a mind to
mind, that's where I think, you

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know, again that the human cognition
comes into play. That that's really an

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important part of really what I think
we will see retained from a business perspective,

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but I think we need to be
prepared for how we set up a

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world, you know, a world
that works from you know, by you

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know, with all of these enabling
tools you know, artificial intelligence and that

578
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again that are enabling that experience for
again improving what will then be I think

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the human condition, which I think
will lead to having better connections, more

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meaningful connections, and allow us to
do again, if done well, to

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serve our higher purpose again being at
the organizational level or at the individual level.

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That was very helpful and along those
lines, I mean, that's certainly

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we truly can't go a date without
hearing about artificial intelligence and robotics. But

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you're certainly in a unique position to
Chemo to help us presence and understand about

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other important workforce trends that you think
will really shape the way that we as

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people do our work and how we
need to continue to learn and prepare to

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live and be effective in that new
space. Can you talk about maybe a

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couple that you think are particularly important. Yeah, I think we kind of

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touched about them before when when I
would just say this whole notion of what

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we're just noticing, particularly when within
the context of the United States and of

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course in other countries as well.
But you know, this, this this

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this skills gap issue is huge.
So who then becomes who has the responsibility

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to to fill that? And with
like I said, with all the disruption

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that's taking place, I think it's
again I think it requires you know,

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from a policy perspective, it requires
it from an academic university college level.

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I think then it's responsibility of the
not for profit space as well as from

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from the for profit space and the
employers. The need to come together to

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be able to prepare, prepare talent
to take on these these you know,

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work work in the workforce for the
future. And then of course I think

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you just have to look at the
you know that you're dationalists and the matures

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and the boomers that are are going
to be looking to step out. I

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think within the context of the United
States. It's very interesting. You know,

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our economy has been doing quite well, will you know, will people

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be looking to you know, move
out of the of of move out of

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their careers, to actually retire,
to do other to do other types of

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work. And then who are those
that are going to be you know,

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moving into those into those positions,
into those into those places. Again,

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what are we doing to prepare that? And of course you know you've heard

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the whole now we have five generations
in the workforce. And how is that

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impacting, you know, the way
in which organizations, you know, prepare

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themselves for the future. What I
do know is that it's tough. And

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what I do know is that organizations
are struggling to you know, to attract

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great talent, to then develop great
talent, and then ultimately to retain talent.

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And what I'm so energized by is
this again linking back to purpose.

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I'm so energized by the fact that
that question of why is being asked far

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more often now, like why am
I doing this? Why is it important?

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And I find that very refreshing.
And then this whole thing that's been

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occurring just most recently, the me
too, I've been you know that you

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know, I greatly empathize with people
that have been impacted by that, But

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yet I am very energized by what
this means again to the workforce, what

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this will mean to women in the
workforce, what this will mean to minorities

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in the workforce. Again, this
just adds to the importance of us as

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individuals to be able, for us
to learn better, faster, and to

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contin teen you to stay relevant at
all times. So much great stuff and

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all that chemo. I'm just glad
that I can you can present so much

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information in a short amount of time, and we've only got a little bit

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of time left on the show,
and so I think I'll give you the

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choice or had two other questions I
wanted to ask you with regard to how

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organizations can position themselves to better attract
employees in the face of these trends is

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one, and if you feel like
you've already addressed that, then the other

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thing I wanted to hear about was
maybe one or two initiatives that that you

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were part of or spearheaded in your
long learning and development career that you're really

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proud of it really made an impact, which I would just finishing let's focus

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a little ladder and I'll do this. I'll be quick. Is that what

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I think as I look back,
you know, in terms of this this

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corporate role that I took place,
I'm just I am, you know,

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thrilled to be parts of organizations that
truly value and they recognize that the importance

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of having a great brand. You
know that a great brand is tested every

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day, you know, through you
know, through through how its product or

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services delivered. And so you know, I think of a brand as a

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story that's continually being told, and
the way it gets told is through the

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people that either deliver that product or
service, and that I was given the

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opportunity to lead great teams of people
that you know, where we created a

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great learning organization, and so I
you know, I look back very fondly

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within the Hilton context for example,
of being able to help, you know,

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be part of this transformation of our
organization and the transformation of the learning

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organization and us setting up a corporate
you know, a corporate university, and

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that the brand considered it to be
so important that you know, we we

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dedicated so much energy and resources and
I had so much support to be able

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to do that from the most senior
levels in the organization and where I just

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think where the key thing here for
success really was around executive sponsorship. And

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I was very blessed by having great
executive sponsors that really saw the value of

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learning, and we were able to
demonstrate that learning, demonstrate the value of

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learning through the group for the results
that we have that help move the business,

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that help move the brand to become
the brand that it is today.

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Oh my gosh, Kimo, what
a fantastic way to finish, and we

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are unfortunately out of time, but
it has been so wonderful to have you

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with me and our listeners. Thank
you so much for joining us today.

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Absolutely my pleasure and I wish you
all the very best for the future into

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your listeners, you know, really
focusing on having a very purpose driven life.

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If you want to learn more about
this amazing man, Chimo Kippen,

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or get involved in any of his
initiatives, help him out here at at

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his new business, you can contact
him via email. It's Chimo Kippen at

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gmail dot com. So that's Kimo
ki Ppe n at gmail dot com.

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Next week we'll be on the air
with Cash Kah of the Kah consulting group

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and talking about his newly released book
called Leader Types. We'll be talking about

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what his eight leader types are and
how they contribute a unique perspective on strategic

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planning and moving people into action.
See you then, and remember that work

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is at least one third of our
lives, So let's work on purpose.

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We hope you've enjoyed this week's program. Be sure to tune into Working on

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Purpose featuring your host, Elise Cortez, every Wednesday at six pm Eastern Time

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prepm Pacific Time on the Voice America
Empowerment Channel. This week, find your

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life's purpose at work.