Katherine Brown, practice lead for investors industries, focuses on impact investing for the World Economic Forum. Known for its annual Davos conference, Katherine shares what it's like to work for the WEF, including her role influencing impact investing for communities around the world. She also shares her unpredictable path that led to her role at WEF, as well as why she loves her job -- and the impact it makes -- so much. 

Topics Discussed In Today’s Show:

• Advice for joining a mission-aligned organization.
• Katherine's work for the World Economic Forum and the Forum for Young Global Leaders: Learn more here.
• Her participation in the SOCAP conference.
• The 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony: Why dancing in the Opening Ceremony was one of the best things Katherine has ever been involved with.
• Katherine's book recommendation for finding balance: Check out Essentialism -- The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.
• The future of impact investing: Check out this inspiring video from the WEF website.
• Why we need more women in finance: Check out this article here.
• Learn more: Get more information about impact investing here.

Margot Kane from the Calvert Foundation joins us to discuss impact investing. If you are want to know more about an entirely new way of investing that allows you to invest money while improving communities around the world, join us as we discuss the work Margot is doing. You may be surprise to learn if you have a tax ID and twenty dollars, you too can become an impact investor today! We discuss what impact investing is, projections for growth in this tremedously exciting sector, examples of impact investments, and the potential within impact investing to transform some of our biggest social issues around the world. 

Topics discussed in today’s show:

• If you want to learn more about this field, don't be scared off by the Finance side. Margot Kane says “ Finance is not rocket science, it’s more fancy arithmetic”.
• “Women are basically going to be running all of this, so don’t be shy about jumping in with both feet if this is what excites you”
• “Impact investing is a mismatch, a multi-disciplinary practice, it encompasses everything” says Margot.
• Margot’s projects for communities and women investing in women.
• Learn more about impact investing at GIIN and  read here to for inspiration on why we need more women in finance.

With an abundant passion for technology, we're excited to introduce you to Jocelyn Goldfein, an angel investor and technology company adviser. With a resume that includes tenures as an engineering leader at VMware and engineering director at Facebook, Jocelyn is now using her experience and influence to help technology startups build teams and grow business. In our conversation with her, we discuss her career path, how to tackle the issue of a low percentage of women in tech jobs and her thoughts on how our world could change if that number doubles! We're sure that by the end of this episode you'll want to work for Jocelyn as much as we do!