Every third week a new podcast episode is released featuring Swiss leaders discussing what organizations and individuals can do to increase the number of people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives in leadership positions.
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Game On! is a limited podcast series celebrating the 40th anniversary of San Antonio Sports and exploring what makes our local sports scene tick. Hosts Mary Ullmann Japhet and Jenny Carnes spill insider stories with athletes, coaches, and those making the big decisions about the future of sport in San Antonio. It’s not just sports; it’s the heart and hustle of the business of sports. Jenny leads SA Sports as President & CEO, and Mary is an SA Sports board member and former SVP of communicati ...
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Game On! Henry Cisneros Episode 10 * August 12, 2024 * 37:54 Few people have been more involved in sports in San Antonio than Henry Cisneros. The former mayor of San Antonio joins Game On! to talk about the fight to bring the Alamodome to the 210 and the future of sports in the city. Listen now to hear what Henry thinks about the proposed downtown …
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Game On! Elena Wells & Wendy Brand Episode 9 * July 29, 2024 * 32:47 Excited about the Men’s Final Four coming to San Antonio in 2025? So are we! Hear the experiences and insight from the women who’ve run the game in years past. Between Jenny and guests Elena Wells and Wendy Brand, this episode has led the charge on four NCAA Final Fours. From Elen…
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Game On! Rose Monday & Alanah Yukich Episode 8 * July 16, 2024 * 41:12 Rose Monday, former Olympic coach, and Alanah Yukich, Paris 2024 Olympian, join Game On! to talk about their paths to the biggest stage in sports. Hear Alanah’s globetrotting trip to Olympic qualification that took her across three continents in just two weeks and Rose’s own uni…
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Game On! Jeff Traylor Episode 7 * June 24, 2024 * 36:21 Jeff Traylor, head football coach at UTSA, has found a home here in San Antonio. His Roadrunner team has won the 7th most games in all of college football this decade, and today he sits down with Jenny Carnes and Mary Ullmann Japhet on this episode of Game On! to talk about how he’s going to k…
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Game On! Andrea Williams Episode 6 * June 10, 2024 * 34:57 Andrea Williams, CXO of the Utah Jazz, talks about her trailblazing path as a woman in sports with Jenny Carnes and Mary Ullmann Japhet on this episode of Game On! From a dual sport athlete at Texas A&M to her journey through the sports industry, Andrea is full of stories, like how schleppi…
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Game On! Stacey Johnson Episode 5 * April 1, 2024 * 33:54 Olympic fencer and former SA Sports board member Stacey Johnson joins Game On! with Mary Ullmann Japhet and Jenny Carnes to talk about her trailblazing path to the Olympics, but with a twist. Stacey’s fight to get women’s sabre fencing in the 2004 Olympics couldn’t be stopped even when her l…
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Game On! Marc Klein Episode 4 * May 13, 2024 * 29:00 Listen in as Marc Klein, senior principal and event manager at Populous, sits down with Jenny and Mary to talk about what it takes to put on major events like the Super Bowl and the Final Four. The biggest games may feel like they’ve always been in their venues, but they take an army to put on, a…
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Game On! Bruce Bowen Episode 3 * April 29, 2024 * 31:35 Bruce Bowen, Spurs legend and beloved San Antonio icon, sits down with Jenny Carnes and Mary Ullmann Japhet on Game On! to talk everything San Antonio basketball. Discover Bruce’s thoughts on the future of Wemby, and as Bruce says, “He tall!”, his favorite memories with Coach Pop, and how his …
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Game On! Ross Davis Episode 2 * April 15, 2024 * 31:07 Jenny and Mary sit down with gold-medal winning Paralympian and long-time director of marketing at San Antonio Sports, Ross Davis, to talk about adaptive sport and how early nay-sayers haven’t stopped him from living a life full of activity and broken barriers. Ross takes you through his journe…
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Episode 1: George Block Game On! with Mary Ullmann Japhet and Jenny Carnes kicks off in the only way it could, with decorated former swim coach, vice president of USA swimming and a founder of San Antonio Sports, George Block. George talks about the beginnings of San Antonio Sports, where it’s all headed and everything in between. Uncover the emoti…
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#28 Simona, why do you challenge the notion of Availability equaling Results?
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with Simona Scarpaleggia In the last episode of the season, I talk with Simona Scarpaleggia, an international business leader, author, board member and former global CEO. It was under her leadership that IKEA Switzerland has achieved worldwide recognition for reaching gender equality, both overall and in management. In just 9 years, the company has…
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#27 Gilles, what does a committed father need? - Interview with Gilles Crettenand from Swiss national MenCare programme
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with Gilles Crettenand Note: The interview was recorded in French. Research has proven without a doubt that having an engaged, nurturing father can provide huge benefits for children’s physical, social and psychological well-being. But the cultural frameworks and systemic support for men to be able to fully embrace this role is largely missing in S…
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#26 Anne, is ensuring diversity in ads, the key to a double bottom line? - Interview with Anne Joffre from Procter & Gamble
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with Anne Joffre Bonnaillie Ads that portray women in a professional setting receive significantly less funding than those that portray them in traditional gender roles, found a 2022 research by CreativeX. Data like this show that while the portrayal of women on screen has changed over the last decades, the media and advertising industry still has …
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#25 Reto, why are fathers key for a family-friendly company culture? - Interview with Reto Kessler of Väternetzwerk Schweiz
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with Reto Kessler of Väternetzwerk Schweiz In a 2019 study by UNICEF, Switzerland ranked last in terms of family-friendly policies among 41 high- and medium-income countries. Balancing family life and work is considered a private matter, and the few existing structures of support are still aimed mainly at mothers. The challenges of working fathers …
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#24 Holacracy - the universal answer to the challenges of tomorrow´s working world - hype or myth?! - with Gerhard Andrey
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with Gerhard Andrey As an answer to rapidly changing business environments and employee expectations in the last two decades, new models of organizational structures have been emerging. One of these models is Holacracy, a decentralized approach to governing and operating organizations that is celebrated by its advocates for its agility, effectivene…
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#23 How do you start a DE&I initiative with no resources? - with Amira Ghozali & Bas van Buijtenen from Aptar Pharma Group
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Aptar is a global leader in designing and manufacturing consumer dispensing and drug delivery solutions, with 13 000 employees in 20 countries. In 2021, only four years after the launch of their diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, Forbes named Aptar one of the top 10 female-friendly companies in the world. How did Aptar set up such a succes…
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#22 Strategic Networking - Are you still talking - or are you networking already?! - with Marilen Schwald & Stefanie Fehr of womenmatter/s
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With Marilen Schwald & Stefanie Fehr There is a long line of research showing that women face greater barriers than men when it comes to finding professional opportunities through networking. We also know that women need different approaches than those long-established by men to successfully build and utilize their networks. womenmatter/s is a care…
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#21 Frau Sander, ist Diversity IMMER gut?
- mit Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander
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With Prof. Dr. Gudrun Sander Note: this interview is held in German Companies want to hire the best talent for their company and particularly for their specialist and managerial roles. Yet, the long-term demand for skilled workers in Switzerland and globally is rapidly increasing and the shortage of such talent is becoming more and more evident. Co…
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#20 What it means to actively drive the DE&I change - with Suat Demokan
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#19 Find your voice! How to empower confidence - with Lucy Antrobus
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Fleeing your home country, leaving everything behind, family, friends, careers and posessions is a traumatic event. Add to that the integration into a new and foreign country, and one can only imagine the toll such events can have on a refugee’s self-confidence.[AU1] Today I´m having a very passionate and incredibly inspiring talk with Lucy Antrobu…
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#18 The impact of diversity and inclusion on successful sustainable leadership - with Jürg Eggenberger
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With Jürg Eggenberger According to Harvard professor John P. Kotter, management stands for the perfect organization of processes, planning and controlling. Leadership, on the other hand, means inspiring and motivating employees with visions. Leadership thrives on creativity, innovation, meaningfulness and change. Sustainable leadership takes this e…
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#17 How to keep up as a woman in a traditionally male-dominated working field - with Corina Grünenfelder
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with CORINA GRÜNENFELDER Special thanks to EY in Switzerland for supporting this episode and advocating Diversity & Inclusion in Switzerland! In Switzerland only 6,5 %, of the MINT jobs (Mathematics, Information technology, Natural sciences and Technology) are held by women, while in Swiss universities they represent less than 20% of students. This…
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With Dario Cristiano This episode is brought to you in cooperation with Advance. Understanding that equality in the workplace starts at home, several companies offer parental leave programs for men that go beyond the current legal requirements of two weeks. Sadly though, such offers are often not used by men for fear of the professional consequence…
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#15 Giving Employees the Right to be Entrepreneurs
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With Christophe Barman If culture is key when it comes to having more diversity, then companies following new leadership models, such as Holacracy, should be inherently having more diversity. But is this true? And what does it look like to have a company culture so strongly based on values and trust? A company where there are no hierarchies and spr…
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#14 Leverage Recruiting for Culture Change
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With Georg Lange When recruiting for an open position finding suitable candidates can be challenging. At the same time, with every new hire, you have an opportunity to shape your company culture. So how can you go about this hiring process and ensure that you hire the best candidate? The person that has the expertise required, but also the cultural…
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#13 Reframing Diversity as an Opportunity
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With Hajar EL Haddaoui Notes In 2020, the share of foreigners working in the service industry in Switzerland was 14.5%, that is 1 in 7 employees. In that sense, the Swiss workforce is already quite diverse, but how does Switzerland react to those foreign workers? In this episode, Hajar EL Haddaoui talks not only about her challenges in entering the…
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#12 Equal Pay - From Childhood to Enforced Laws
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With Deborah Halter Notes By law, men and women are equal, unfortunately, statistics show, when it comes to salary this is not the case. There has been lots of talk about this, but where do we stand today? What has been done and what can we do? Deborah Halter walks us through the numbers for Switzerland and tells us about her experience working wit…
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#11 How to Change Company Culture in 6 Min
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With Matthias Mölleney Notes Reduced to a minimum, talking about Diversity and Inclusion means talking about company culture. But what can you do to create a company culture where trust is the basis of a good collaboration? How can you improve this culture when gaps are visible, and collaboration has become difficult? In this episode, Matthias Möll…
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#10 The Importance of Role Models for All Ages
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With Andrea Delannoy Notes As Marian Wright Edelman said, “You can’t be what you can’t see”. This quote demonstrates the importance of role models in creating our vision of what is possible. Andrea Delannoy has recognized this and has been engaged in making more role models visible to young women as well as children through her various ventures. Wi…
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#9 Using Artificial Intelligence to Measure Unconscious Bias
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with Annabella Bassler Internationally, males represent 82% of media coverage, whilst in Switzerland, this number is only slightly better with 75%. To address this discrepancy, Annabella Bassler, the CFO of Ringier AG, introduced Equal Voice in 2019. This initiative aims to increase female media coverage by using artificial intelligence. The tool a…
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#8 Summary - What if you could be your own role model?
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As this episode is the last of the first season, I decided to use the opportunity to not interview anyone, but rather reflect on where I started and what I have learned so far. So, this is a much more reflective and introspective episode, where I share my thoughts with you and summarize the various episodes so far.…
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#7 Amjad Saleem - Be the change you want to see in the world
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My conversation with Amjad Saleem, the Inclusion, Protection and Engagement Manager at the IFRC, the International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, revolves around leadership and integrity. His background in peace building & conflict transformation give him an interesting perspective and humility on leadership and inclusion, which …
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#6 Alkistis Petropaki - Promotion is the main issue
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The promotion of women in the workplace is currently the biggest issue for women's careers. In this 6th episode, Alkistis Petropaki, general manager of Advance, and I discuss this widely untouched area of diversity efforts: the promotion process. Advance is a non-profit association of Swiss based companies, which wants to see the share of women in …
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#5 Johanna Seeliger - Recruiting inclusively is easy
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Johanna Seeliger is the founder and CEO of Diversify, a company which works with start-up and established companies to make them more attractive to diverse talent. Do you believe that recruiting inclusively is hard? Think again... Johanna claims it is much easier and less costly than one might think. Listen to this new episode where, she will expla…
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#4 Atena Hensch - Everybody is a leader with regards to diversity
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Atena Hensch is a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) expert at Hensch Consulting, specializing in assessments of organizations in terms of where they stand in their diversity and inclusion efforts, but also in understanding their development and educational needs to better practice inclusive leadership. In this episode, Atena speaks with me about inclus…
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#3 Rodica Rosu Fridez - Investing in talent at mid-level management
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Rodica Rosu Fridez is the founder of InspirAction and the ambassador for The A Effect in Switzerland. What are women’s responsibilities and what are company’s responsibilities when it comes to engaging women to climb the corporate ladder? This is the discussion I have with Rodica. In this context, she also describes The A Effect (L’Effet A in Frenc…
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#2 Pirmin Meyer - The courage to have the difficult conversations
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Pirmin Meyer the co-founder of WE/MEN, a Swiss movement aiming at engaging men to become vocal about gender equality. In this episode, Pirmin talks openly about his experience, what the reactions were and how it impacts his life today. He also talks about WE/MEN, the movement he created as a reaction to what he observed.…
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#1 Rene Bujard - The importance of training in addressing diversity
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René is HR director at Galderma and is passionate about diversity. In this podcast episode I talk to him about what brought him to be engaged and about his experience as an HR leader driving change for more Diversity & Inclusion. Check-out the organization that René mentions in the podcast. Visions is a training and consulting organization in the U…
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#0 Introductory Episode - The Why, the What and the How
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Fish in the Boardroom is a bi-weekly podcast discussing Diversity in Swiss Leadership. In 20-30 Minute interviews with leaders throughout Switzerland discuss what can be done on an individual as well as on an organisational level to increase diversity in Leadership positions.
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