Episode 11: How can stories inspire inclusive change to shift mindsets and transform communities?
April 2024
Emily Obert, WMBA ’24, and Annie Maguire, MSW ’23, share stories developed at Sanger Leadership Center’s Story Lab. In this podcast, Emily and Annie speak about the challenge and importance of shifting mindsets, driving inclusive change and using storytelling to heal.
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Reflection Questions:
- What personal experiences do you have that can inspire people to take action towards inclusive change?
- Who in your life should be brought into your vision of a more inclusive and equitable future?
- How can you leverage storytelling to inspire and motivate others to take action around a shared vision?
Speaker Bio
Emily Obert
Weekend MBA Student, Ross School of Business
Emily Obert is in the weekend MBA program at the Ross School of Business and works as the experience design director of product equity, inclusion and accessibility at Ford Motor Company. Emily is passionate about sharing knowledge about disability inclusion and accessibility with her classmates with the belief that “all business leaders should have some familiarity with disability and accessibility.” She is also a member of a new student group at Ross: Business Leaders for Diverse Abilities.
Annie Maguire
MSW'23
Annie Maguire (MSW ’23) is a Social Worker with a strong desire to pursue peace and justice through community-based and relational change. Annie is originally from Madison, Wisconsin, where she grew up around the lakes, trees, and soft hills of the northern midwest. She has lived and traveled abroad, concentrating her social work in the sphere of advocacy for migrants and refugees, children, and the planet. Annie graduated from U-M after completing the MSW program with a concentration in global social work. She has been inspired by her social work education to pursue the intersection between eco-psychology and geo-psychiatry–fields that study the mental health impacts caused by global events like migration and climate change on humans living on this messy, complicated, beautiful planet we call
home.
Nick Viviano
Program Specialist, Sanger Leadership Center
Nick Viviano (he/him/his) is a program specialist at the Sanger Leadership Center at Michigan Ross. He oversees a variety of leadership development programs, including Story Lab and the Leadership Crisis Challenge.
