Sentences with phrase «of walking the talk»

It is a matter of us walking the talk.

In this episode of Walking the Talk, Domonic Rollins talks with McAfee, a longtime leader in community development and affordable housing, about how policymakers and education leaders can help dismantle these structural barriers — and about the mindset and determination needed to make it happen.

In the second episode of Walking the Talk, we explore obstacles on the road to college, and other issues affecting student equity, in a conversation with John Silvanus Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College and former executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a position to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama.

In the third episode of Walking the Talk, Anderson joins host Domonic Rollins for a conversation exploring the resources and supports that low - income, inner - city youth need to become the next startup CEO, award - winning videographer, or pro athlete.

This episode of Walking the Talk takes an honest look at equity work — at the difficulties and the possibilities of creating systems that uplift the most vulnerable

In the fourth episode of Walking the Talk, Crossley joins Domonic Rollins for a candid conversation about building trust and community with students and parents, while confronting the realities of power and race.

In the first episode of Walking the Talk, Rollins spoke with Madeline Lessing, a social work student at Wheelock College.

This and previous episodes of Walking the Talk, a series of live video conversations that challenge questions of diversity, inclusion, and identity as they are lived and expressed in the real world, are available here.

«When you can instill in [students] that they can achieve, while pushing them to their max,» Jackson explains to host Domonic Rollins in this episode of Walking the Talk, «then great things happen.»

We've chatted with him about green celebrity, the ins and outs of his own green TV show and the importance of walking the talk, but that's really just the tip of the iceberg.

Not exact matches

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

His favorite technical gadget, in a manner of speaking, is Jimmy, his walking and talking robot.

One of my core values is walking the talk, advocating for the communities that I represent.

Its cruelties include robbing patients of activities we often take for granted, like walking, eating, talking, and even breathing.

Currently a professor of entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Cornwall walks the talk.

Reporting on the event, the New York Times wrote, «The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence.»

Around 1999 and 2000, Lance was experimenting in his basement with this idea of creating a game with characters that would be able to walk around and talk to each other online.

«We're totally different on Staten Island, we have a different walk, a different talk,» LaCola tells CNBC of the often forgotten New York City borough, whose residents have a sometimes rough but scrappy reputation.

They're watching the behaviors of their leaders and have a keen sense of their leaders» integrity, and whether they «walk the talk.»

For example, he captured images of playing miniature golf with friends, walking up to a stage to deliver a TED talk, and paying his final respects at a funeral.

You can't walk up to these owners and start talking about the wonders of your product.

Since a lot of work happens over calls, the employees are often seen walk and talk across the fitness - friendly campus.

I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.

In other words, walking the talk is the name of the game.

Talks to draw up a new executive in Germany between the pro-business FDP (Free Democratic Party), Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU (Christian Democratic Union), its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Greens came to an end at the weekend, after the FDP decided to walk out for what it saw as a lack of compromise from other parties.

Walk through Home Care Assistance's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters and you'll find an energetic group of people, most of them in their 20s and 30s, talking social - media campaigns and brainstorming ways to improve the user experience.

Criticism of a thing, a piece of media, or something inanimate is OK if you know what you're talking about, but criticizing individuals opens a door that you don't want to walk through in social media.

As CEO of Grokker, an expert yoga, fitness and cooking video network, I see it as my duty to «walk the talk.»

Learn what the NBA life is about, learn how to move and walk and talk and things of that nature.»

«No, I'm talking about this week of Thanksgiving, where the buyers pay up and the sellers walk away,» the «Mad Money» host said.

Of course, millennials aren't logging off and tuning out when they walk into a store: «95 percent of this demographic are doing other things while shopping, including working, watching TV or talking to friends.&raquOf course, millennials aren't logging off and tuning out when they walk into a store: «95 percent of this demographic are doing other things while shopping, including working, watching TV or talking to friends.&raquof this demographic are doing other things while shopping, including working, watching TV or talking to friends.»

Author of «Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management Is Over, and Collaboration Is In,» Peter Shankman walks his talk.

Her August MTV Video Music Awards show appearance and precluding red carpet walk with adorable daughter Blue Ivy are still the talk of the town.

Picture this scenario: You walk up to the store and before you walk in, the clerk not only greets you by name, but asks about something the two of you talked about weeks ago.

So instead of talking the talk about how you want the best job ever, start walking the walk and working toward that sort of job (or your «dream lifestyle») yourself.

After 15 hours of talks that stretched through Sunday night and into Monday, Greece walked away from the emergency summit of Eurozone leaders with a «compromise» bailout package.

When International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland walked out of Canada - EU trade deal talks on October 21, it was more than mere political posturing.

It is clear that these wildly successful companies — some of which are regularly featured in Fortune magazine's annual «100 Best Companies to Work For» list for having high trust, high employee engagement, and low turnover — are guided by visionary leaders who walk the talk of servant leadership.

When working on a major reorganization of Emory University, BrightHouse enlisted Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon; he talked about how constant training can leach fear from the unknown.

Alex Alagappan, co-founder of Rimagine, a Toronto - based consulting company specializing in the Middle East and India, noticed how women use clothing as self - expression: «Since there is no differentiation or individuality in the outer clothing one wears, when women are amongst women, they are walking, talking fashion models.»

While brands like Oscar get high marks for expression, the best brands walk the talk by using their voice to deliver on their promise.Southwest Airlines does an excellent job of keeping the voice real and engaging across all channels, from flight attendants to social media.

What critics said: «It's easy to talk about what «Iron Man 2» doesn't do, but what it does do is so full of energy and genuine enthusiasm that it's hard to imagine anyone walking out unhappy.»

«You end up talking to people from different walks of life, different religions, different races.»

Encourage a culture of wellness and of senior management walking this talk.

Preserving Lenin in Red Square forever is a nice idea, but in the future we all know a leader full of sawdust is not as inspiring as a walking, talking and slightly despotic one.

There are a lot of people who want to walk the walk and talk the talk, but when you scratch underneath the surface, they are maybe doing one [of those things] and not even that much.

I'm a bit of an introvert and it always felt awkward walking up to a stranger and trying make small talk.

Not only has gardening positively, even profoundly, impacted the lives of employees who have participated in it, but it has encouraged employees to walk the talk at companies whose brand encompasses some aspect of wellness — thereby bolstering company morale and integrity.

In fact, a recent study of 9,000 employees conducted by MIT's Sloan School of Management proved that companies that «talk the talk» about meritocracy are the least likely to actually «walk the walk.»

Men and women who lead and work in businesses around Wyoming — of all ages and from every walk of life — talk about how much they enjoy the freedoms of our state.