Today on Move The Needle, Rob speaks with Steven Apkon and Marcina Hale. They are the founders of Reconsider, and on they're on the cutting edge of transforming how we think about mental health in America.

Stephen Apkon is an award-winning filmmaker, and social entrepreneur. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY. Stephen is the Director and Producer of Disturbing the Peace. He is also an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi, Planetary, Backyard Wilderness and a Producer of I’m Carolyn Parker, Enlistment Days, and Presenting Princess Shaw. He has also directed Stories of Transformation, which is a series of short films documenting the healing potential of psychedelic medicines.

He is the author of The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux – foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Stephen lives in the Hudson Valley with his partner Marcina, their dog Osa, and the flora, fauna and fungi they share this corner of the planet with.

Marcina Hale LMFT grew up in Ashtabula Ohio, an adventurous tomboy who loved to climb trees, bike, swim, play sports and ponder life. She studied psychology at Ohio University, Media at Long Island University and Systems Therapy (Marriage and Family) at Fairfield University.  She is enamored with the mystery of life and loves to play with what is possible.

Marcina Hale LMFT is a therapist and filmmaker who is trained in many modalities from different traditions and appreciates the collective wisdom of cultures.  She is a License Marriage and Family therapist certified by CIIS, in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies & Research and MAPS in Facilitation and Education.  She is a facilitator of  workshops internationally and across the US and has had the honor of co-creating with many amazing people especially the team at Reconsider.

She is an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi, Producer of Disturbing the Peace and is a facilitator for Reconsider workshop experiences, which have been given in the U.S. and internationally. Marcina spoke at TEDxKC Women about how to change the world in which we are living. “Who wants out?"

Marcina’s vision is to catalyze the creation of experiences that evoke thought and conversations that both challenge and inspire new ways of relating to ourselves and to life itself.

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Marcina Hale and Steve Apkon 

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan, where we talk to people who lead, innovate and inspire. Today on Move The Needle, Rob talks with President of the LBJ Foundation Mark Updegrove about Johnson's legacy, and more importantly, what we can learn from him in today's world. 

Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian and the author of five books on the presidency, including Second Acts: Presidental Lives and Legacies After the White House, Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office During Times of Crisis, Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency, The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, and, most recently, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency. He currently serves as the president of CEO of the LBJ Foundation and is a presidential historian. Earlier in his career, he was the director or the LBJ Presidential Library and publisher of Newsweek. He has interviewed seven US presidents. 

#movetheneedlewithmarkupdegrove #markupdegrove #presidentialhistory #USPresidents #historian #USHistory #LBJFoundation #lyndonbjohnson #georgebush #JFK #presidency #CEO #author #whitehouse #LBJPresidentialLibrary #Newsweek #movetheneedlewithrobkaplan #robertkaplen #ronelgolden #samzeff #scottrichardson 

Mark Updegrove

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan, where we talk to people who lead, innovate and inspire. Today on Move The Needle, Rob talks with Evan Marwell. He had a super successful business career, but now he wants to take America on the EducationSuperHighway.  

Evan Marwell is the Founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway, the leading non-profit focused on closing the digital divide in America’s most unconnected communities. In eight years, EducationSuperHighway closed the digital divide in America’s K-12 schools – connecting nearly 47 million students in 99.7% of America’s classrooms to high-speed broadband. To accomplish this, Evan secured commitments from 85 governors from all 50 states to upgrade their schools for the 21st century and $2.5 billion per year of federal funding to make these commitments a reality. A recipient of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Visionary of the Year award and a serial entrepreneur, Evan launched companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, and hedge fund industries. Evan is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, board chair of myAgro, a board member at Direct Relief and Recidiviz, and a co-founder of Ignite! Reading, a Zoom-based K-3 reading tutoring program.   



#movetheneedlewithevanmarwell #educationsuperhighway #evanmarwell #education #educationforall #americaneducation #nonprofit #harvardbusinessschool #entrepreneur #visionary #recidiviz #movetheneedlewithrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

Evan Marwell

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan, where we talk to people who lead, innovate and inspire. Today on Move The Needle, Rob talks with Todd Williams, a man who made a lot of money on Wall Street, but also acted on his passion for public education. 

Highly committed to public education, Todd is the founding Chairman and CEO of The Commit Partnership, the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization with over 200 institutions (including 15 school districts and eight higher-ed institutions educating over 790,000 students) supported by a dedicated backbone staff of ~60 employees. Together the Partnership and its backbone staff are collectively focused on improving post-secondary completion and economic mobility levels across the Dallas County region as well as the state of Texas. Todd also served for eight years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.

Todd is a senior trustee and former board chair for Austin College, a liberal arts college in Sherman, Texas. With his wife Abby, Todd was the founding chair for six years of the regional advisory board for Teach for America in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and together in 2007 they also helped establish the Uplift Williams Preparatory School, a K-12 free tuition public charter school operated by Uplift Education that educates over 1,500 primarily Hispanic children living in limited income homes in northwest Dallas.

Todd was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2020 to serve on (i) the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation (responsible for overseeing the investment of the state’s ~$50 billion endowment fund supporting Texas’ K-12 public education system); (ii) the year-long 2018 Texas Commission on Public School Finance (where he chaired its Outcomes Committee which ultimately produced 35 recommendations that served as the basis for Texas’ landmark HB3 legislation which equitably invested $11.5 billion in the state’s public K-12 education system in 2019) and (iii) the 2021 Texas Commission on Community College Funding, which recommended the strategic investment of ~$650 million of new biennial state funding to reward targeted outcomes and increase accessibility for the state’s economically and academically disadvantaged students.

Todd is the former Chair of the Citizen Budget Review Commission for Dallas ISD ($1.7 billion budget educating ~155,000 students) and the former Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees for Uplift Education, a public charter school management organization serving over 20,000 students across the D/FW area. He is also the former chairman of both the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center (located at the University of Texas) and the Real Estate Council of Dallas, the city’s largest real estate organization.

Prior to dedicating his efforts full time as a volunteer to public education, Todd served as a partner and global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity investment area, retiring in 2010 following a 20-year career with the firm in their New York, Los Angeles and Dallas offices. Total assets under management purchased by GS-managed real estate funds exceeded $100 billion in cost, including $10 billion of equity invested by Goldman Sachs and its managing partners.

Todd earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Austin College in Sherman, Texas in 1982.

#movetheneedlewithtoddwilliams #toddwilliams #texaseducation #thecommitpartnership #dallaseducation #austincollege #teachforamerica #upliftwilliamspreparatoryschool #gregabbott #texaspermanentschoolfundcorporation #privateequity #realestate #texascommissiononcommunitycollegefunding #goldmansachs #wharton #upenn #movetheneedlewithrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

Todd Williams

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan, where we talk to people who lead, innovate and inspire. What's it like to have taken over a major American airline just ten days before 9/11? Today on Move The Needle, Rob talks to Doug Parker, a longtime airline leader, about that and how the industry changed after that. 

Doug Parker retired as CEO of American Airlines in March 2022 after more than 35 years in the airline industry, including 20 years as CEO. He was named CEO of American following the merger of American and US Airways in 2013. Doug continues to serve as chairman of American’s board of directors.

Doug remains a strong supporter of the people of the airline industry and American is emblematic of the transformation that has occurred in the industry in recent years. The integration of American and US Airways was a success and the airline made unprecedented investments in its team members and product while returning money to shareholders. Doug’s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic helped stabilize the industry during an unprecedented decline in demand for air travel.

Previously, Doug was Chairman and CEO of US Airways. Under his leadership, the airline achieved record revenue growth, operational performance and profit margins that outpaced most industry peers. Doug served as Chairman, President and CEO of America West Airlines prior to the merger of US Airways and America West in 2005. He became CEO of America West 10 days before Sept. 11, 2001 and led the carrier through the crisis.

Doug’s experience prior to joining America West in 1995 includes four years with Northwest Airlines as Vice President, Assistant Treasurer and Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. From 1986 to 1991, he held several financial management positions with American.

Doug received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Wings Club Foundation and the Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, in recognition of his extraordinary career. He is a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, the SMU Cox School of Business Executive Board, the Medal of Honor Museum Foundation Board of Directors and the International Air Transport Association Board of Governors.

Doug earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Albion College in 1984 and an MBA from Vanderbilt University in 1986. He married his wife, Gwen, in 1990 and they have three children: Jackson, Luke and Eliza.

#movetheneedlewithdougparker #americanairlines #aviation #leadersinaviation #911 #USairways #airtravel #financialmanagement #ceo #northwestairlines #dougparker #vanderbilt #albioncollege #americawest #COVID19 #movetheneedlewithrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

Doug Parker

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan, where we talk to people who lead, innovate, and inspire. Today on Move The Needle, Rob talks with retired Navy Admiral Wyman Howard, who led the Navy SEALS through an amazing year of growth and change. But perhaps his biggest challenge was public awareness of the SEALS post 9/11. 

Wyman Howard is a transformational leader with extensive combat mission experience and a proven 32 year record of unparalleled change leadership, creativity and risk mitigation for outcomes of strategic consequence to the security of the United States of America. He is a fourth generation Naval Officer and a 1990 graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he was a member of the Navy crew team. 

Wyman is a thought leader in sustainability; disruptive technologies; leadership & human capital assessment; performance; retention; inclusivity; and diversity – with relationships and linkages to global business and foreign government military and intelligence service liaison partners. He is deeply experienced and briefed in geo-political risk and opportunities across disruptive technologies– including multi-domain autonomous systems; electronic warfare; cyber threats and risk mitigations; and commercial, civil, and military & intelligence space sector applications.

A retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Upper Half) with over 32 years in the SEAL Teams and joint special operations, Wyman commanded at all levels of Special Operations, including service as Commander Naval Special Warfare Command, Special Operations Command Central, and Naval Special Warfare Development Group. He has distinctive leadership experience at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of joint, intelligence, interagency and foreign partner operations.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from the TRIUM consortium of the London School of Economics, HEC Paris School of Management, and New York University’s Stern School of Business; a Master of Science in National Security and Resource Strategy with a focus on space from the Eisenhower School, where he earned three Commandant’s awards for excellence in writing; and a Professional Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His professional military education also includes the Naval War College, Joint Special Operations University, and the Defense Language Institute.

He is a senior advisor principally focused on climate and sustainability solutions. He is an active volunteer within the community, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Eagle Scout.

#wymanhoward #londonschoolofeconomics #newyorkuniversity #unitedstatesnavalacademy #retirednavyseal #USnavy #commander #geopoliticalrisk #disruptivetechnologies #electronicwarfare #climate #artificialintelligence #sustainability #eaglescout #presidentialunitcitation #jointmeritoriousunitawards #movetheneedlewithwymanhoward #movetheneedlewithrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

H. Wyman Howard

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan, where we talk to people who lead, innovate, and inspire. Today on Move The Needle, Rob talks with former Kansas governor and Health and Human Services secretary  Kathleen Sebelius, who has spent her entire life in and around politics.

Kathleen Sebelius is one of America’s foremost experts on national and global health issues, human services, and executive leadership. As CEO of Sebelius Resources LLC, she provides strategic advice to companies, investors, and non-profit organizations.

Sebelius chairs the board of Humacyte and serves on the boards of directors of Devoted Health, Exact Sciences, Included Health, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. She co-chairs the Aspen Institute Health Strategy Group and serves on advisory boards for the Dole Institute of Politics, Solera Health, Out Leadership, the Estée Lauder Foundation, Protect Our Care, the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Zipline. Sebelius is honorary co-chair and an advisor to the National Cannabis Roundtable.

From April 2009 through June 2014, Sebelius served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the 21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked to pass and implement the Affordable Care Act. At HHS, Sebelius managed 11 operating agencies, 90,000 employees in 50 countries around the world, and a $1 trillion budget. Forbes named Sebelius one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Having served as Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, Sebelius is the first daughter of a governor to be elected governor in American history; her late father, John Gilligan, was Governor of Ohio. Time magazine named her one of America’s Top Five Governors. Previous elected offices include two terms as the Kansas insurance commissioner and four terms in the Kansas Legislature.

Sebelius earned a master of public administration degree from the University of Kansas and a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity Washington University. She is married to Gary Sebelius, a retired federal magistrate judge. They have two married sons, Ned and John, and four grandchildren.

#kathleensebelius #kansasgovernor #kansaspolitics #HHS #healthandhumanservices #womeninpolitics #secretary  #womaninbusiness #politicscareer #humacyte #globalhealth #nationalhealth #sebeliusresources #universityofkansas #washingtonuniversity #movetheneedlewithkathleensebelius #movetheneedlewithbrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

Kathleen Sebelius

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan. Where we talk to people who lead, innovate, and inspire. Today on the Move The Needle, Rob talks with Bill Kurtis, America's anchorman. You probably know him from NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me, or one of the many documentaries he's produced and hosted for his cable network. Bill has had a great career as a journalist and an entrepreneur.

Bill traveled the world for the Peabody Award-winning PBS series The New Explorers and documentaries that have taken on the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Kurtis Productions has created programs for the A&E Network, including the long-running, award-winning Investigative Reports and Cold Case Files, and American Greed seen on CNBC.

Bill anchored the prime time news broadcasts on CBS-owned WWBM-TV Chicago and co-anchored the CBS Morning News from 1982-1986. He also served as a CBS network correspondent.

Currently, he can be heard on NPR Radio as the co-host of the celebrated weekly news quiz, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me. And as the host of the daily news magazine, Through the Decades, taking a look back at each day through the lens of history.

He also provided the satirical narration for the feature film comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

He has authored Bill Kurtis: On Assignment, a review of major news stories he covered accompanied by his own photographs. Using his background as a lawyer, he wrote, The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice, exploring the issues surrounding capital punishment.

#billkurtis #anchorman #NPR #journalism #broadcaster #A&Enetwork #producer #televisionproducer #CBS #coldcasefiles #investigativereports #americangreed #CNBC #americasanchorman #charlesmanson #charlesmansontrial #richardspeck #lindakasabian #catherineshare #documentaries #billkurtisdocumentaries #willferrell #ronburgundy #topeka #universityofkansas #at&t #waitwaitdon'ttellme #thebattleforbunkerhill #movetheneedlewithbullkurtis #movetheneedlewithrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

Bill Kurtis

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan. Where we talk to people who lead, innovate, and inspire. Today on the Move The Needle, Rob talks with Jessica Berman, commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League who has really moved the needle for women in professional sports administration, and she's someone who's had no time to ease into her job.

Jessica Berman is the Commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League where she oversees all operations of the league with a focus on supporting players on and off the pitch, working with NWSL clubs to continue building on the positive momentum of the league’s growing audience and collaborating with NWSL partners to create the most engaging and entertaining fan experience.

Berman has received a number of distinctions throughout her career in the sports industry. Most recently, she was named Sports Business Journal’s 2022 Best Hire following her first season at the helm of the NWSL.

Berman completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating with a degree in Sports Management and Communications. A Brooklyn, New York native, Berman resides in Larchmont, New York, with her two sons and two rescue dogs.

#jessicaberman #nationalwomenssoccerleague #NWSL #womeninsports #womenssoccer #commissioner #womenssoccercommissioner #soccercommissioner #womaninbusiness #players #sportscareer #sportsbusinessjournal #umichigan #sportsmanagement #womenssoccerworldcup #soccerworldcup #soccer2024 #soccerleague #uswomenssoccer #ussf #movetheneedlewithjessicaberman #movetheneedlewithbrobkaplan #samzeff #robkaplan #scottrichardson #ronelgolden

Jessica Berman

This is Move The Needle with Rob Kaplan. Where we talk to people who lead, innovate, and inspire. Today on the Move The Needle, Rob talks with former Florida governor and presidential candidate Jeb Bush about his family, business and what he learned in politics.

Governor Bush was the 43rd governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1999 through 2007. During his two terms, Governor Bush remained true to his conservative principles, cutting taxes, vetoing earmarks, and championing major reform of government programs.

Under his leadership, Florida was on the forefront of consumer healthcare advances, led the nation in job growth, and launched and accelerated restoration of America's Everglades. In education, Florida raised academic standards, required accountability in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice programs in the nation. As a result, Florida students have made the greatest gains in academic achievement and Florida is one of a handful of states to significantly narrow the achievement gap.

Prior to and after his tenure as Florida's chief executive, Governor Bush has been actively involved in the private sector, helping to build the largest full service real estate company in South Florida and owning and operating successful consulting and investing businesses. Governor Bush is also the Chairman and Founding Partner of Finback Investment Partners which is a private equity firm that takes active minority interest in middle market and growth-stage companies.

Governor Bush maintains his passion for improving the quality of education for students by serving as the chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a national non-profit organization he founded to work with education leaders, teachers, parents, and advocates to develop and implement reforms that lead to rising student achievement.

Governor Bush has written three books, Profiles in Character; Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution; and Reply All: A Governor's Story 1999-2007.

Governor Bush lives in Miami with his wife Columba. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Jeb Bush

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