Genevieve Leveille is the Principal Founder and CEO of AgriLedger. AgriLedger enables trust, transparency, and traceability through blockchain across the agricultural supply chain. Genevieve led a collaboration with Haiti’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry to deliver a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) pilot sponsored by the World Bank. The project went live in May 2020, allowing Haitian fruit farmers and consumers to reap the benefits of fairer prices and improved food security.

Genevieve was nominated by the Financial Times to the top 100 BAME in UK technology in 2019, named a winner of the ComputerWeekly 2020 Women in Software, and one of the top 5 finalists for Quesnay’s Female Founders in FinTech in 2019. She is vice-chair of techUK’s Distributed Ledger Technologies Working Group, which provides strategic direction for all UK activities related to DLT and is an inaugural member of the Advisory Group for the Estonian Government’s eResidency initiative. Genevieve has spoken on emerging technologies at numerous conferences and engagements globally and is fluent in English, French, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.

"I always like to imagine the impossible and then try to make it possible." - Genevieve Leveille

We talk about how Genevieve's company uplifts smallholder farmers, how her 25 years of financial services and payments experience helped her to combine AgTech and FinTech, Zoom's upcoming olfactory feature, Haitian soup, and gratitude for family and friends.

At the links below, keep up with Genevieve:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GinouInLondon

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/genevieveleveille

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/mgleveille/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mgleveille/

And AgriLedger:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/agriledger

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/agriledger

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/agriledger/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agriledger/

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Raised on islands and diversely educated, Bill Lennan has always focused on solving human as well as technical problems. Over the span of his technology career, he has built products, teams, and solutions for mobile, recruiting, e-commerce, social media, and now education. He has helped companies ranging from Google and Walmart to hotels and restaurants. Building high-functioning teams has been fundamental to Bill’s success. His team successes are directly attributable to the skills taught in the HAERT™ Curriculum, which you can learn about at https://haertprogram.com/.

We talk about comfortable and uncomfortable conversations, what catastrophizing is, creating career flexibility, curiosity, communicating with experts, finding ease, and choosing where to apply struggle. Bill also tells us stories about surfing and breaking bones.

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Ben Zeidler is Co-Founder of Nonfiction Research--nonfiction.co--a company on a mission to understand the informal, unfiltered lives of customers. Before co-founding Nonfiction Research, Ben was Global Head of Consumer Packaged Goods Research at L2, where he worked directly with the world’s largest consumer brands, including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Nestlé. Prior to L2, he established Tenthwave's research and analytics practice, which he grew in revenue annually. Ben is on the advisory board at Harvard Business Review and is routinely quoted and featured in industry news. He is a graduate of Georgetown University.

Learn about the value of research areas where there is a difference between people's public and private lives, Nonfiction's origin story, Ben's mighty partnership with Co-Founder Gunny Scarfo and their team, and how Ben's upbringing indelibly influenced him. Get a preview of Nonfiction's upcoming studies.

For a quick tip on how to assess the value of feedback you get when you put yourself out there, check out 16:30, when Ben talks about discerning whether a comment is in good faith or not. To get a sense of how a leader like Ben envisions the future, take a listen at 43:15.

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Stéphane E. Fouché is a sociologist turned entrepreneur navigating obstacles with clients, with a keen eye on culture. His experiences in the United States, Caribbean, Asia, and Africa are the basis for his work as an ambassador for businesses. We learn about the roles of self-knowledge, healthy relationships, and emotions such as fear and jealousy in his multicultural career and life. Below are two provocative quotes from Stéphane.

23:45 - "I'd rather get hurt than lose the potential of having a great friend."

35:10 - "I see jealousy as a desire I had, I just never knew I had."

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