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Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar

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“Embracing risk for driving vision and growth”.

Join us for this diaspora business and non-profit leaders’ event.

Tell a friend, let’s gather in the thousands or hundreds of thousands!

Up to 1000 places reserved for entrepreneurs from mainstream majority groups              [Entrepreneurs with no Caribbean roots, Africans in Africa, all ethnicities, speaks and understand English]

Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 2:00 PM Eastern

Registration fee: Free

Speaker Sneak Preview

Mark Brown                                                                                                         Jamaica’s World Champion of Public Speaking, International Keynoter

Professor Amit Kapoor                                                                                     President & CEO of India Council on Competitiveness, Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness.

Victor Tembo                                                                                                  Head of Procurement, Green Climate Fund

Meegan Scott                                                                                                      Owner and Strategic Management Consultant at Managing Director of Magate Wildhorse Consulting, Founder of The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Networking Session                                                                                 Orville Patrick with Music by Big 7 Promotions                                     Bring your water or champagne in your glasses and your snack of choice.       smileyred lipstick No eating of your snack before the time we remember this happening to some in 2018,                    

Moderator and convener: Meegan Scott

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Normality risk intellligence by Meegan ScottOutride is a series of 5 stand-alone seminars and action research designed to bring diaspora and Caribbean entrepreneurs across all continents together to:

  • share experiences
  • learn how to leverage risks intelligence for driving their business vision and growth during COVID 19 and beyond
  • execute actions for driving your business forward on spot through our built-in market meeting events
  • have fun, build real networks

Event features: Motivational talk, panel discussion, COVID 19 business community experiences (open mic―diaspora and in Caribbean segment), Elevator pitches (The first 20 registered to per series), one-on-one global matchmaking sessions, mainstream and diaspora entrepreneurs networking session

Series focus:                                                                                                              April 16, 2020                                                                                                              Series 1:  Risk Intelligence

Featured sessions:

Motivational Talk for COVID 19, with Mark Brown, World Public Speaking Champion

Risk Intellgience for Outriding COVID 19, focus on Business Models, Supply Change, Customers, the raise of Authoritarian States, Future Growth, Capital, Humanity and Nature, with Professor Amit Kapoor, Institute of Competitiveness India

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April 23, 2020                                                                                                          Series 2: Strategy planning for Outriding COVID 19

Featured Session                                                                                                Agribusiness Sector — Market Intelligence Planning & Response to COVID 19

COVID 19 Risk Intelligence: Are Your Legal Rights Protected in This Time of Uncertainty?

April 30, 2020                                                                                                           Series 3: Customer Service, Value & Sales

Featured session                                                                                                  Boosting Sales & Marketing with Social Marketing

May 7, 2020                                                                                                                Series 4: Nonprofit Governance and Response

Featured session                                                                                                  Risk Intelligence for Outriding COVID 19 — Key Questions,                                Practical Responses for SMEs

May 14, 2020                                                                                                            Series 5: Diaspora Supply Chain― Who’s Who

      Featured sessions

  • Disaster Risk Financing: CCRIF, Climate Risks and COVID-19
  • Digital Transformation – Process Pivots for COVID 19 and Beyond
  • Supply Chain― Diaspora Who’s Who for Outriding COVID 19
  • Diaspora entrepreneurs and wholistic sustainable economic recovery and development – A Governance Model.

May 21, 2020

Series 6: Trade, Finance and Investment

Featured Sessions 

  • Banks, Trade Finance, SMEs & COVID 19
  • Trade, Finance & Investment Insights for Outriding COVID 19
  • Deep Dive into Core Periphery Governance Network w Market Mode

May 28, 2020  

Featured Sessions 

Series 7: Wealth and Community Impact—COVID 19 and Beyond

  • Diaspora Investment Opportunities: Rechanneling Remittances Towards Productive Capital & Climate Finance
  • Delivering Impact—Strategic Planning, Assessment and Community Involvement
  • Comments on MSMEs and Diaspora Direct Investment (Jamaica & the Caribbean)

June 4, 2020  

Featured Sessions 

Series 8: Outride: COVID 19 — Old Markets, New Markets, Different Results

  • Strategic Alliances between GI Producers & Diaspora
  • The Joy Spot Motivation Talk
  • COVID 19 and Beyond — The Food Trade (An Overview)
  • 10 Steps – to Resilience & Risk Intelligence Competent Assignment

June 11, 2020

Delivered June 12, 2020

Featured Sessions

Series: 9 COVID 19 Opportunities — SDGs, Evaluation, Performance & Your Pivot

  • The Decade of Evaluation for Action – What’s in It for Caribbean Communities
  • The Joy Spot Motivation Talk
  • A Moment with Miss Lou
  • COVID 19 Opportunities — SDGs, Evaluation, Performance & Your Pivot (For profits & Non-profits)
  • Getting Ready to for re-opening of COVID 19 Closed Economic Activities & Markets

June 18, 2020

Featured Sessions

Series 10: Outride COVID 19 — Can Your National Brand Attract the Big Spend?

  • Doing Good, Doing Well: The Secret of National Image
  • The Joy Spot Motivation Talk
  • A Moment with Miss Lou
  • Jamaica Diaspora Week Salute
  • Tough Marketing for Tough Times
  • Cultural Sayings & Resilience Building Behaviours – Open Mic & Networking

Outride : COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar Series Extra

Series 11: Citizen Generated Urban and Rural Data for Citizen-Centric Smart Sustainable Cities and Diaspora Change Makers

July 16, 2020

Email magate.wildhorse (at)gmail.com to be among the first to receive the link.

Embrace rIsks COVID 19 Too! by Meegan ScottExpress your interest in participating at: magate.wildhorse (at)gmail.com

Procurement officers and buyers in search of COVID 19 and other supplies are welcome to participate.

Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar is a global disapora entrepreneurs affair!                                                                                                                            Leaders of mainstream businesses with an interest in doing business with diaspora entrepreneurs are welcome to register for the match making and networking sessions.

Brought to you by Magate Wildhorse Consulting, 10 Times and The Community of Practise for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Home of BIDEM Conference & Trade Show)

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Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar

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“Embracing risk for driving vision and growth”.

Join us for this diaspora business and non-profit leaders’ event.

Tell a friend, let’s gather in the thousands or hundreds of thousands!

Up to 1000 places reserved for entrepreneurs from mainstream majority groups              [Entrepreneurs with no Caribbean roots, Africans in Africa, all ethnicities, speaks and understand English]

Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 2:00 PM Eastern

Registration fee: Free

Speaker Sneak Preview

Mark Brown                                                                                                         Jamaica’s World Champion of Public Speaking, International Keynoter

Professor Amit Kapoor                                                                                     President & CEO of India Council on Competitiveness, Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness.

Meegan Scott                                                                                                      Owner and Strategic Management Consultant at Managing Director of Magate Wildhorse Consulting, Founder of The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Watch this space for updates!

Normality risk intellligence by Meegan ScottOutride is a series of 5 stand-alone seminars designed to bring diaspora and Caribbean entrepreneurs across all continents together to:

  • share experiences
  • learn how to leverage risks intelligence for driving their business vision and growth during COVID 19 and beyond
  • execute actions for driving your business forward on spot through our built-in market meeting events
  • have fun, build real networks

Event features: Motivational talk, panel discussion, COVID 19 business community experiences (open mic―diaspora and in Caribbean segment), Elevator pitches (The first 20 registered to per series), one-on-one global matchmaking sessions, mainstream and diaspora entrepreneurs networking session

Series focus:                                                                                                              April 16, 2020                                                                                                              Series 1:  Risk Intelligence

April 23, 2020                                                                                                           Series 2: Strategy planning for Outriding COVID 19

April 30, 2020                                                                                                           Series 3: Customer Service, Value & Sales

May 7, 2020                                                                                                                         Series 4: Nonprofit Governance and Response

May 14, 2020                                                                                                             Series 5: Diaspora Supply Chain― Who’s Who

Event registration link coming soon…

Embrace rIsks COVID 19 Too! by Meegan ScottExpress your interest in participating at : magate.wildhorse (at)gmail.com

Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar is a global disapora entrepreneurs affair!                                                                                                                            Leaders of mainstream businesses with an interest in doing business with diaspora entrepreneurs are welcome to register for the match making and networking sessions.

Brought to you by Magate Wildhorse Consulting, 10 Times and The Community of Practise for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Home of BIDEM Conference & Trade Show)

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The Marathoner

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Meegan Scott — The Marathoner

The Business Marathoner (The Marathoner), examines the strategy, leadership, governance, and public policy issues that shape long-term success for entrepreneurs, organizations, and communities.

Originally created to help Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs (in all diaspora markets) to succeed for the long haul, the column has expanded to explore the broader ecosystem in which businesses, nonprofits, social enterprises, and communities operate.

Through research, analysis, and commentary, The Business Marathoner explores the factors that influence sustainable growth.

In the ” Business Marathoner”, I will share:

    • and issues affecting Jamaica, the Caribbean, and diaspora communities.
      • research findings,
      • raise issues such as cash flow management,
      • financing your business on next to zero budget,
      • time management,
      • community support for businesses,
      • diaspora bridges (international business connections),
      • focusing your business for growth,
      • grit and the entrepreneur,
      • risk management (financial, health, reputation),
      • customer service,
      • intellectual property,
      • marketing,
      • risk intelligence,
      • understanding and benefitting from the business planning processes,
      • executing plans,
      • financial statements,
      • trade,
      • topical issues,
      • finance and wealth,
      • corporate strategy planning,
      • governance for our nonprofit and social enterprises,
      • government relations and stakeholder engagement,
      • public policy and regulatory environments,
      • democratic institutions, governance practices, and civic leadership.

The column provides insights into how leaders can better understand challenges, identify opportunities, make informed decisions, and contribute to stronger organizations and societies.

The Business Marathoner is a self-syndicated column. Its name serves to debunk stereotypes about people of colour and success by highlighting the discipline, resilience, strategy, and endurance required to achieve excellence not only in sports, but also in entrepreneurship, leadership, governance, and community development.

The Marathoner is the short name for The Business Marathoner.

Since: October, 2018

About the author: Meegan Scott, B.Sc. Hons, MBA, ATM-B, CL, PMP., is Jamaican-born Strategic Management Consultant, at Magate Wildhorse Consulting in Toronto & New York.  This is a syndicated column and article.

The Case for Urgent Corona Virus & Infectious Disease Related Labour Law Review

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The Marathoner – Meegan Scott

I have learnt that organizations classified as essential services that also operate non-essential branches are in breach of guidelines related to social distancing and employee safety. They insist that administrative and other workers who carry out non-essential work that can be done from home operate from their offices. In some cases, staff must interact with clients who owing to the precarity of their financial and living circumstances are most likely to find themselves trapped in situations which inhibit their ability to effectively practice social distancing.

At the same time corporate offices are closed, and senior members of such organizations are working from the safety of their homes and reducing the risk to their families and loved ones. They represent the privileged who can travel in a private car, stockpile food supplies and other essentials for ensuring they are protected. Still, they call upon staff, the pawns further down the organizational chart to risk their lives and families in order to “do good”, the commuters who are without protective clothing. From their ivory towers senior management drive the burden on the health care system, risk to their staff and economic recovery.

This kind of recklessness is happening even in “mission driven” organizations that claim to exist to spread love and to transform human society (faith-based organizations included).

The management and boards of such organizations have forgotten their responsibilities related to ensuring organizational continuity, warding off reputational risks to their organizations and exposure to costly legal battles and lawsuits.

They have failed to drive authenticity and make the desired and articulated cultures and values of their organizations something that is lived.

When this reckless endangerment of life and human capital occur in the heat of the COVID 19 crisis it is high time to put legislative measures in place for protecting the less powerful, the vulnerable and all workers for that matter.

Can an organization with a board and management team that is too lazy to explore virtual options for strategy and technology update, for continuing key operations, for putting measures in place to protect staff other than their executive team be described as functional?

Effective leadership is intended to help both profit driven and mission driven organizations to bring about desired positive change, provide relevant and novel solutions as well as to respond to changes in their environment.

That includes unplanned changes that threaten human life and business continuity.

The current context:

By Tuesday March 31, 2020 New York State recorded 75,795 COVID 19 cases and 1,550 deaths. Next door in Toronto 793 cases and 11 deaths have been reported. We are aware that airborne transmission and transmission by droplet are also characteristic of the virus that causes COVID 19.

New York State is still not out of the woods from the danger of depleted COVID related hospital supplies. The virus is on track to claim as many as 240, 000 lives in the US. On March 16, 2020 Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of The World health Organization (WHO) told the world that “we have not seen an urgent enough escalation in testing, isolation and contact tracing, which is the backbone of the response”.

We have seen the consequence of tardiness on the part of governments to take proactive containment measures in an effort to stay economic downturn. But we have also seen those governments scramble to come to grips with the need to slow down in order to ensure those very economies do not collapse by the time the corona virus can be contained. I wouldn’t dare to say until a vaccine is developed, though I am hoping for one soon.

WHO has led by sending home its own staff to work virtually.

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) or the Corona Virus only require small quantities of liquid for droplet transmission. This occurs mainly through protective reflex actions such as sneezing or coughing. It is also spread by contact such as touching contaminated hands, the face or surfaces. We have been informed that the virus can live on such surfaces for as long as seventy-two (72) hours. The US’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reported that Ribonucleic acid (RNA) from the virus that causes COVID 19 persisted on the Diamond Princess ship for 17 days after passengers left.

What else do organizational leaders need to know in order to be moved to save lives?

Where is the love and care for staff? How do you ask them to love, care and make a change in their communities when they do not matter?

Presented here is a perfect case of organizational risk from sick culture, poor governance and lack of strategy planning.

Governments must act to put legislative measures in place for protecting staff against organizations who put them at risk with the same urgency they do in wavering procedures that could delay the fight against the spread of COVID 19. The police must be instructed to refuse any letter claiming staff are essential service workers that fail to state the nature of those essential duties.

The MarathonerAbout the author: Meegan Scott, B.Sc. Hons, MBA, ATM-B, CL, PMP., is Jamaica-born Strategic Management Consultant, at Magate Wildhorse Consulting in Toronto & New York.  This is a syndicated column and article.                                                                            The Marathoner

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It is now that you need that objective external mind and hands to help you scan the environment and take control of your strategic issues worry list.

It is now more than ever that you need a critical friend to help your team with organizational learning, execution and strategy update. Working by remote requires discipline, technology and know-how, we bring two decades of experience to help you get it right.

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Call for Editors —Retired Business Journalists & Editors

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Call for Retired Business Editors

Retire, relax and stay mentally active!

Here’s the perfect opportunity for retired editors of academic journals, business magazines and newspapers to keep their memories engaged, expertise and CVs current even as they relax and enjoy glorious days of retirement.

Eligibility:

You are a retired business or social science publication editor or senior journalist.

You have 5 or more years’ experience editing a business or academic publication or experience serving a newspaper or business magazine.

You want to enjoy your retirement but want to keep your memory engaged while working from your location when you choose to.

You are committed and would be delighted to help entrepreneurs and consultants who are underrepresented in their fields to build confidence and trust in their work by publishing.

Candidates with Canadian, UK, US and Caribbean roots are encouraged to apply.

To apply: Please see the flyer above.

Application deadline: February 5, 2020

Available: Internationally

Work location: remote | virtual

Fees: There are no fees for participating in this opportunity and no monetary compensation to interns.

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Final year students and recent graduates (graduated within the last 5 years), are invited to apply for our Intern Editor opportunity.

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You are a graduate or finalizing student with a PhD, DBA, MBA, MSc., LLM, Communications or Journalism Degree.

In addition to studies you can contribute two to ten years’ experience serving as an editor for a business publication, newspaper, magazine, academic journal or in a corporate communications role.

Candidates with Canadian and Caribbean roots are encouraged to apply.

To apply: Please see the flyer above.

Application deadline: February 5, 2020

Available: Internationally

Work location: remote | virtual

Fees: There are no fees for participating in this Internship and no monetary compensation to interns.

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Final year students and recent graduates (graduated within the last 5 years), are invited to apply for our Intern Peer Reviewer opportunity.

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You are a graduate or finalizing student with an LLM, or an M.Sc, MBA or PhD in business, international trade, international trade law, international development, programme evaluation, environment, economics, climate change, entrepreneurship, international relations, finance, strategy, marketing, leadership, urbanization and digitization or management consulting.

In addition to studies you can contribute three to ten years’ experience serving as an employee, consultant, research assistant or lecturer in your area of expertise.

Candidates with Canadian and Caribbean roots are encouraged to apply.

To apply: Please see the flyer above.

Application deadline: February 5, 2020

Available: Internationally

Work location: remote | virtual

Fees: There are no fees for participating in this Internship and no monetary compensation to interns.