Jen Sato and Kathrin Schoenborn share a commitment to female founders that grew into the Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, a global network that gives women building healthcare and life sciences ventures access, expertise, and trusted peer support.In this episode, we explore what makes the program so distinctive: twenty founders across seven countries, meaningful connection across markets, and a design grounded in the realities women entrepreneurs face. Jen and Kathrin reflect on the importance of access, the loneliness of leadership, the courage it takes to speak honestly about failure, and why founders need relationships long before they need to call on them.The conversation also asks a bigger question. What happens when you build generosity into a network from the beginning? This is a story about two women creating what was missing, and a ripple that will continue through the founders who give, share and open doors for others.Find The Ripple Network at theripplenetwork.com.Key topics: female founders, trusted networks, peer circles, life sciences entrepreneurship, feedback without judgment, leadership as self-leadership, legacy as daily practice
How many of you know what it feels like to give your absolute best, to be the one people rely on, and still feel overlooked?Carolyn Hantz opens with that question because she has lived the answer. She spent forty six years in federal service across eight presidential administrations, sixteen of them in the Senior Executive Service, a group that makes up 0.4% of the federal workforce. She started as an entry level secretary paying her own tuition, and she was selected into the SES less than a year after losing her husband to cancer, while raising two young children on her own.In this talk she lays out what the rise actually requires: closing your experience gaps instead of waiting to be noticed, building strategic relationships rather than surface connections, being visible in the rooms that matter, and making the mindset shift that holds it all together.After the talk, Carolyn joins Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about coming back to public speaking after retirement, what she learned from hearing her own story played back, and why sharing the hard parts makes room for other people to do the same.Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide.Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com
"I wish I had seen the signs."Ibiere Addey opens with the words of a colleague who had just lost his fourteen year old son, and then walks through five real cases, including her own child's, of young people slowly losing themselves in plain sight.Her point is not that any single moment breaks a child. It is that nothing about it is sudden. Children are gradually taught to hide their pain until it becomes harm, and the adults around them are often too busy to notice the window closing.More Than Ever Now is Ibiere's initiative and her call to action: be intentional about parenting, about mentoring, about knowing who and what is shaping the rising generation. Not the next generation. The one growing up right now.After the talk, Ibiere joins Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about what changed for her over twelve weeks of practice, why a talk without real connection to your own life is so much harder to deliver, and the power she found in slowing down.Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide.Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com
"What if the very qualities that helped many women of my generation succeed are also the ones that left some of us with regrets?"Gersende Bonin grew up as the eldest of four girls, the scientific one, the daughter her father called forward differently. She learned early that closeness and legitimacy came through being capable, impressive and strong, and she carried that lesson into a career built on meeting standards she had not set, including a diving instructor qualification in France with one scale, based on men's performance.That adaptation gave her drive, resilience and the ability to hold her own in difficult rooms. In this talk she looks honestly at what it also took: distance from other women, and tenderness she had trained out of herself. It ends beside her father's bed, in a moment she has never stopped thinking about.After the talk, Gersende sits down with Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about finding the story she did not know she had, the permission that came with telling it, and what changed once she said it out loud.Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide.Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com
"Are you a robot?"That is how Marie-Louise Murville opens her Ripple Talk, and it is not a rhetorical trick. It is the whole argument. Robots follow code. Leaders follow values, and the ones worth following say those values out loud.Marie-Louise graduated from MIT with two engineering degrees and spent the next thirty years as a president, COO, venture capitalist and consultant across health IT, B2B e-commerce and biotech. In this talk she shares the day one turnaround where her entire management team resigned, the framework she has used ever since, and the five lessons her mother, a Marine in World War II, left her with.After the talk, Marie-Louise sits down with Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about what shifted over twelve weeks of practice, why coaching without repetition does not work, and what it took to bring thirty years of experience into ten minutes.Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide.Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com