Gönan Premfors is a professional coach who has worked with athletes, business leaders and government leaders.
She is a faculty member at The Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California and is the founder of The Coaches Training Institute in the Middle East with its headquarter in Dubai.
Through her studies of human consciousness and relationships, Gönan has developed a philosophy of relationships called Parentology that translates across any culture, religion or nationality.
Tags coach education inspiration kids learning personal growth success
2011-01-25
Posted in TED Talks (Individual)
In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners -- it gathers audience feedback (using software co-developed with Scott Satkin and Varun Ramakrishna at CMU) and tunes its act as the crowd responds. Is this thing on?
Heather Knight runs Marilyn Monrobot, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art. (and she helped build the amazing Rube Goldberg machine for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass.")
Heather Knight is conducting her doctoral research at the intersection of robotics and entertainment at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.
She runs Marilyn Monrobot in New York, where she and her cohort create “charismatic machine performances.”
Tags Fun humour innovation success technology TED Talks
2011-01-24
Posted in TED Talks (Individual)
You'll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival -- of her body, from a double lung transplant, and of her spirit, fueled by an unwavering will to sing.
A powerful story from TEDMED 2010.
Tags courage determination health inspiration love music success
2011-01-22
Posted in TED Talks (Individual)
Tags feminism goals inspiration quotes Role Models success
2011-01-22
Posted in Pearls of Wisdom
The naked picture in Glamour magazine of a model with a tiny roll of fat around her middle caused a commotion amongst women and the fashion media in 2009.
At 5 feet 11 inches (180 centimeters), and 12.5 stone (175 pounds/79 kilograms), 20-year-old Lizzie Miller, who wears sizes 12-14, agrees that it's astonishing that she's considered a "plus size" model. "It's sad," she says. "In the industry anything over size six is considered a plus-size."
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beauty health inspiration love success
2011-01-04
Posted in Women In the News