Inquiry to Insight
Inquiry to Insight provides a window into a dynamic and diverse community that values critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. This podcast is where we ask questions and share the voices and experiences of Montclair Kimberley Academy.
Listen | Be Inspired | Keep Asking Questions
- Update frequency
- every 81 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
Episode 4: Building the Future
In this explosive episode, host Steve Valentine brings you three visionaries in their respective spaces of Finance, Technology, and the Arts. These thought leaders are entrepreneurs, innovators, and …
Episode 3 | Part 3: How a World-Renowned Photographer, Influencer, and Far East Expert Will Never Stop Adapting His Art
Michael Yamashita ’67 has been a photographer at National Geographic for over 40 years, the recipient of a host of industry awards, a teacher and lecturer, a producer of two documentary feature film…
Episode 3 | Part 2: How A Silicon Valley Chief People Officer Stewards a Disruptor Company to Success
Over the years, Evan Wittenberg ’87 has built great companies with great people, including Ancestry.com, Box, and Google. Now driven by the altruistic mission of Pivot Bio, he is creating a work cult…
Episode 3 | Part 1: Breaking Barriers - How Two Women Joined Forces (and Two Jockstraps) to Make History
Best friends from their time at The Kimberley School, Polly Smith ’67 and Lisa Lindahl ’67, now members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, paved the way for women in the sporting goods industry.
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Episode 2 | Part 4: Patricia Chin Sweeney ‘99, Director, IDEV Africa/ IDEV International
- Hear about fairtrade and corporate/social responsibility.
- Learn about impact investing and trends in impact investing.
- Explore what conscious leadership means.
Episode 2 | Part 3: Mark Smuckler ‘08, Founder and CEO, Flow
- Hear what it means to offer ‘frictionless’ engagement.
- Learn about people’s resistance to subscription and membership models, and how Flow disrupts an industry.
- Explore the concept that real estate …
Episode 2 | Part 2: Carina Wong ‘11 Documentary Filmmaker
- Hear about the importance of understanding the essence of someone else's truth and innovating and experimenting with different technologies to tell their story.
- Learn how the musings of an NYU prof…
Episode 2 | Part 1: Kevin Wilkins '83, Founder, Managing Director at trepwise, llc
Hear about the importance of alleviating fear in your organization so that innovation can take place and then be baked into the fabric of the organization. Learn how to frame ideas, and what you can …
Episode 1 | Part 4: Tech With a Focus on Design
Hear about how the facets of the human-centric design process invite us to embrace, and thrive in, ambiguity. Learn about why the design process plays such an important role in technology, specifical…
Episode 1 | Part 3: Tech With a Focus on Product/Partnerships
Hear about the importance of trust and integrity when licensing at scale and distributing music on a large platform like YouTube. Learn about how one should distinguish between those opportunities th…
Episode 1 | Part 2: Tech With a Focus on Law and IP
Hear about monetizing traditional marketing content and distributing it via tech platforms. Learn about disruptors in the tech industry, their intensive business models, and the need to protect not o…
Episode 1 | Part 1: Tech With a Focus on Investing
Hear from Rick Diamond ‘91 as he talks about profound technology trends and their implications for the Fin Tech industry, and ultimately, our lives. Learn the questions you should be asking when tryi…
Part 2: What May Term Looks Like
A continuation of our previous episode, What May Term Looks Like gives listeners an inside look at projects completed by the Class of 2018 during May Term. Hear directly from students as they recount…
Part 1: What is May Term?
In the first episode of Inquiry to Insight, hosts Jill Maza and Stephen Valentine introduce the origins of a unique and special program at MKA: May Term. Each year during the month of May, seniors a…