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Make your days count


Make your days count

Make your days count

Engineering Happier People: Dylan Jorgensen


Engineering Happier People: Dylan Jorgensen

How communities can use “The Hero’s Journey” to help their citizens find purpose, accelerate luck & engineer happiness.

The Significance of Your Home: Dr. Orit Stieglitz, Ph.D.


The Significance of Your Home: Dr. Orit Stieglitz, Ph.D.

A trip to Krakow, Poland with her father in 2010 captivated Dr. Orit Stieglitz. At TEDxAJU she linked her studies of indigenous communities to the search of home by displaced individuals and communities.

Dr. Orit Stieglitz holds professional degrees in Architecture and a PhD in Urban Planning. She has been studying social, cultural, and political issues, which affect planning and design or were affected by them. Dr. Stieglitz was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004-2005 and lectured at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at California State University Northridge and at UCLA. She is currently the director of the Bardejov Jewish Preservation Committee, a nonprofit organization with a mission of preserving and restoring the historical Jewish communal properties in the town of Bardejov, Slovakia.

 

Ferdinando Buscema: A New Narrative for Leadership


Ferdinando Buscema: A New Narrative for Leadership

Based on the fact that the stories we tell ourselves have profound psychological impacts, magic experience designer Ferdinando Buscema suggests a new narrative model for successful, modern leaders.

True happiness as you get older


True happiness as you get older

True happiness as you get older

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.


One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.

Collect moments, not things


Collect moments, not things

Collect moments, not things

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings – Lao Tzu


New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings – Lao Tzu

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings - Lao Tzu

Learning life’s single happiness criterion: Petroula Karagianni


Learning life’s single happiness criterion: Petroula Karagianni

Born 30 years ago in Athens and raised here, Petroula graduated from AUEB in 2005 and straight after moved to Rotterdam, The Netherlands to work in the global leadership team of AIESEC. When Rotterdam started to become too familiar, she moved to Zurich, Switzerland to work in the Banking industry, in the Finance and Strategy areas. That is when she decided to have a break and redefine the way she saw reality shaping around and ahead of her. Determined to follow her passion for Education, she quit her job, went on a soul-search and after a few months started her Masters on Educational Leadership, she started blogging her ideas around Education and started working with a few organizations that support entrepreneurs in Greece, that provide funds for education in the developing world and that offer cultural immersion programs. After 7 years living abroad, she decided to come back to Greece in January 2012, where she started working with AUEB in the area of Research and Academic Affairs project management. She loves traveling, as she has already been in 37 countries and she believes in the power that each one of us has to make our dreams our reality.

 

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