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Gina Rudan  

Best-Selling Author of "Practical Genius," Executive Coach, Cultural Alchemist at X

As X’s Cultural Alchemist, Gina Rudan is responsible for leading Culture for Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory. Prior to joining X, Rudan was a Senior Diversity Manager at Google, where she led innovative diversity programs including designing Google's first Immerse Virtual Reality educational series exploring racial identity. Before Google, she founded her own leadership development training practice, Genuine Insights Inc. She is the best selling author of Practical Genius.

In 2016 she was an Aspen Fellow and also served on the Generation Listen Advisory Board for National Public Radio. In 2015, she was appointed to be the Chief Inspiration Officer for the Entrepreneurial Barbie by Mattel Inc. and in 2014 the National Association of Women’s Business Owners awarded her with their Hall of Fame award.

Rudan has a BA in English Literature from Binghamton University and is a National Urban Fellow holding a MPA from Baruch College. She lives in San Carlos with her son.

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Practical Genius

How to Put Your Personal Power to Work for You: Present your strengths and expertise alongside your values and passions. Put your creativity and authenticity front and center. Find the place where these “hard assets” and “soft assets” meet—that’s the “sweet spot” where your genius lives.

The Art of Convergence

The mash-up of how we live and work requires a new approach. Success and happiness depend on learning how to blend career and life priorities—not to achieve balance, which is no longer a viable or even desirable objective, but instead to achieve convergence.Convergence is about achieving an intriguing condition of freedom at the intersection of your assets and aspirations, which are leveraged and expressed together. In this high-impact talk, Gina teaches audiences how to integrate the needs and desires of the heart and the mind by unifying and activating interests, goals, natural resources, networks, intuitive capabilities, and communities into one highly convergent life.Masterfully combining provocative storytelling and actionable insights, Gina inspires her audience to move from the ordinary to the extraordinary by embracing conscious convergence to craft a deeply rewarding, gratifying future.

The Power of Zeal

Achievement is unattainable without enthusiasm. It’s the fuel that ignites action for every individual, team, and organization. Zeal—out-and-out gusto, a totally energetic, contagious fandom—can you say you’ve got that going on in your outfit? In this inspirational talk, Gina explains why zeal is the missing ingredient and shows how to harness, fuel, and leverage zeal in order to move mountains for teams and organizations.

Hacking Culture

As technologies and communication tools develop at warp speed, rapidly injecting themselves into the culture and almost immediately into our daily lives, a new evolutionary cultural meme is emerging. Life and work can no longer be separated into different, often opposing compartments. The mash-up of how we live, create and work requires a new approach. Success and happiness depend on learning how to blend career and life priorities—not to achieve balance, which is no longer a viable or even desirable objective, but instead to achieve a new cultural paradigm.

Hacking culture is about achieving an intriguing condition of freedom at the intersection of your cultural identity and professional talents which should be leveraged and expressed together. In this high-impact talk, Gina teaches audiences how to integrate the needs and desires of the heart and the mind by unifying and activating interests, goals, cultural identities, natural resources, networks, intuitive capabilities, and communities into one highly cultured life, where there is no line drawn between the personal and the professional, the body and the mind, the community and the workplace. Gina challenges her audience to live their lives with intention and offers up a seamless approach towards excellence in all areas of a fully integrated modern cultural life.

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