Laila Marouf

In Conversation

Episode 2 Laila Marouf
Academic, Professor, Administrator, Leader

In conversation with Laila Marouf, Professor and Assistant Vice President for Research at Kuwait University in Simmons College, Boston on August 15, 2018

Trailer (1:00)

Interview (43:37)

Synopsis
Professor and Administrator Laila Marouf talks about her experience going back to school in a different country after ten years of being a full-time mother.

Timecodes
00:00 – Introducing Laila Marouf
01:06 – Knowledge management
05:31 – Story in your own words
14:51 – Childhood
17:41 – People, books, or events that had significant influences
20:54 – Key skills that helped succeed
20:02 – Keeping yourself motivated
22:53 – Managing time effectively
24:03 – Working irrespective of deadlines
25:02 – Biggest successes
27:32 – Being a mother
28:29 – Cultures, Diversity, and Soft skills
31:06 – Resources for success
32:35 – Being a role model to women
34:40 – Emotional intelligence
36:11 – Relating to factors of happiness
36:40 – Strategies for managing personal growth
38:35 – Meaning of happiness
40:05 – Goals now
42:11 – Mentoring advice

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The editing of this video was supported by the COCIS Innovation Fund at Simmons University.

Eileen Abels

Episode 1 Eileen Abels
Academic, Professor, Dean, Leader

In conversation with Eileen Abels, Dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences and Director of the School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College, Boston on June 25, 2018

Part 1 Life and Inspiration (7:01)

Part 2 On Teaching & Innovation, Social Justice, Design Thinking (9:32)

Part 3 On Successes, Fake News & Critical Thinking, Life Lessons (8:41)

Synopsis
Dean and Professor Eileen Abels talks about life and inspiration, teaching and innovation, social justice, design thinking, successes, fake news & critical thinking, and life lessons a week before retiring.

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Why Project Oneness World?

“The enemy is not the other. It is the ego that creates the other.” (March 13, 2018)

The purpose of Project Oneness World is to gather human stories through interviews to inspire other human stories, and to connect people with the knowledge of people and resources to help achieve their life goals.

The people interviewed may be from different fields, speaking different languages and from anywhere in the world. The stories may be of daily survival or of people who are 1) encouraging oneness, diversity and inclusion; 2) working towards personal growth and excellence in a certain field such as arts, science & technology, education, etc.; and 3) working to help improve the human condition by contributing towards a certain cause.

Through these stories, we should be able to learn life lessons, about growth and resilience and about overcoming barriers, and appreciate the basic oneness of all human beings despite our separate struggles in different contexts. Above all, rather than looking at people from the outside-in in terms of the cultures and communities they come from, the project should enable us to look at people from the inside-out, as individuals, based on their stories in their own words.

The stories should inspire other people to strive themselves towards forging connections, achieving excellence and helping others.  The project also aims to document organizations and resources and to link people with each other to further their goals, and for greater knowledge sharing.

Naresh Agarwal

May 7, 2018