This episode features Louise Chernin, an activist, LGBTQIA business and community leader, and the former CEO of the Greater Seattle Business Association.&nbsp;
What does it mean to create shared value partnerships uniting small businesses, corporations, and government? How might we best redirect resources, technical support and money where it's most needed?&nbsp;
Louise shares insights gleaned from 20 years on the front lines of community building and economic empowerment:
1. seeing opportunities for reinvention in crisis
2. supporting collective impact and systems change by making human connections
3. showing up as an ally as well as a leader to reach other economic sectors and communities within communities
4. embracing activism as a synonym for evolving, mutually beneficial, action-oriented partnership

Season II / Episode 6: Good Business Sense—Inclusion & Diversity as a Corporate Lived Value

What if we could redesign the systems that don't work? Design Influence is about exploring how we can use business and design to reimagine the world’s constructs. In other words it’s about adventures in entrepreneurship, social innovation and capital.