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šŸ¦ 235: Co-Journeying and Re-Openingā€”Roundtable with Dr. Anthony Harris and Dr. MJC

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Iā€™m delighted to be hosting a roundtable as the most recent installment in the Pivoting Around a Pandemic series with Dr. MJC (who you know well from 13 episodes together!) and Dr. Anthony Harris, Chief Innovation Officer for WeCare who is helping implement 1,000,000 tests every day to help businesses re-open.

We talk about Dr. Harrisā€™ background at the intersection of faith, medicine, and entrepreneurship; processing the unrest of these last two weeks, his take on co-journeying through the Black Lives Matter movement, inequities in society as it relates to business and healthcare, and what drives and orients him as he prepares to welcome a son into the world.

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Check out show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/235

Background on the Pivoting Around a Pandemic Podcast Series

Background from our kick-off to this Pivoting Around A Pandemic series: With so much happening daily in the world and global economy around coronavirus, weā€™re all dealing with massive amounts of uncertainty, pivots at work, and for manyā€”fear and anxiety that comes with not only the health concerns, but questions around how to maintain our livelihoods moving forward. Watch recent Pivot workshops and check out all the recent episodes at PivotMethod.com/pandemic Ā»

More about Dr. Anthony Harris

Dr. Harris has advised NYC businesses in the high tech, manufacturing, food and beverage production industries on how they can keep their workforces safe as they reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a doctor himself, he gives businesses tools like: temperature checks, antibody tests and healthcare apps to combat the spread of Covid-19 among their workers. He is Chief Innovation Officer for WorkCare, and has appeared in Forbes Magazine Online and Idaho Business Review.

More about Dr. Michael J. Consuelos

Dr. Michael J. Consuelos is the Principal at MJC Solutions, a veteran-owned, small business that provides professional consulting and advisory services to organizations serving the healthcare sector. He has held several leadership roles in emergency preparedness and pandemic response since 1997. His extensive experience includes leading a health system pandemic response to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Dr. Consuelosā€™ coordination of the health system response with local, state, and federal authorities to maintain healthcare business continuity has been used as a model by other hospital systems.

Topics Covered

  • Introducing Dr. Harris, his background at the intersection of medicine and entrepreneurship

  • Working from home - how he gets his mindset prepared to tackle the most important things

  • Processing the unrest of these last two weeks, how he is doing as a Black man in America

  • Dr. Harris: ā€œWe all want to be seen in the here and now with positive regard.ā€ 

  • Culmination of shared suffering, shared experience that has left people really raw

  • Able to co-journey now 

  • Disproportionate impact of COVID on Black and Hispanic communities 

  • Not jumping into the healing process right away; explore our edges

  • MJC: "Doctors might have a rush to heal, but we canā€™t just put a bandaid on whatā€™s going onā€

  • Dr. Harrisā€™ take on entrepreneurship, taking risks

  • ā€œWealth generation is generationalā€ ā€” legacies of racism in business and mentorship

  • Reopening despite fear, uncertainty

  • Food deserts worsening amidst the crisis

  • Dr. Harrisā€™ one prayer: "God help me impact your people"

Resources Mentioned

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