"There's a different flavor that comes through in your leadership when you lead through the love of getting that thing done that matters to you, then if you are motivated by that love of power or love of money." — Mari Kuraishi In this episode, Nozomi and Mari discuss: Opportunistic career planning. Having faith in yourself and being willing to try something new. Leading through service versus leading through power. Using all of the resources at your disposal. Key Takeaways: Women tend to only go for jobs they are overqualified for. Be willing to reach for something you want, even if you aren’t overqualified, and be ready to learn and grow and try. Whether something turns out good or bad, you can learn from whatever you try - it’s not likely to be career-ending or organization-destroying. There are entire communities that are structurally prevented from reaching their potential. These things can be addressed and changed. By not addressing inequities, we are squandering human potential. "I have learned over the years, that liking and respecting the people you work with is a really important component of work satisfaction, even if you theoretically think that the job is cool, but you don't actually like or respect the people, that's not going to work." — Mari Kuraishi "If each of us really lives our life fully, that always impacts other people. If you do good, indirectly or directly, you’re changing people's lives for the good." — Nozomi Morgan About Mari Kuraishi: Mari Kuraishi is the president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, leading the Fund's efforts to create communities of belonging for the places and institutions that Jessie Ball duPont knew and loved by fostering inclusive growth and reducing structural and systemic barriers to resources and opportunity. Prior to joining the Fund, Mari co-founded the groundbreaking crowdfunding philanthropy site GlobalGiving with Dennis Whittle, and served as President until 2018. GlobalGiving connects donors with grassroots projects around the world, providing a vetting platform for donors and training and education for nonprofits. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has connected more than 1.6 million donors to 32,453 projects in more than 175 countries around the world, generating more than $738 million in funding for their projects. In 2011, Mari was named one of Foreign Policy’s top 100 Global Thinkers for “crowdsourcing worldsaving.” Prior to founding GlobalGiving, she worked at the World Bank where she created and managed some of the Bank’s most innovative loans and programs, including founding its innovation engine, the Development Marketplace. Mari currently serves on the boards of GlobalGiving, Mission Investors Exchange, DataKind, the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, as well as on the advisory boards of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, the U.S.-Japan Council, and LISC Jacksonville. In addition to her native Japanese, Mari also speaks Russian, Italian, and French. She earned an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and did graduate work in Russian and Japanese history and politics at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. Mari also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Connect with Mari Kuraishi: Website: https://www.dupontfund.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marikuraishi/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mashenka Connect with Nozomi Morgan: Website: https://www.michikimorgan.com/ Book: In the works Email: team@michikimorgan.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/nozomimorgan YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NozomiMorgan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nozomimorgan/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nozomimorgan/ Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
"There's a different flavor that comes through in your leadership when you lead through the love of getting that thing done that matters to you, then if you are motivated by that love of power or love of money." — Mari Kuraishi
In this episode, Nozomi and Mari discuss:
Key Takeaways:
"I have learned over the years, that liking and respecting the people you work with is a really important component of work satisfaction, even if you theoretically think that the job is cool, but you don't actually like or respect the people, that's not going to work." — Mari Kuraishi
"If each of us really lives our life fully, that always impacts other people. If you do good, indirectly or directly, you’re changing people's lives for the good." — Nozomi Morgan
About Mari Kuraishi: Mari Kuraishi is the president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, leading the Fund's efforts to create communities of belonging for the places and institutions that Jessie Ball duPont knew and loved by fostering inclusive growth and reducing structural and systemic barriers to resources and opportunity.
Prior to joining the Fund, Mari co-founded the groundbreaking crowdfunding philanthropy site GlobalGiving with Dennis Whittle, and served as President until 2018. GlobalGiving connects donors with grassroots projects around the world, providing a vetting platform for donors and training and education for nonprofits. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has connected more than 1.6 million donors to 32,453 projects in more than 175 countries around the world, generating more than $738 million in funding for their projects.
In 2011, Mari was named one of Foreign Policy’s top 100 Global Thinkers for “crowdsourcing worldsaving.” Prior to founding GlobalGiving, she worked at the World Bank where she created and managed some of the Bank’s most innovative loans and programs, including founding its innovation engine, the Development Marketplace. Mari currently serves on the boards of GlobalGiving, Mission Investors Exchange, DataKind, the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, and the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, as well as on the advisory boards of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, the U.S.-Japan Council, and LISC
Jacksonville.
In addition to her native Japanese, Mari also speaks Russian, Italian, and French. She earned an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and did graduate work in Russian and Japanese history and politics at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. Mari also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Connect with Mari Kuraishi:
Website: https://www.dupontfund.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marikuraishi/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mashenka
Connect with Nozomi Morgan:
Website: https://www.michikimorgan.com/
Book: In the works
Email: team@michikimorgan.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nozomimorgan
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NozomiMorgan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nozomimorgan/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nozomimorgan/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.