Rebecca Kirstein Resch is the co-founder of 7 businesses, and 2 non-profits. She’s raised millions in sponsorship dollars, managed a portfolio of real estate investments and negotiated collaborations across sectors and across borders. She’s most proud of her work as the founder of Inqli – an organization dedicated to supporting youth to become who they believe they can be.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there was so much to learn. And when I started my first business we definitely didn’t have the virtual connectivity that we have today. So learning was a real challenge in that I don’t think that I really understood how I learned and I am a very social learner. So that connection component building my network, connecting with people who have gone before me to learn from. Really understanding the landscape of learning”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness Book by Frédéric Laloux
- A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business Book by Mark Barden and Adam Morgan
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life Book by Bill Burnett
- Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? Book by Aaron Dignan
Favourite Quote:
“create what you wish existed”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Designing Your Life – a place where you can get information about the book, links to information about their course at Stanford and its curriculum, and information about upcoming talks and workshops that Dave and Bill will be hosting around the country.
- The Ready’s OS Canvas is a tool for organizational sense-making and reinvention. Each of its twelve dimensions can be used to clarify and provoke the principles + practices that shape your organization and culture.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“stand for something. Really understand what it is the change that you want to make and what you wish existed and really put that out there. Stand for something because you will draw in the others, you will find people that can help you and support you and believe what you believe. So, I think getting really clear on what you stand for and how that manifests in your life and in your business is really the best advice I’ve got”…[Listen for More]
More About Rebecca Kirstein Resch:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.” Elbert Hubbard
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rebecca Kirstein Resch:
- “I don’t think I knew that… I don’t think I really understood how important it was to be really clear and able to articulate my own values as a human being and to be able to do that through the work that I do. To be able to really articulate the values and the purpose of my company and really bring the right people in to that culture”
- “never stop learning. I think every entrepreneur that I admire and respect are all so intellectually humble, aware of what they know and what they don’t know. And how much there is that we don’t know. And really embracing that and just constantly learning in every way that you can because there is so much to learn. You will never be done”
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