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Kara Lindstrom is a neurospicy middle child, intentional leadership design advisor, and creator of the Leadership Tarot deck. Her focus is on (re)connecting people to their own agency and potential through consulting and various tools to better leadership.
She co-founded and managed the transdisciplinary research center, EXCITE at Drexel University, and developed strategic planning and design thinking workshops to advance the Center’s and partners’ missions and collaboration practices. Kara won Technologist of the Year at the 2016 Rad Awards, served as a producer of the Philadelphia Geek Awards (2014 & 2015), and was co-host/organizer of the monthly happy hour Urban Geek Drinks (2015-2020).
In January 2020, Kara launched her consultancy, just in time to support a variety of leaders and their organizations in navigating the mass-reimagining of work that the global COVID-19 crisis brought about.
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The Center provides Philadelphia with educational programs, exhibitions, and a public forum to explore architecture, urban planning, and design, allowing visitors the opportunity to understand how these disciplines affect us all in our daily lives. Using our city’s distinctive breadth of architecture, pioneering urban design, and manufacturing heritage as the foundation for conversation, we educate the public through talks, exhibitions, publications, hands-on workshops, design competitions, festivals, and children’s programming.
The Navy Yard is a 1,200-acre thriving waterfront community, with 8 million square feet of real estate in a mix of historic buildings and LEED® certified new construction oriented around world-class open space. Since 2000, over $1 billion of public and private funding has been invested into the campus to redevelop the Navy Yard into a business campus and innovation hub, attracting over 150 companies employing more than 15,0000 workers and welcoming residents for the first time since the naval base closed. At full build-out, the Navy Yard will support up 20 million square feet of development, 30,000 people, and over $3 billion of private investment. Get connected with the Navy Yard. Website: navyyard.org Facebook: @TheNavyYard Instagram: @navyyardphila
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