{"id":2811,"date":"2014-01-03T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2015-03-01T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T21:57:39","slug":"interviewing-cheryl-heller-social-innovation-expert-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/interviewing-cheryl-heller-social-innovation-expert-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing Cheryl Heller (Social Innovation \/ Design Genius)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>Your first and biggest job is to know yourself.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/JNian&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Your first and biggest job is to know yourself.&quot;\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> Bio:<\/strong> Cheryl Heller is Chair of the new Masters Program at the SVA, Design for Social Innovation, the founder of Heller Communication Design, and Board Chair of PopTech, a laboratory for disruptive innovation focused on technology and social change. She is a pioneering communication designer and business strategist, and has twice been nominated for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl has been a core faculty member for the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows, mentoring the most exciting social entrepreneurs in the world as they create and scale new models for solving issues around poverty, water, healthcare, energy, and conservation, often through the use of technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"right\"><p>You only fail if you try to force yourself into a role that isn\u2019t natural.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/JNian&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;You only fail if you try to force yourself into a role that isn\u2019t natural.&quot;\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her work in many facets of design as well as advertising, branding, marketing, and writing has given her experience and perspective on every aspect of social innovation from inspiration, creation, incubation, and implementation within the corporate world, non-profits, and foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Heller (Chair of the new Masters Program at the SVA, Design for Social Innovation and Chair of PopTech) explains what many entrepreneurs are doing wrong when it comes to design thinking.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":17974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1510,1517,216,1544],"tags":[1397,450,220,462,331,366,290,1395,311,383,245,355],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-full_interview","category-interviews","category-mentorship","tag-bfp","tag-career","tag-design","tag-impact","tag-innovation","tag-interview","tag-leadership","tag-love","tag-mentorship","tag-starting","tag-values","tag-vid","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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