How to Build Empathy Across lines of Division with Sophie Tarnowska, founder WeDoSomething.org & Versus
05/20/22 • 35 min
Sophie Tarnowska (She/Her)
Inclusion designer > Empathy builder > Strategic idealist.
Sophie Tarnowska is a strategic idealist and an inclusion designer. Her mission is to build bridges between citizens in order to counter social division and to address systemic social issues, together.
She currently leads the Participant Experience team for C2 International, designing meaningful, brand-aligned experiences for attendees of international conferences around the world.
Sophie is also launching Versus, an empathy-building program aimed at transforming systemic spaces such as schools, workplaces and institutions into dialogue-building middle grounds where citizens can come together across lines of division, to collaborate for social healing.
In 2015, Sophie founded the non-profit WeDoSomething.org with the objective of using bad news to do good things, by being the answer to the question: what can I do to help? WeDoSomething worked with nonprofits to create 18 ‘fun-raisers’ that brought together communities whose paths would never cross otherwise: the homeless with the mortgage-bound, Indigenous with immigrants, refugees with locals. Five years later WeDoSomething has raised awareness and over $150k for small and large organizations, from Doctors Without Borders to Je Passe Partout and the Native Women’s Shelter.
The pandemic has shifted WeDoSomething’s focus towards designing long-term, community and brand-building shared value collaborations between businesses and non-profits that need each other, but do not know one another.
Sophie is a bilingual public speaker, coach and workshop designer and has worked around the world in the pharmaceutical, advertising, and public art industries as well as journalism, to name a few.
514.978.5706
Twitter: @WeDo_Something
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Sophie Tarnowska (She/Her)
Inclusion designer > Empathy builder > Strategic idealist.
Sophie Tarnowska is a strategic idealist and an inclusion designer. Her mission is to build bridges between citizens in order to counter social division and to address systemic social issues, together.
She currently leads the Participant Experience team for C2 International, designing meaningful, brand-aligned experiences for attendees of international conferences around the world.
Sophie is also launching Versus, an empathy-building program aimed at transforming systemic spaces such as schools, workplaces and institutions into dialogue-building middle grounds where citizens can come together across lines of division, to collaborate for social healing.
In 2015, Sophie founded the non-profit WeDoSomething.org with the objective of using bad news to do good things, by being the answer to the question: what can I do to help? WeDoSomething worked with nonprofits to create 18 ‘fun-raisers’ that brought together communities whose paths would never cross otherwise: the homeless with the mortgage-bound, Indigenous with immigrants, refugees with locals. Five years later WeDoSomething has raised awareness and over $150k for small and large organizations, from Doctors Without Borders to Je Passe Partout and the Native Women’s Shelter.
The pandemic has shifted WeDoSomething’s focus towards designing long-term, community and brand-building shared value collaborations between businesses and non-profits that need each other, but do not know one another.
Sophie is a bilingual public speaker, coach and workshop designer and has worked around the world in the pharmaceutical, advertising, and public art industries as well as journalism, to name a few.
514.978.5706
Twitter: @WeDo_Something
Outro: Pitch deck in 60 seconds. We want to thank our sponsor Pitch 2.0 a fully automated pitch creation and monitoring system, so you can focus on your product and not on your deck. Found at www.pitch2point0.com
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Business Not 101 - How to Build Empathy Across lines of Division with Sophie Tarnowska, founder WeDoSomething.org & Versus
Transcript
S2E17_SophieTarnowska WeDoSomething
Olivier: [00:00:00] Find the good news in the bad news to help find the answer to the question. What can I do to help? Hi, I'm your host and today we're joined by Sophie founder of we do something, a strategic idealist and inclusion designer on a mission to counter a social division and address systemic social issues. In this episode, we explored the aha moment up and downs of her journey and so much more.
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