Harvard Club of Mexico

Bringing Harvard LATAM together

Thursday June 25th, 3:00 to 5:00 PM EST / 2:00 to 4:00 PM Local Time (Mexico City)

Innovation and Problem Solving in Uncertainty | Virtual Workshop  View the pdf invitation

Be part of the solution. You are invited to an honest conversation in a safe space on ways we can support each other to solve big problems with solutions as a Harvard Club community facing COVID-19. Engage with other Harvard Clubs leadership, advisors, experts, and alumni.

Hosted by the Harvard Club of Mexico in partnership with Harvard Clubs and Harvard alumni across the Latin America and Caribbean region.
 
Includes an online workshop and support network facilitated by Jimena Fernández AB ’91, President of the Harvard Club of Mexico and Philip Harding, ALB ‘12 MPP’ 14, cofounder of Impact Junkie. This session equips you with a proven problem-solving method and tools to love people, go places, and change lives.
•    Guided online session with live instruction and virtual networking across the region.
•    Networking across the Harvard Clubs including breakout rooms and discussion topics.
•    Digital workbook with exercises to help you move from problem to solution. View here. 
•    Downloadable resources: four case studies and three marketing tools.
 
AGENDA
3:00 p.m. Opening Remarks

                Jimena Fernandez, President of Harvard Club of Mexico

                Christopher Landau, United States Ambassador to Mexico
3:15 p.m. Innovation and Problem Solving in Uncertainty | Impact Junkie Framework. Includes instruction, reflection, discussion, and networking.
3:20 p.m. Part one: Everything is changing, but what remains the same? You
3:45 p.m. Part two: Take inventory of what you have. Love people
4:15 p.m Part three: Do more with you’ve been given. Go places
4:45 p.m. Part four: Map out your next move. Change Lives
5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks + Taking action together.

PARTICIPANTS
Harvard Club Presidents, Harvard Alumni Contacts, board members, and members of the following Clubs and regions: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Monterrey, Paraguay, Panama, Peru. Harvard Club of the United Arab Emirates is invited as well. Other observers and guests of members are welcome to participate.

ORGANIZERS

Jimena Fernandez, President Harvard Club of Mexico

After graduating from Harvard College, Jimena lived and worked in New York City, Paris and Hong Kong, before returning to Mexico City, her home country. After years in consulting, academia and working in the technology industry, she made a transition to the public sector working for the Ministry of Finance. She is interested in social and environmental impact, and enjoys hiking and sailing with her family and playing the violin.

Philip Harding, ALB ‘12 MPP’ 14

After completing his undergrad and graduate studies at Harvard, Philip served as a Senior Advisor in the United States Government on innovation for $18 billion in modernization projects - from the White House to the Pentagon. As cofounder of IMPACTJUNKIE, he helps entrepreneurs, investors, and governments solve the biggest, hairiest, most audacious problems in the world through impact training and investment projects. He is an international speaker with the U.S. State Department, mentor at the Harvard iLab, and designer / instructor for a required course on innovation and problem-solving in healthcare at Johns Hopkins University. He was the first distance student ever elected a Harvard student president while living in California. He later became Harvard-wide student president and gave the graduate commencement address “A Kind of Destiny” (watch here) in Harvard Yard.

Contact Jimena Fernandez, President of Harvard Club of Mexico for more information: Jimenafernandez@post.harvard.edu

Unete al Harvard Club México:  Linked in Group:  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13689189/