848: Peter Simek, part 1: EarthX's CEO

About this episode

Joshua Spodek interviews Peter Simek about leadership and sustainability efforts at EarthX.

I met Peter in person at a local (Manhattan) event that EarthX hosted for media people. I was invited for hosting this podcast. We spoke about leadership and sustainability. We focused on crossing political boundaries. We shared about our successes in these efforts, how important we consider such tactics and strategies, and how much that success is missing in the US. He invited me to participate in this year's conference, as you'll hear in our conversation. I wrote back that I don't fly, so I'd like to but transportation would be a challenge. I didn't say that I consider conferences that dozens to thousands of people fly to counterproductive because I didn't yet know enough about the conference or him, but I offered a few ways to make it work. You'll hear more in the conversation, but I suggested to him what I've suggested to a couple other conference organizers. If enough people who were flying might switch to a chartered bus, I could help that process. Tune in to hear our conversation on that topic. Also, you'll learn more about EarthX, Peter's relationship with EarthX and why they brought him on, and his start of the Spodek Method. As often happens, it seemed like it couldn't…

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Spodek

Guest: Peter Simek

Topics covered

• leadership
• sustainability
• political boundaries
• EarthX
• Spodek Method

Keywords

• sustainability
• leadership
• EarthX
• conference
• Spodek Method

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EarthX

Places: Manhattan

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