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Well-being, Tech, Culture
Initiating Mental Health Education in High School
With depression and anxiety on the rise in adolescents and suicide being the #2 leading cause of death in people ages 15-24, having a strong mental health support system is especially crucial in high schools. Misconceptions about mental illness start within homes and...
Role of Coaches During a Global Pandemic: How Can You Best Support Your Athletes?
COVID-19 has had obvious repercussions on what used to be considered everyday norms for athletes - programs like training camps, sports practices, and athletic centers have all been either shut down or compromised, causing loss of jobs, loss of spirit within the...
Encouraging Your Athletes: Pillars Of Success
The New York Times reports that the total amount of children engaging in team sports has decreased by over 10% in the past decade. In addition, 80% of youth athletes end up quitting sports by the age of 15. What has caused these drastic decreases? Over time, sports...
Is IBM right to end facial recognition business?
Can tech help us stay healthy? An update on computer vision and analysis.
A few days ago, Gregory did a presentation to the Boulder Transtech group on the latest advances in computer vision. The presentation covered not just the tech but also the challenges these technologies present and how much bias can take our algorithms down the wrong...
Using Geo-data to map your team’s wellbeing
How can you use geo-intelligence to create healthier teams? Smart companies gain an edge over their competition by creating stronger work environments. Doing so requires the power to identify vulnerable groups, keep a sense of community, and quickly monitor...
Tips and Tricks for Online Presentations
We're living in challenging times! Foremost of these challenges, is the fact that the physical connection is lost, which means that it will be difficult to properly interact with others for a while. As many people turn to online tools for education and presentations,...
Tips for pros wanting to use Video or Web Conferencing
This current epidemic presents all of us with novel challenges. Even though people direly need your services, more and more the physical connection is lost. It means that it will be difficult to accurately assess those who are in need help and support. We cannot...
How to stay mentally and physically fit when working from home?
As the Corona virus spreads its fangs globally, more and more people are thrown into a new reality of Working From Home (WFH) or if you are a student Studying From Home (SFH). Given our experience with remote work I’ve put together some suggestions to make sure you...
How Does Founder Burnout Impact A Start-Up Growth?
How Does Founder Burnout Impact A Start-Up Growth? Are you an extremely determined person who’s set on focusing on your start-up's growth? There are high chances that at a certain point, you’ll face the founder’s burnout. Founder burnout happens when you overlook your...
How does medical-school burnout impact Universities’ operations?
Before diving into the impacts of students’ burnout on the university at large, let’s quickly define what we refer to when talking about student burnout. It is essentially the state where the student is grasped with unprecedented distress that eventually leads to...
L’école pleinement : La prévention du stress dès le plus jeune âge
Des semaines bien chargées Les enfants et adolescents sont aujourd’hui soumis à plus de pression sociale et scolaire que jamais. Une étude menée par l’UNICEF en 2013 auprès de 22 500 jeunes en France note que 17% des enfants sont en profond mal-être social; 45% sont...
All algorithms are biased: Okaya’s principles to address this problem
At Okaya we are fully aware of the impact that our software can have on individuals, enterprises, and wellbeing professionals. We take this responsibility with deep commitment. As our AI technology grows, we follow several principles that act as beacons in an...
Book review: Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
How does a brand rise to the top and become iconic? Phil Knight's memoir of how he took Nike from an idea all the way to being one of the most known brands in the world is an incredible read. You feel that you are part of the action, inside the intrigues, and...
Book review: Stress Less, Accomplish More
In this podcast, we take a look at Emily Fletcher's book (as well as website) Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance This book offers many interesting perspective on why we need to change our view and approach to meditations, as well as...
Book Review: Homeless to Billionaire: The 18 Principles of Wealth Attraction
This week I review: Homeless to Billionaire: The 18 Principles of Wealth Attraction from Andres Pirla. This is a great book, based on deeply rooted examples of how the author managed to get himself out of living homeless to becoming a wealthy business owner in...
Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese? and I Moved Your Cheese
In today's book review we look at not just one, but two great reads that complement each other. Each book takes under and hour to read. You can find these books at your friendly local library or directly at Amazon:
Challenges of Running a Student Club at a University
If you are a college student and passionate about a certain hobby, sport, or activity, the University usually allows you to create a Student Organization. As a student there are many hoops that you need to jump through, and need to know about if you are thinking...
Wondering how a computer understands your facial features?
Barely a day goes by without a blog, article, or tv segment about the rise of computer vision. And let's be honest, most of the time these pieces of content are focusing on the potential pitfalls of the technology. How Does it work? What these articles fail to mention...
Algorithms are biased because we are. Are we willing to change?
Here is a link to my presentation during the Intel's Global IoT DevFest IV 2019. Algorithms are biased because we are. Are we willing to change? from Gregory Menvielle
Is wellbeing the new selection factor for choosing a company?
Well-being, the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy. Since the beginning of the week, the World Health Organization has recognized burnout as a disease. This state of being, which previously was commonly used without real definition, is today qualified as a...
Time is the only thing you can never get back
Fear not, I am not going to write about Endgame and spoil the movie for the 3 people on earth who have not seen it yet! Rather let’s focus on why understanding how we manage our time can make a tremendous impact on our businesses. Whether we are wellbeing...
Entrepreneurship lessons from Free-Solo
I was going to blog about the importance of scheduling everything in your calendar. But you know what, it will wait for another week because I’d rather talk about Free-Solo. Yes, Free Solo. The movie that just won an Oscar and relates the story of Spock, Alex Honnold,...
A story about AI, Clouds and Edges
Artificial Intelligence is (becoming) omnipresent in our everyday lives. Object recognition in images, natural language processing, speech recognition...AI is in our pockets, homes and vehicles. It feels like having super-powers! (AI super-powers) Let’s take a...