Learning in a Time of Coronavirus Nearly 300 million students worldwide are home from school in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. According to the United Nations, 23 countries on 3 continents have had varying degrees of school closings. In some countries, including Hong Kong, schools are being closed for almost an entire …
Konversation with Life Coach, Author, & Speaker Amy McCann This week’s Konversation is an interview with our Global Small Business (GSB) partner Amy McCann of Amy McCann Coaching. Amy is a high-performance life coach for individuals and businesses, author, motivational speaker, and mother living in Manchester, New Hampshire. Amy’s story is a powerful and inspirational …
Konversation with Hindi Teacher Geetanjali Dhar This week’s Konversation is with Global Small Business (GSB) partner Geetanjali Dhar, founder of Hindi language school Sanskriti Global, based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Geetanjali was AmCham Women of Influence’s 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year and is transforming Hindi language learning. Anyone looking to learn Hindi in a …
Konversation with Ayurveda Health Coach Sumita Vasudeva This week’s Konversation is an interview with GSB partner Sumita Vasudeva, founder of Omni Wellness. Sumita is an Ayurveda health coach. For our readers who are not familiar with Ayurveda, it is an ancient Indian body of wisdom that views health and wellbeing as holistic. It emphasizes prevention …
College Students MUST Network Last week, Konversai’s CEO & Founder Sushma Sharma spoke at an orientation for Master’s students in statistics at Columbia University on networking and time management. In this week’s post, you’ll find Sushma’s nuggets of wisdom on networking for students. (Stay tuned for a future post discussing her useful time management tips.) …
Konversai recently launched its Global Small Business (GSB) Partnership Program, where small businesses are joining our platform to connect with our exponentially growing user base (all potential clients), easily manage payment and scheduling, and access a variety of services for their personal and professional needs. Over the next few weeks, our Konversations series will be …
2019 Top-10 Book Review: Guest Post by Ajit Singh Every year, Konversai advisory board member and passionate bibliophile Ajit Singh writes a review of his top-10 books of the year. Genres featured in this book list include fiction, memoir, philosophy, management/economics, history/politics, science, and mathematics. If you’re looking for some good reads, this guest blog …
Christmas Traditions Around the World Christmas is an integral part of the holiday season. Albeit celebrated chiefly to celebrate God coming into the world to atone for humanity’s sins, its manner of celebration differs from culture to culture. In the United States, the “Christmas season” kicks off after Thanksgiving; Black Friday becomes the avenue of …
Our Children’s Safety Should Not Be So Hard Guest Post by Anusha Shrivastava, PhD Konverser Anusha Shrivastava shares her perspective on children’s safety in light of the recent tragedy at Barnard College. My Twitter feed was flashing alerts about a tornado approaching my son’s college campus. I texted him. No response. I called. Radio …
Konversation with Flamenco Dancer Maya de Silva Chafe For this week’s Konversation, we interviewed flamenco dancer Maya de Silva Chafe from New York, NY. Maya has been practicing the elegant art of flamenco for 40 years, and she has been teaching it for over 30, both in person and on Konversai. She has directed and …