Posts Tagged ‘HUB’

[HUB WORKBENCH] Building a Good Company Series Part 4: Sustaining the Planet

HUB | WHEN: March 13th, 6:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: How can we build companies that measure results in terms of sustainability and positive impact on communities? This five part course is an intensive experience that provides entrepreneurs and executives with the concepts, tools and strategies needed to build enterprises that address economic as well as social and environmental needs. Through a series of lectures and exercises, this course will help you build a plan for creating or transforming your business.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] How to Create a TED Worthy Presentation

HUB | WHEN: March 13th, 5:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: We are living in a world where Steve Jobs was a modern-day hero, Al Gore won an Oscar for his Inconvenient Truth presentation and the TED conference is the place everyone wants to be each year. This class is will teach techniques that can be used across a variety of platforms – whether you are doing a company presentation, pitching to an investor/client or speaking at TED.

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HUBMASTERS - Pitch & Public Speaking Practice

HUB | WHEN: March 12th, 19th, 26th - 6:30 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Become a HubMaster! Join fellow Hub members and improve your public speaking skills for presentations, social events and in everyday conversation!

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HUB Media Lab Informational Session

HUB | WHEN: March 12, 5:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: The HUB Media LAB has launched! A partnership between HUB Bay Area and San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking, the HUB Media Lab is a space for media mavens, filmmakers, artists, storytellers & changemakers to amplify the stories that will move people, and change the world.

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Letter Lounge: Snail Mail Therapy

HUB | WHEN: March 12th, 12:30 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St. | Details: Hello Me: Mid-Month Creative Booster-shot Did you once fall in love with an Argentinean on a backpacking trip over the Great Wall of China? When you went to Grandma’s house for the summer, who was that sweet little girl on the next farm over? Remember Manny; you were interns together that first summer out of college? Do you wish you were closer to your cousins on your mother’s side? How many times this year have you thought about _____?

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Strategic Business Design for Growing Social Enterprises

HUB | WHEN: Feb 27th, 5 - 6:30 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Craft your company’s vision with specific, measurable goals.  Design and foster a culture that aligns with your values.  Optimize operations.  Create and manage appropriate financial systems.  Make a marketing plan that works for you. Participants will leave the workshop with enough guidance to begin to plan and implement a strategy for their business to help grow their organization to be able to deliver more of their goods and services and do it in a way that keeps them healthy and joyful.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Intro to Design Thinking

HUB | WHEN: Feb 19th, 5 - 7 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Interested in learning how creative companies give birth to new ideas and turn those ideas into innovative services and products? Then this is the class for you! In a short, high-paced session we will introduce the concepts of design-thinking as they’re taught at the Stanford d. school and elsewhere.  This is a hands on, project-based class taught by past and current d. school d. Leaders using design-thinking in different professional industries.

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Screening of ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ & Wine Down

HUB | WHEN: Feb 15th, 6 - 9 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Father of Nerds at the HUB “I just wanted to say that I’m a Nerd, and I’m here tonight to stand up for the rights of other Nerds.” We all know the movie. The Nerds, the Jocks, and of course, the altruistic ending speech… ”I’m a Nerd.” On Friday, February 15, the HUB will screen Revenge of the Nerds, the classic 80’s film about inclusion, because we’re really all Nerds.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Money and Meaning

HUB | WHEN: Feb 12th, 3:30 - 5:00 PM | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: How do yoga, meditation, and contemplative practices relate to impact investing and mission-driven entrepreneurship? What are some simple and effective techniques that individuals can use on a day-to-day basis to improve clarity, health, and mental focus? How do spiritual practices inform the work we are doing to address social and environmental challenges?

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