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Today in the guest chair is Lisandra Rickards. Lisandra Rickards is Chief Entrepreneurship Officer at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship \u2013 Caribbean, where she has developed and delivered scaled initiatives to thousands of Caribbean entrepreneurs. As CEO, she spearheaded the Centre\u2019s strategy to support growth-stage entrepreneurs towards investment, raised funding for the expansion of the Centre\u2019s mission, and relocated its headquarters from Montego Bay to Kingston.She previously headed the Programmes department \u2013 developing equity, loan, crowdfunding and grant opportunities, designing and developing the core content for the Centre\u2019s free and open online platform, helping to launch the Alpha Angels Network of business angels in Jamaica, as well as impact analysis and reporting. Before joining the Branson Centre, Lisandra conducted economic and statistical research for the best-selling books Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics; consulted for the Ministry of Finance in Jamaica; worked at Bain & Company in New York City; and has helped develop a global brand strategy for Caribbean conglomerate GraceKennedy. She was previously a Director of Business Development at the RMP Group, a private investment firm based in Orlando, Florida that targeted businesses in the United States currently servicing Fortune 1000 clients for investments of growth capital.Lisandra has an MBA with First-Year Honors from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Student Marshal. In 2008, she was featured in the CNBC documentary The Money Chase: Inside Harvard Business School.

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Links mentioned on this episode

• LisandraRickards.com
• Branson Centre
• Law of Attraction Planner
• Mixergy interview with Jeff Pulver
• Kaneisha Grayson - The Art of Applying
• Jack Kornfield - The Beginner\u2019s Guide to Meditation

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