Kensi Gounden

Kensi Gounden presenting biography of Barbara Jordan (educator, lawyer and politician) was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas Senate and then the first African American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Barbara Jordan was born in Houston, Texas on February 21, 1936. Due to segregation, Jordan could not attend The University of Texas at Austin, and instead chose Texas Southern University, a historically-black institution. After majoring in political science, Jordan attended Boston University School of law in 1956 and graduated in 1959.   Massachusetts bar exam but moved to Tuskegee Institute (later renamed  Tuskegee University ) in  Alabama  and taught there for one year before returning to Texas and became a lawyer there as well. Both as a state senator and as a U.S. congresswoman, she sponsored bills that championed the poor, the disadvantaged and people of color. As a congresswoman, she spons...

Kensi Gounden - Macon Bolling Allen was the first recorded licensed African American lawyer in the United States. He was a self-taught lawyer who gained his knowledge and legal skills by serving as an apprentice and law clerk to practicing white lawyers in the pre-Civil War era. Negros as they were referred to in those times received their training by apprenticeship; however, they could not depend upon the practice of law for a living. They had to work at other crafts. Allen was also known as a businessman, but the nature of the business is not known. Little is known about Allen's early years other than the fact that he was named A. Macon Bolling when he was born a “Free Negro” in Indiana in 1816, the same year Indiana was admitted as the nineteenth state to join the Union. He was listed as “mulatto” race on early census forms. Allen learned how to read and write as he grew up, and his first job in Indiana was that of a schoolteacher. On July 3, 1844, Allen passed the exam and b...

Kensi Gounden presenting the biography of Alan Morton Dershowitz. He is an American attorney, political commentator, and jurist. He has spent the past fifty years practicing the law and is well recognized for handling a number of high-profile legal cases and citatons. As a criminal appellate attorney, Alan has won fifteen, which is a high percentage of the dozens of attempted murder and murder cases he has managed. The attorney has represented several celebrities, which include Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst. His most prominent cases include his role as an appellate consultant in the O.J. Simpson case, and for overturning the conviction of Claus von Bulow in 1984. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties. He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there until his retirement in D...

Kensi Gounden says Innovation relies on inspiration. Keeping yourself motivated to find new sources of inspiration and creativity management is integral in your formula to success. Enjoy these tips to finding new inspiration. 1. Expand your Knowledge Base:   The root of innovation is understanding the products and the market demands that currently exist. Open source education sites such as MIT OpenCourseWare and Harvard Open Courses allow you to expand your knowledge of current trends and remind yourself of tried and true research and development methods. Consider a course adjacent to your interests. For example, innovation is exploding in the biosciences, driven by people with an understanding of genetics and computer science. Software is growing hardware, including jet fuel. Online courses offer you knowledge, and equally as important for innovators, the opportunity to collaborate with other creative thinkers. 2. Use Those Nerves to Your Advantage: Performers call it pre-show...

You don’t need a crystal ball to see that the world of work is changing. According to Kensi Gounden , almost half the jobs people currently perform have the potential to be automated by currently existing technology. It sort of makes you wonder: what kind of work will be left for humans to do? The answer: innovation. Clearly, to thrive in this new world of work will require different skill-sets, mindsets, and tool-sets. Chief among them: the need to bring people together as a team. The need to demonstrate deeper empathy. The ability to get new things done. Innovation in the next economy is about much more than inventing. It’s about figuring out how and where you can add unique value. It’s about how fast you can unlearn, relearn and master new skills. It’s about how you engage others at a deeper, more humanistic and passionate level. Kenseelen Gounden says Here are six critical leadership skills that will help you turbocharge your career in the coming days: 1. You Continuously Embrace ...

The majority of innovation happens in increments. It rarely happens all at once. #kensi #kenseelen #gounden #innovation # kensigounden

Nowadays, technology and digitalization have advanced the way to do the marketing of products and services. The latest technology has come to play its role in a pretty amazing way by confronting the global audience. To combat the eCommerce competition, there is a need to have expert professionals who can analyse every aspect of business marketing and trends. They are marketing consultants, who deliver the services to several businesses to engage their audience positively.  Kensi Gounden  is a marketing consultant expert; he has years of experience to serve all types and sizes of companies. A marketing consultant better knows the way to expand the client base. The need for a profound strategy is always there to achieve business objectives through marketing efforts. Marketing consultant also assists the sale team and work in collaboration and towards the same goal that is to increase revenue. A marketing consultant has productive role in identifying the opportunities with regard...