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Described as a "modern Renaissance woman and featured as an alumni spotlight by the Center for International Education Exchange (CIEE) for "Inspiring Social Change 2014," Corina is a star facilitator and energizer for your conference events! She's been brought in to hyper charge events from Singapore to Denmark, France to Rwanda integrating a diversity of user experiences to make your events not one to miss!
“Corina's inspiring performance at our UNLEASH opening ceremony empowered all the young talents attending to draw upon the creative arts in their work tackling the SDGs. Through an impressive grasp of what it can teach us about leadership, partnerships, and innovative thinking, she inspired the 1000 talents ahead of their UNLEASH innovation lab journey.”- Flemming Bessenbacher, Chairman of UNLEASH Lab (Denmark)
TEDx talk on jazz in Berlin: As showcased in a TEDx talk on jazz in the city, Corina was brought in to facilitate a multi-media ‘tour guide’ experience for an audience new to jazz and the history of Berlin.
“Brought in to energise and inspire 800+ engineers taking part in the Global Grand Challenges Summit, Corina kicked off the ‘Future Cities panel with a musical energiser alongside representatives from brands such as Accenture, Alibaba and the Institute for Global Prosperity.”-IGP
IGP’s Professor Moore continued the introduction to the session Future Cities: How do we create sustainable living places for 10 billion people? by encouraging us to channel our focus to energy. This was both in terms of the substance of the discussions to come and our contributions to them. “Cities present huge challenges to us, after all, and the new forms of discovery, implementation and knowledge sharing needed to tackle them will take effort and invention. Lucky for us, we had the talent of engineer and jazz vocalist Dr Corina Kwami (Policy Advisor, Royal Academy of Engineering) to show us the way."
“A friend of the IGP, we originally worked with Corina in February 2019 for their conference “SDGeneration – A Citizen Science Movement”, where she performed a repertoire of jazz standards featuring communities and social justice. In the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Corina explained how creativity are the lifeblood of cities, and essential parts to its health.”
Photo above: INSEAD SDG Bootcamp puts MBA students at the intersection of profit and purpose.
”Corina was gentle and empathetic in her approach to coaching and facilitation. This brought a balance to the team - we were all able to chill out a bit and bring our best.” - MBA student at INSEAD
The Blues in Black & White, a multi-media performance installation in collaboration with Natasha Kelly: Corina was brought into bring a musical experience to celebrate the life and work of Afro-German poet, May Ayim. Performed at the Hallesches am Ufer Theatre in Berlin and the Ausland Festival in Berlin.