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Talia-Milgrom-Elcott - Building Networks To Solve Complex Problems

Mar 18, 2025

Talia Milgrom-Elcott, founder of 100Kin10 and Beyond100K, is dedicated to overcoming the STEM teacher shortage. She shares how she transformed President Obama's vision into reality in record time. The conversation highlights her innovative network approach to solving complex problems by bringing together key stakeholders. Talia emphasizes the importance of collaboration, building genuine relationships, and identifying keystone challenges to maximize impact. With insights from her journey, she advocates for collective action in addressing systemic educational issues.

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Talia Milgrom-Elcott emphasizes that collaboration among individuals tackling similar issues can lead to innovative solutions and significant progress.

Her methodology highlights the importance of identifying high-leverage challenges to focus collective efforts for maximum impact on systemic issues.

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The Power of Relationships in Change Making

Building strong relationships is essential for effective change-making, as emphasized by Talia Milgram Elcott. She highlights that while many people might work on similar issues independently, the real potential for impact lies in bringing these individuals together to collaborate. By creating a community where each participant commits to action and shares their resources, organizations can achieve significant progress. This relational approach fosters an environment that promotes cooperation over competition, leading to innovative solutions to complex problems.

Intro

2min

Exploring Leadership and Collaborative Impact in Education

6min

The Power of Collaboration in Problem-Solving

1min

The Long Game: Building Meaningful Relationships in Impact Sectors

4min

From LA Dreams to NYC Realities

7min

Empowering Change Through Collaboration

28min

In Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech, he called out the need to train 100,000 STEM teachers in 10 years. Hearing that call, Talia Milgrom-Elcott started 100Kin10 and made it her mission to transform President Obama’s vision into reality. Using the insights she shares in this episode, she hit that goal in eight and a half years.

Understanding that complex problems have interconnected roots she took a network approach, bringing together people already working on the key problems to collaborate and apply their collective knowledge to bear to break new ground. Along the way she created a methodology of identifying high leverage “keystone challenges” where efforts will have the most impact.

Today, Talia has expanded the vision to Beyond100k, where she is working to end the STEM teacher shortage by 2043. She also opened up the Starfish Institute where she advises other nonprofits such as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies and many others to solve tough systemic problems.

Beyond100K website: https://beyond100k.org/

The Starfish Institute website: https://beyond100k.org/

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Changemaker Mindset

Talia-Milgrom-Elcott - Building Networks To Solve Complex Problems

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

The Power of Relationships in Change Making

Innovative Problem-Solving Methodologies

Creating a Sense of Agency and Hope

The Long Game in Relationships and Change

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts