America's Inmates -- Leadership Waiting to Be Unshackled

Article by Karl Moore

There is a great deal of natural leadership locked up in America’s prison system. Many inmates have drive, a profit orientation, charisma, and a strong ability to influence. How can they turn those strengths into successful post-prison careers? In this post, we turn to Catherine Hoke, Founder and CEO of Defy Ventures, and learn how Defy is helping to do just that. 

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” –Henry David Thoreau

This May, the C2MTL conference in Montreal invited Catherine to speak about how she has been able to lead this kind of change for people with some of the lowest odds of success.

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