“How protectable your work is, is really important to know.”
Christina Martini on Green Connections Radio
If your holiday break and new year plans include exploring starting or growing your “side hustle” or hobby, you’ll want to listen to this interview with Green Connections Radio podcast with veteran intellectual property (IP) lawyer Christina Martini on how to protect it.
So, grab a notepad and pen or your tablet or laptop to take notes and dive into for practical tips from both Martini and GCR host Joan Michelson.
You’ll learn:
- Why your employer might own your side hustle.
- What to do to protect your product or budding business including from your employer.
- How to collaborate and protect your IP (and how to share it).
- The do’s and don’ts of a non-disclosure/confidentiality agreement (NDA)
- Dealing with infringements.
Plus…career tips and more!
“It’s critically important to be self-aware and to…understand what type of work environment is going to align best with your interests and your talents…for you to thrive.”
Christina Martini on Green Connections Radio
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Read my Forbes blog about this topic here. And, check out these interviews too:
Nardia Haigh on 7 step decision making – for your career, your business, your life or even making your community more resilient.
Marti Elder, TechLink, brings inventions from the Defense Dept. to market.
Charlotte Burrows, Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, on legal options for pay equity, harassment and discrimination inquiries.
April Richards, EPA, on funding start-ups, including with their grants.
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Joan Michelson, MBA is a highly accomplished business leader and award-winning strategic social impact and ESG – environment, social, governance – leader, who drove breakthrough results at Chrysler (in EVs), American Express and Deloitte, small businesses, and government agencies. She is an instructor on ESG issues to professionals, leaders and board members across industries. Her specialties include leveraging ESG solutions and partnerships strategically for maximum benefit, helping organizations recruit innovative, diverse women, and helping these women thrive in their careers. She is based in the Washington D.C. area.
Joan is also an accomplished journalist who has worked with top media organizations and hosts and produces the acclaimed Electric Ladies podcast (formerly known as Green Connections Radio), about innovation and leadership in energy-, climate- and sustainability-related issues across industries, featuring women experts.
She writes regularly for Forbes on these issues and has also been in the Harvard Business Review, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Greenbiz, The New Economy magazine (distributed at the World Economic Forum), New Thinking magazine, regional business journals; and various other media. She coproduced segments with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” ABC News, and “The Crusaders,” and television specials on NBC.
Joan has spent her career working in energy-sustainability-climate-ESG issues and in marketing communications, including as head of communications and co-leader of the sales and marketing team of Chrysler’s Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), driving “best year ever” growth and significantly accelerated the adoption of electric vehicles. Prior to GEM, she led marketing communications efforts to high-net-worth and high-visibility clients in management consulting-financial services companies Deloitte and American Express. She's a native of NYC and has a BA from UCLA, an MBA from Baruch College at City University of NY, and post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School, The New School and The Aspen Institute, among others. She has a Sustainability and ESG certification from Competent Boards.
