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37: The Untapped Potential of The Refugee Workforce with Mursal Hedayat

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Multi-award-winning entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Chatterbox, Mursal Hedayat, joins us to discuss why it has become essential to create better support systems for the refugee workforce. A former refugee to the UK from Afghanistan herself, Mursal was inspired to create a platform that could recruit individuals from the large pool of untapped potential from the refugee community. Chatterbox combines AI-powered self-study courses alongisde algorithmically matched native language coaches from the refugee community. While clients can learn from a series of different languages, coaches earn a living and have a chance to reclaim their professional identities. Chatterbox was part of the 2018 WISE Accelerator Cohort and Mursal Hedayat will also be attending the 2019 WISE Summit. -------------------------------------------------- Related links Follow Mursal: @mursalhedayat LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mursalhedayat/ Chatterbox: https://www.chatterbox.io An article by Mursal: https://www.forbes.com/sites