Allison explores the themes of growth and change through the use of a fishbowl metaphor. She talks about the importance of innovation, especially post COVID, and encourages the audience to acknowledge that change is inevitable. Dr. Silveus has been working in academia since 2007. She began teaching in 2010 at Tarrant County College, which is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) as a full-time biology faculty member and served on numerous committees from diversity and inclusion co-chair to the mentoring committee. In January 2019, she took a position at her former graduate program, (UNTHSC) University of North Texas Health Science Center-Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. She received her doctorate from Texas Christian University (TCU) in June 2021, after defending a dissertation focused on evidence-based decision-making in medical educators, noting that leadership approaches that adopt network approaches to decision-making base their organizational decisions on contextualized needs data that can justify costs. Her recent publications include work on intersectionality of race/ethnicity, culture and gender identity, imagined identities to in-practice and performed STEM identities for Latina’s in STEM, and recently wrote a book chapter on applying evolution principles to how leaders will adapt for global higher education post-COVID. Her research work on identity later evolved into a business opportunity when she submitted a patent to the USPTO for algorithms she developed to assess bias preferences relative to skill assessment in a virtual simulation. She currently works with Dr. Klyne Smith at the SMU Lyle School of Engineering and mentors his students on this design and buildout of this VR/AI platform when she is not working during the day or playing with her two children (Hadrian, 12 and Emory, 9). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx