{"id":54489,"date":"2026-09-29T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/?p=54489"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:28:47","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/2026\/09\/29\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mission Matters<\/em> host Adam Torres recently interviewed our Executive Director, Prof. Najeeba Syeed, as part of the &#8220;Better Business Better World&#8221; podcast series. The focus of the podcast episode was &#8220;Turning Workplace Differences Into Opportunities for Cooperation.&#8221; Together, they discussed conflict resolution, religious diversity, and creating more cooperative and understanding workplaces. <em>Mission Matters<\/em> describes itself as &#8220;in-depth journalism for leaders shaping the future of business, technology, and culture.&#8221; The episode is available on multiple platforms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionmatters.com\/turning-workplace-differences-into-opportunities-for-cooperatio\">Mission Matters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/turning-workplace-differences-into-opportunities-for\/id1498253396?i=1000791672068\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4oO4OVuyUw7TAGfZwFVk70\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nluj5ZmC0L8\">Youtube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54490 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/09\/Episode-797-Najeeba-Syeed-300x169.png\" alt=\"A professional graphic depicts Najeeba Syeed wearing a red hijab, and Adam Torres wearing a business suit, with text describing the episode\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/09\/Episode-797-Najeeba-Syeed-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/09\/Episode-797-Najeeba-Syeed-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/09\/Episode-797-Najeeba-Syeed-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2026\/09\/Episode-797-Najeeba-Syeed.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Matters host Adam Torres recently interviewed our Executive Director, Prof. Najeeba Syeed, as part of the &#8220;Better Business Better &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54491,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54489\/revisions\/54491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/interfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}