Lavin Voices

America is now 250 years old. How did we get here—and where are we going next? This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Jelani Cobb: Peabody Award-winning journalist, Dean of Columbia Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and author of Three or More Is a Riot. Jelani has spent his career helping audiences understand the forces shaping American democracy—f...

Women are on an uneven playing field at work and at home—which means the companies that help them thrive will unlock a lasting advantage over the competition. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Wharton professor Corinne Low , author of Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and How to Get the Most Out of Yours . A "40 Under 40" MBA professor, Corinne has spent her career helping...

Can AI be your coach? Or even... your friend? One tech journalist explains how a 10-week experiment with AI turned into a relationship that changed everything. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Alexandra Samuel : tech journalist and AI workplace expert, contributor to The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review , and author of multiple books on workplace tech....

“I've often been called the Black Mirror correspondent, because that's what this is,” says Jacob Ward . For seven years, Jake was the on-air technology correspondent for NBC News, covering the monumental rise of AI for millions of mainstream viewers of NBC Nightly News and The Today Show . His influential book, The Loop , is credited with being one of the first to predict the rise of comme...

Work can be fun, says Bree Groff. In fact, work should be fun! And enjoying our workdays will make us not only more productive, but also more human. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Bree Groff . Bree is a workplace culture expert and author of Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously) . A hotly in-demand consultant and keynote speaker, Bree has worked with organiza...

"If you keep moving forward, things will get better." Nick Thompson is the CEO of the Atlantic and the former editor in chief of Wired; he's also an American record-holding distance runner. In his new memoir, The Running Ground, Nick philosophizes on what running can teach us about life, work, resilience, confidence, commitment, focus, and good habits. "The effort is what you re...

When was the last time you played? Not just playing a video game or a sport, where the goal is to win, but just playing for play's sake? This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Cas Holman . Cas is a world-renowned toy designer who's been featured on Netflix's award-winning series Abstract: The Art of Design . She's also the author of Playful (out today!), whic...

Every day, you play a game you don't even know you're playing. Daycare slots, good jobs, medical care, concert tickets: all these are allocated through a powerful phenomenon called " hidden markets ." And by understanding their rules, you can make them work for you. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Judd Kessler. Judd is a Wharton professor who has sp...

Bruce Lee rose to prominence at the same time as Asian America. And in doing so, he changed all of our lives. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Jeff Chang . Named "a preeminent chronicler of Asian American history" ( Publishers Weekly ), Jeff is a celebrated social historian whose powerful work on culture and history helps us better understand our country and...

The AI revolution will have consequences for our democracy. But there's still time to take the power into our own hands. This week on Lavin Voices , we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Karen Hao , author of Empire of AI and one of the 2025 TIME100 AI. As the first journalist to ever profile OpenAI, Karen is a long-time Silicon Valley insider who has spent years investigating the most consequent...

The robots are coming… and they can’t get here soon enough. This week on Lavin Voices, we talk to Lavin Exclusive Speaker Hans Peter Brondmo. As the founder of Everyday Robots at Google, Hans Peter has spent decades helping to make AI-powered robots that will tackle our biggest societal problems and free us up to find more purpose, serve our communities, and, ultimately, be more human. A thoughtfu...