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Morra Aarons-Mele is the host of The Anxious Achiever , a top-10 management podcast that helps people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their leadership. Morra founded Women Online and The Mission List, an award-winning digital-consulting firm and influencer marketing company dedicated to social change in 2010 and sold her businesses in 2021. She helped Hillary Clinton log o...

Barbie Brewer, author of  Live and Let Lead   began her career in Silicon Valley during the  dot.com  boom of the '90s and is now an industry-leading expert in developing critical areas of modern business performance and culture, including remote and hybrid workforces. As Chief Culture Officer at GitLab Inc., Brewer contributed to the all-remote SAS company's growth from 150 employees to over 1,00...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Zeynep Ton is a Practice in the Operations Management group at MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also president of the nonprofit Good Jobs Institute, where she works with companies to improve their operations in a way that satisfies employees, customers, and investors alike. Before joining MIT Sloan, Ton spent seven years on the faculty at Harvard Business School. She is the...

Christina Wallace, a Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School, angel investor, and author of The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build A Life Bigger Than Your Business Card.   A self-described "human Venn diagram," Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. After a decade as a...

LORI R. SACKLER  is a financial advisor, senior vice president and family wealth director at a major financial institution where she leads a wealth management group. Her team is dedicated to helping individuals and families keep up with change, satisfying their financial security, addressing lifestyle and legacy concerns, and successfully guiding them through life's transitions. Sackler is a certi...

  Michael Osborne  is a podcast veteran, with over twelve years of experience as a podcast creator and host. He's the head of 14th Street Studios, a podcast production and marketing firm based in Austin, TX. Michael started his first show while he was finishing his PhD in climate science at Stanford, and, after completing his degree, he spent five years running a podcast incubator for Stanford. Hi...

Genevieve Piturro is all about Purpose and The Human Connection . She was a successful television marketing executive until a sudden inner voice challenged her direction and she dramatically altered the path of her life. She found her true purpose when a simple question from a six-year-old girl in an emergency shelter changed everything. In 2001, she jumped off the corporate ladder and founded the...

Mary-Frances Winters (she/her/hers) is the best-selling author of Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit and We Can't Talk About That at Work! How to Talk About Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics. She is the Founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Inc., a global diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice consulting firm. She came of age during the civil rights...

JENNY TSE Join author, Jenny Tse on a journey through the world of tea as she shares her in-depth knowledge of tea (from harvesting the leaves to types of tea and brewing to tea's health benefits) interwoven with her own story of personal and transformational growth. Shared from an autobiographical perspective with foundations in both science and culture, The Essence of Tea is a very enjoyable rea...

Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world's premier expert on women's leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. She has been inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose ideas have shaped the field of leadership worldwide. She is also ranked number 3 among the world's thought leaders by Global Gurus. Sally's latest book,   Risin...

BREAKING THROUGH Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts, and Change the World   "The world was depending on us. But vaccine skepticism, suspicion around Big Pharma's motives, economic insecurity, political polarization, civil unrest, and just plain fear were challenges we had to recognize and respect. We had to address those challenges in a way that didn't alienate people but, instead, brought t...

Megan Carle spent 30 years rising steadily through the ranks at Nike, finishing her career there as Vice President/General Manager of Basketball for North America, where she drove businesses featuring superstars like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. She was elevated multiple times to roles no woman had ever held, including stints leading international teams in London and Amsterdam. She...

Lisa Bragg is the award-winning entrepreneur behind MediaFace, one of Canada's first content companies and the soon-to-be-published author of Bragging Rights: How to Talk About Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion. Lisa is on a mission to help people talk about their successes. Put your head down, do good work and eventually, someone will notice you is the lesson many of us learned to get ahe...

Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub , a new club for lifelong learners launched in February 2017 (Covey is a small flock of birds). CoveyClub allows women 40+ to bond over issues of interest and concern through virtual salons (Coffee & Conversation Zoom calls) or topics in the CoveyClub blog which is written and produced by the best journalists around the world. Co...

Do you head to work every day feeling as if you're living a lie, in fear of raising your authentic voice because you worry about how others will perceive you? If you're stifling your hopes and dreams in your career—and feel yourself shrinking—you may be ready to embrace your Wild Hair! Tracy J. Edmonds struck out bravely into that uncharted territory in her role as Chief Diversity Officer at a For...

Nicole Gebhardt  is the Founder and Chief Storyteller at Niche Pressworks ( https://nichepressworks.com ), a full-service publishing agency that works exclusively with mission-driven business leaders. She and her mighty team have helped over 200 speakers, coaches, consultants, and influencers expand their influence and grow their business through strategic book planning and publishing.  In this ep...

Donna Griffit, author of STICKING TO MY STORY:  The Alchemy Of Storytelling For Startups , is a world-renowned Corporate Storyteller and Pitch Alchemist. She has helped over 1000 startups, corporates and investors raise over one billion dollars and accelerate their sales with a personal touch and unmatched messaging savvy, in any industry, at any phase.  For more information, please visit  www. Do...

ALI GREENE is co-founder of Remote Works, an organizational design and consulting firm with a mission to liberate teams from the nine-to-five and teach them how to do their best work anytime, anywhere. Along with Tamara Sanderson, Ali Green has spent a combined two decades in distributed workplaces: Greene as the former director of people operations at DuckDuckGo and Sanderson as the director of s...

BETH FISHER-YOSHIDA, PH.D., CCS,  is a global expert and educator in intercultural negotiation and communication. She's the program director of Columbia University's Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, a negotiation consultant for the United Nations, and the CEO of the consulting agency Fisher Yoshida International. She works in the U.S. and worldwide, conducting workshops on...

Karen Dillon is a former editor of Harvard Business Review and coauthor of  The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems — and What to Do About It . She is also coauthor of three books with Clayton Christensen, including the New York Times bestseller  How Will You Measure Your Life?   She and her co-author, Rob Cross interviewed 300 people from 30 global companies, eve...

Christie Garcia is a Leadership Coach, Speaker, Facilitator, Contributor to Forbes Coaches Council, and Founder of Mindful Choice Leadership Academy. She has 19 years of experience in sales, recruiting, and leadership development. For the last decade she has worked with current and upcoming leaders from fast growing organizations including Airbnb, Twitter, Movement For Life, Sunrun, and Oakley. Ch...

Jenna Fisher is committed to finding transformational leaders who can guide companies forward in a changing world. Over the past 20 years, she has developed strong relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape. Having completed more than 400 CFO and board searches, she has a deep understanding of what professional and personal experiences, as well...

Leigh Anne Taylor Knight is a resourceful, future-focused leader who currently serves The DeBruce Foundation in Kansas City as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. A teacher at heart, Leigh Anne has also served as a K-12 assistant superintendent, advised learning institutions across the nation, and led a bi-state consortium providing powerful tools for data-driven educational research t...

Raising your game as a communicator is the best way to make a difference in your career and relationships, but it takes courage to find your voice, open up, and invite others to open up to us. As a life-long communication coach and top gun in her field, Michelle Gladieux has discovered four obstacles keeping us from becoming the best communicators we can be: ·       Hiding: Fear of exposing our su...

Cancel culture. Wokeness. Privilege. When did talking to each other get so…. complicated? The good news: it doesn't have to be this way. New York University scholars—and experts on tough conversations—Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow have literally written the book for people who are terrified of saying the wrong thing in conversations about our differences.  In SAY THE RIGHT THING: How to Talk abo...