Featured Founder: CRO Tara Berthier
It is these specific ingredients (charisma, deadpan wit, and, most importantly, the foundation of utter sincerity) that make up the special sauce that is Tara and makes her so magnetic as not only a person and friend, but ALSO such a talented agent. She will not waste your time (or more importantly hers) with fluffy verbose or (gasp) BORING email pitches, and she definitely will not pitch you any speaker ideas that she herself is not fully invested in. Tara makes sure that work stays fun, efficient, and, most importantly, FUN.
Featured Founder: CEO Caitie Bradley Shea
Something about Caitie that I admire is that she’s naturally good at sliding into a situation and just fitting in. She doesn’t have to force it. She doesn’t overwork the room. She just has a way of becoming fast friends without imposing herself on others. And she’s patient when it takes time. Once she smoothly coerced me into a working relationship, it easily transitioned into a friendship and I knew she was going to be a part of my life for years to come.
Patricia Arquette tackles public health crises, sexual violence, & climate concerns with compost sanitation
The subject of human waste isn’t exactly a welcome topic in most dining rooms and boardrooms. It’s even a topic that intimate parties—lovers, parents and children—intentionally avoid. While there are many reasons why such a phenomenon exists, let’s just sum it up to the fact that all things surrounding what goes on inside of and that which passes through one’s body is, and should always be, a deeply personal and private matter. But when we turn our attention to how the management of our human excreta directly impacts the daily lives and health of others and ourselves, we’ll notice an urgent need for collective dialogue and problem-solving. What we do with our individual human waste undeniably matters to us all.
AI & Future of Work Expert Mary L. Gray Envisions the End of Ghost Work
“Ghost work” describes work conditions where the value of a person’s contribution to a task or project is not simply devalued but literally erased from what we as end consumers experience. As more and more temporary contracts are listed on online platforms, more and more gig and ghost workers are hired to do knowledge-based project work that often offer low pay, convoluted hiring processes, and minimal-to-no worker benefits.