Coming Back From COVID

This episode of The SitRoom explores how leaders are approaching “back to work” post-lockdown. We were joined by:

Julia Levitan is a published author and the CEO and President of iCadenza & Cadenza Artists Management. She is a trained opera singer who relates first-hand to the ever-changing challenges facing performing artists. he touched on the state of the music industry under COVID, how it has affected singers and musicians, and how venues are starting to open back up for concerts and live performances.

https://youtu.be/MayDznXlGf0?t=169

Jeremy Furchtgott is a Director at Baron Public Affairs and a member of the Chairman’s Council on China Competition. Jeremy discussed how his Chabad congregation is approaching this issue of getting back to in-person services.

https://youtu.be/MayDznXlGf0?t=983

Michael McAfee is the president and co-founder of Inspire Experiences, a teaching pastor at Council Road Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, and he will touch on how COVID has impacted the church, and how the ministry has continued creating experiences around the bible during the pandemic.

https://youtu.be/MayDznXlGf0?t=1992

Lindsey Lawrence recently joined the Teneo team as our Director of Chapter Life. With experience in community building and large-scale event planning as a Community Director of the WeWork, Lindsey discussed her philosophy on facilitating meaningful human connections.

https://youtu.be/MayDznXlGf0?t=2711

This week’s SitRoom episode covered the COVID vaccine rollout. We were joined by special guests working on the front lines of manufacturing and / or distributing vaccines:

Scott Erwin is the Founder and CEO of Hirehand, a tech company helping fill shifts in dynamic staffing situations. Intelligent matching tech ideal for shifts that change and last minute drops. Hirehand is currently supporting Vaccine rollout in the UK, so Scott has some interesting insight into the logistical situation across the pond.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/scottrerwin

Jump to Scott: https://youtu.be/dzL67bn8Upc?t=166

Matt Michelsen works as an emissary to global investors, corporate executives, and venture capitalists. Matt co-founded multiple companies and currently advises 8VC and Palantir. One biotech company Matt advises has been responsible for manufacturing a large number of COVID tests, and has been also been developing the vaccine on a mass scale.

https://www.gothams.com/team

Jump to Matt: https://youtu.be/dzL67bn8Upc?t=1159

Dr. Alexander J. Lazar is a leading pathologist in Texas (Pathologists diagnose and characterize diseases). He divides his time between clinical practice in cancer genomics / epigenomics and surgical pathology, research, teaching, and consulting. He operates extensively in the biotech and pharmaceutic space consulting for more than 30 companies across this entire ecosystem from Fortune 50 to garage start-up and serve on multiple permanent scientific advisory boards. He is working with one of Matt Michelsen's portfolio companies on COVID testing and vaccines (Curative).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander...

Jump to Dr. Lazar: https://youtu.be/dzL67bn8Upc?t=2699

Jon Harrison is Chief Strategy Officer at COVAXX. COVAXX is developing the world’s first multitope peptide-based vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 to make immunity to COVID-19 accessible to all. COVAXX, through its sister companies in the United Biomedical Group, has already scaled production to 500 million doses/year, and through both internal expansion and a network of global partnerships we will increase that capacity to up to 1 billion doses/year by the end of 2021

https://www.covaxx.com/people

Jump to Jon: https://youtu.be/dzL67bn8Upc?t=2121

In this episode of The SitRoom, we discuss how to influence the levers of power when you're in the minority, and how to think about persuading those with dissenting views.

Stephen Richer is the Maricopa County Recorder in Arizona. Stephen had some interesting run-ins with some Stop the Steal campaigners and is going to share what he learned through that experience.

Don Dyer is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO at PJS of Texas, Inc. He is in part responsible for putting together the campaign to persuade Governor Abbott to reopen Texas more quickly.

Kevin Kiley is a California State Assembly representing the 6th district; he has been leading the recall push against Governor Newsom.

Education Innovation in the Age of COVID

Today’s episode explores the positive and negative impacts that COVID has had on K-12 education from a few different angles.

It’s important to recognize that while culture is upstream from politics, education is upstream from culture. It’s crucial that as a community, we pay close attention to K-12 pedagogy and find ways to support our leaders on the front lines of education. We hope you walk away from this SitRoom with a stronger understanding of the challenges facing K-12 education and the direction it is headed and how you can be part of driving more educational access – yes for our children – but more importantly, for kids across the nation.

Erin Hames, Headmaster of Heritage Prep School in Atlanta

Tommy Schultz, the next President and CEO of the American Federation of Children.

Ray Girn, Founder and CEO of Higher Ground Education

Greg Mauro, serial entrepreneur and visionary. He is a Founder and Managing Partner at Learn Capital, and he's on the board of Higher Ground Education, Bridge International Academies, and several other organizations

Texas Power Crisis

This week we are joined by experts in the fields of energy, infrastructure, and crisis management to help us better understand the situation in Texas:

Dan Kaniewski, Managing Director at Marsh & McLennan Companies and former Deputy Administrator for Resilience at FEMA

Brent Bennett, Policy Director for Life:Powered, a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation

Kyle Stallings, Founder and CEO of Desert Royalty Company, LLC

Bud Brigham, Founder and former CEO of Brigham Exploration Company

Caroline Cochran, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Oklo Inc. (focused on commercializing advanced fission power).

With yesterday’s historic impeachment, the GOP’s identity crisis, and big tech censorship, we decided it would be productive to host another special edition of The SitRoom with several national thought leaders.

Special guests include:

Alex Harris, Partner at Bartlit Beck LLP, Law clerk to Justice Kennedy and then Judge Gorsuch

Alex's post supporting impeachment: https://www.facebook.com/harrisjalex/...

Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University

Rod Dreher, Bestselling author of Live Not By Lies and Senior Editor of The American Conservative

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, CEO of the American Health Policy Institute

Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee

Vivek Ramaswamy, Founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences

Vivek's WSJ Op-Ed: Save the Constitution From Big Tech: https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the...

The Capitol Hill riot. Big tech censorship. Impeachment calls. Parler canceled—and hacked.

In this special edition of The SitRoom, we aim to make sense of this past week with three national thought leaders—all with varying opinions on recent events and where to go from here as a nation and as a movement.

Special guests include:

James Lindsay, bestselling author, "woke" interpreter, and founder of New Discourses

David French, Senior Editor of The Dispatch and author of the new book Divided We Fall

Steve Hilton, host of FOX News Channel’s “The Next Revolution”

Concluding our first season, and some highlights!

This special 100th episode of The SitRoom features:

Niall Ferguson

Yuval Levin

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn

Plus, special guests . . .