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Megan Keyser is a soloprenuer, digital nomad, and founder of luxury branding agency, Skapande Creative Co.

Skapande Creative Co. Links:

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Personal:

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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 1,000 in more than 60 countries. She was Vice President of Talent for Netflix when the streaming service expanded from 20 million subscribers to over 150 million. Learn more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjbrewer/ ,www.barbiejane.com

Why Remote Work Can Change Both the Workplace and the World

This is a segment about why remote work, and the diversity it allows, is good for business—and good for the world.

The big idea: Remote work might have been a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, but forward-thinking companies now recognize its potential to transform the workplace by helping employees achieve better work-life balance and by breaking down boundaries.

The so-what: All businesses benefit from diversity, and the remote workplace, by eliminating geography in hiring decisions, can open the entire world of talent to hiring managers.

Key messages:

• Rather than pushing back against remote work now that the pandemic has eased, forward-thinking companies recognize its benefits to their business and the world at large.

• Remote work allows employees more time to nurture their lives outside the workplace, bring those talents to their community, and live happier, more balanced lives.

• Remote work means that rather than relying on talent within the business' geographic area or potential employees' willingness to relocate, companies can hire the best people regardless of where they live.

• This also means that businesses can bring opportunities to all corners of the world, allowing employees to remain engaged with and keep their talents in their communities, strengthening those as well.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

· https://www.facebook.com/barbiejane/

· https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjbrewer/

· https://twitter.com/BarbieJBrewer

· Hashtags: #LeadandLetLive

· www.barbiejane.com

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 author of The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits and The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay and Meaning to Everyone's Work.

From healthcare facilities to call centers, fulfillment centers to factories, and restaurants to retail stores, companies are struggling to find or keep workers, because the jobs they offer are low-paying, stressful, and provide little chance for growth and success.

In THE CASE FOR GOOD JOBS: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work, Zeynep Ton, MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on the good jobs strategy and co- founder of the nonprofit, Good Jobs Institute, lays out plainly what most companies and leaders are doing wrong—and provides a blueprint for how to get it right.

While many leaders want to provide good jobs—that pay more, provide dignity and meaning in people's work, and offer opportunities for growth—most don't know how to start, or they don't think it can be done without hurting the bottom line. Most want to win with customers but are hobbled by a host of service and operational problems largely driven by high employee turnover—which is partly driven by the low pay.

It is indeed a vicious cycle. In THE CASE FOR GOOD JOBS, Ton provides a way out: why good jobs

combined with strong operations lead to higher productivity and increased competitiveness for the business, positioning organizations for future success.

In this follow-up to her previous book, The Good Jobs Strategy, Ton examines the "why" and "how" of the good jobs system—to help leaders and managers overcome the disconnect between recognizing a better model, and having the courage to implement it. Now more than ever— in a post-pandemic world, where baby boomers are retiring, people are having fewer children, and immigration is on the decline— employees and job seekers may have the cards in their favor for a while, a trend that will lead to rising wages.

· Why market wages aren't enough and the case for raising frontline worker pay

· Employee turnover: what drives it and how it costs companies more than most executives

think. Various aspects of a high-turnover system including lack of trust between workers and

executives, work overload and understaffing, lack of autonomy, and low expectations

· Why higher pay for workers doesn't mean higher prices for customers. How H-E-B, Costco,

Sam's Club, Quest Diagnostics and others have embraced the good jobs system to drive

competitiveness.

· The good jobs system with two mutually dependent components: (1) heavy investment in

people, (2) an operational model that helps workers be more productive and serve customer

better

· Differences in mindsets between good jobs and bad jobs systems

· Why involvement of upstream functions such as product design, marketing, and logistics are

necessary to adopting a good jobs system

· The biggest obstacles to adopting a good jobs system and how courageous leaders have

overcome them

· How to make large investments in labor in stages so that they begin to pay for themselves

· Why system change is less risky than what company leaders think

· Why automation and trends in labor markets including rising minimum wage, fair scheduling,

an aging workforce, rise of employee voice make the good jobs system more attractive _____________________________________________________________________________

Given this, organizations that stay with the status quo—which is expensive financially, competitively, and ethically— will see labor costs rise with the market, but employee turnover won't improve, and employees output will remain the same, since the job is the same.

With practical advice and case studies from companies that are doing this right, THE CASE FOR GOOD JOBS provides leaders with the blueprint they need to choose excellence by providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth both for their employees and their organization.

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 serial entrepreneur, she joined the faculty of Harvard Business School where she is the course head of the first-year entrepreneurship class and runs the HBS Startup Bootcamp. Her latest book is The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build A Life Bigger Than Your Business Card (Hachette, April 2023).

A frequent public speaker on topics including entrepreneurship, failure, and women in tech, Christina is also known for her viral TED talk on using a sales funnel for online dating and her TEDx talk about portfolio careers and the future of work. A business and creative non-fiction writer, she co-authored New to Big (Penguin Random House, 2019), a book about corporate innovation, with David Kidder and has been published in Forbes, Quartz, the Detroit Free Press, Time, and ELLE, among others. An enthusiastic-yet-mediocre marathoner and erstwhile mezzo soprano, Christina lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA:

· http://www.christinawallace.com/

· https://www.portfoliolife.com/

· https://www.instagram.com/cmwalla/

· https://twitter.com/cmwalla/

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

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 certified investment management analyst, a certified financial planner and non-practicing certified public accountant. She is the author of The M Word: The Money Talk Every Family Needs to Have about Wealth and Their Financial Future, published in 2013 by McGraw Hill and The M Word Journal: How to Have the Money Talk released in 2016. She is the creator and former host of the radio show "The M Word" on WOR in New York City.

Book: THE M WORD: The Money Talk Every Family Needs to Have about Wealth and Their Financial Future, 2nd edition

MONEY. It's still the elephant in every family's living room. Planning for a family's future often prompts a total breakdown in communication, causing lasting damage. Statistics show most families fail to successfully transfer assets from one generation to the next, resulting in not only a loss of assets but a loss of family harmony.

In THE M WORD (Meridian Editions; April 4, 2023) first published in 2013, radio personality and financial advisor Lori Sackler introduced the concept of "Money Talks:" mindful conversations that help families communicate dispassionately about money matters through all of life's transitions — changes in financial circumstances, remarriage and merging families, retirement, preparing heirs, and transferring wealth. Since she introduced them a decade ago, Sackler's "Money Talks" have become widely accepted throughout the personal finance industry as important and necessary. Today, the need for improved money communication has even become a meme in popular culture, finding its way into films and songs. But increased awareness of the problem she highlighted still hasn't resulted in widespread adoption, and the public discourse only touches the surface without providing real actionable solutions.

In addition, the dramatic societal and economic changes that have taken place in the past few years have made the need for solutions even greater. In this new edition of her classic book, THE M WORD, Sackler has updated not just her exploration of the problem but her solutions in light of the rising costs of living, the pandemic-related changes in many industries, the prioritizing by many young people of work-life balance over income, the historic levels of anxiety among our youth, the stressful polarization of American society, and the increasingly uncertain global environment.

THE M WORD will change the way families view, spend, and transfer assets, wealth, and family values. Readers will learn how to approach the thorniest of subjects without anxiety or stress, and families will reap the benefits of secure financial planning for generations to come. Using the author's five-step action plan to successfully prepare for, initiate, and execute the "Money Talk," families will:

· Understand why the money talk is so important and so hard,

· Determine the transitions your family is facing and the topics and issues that need to be addressed,

· Overcome the roadblocks that can keep families from communicating,

· Prepare yourself and your family — logistically and psychologically — for the money talk,

· Pick the right professionals to guide you through a complex financial world,

· Create a process for repeated talks that can keep your families and finances intact.

THE M WORD destigmatizes conversations around money and provides a blueprint for families to communicate honestly and calmly about financial planning.

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. His most recent podcast is called "Famous & Gravy – a conversation about quality of life, one dead celebrity at a time." 14th Street Studios specializes in creative development and podcast marketing for individuals and organizations.

Websites:

14th Street Studios

Famous & Gravy

Socials:

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076654703402

LinkedIn links

Famous & Gravy

Michael Osborne

Twitter handles

@famousandgravy @osbornemc

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 hugely successful national non-profit, Pajama Program. This year, the Program celebrates its 22nd anniversary, having delivered more than 7 MILLION magical gifts of new pajamas and new books to children through its 42 chapters across the U.S.

Genevieve is now an inspirational speaker and purpose consultant inspiring individuals, groups, and companies to find their purpose & embrace the human connection for success. She created the Purpose ACER business training program to help leaders create a shared culture by aligning the goals of the company and management with the goals of its employees.

Her first book, sharing life and leadership lessons she learned through her Pajama Program journey, is an Amazon best seller and the winner of five (5) awards. The book, Purpose, Passion and Pajamas: How to Transform Your Life, Embrace the Human Connection and Lead with Meaning, debuted during the Covid shutdown to rave reviews. The book's message and Heart of the Matter life and leadership lessons after every chapter, dovetail perfectly with our Nation's growing interest in finding purpose and rekindling our human connection. Her TEDx talk: "1 Idea + The Human Connection = 7 Million Pajamas" debuted with her book.

Genevieve has been interviewed on and in many local and national media including OPRAH, Hallmark's Home & Family, The Huckabee Show, TODAY, GMA, The Early Show, CNN, Fox & Friends, O Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Parenting Magazine. Genevieve rang the Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell in 2016. She has been the recipient of many local and national awards as she inspires others to listen to their heart-voice in pursuing their passions. Genevieve is a graduate of Fordham University and lives in Irvington, N.Y. with her husband, Demo DiMartile. If you can't find them, check the beach.

Please visit www.GenevievePiturro.com for additional information.

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 movement of the 1960s and is a passionate advocate for justice and equity. Named a top ten diversity and inclusion trailblazer by Forbes, Mary-Frances believes in opening doors and amplifying marginalized voices and their allies. She has received many awards and honors, including the ATHENA Award, Diversity Pioneer from Profiles in Diversity Journal, and The Winds of Change recognition from The Forum on Workplace Inclusion. As CEO of The Winters Group for the past thirty-nine years, Mary-Frances harnesses her extensive experience in strategic planning, change management, diversity, organization development, training and facilitation, systems thinking, and qualitative and quantitative research methods to work with senior leadership teams to drive meaningful organizational change. This is her seventh book.

● Facebook: The Winters Group, Inc.

● LinkedIn: The Winters Group, Inc

● Instagram: @thewintersgroup

● #TheWintersGroup #LeadInclusively #RacialJusticeatWork

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 read and so much more than a "textbook on tea."

Jenny delightfully shares: tea's interesting history, how and why the caffeine in tea and coffee affect you differently, the nutritional properties of tea, why and how to drink matcha tea, how to properly taste tea, tea's healing properties, and much, much more!

From Fairbanks, Alaska to China and back, this book truly uncovers tea's essence. So grab this book and a cup of tea and be transported into the world of the #1 consumed beverage on the planet.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, Jenny Tse is the founder and owner of Sipping Streams Tea Company, the bestselling author of The Essence of Tea, and the host of the Essence of Tea podcast. Sipping Streams - the only geothermal-powered tea farm in the world - began as a vision in 2004 when Jenny noticed the way that tea was able to bring different people together. Bootstrapping from absolutely nothing 16 years ago and building a business without so

much as a mentor, Jenny's passion for community, sustainability, and quality have allowed the Sipping Streams Tea Company to weather 2 recessions and a pandemic!

Sipping Streams' custom tea infusions have won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the North American Tea Championships and 2nd at the Global Tea Championships, along with earning Jenny a 1st prize for the Top Tea Infusionist at the 2011 World Tea Expo. Sipping Streams also has been featured in Fresh Cup Magazine, Edible Alaska, and NPR.

• Tea for health and wellness• Product-based entrepreneurship• Changing careers and how to find your giftness • First generation Asian American identity crisis

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, Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace, offers practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. It soared to Amazon's number one top-seller in its field in the first week of publication.

Rising Together builds on Sally's remarkable success with How Women Rise, co-authored with legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, which examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women as they move forward in their careers. Rights have been sold in 23 languages.

Other books include The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, hailed as the classic in its field and continuously in print since 1990, and The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time and credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business. For over 30 years, Sally has delivered workshops and keynotes for companies, partnership firms and associations, working in 37 countries around the world. She can be reached at [email protected].

As a member of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Coaches, Sally is part of the growing community of world renowned leaders providing leadership content through the Methods of Leaders platform. Sally's online Women's Leadership course takes you through the 12 habits or behaviors that routinely get in the way of successful women's efforts to rise in their careers.