As a curator, I tend to express myself best in a series of articles. Here are some old and new articles intended to strengthen your sense of belonging. I hope you find a connection or insight that gives you the kind of jolt good chocolate provides. 1) Why We Need…

STRATEGY Arianna Huffington recently posted about naming a word as a theme for the year. My word for 2023 is the word alignment. You may have seen my alignment model from the book Strategy Leadership & the Soul I wrote with my colleague Koby Huberman back in 2010. From Strategy, Leadership…

I have been writing about the future of work for over a decade and am as deeply committed to the alignment between individuals as complex adaptive systems with the construct of the organizations they are a part of. You can do a deeper dive into my point of view in…

Rochester is a community in transition working to learn from the past and build more inclusion into our future. On my twitter stream today I came across an article recently published in *Nature “Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility.” The article is fairly provocative and provides a…

The Social Innovation Summit run by Landmark Ventures is a global network of leaders discussing the key strategies and business innovations creating social transformation across the corporate, investment, government and non-profit sectors. I have participated in the Social Innovation Summit for almost a decade. My first event was the last…

I got involved in technology in 2011. The catalyst was a simple question by my four year old son. He innocently asked, “Mommy, does your heart remote control people?.” I was driving at the time and had to pull over because of the lightening bolt of awareness that came with…

House of First~ Turning the word NFT into a verb — meet the Metaverse Players I haven’t listened to Malcolm McLaren’s Madame Butterfly since college. But was inspired while reading Butcher Billy’s biography on the House of First site. …

A Conversation with artist Rachel Winters House of First’s Remarkable Women’s NFT House of First second NFT Project Remarkable Women NFT with Rachel Winters was an amazing success. All 6000 in the collection were sold out in record time. On reveal day there was conversation in Twitter Spaces with The…

Demystifying the NFT — A Series of Conversations from the WAGMANs Community Alison Alexander, Val Bercovici, Deborah Perry Piscione, Jennifer Sertl Context You are probably familiar with the notarization function. If you have a document like a will or an important contract you go to a notary public that has…