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  • Workplace • Virtual

    Workplace Innovation Summit 2020

    Join us for five days of thought leadership around the future of how and where we work, including virtual keynote presentations, workshops, and networking opportunities, as we all seek to shape what happens next.

    Dec 7 2020 - Dec 11 2020

    Workplace Innovation Summit illustration with characters representing Connect, Reflect. and Reform.

  • Podcast • Workplace

    How to Freelance Without Losing Your Mind

    In medieval times, a free lance was a medieval mercenary who would fight for whichever nation or person paid them the most.

  • Podcast • Community

    Medical Product Design That’s Saving Lives

    If you’ve gone to the doctor recently or the hospital, you’re surrounded by medical professionals, of course, but there’s another layer of medical devices surrounding the entire experience.

  • Workplace • Issue 016

    Paths Diverge

    Paloma Medina is the founder and owner of 11:11 Supply, a company that incorporates the psychology and science of life and work improvement into the curation of office supplies and organizational tools. 11:11 Supply also offers workshops in which attendees learn everyday tips on how to enhance their work and personal life.

  • Community • Issue 016

    Race Equity at Work

    Achieving race equity—the condition where one’s racial identity has no influence on how one fares in society—is a fundamental element of social change across every issue area in the social sector. Yet the structural racism that endures in U.S. society, deeply rooted in our nation’s history and perpetuated through racist policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages, prevents us from attaining it.

  • Workplace • Issue 016

    The Evolving Workplace

    COVID-19 has forever changed the workplace. The mundaneness of daily commutes, morning lattes, and conference table meetings was upended practically overnight with stay-at-home orders, makeshift workstations, and on-screen views of everyone’s very real living spaces, pets, and kids.

  • Workplace • Issue 016

    Designing for Designers

    If you’ve ever taken on a design project with a designer for a client, you know that dueling opinions often lead to frustration—theirs, yours, or both. It stands to reason, because designers are paid to have strong points of view. They know what they like. They have their own ideas and lofty goals. Designer egos? Let’s just say, self-confidence is a practical job requirement. And as consultants themselves, they know the traditional client management tricks and aren’t likely to appreciate being “handled.” Now imagine that your client is a whole room full of designers. Are you brave enough (foolish enough?) to believe you can lead them to accept your vision?

  • Workplace • Issue 016

    The Rise of the Remote Meeting

    Those of us who chose to work remotely before 2020, at a time when we could move freely between our home offices and our communities, did so with immense privilege. I am one of these people.

  • Community • Issue 016

    Igniting Social Change Through a Screen

    Writer’s Block inK was started in 2003 in New London, Connecticut, as a non-profit organization to support youth in writing and performing as tools to address personal and social challenges on the community stage.

  • Workplace • Issue 016

    Career Interrupted

    For the past 20 years, I have helped businesses build innovation teams and helped design professionals find career success.