Crossworld: One Man’s Journey into America’s Crossword Obsession by Marc Romano (Totally not about the future of work. I am the love interest in this book about competitive crossword tournaments. Felt worth including.)

Past speaking engagements

The Broad Exchange – Link | Virtual

Lev Digital | Virtual

Northwestern University | Virtual

Kyu Kin | Virtual

Intercorp FEST_20 | Virtual

C2 – Link | Virtual

P&G Design Summit | Virtual

Design Sprint Academy – Link | Virtual

Northwestern University | Virtual

Mutual of Omaha | Omaha, USA

Innovation Leadership Accelerator – Link | Virtual

Google Sprint Conference – Link | Boulder, USA

Bowery Capital People & Talent Conference – Link | NYC, USA

ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference – Link | Omaha, USA

Carat USA Leadership Summit | Scottsdale, USA

4As Talent@2030 Conference – Link | NYC, USA

Association of Change Management Professionals – Link | Atlanta, USA

4A StratFest – Link | NYC, USA

XO Group Executive Leadership Meeting | NYC, USA

She+ Geeks Out x OKCupid | NYC, USA

Mirum Opus – Link | London, UK

Etsy Executive Leadership Offsite | NYC, USA

Farfetch Ftech Leadership Retreat | Porto, Portugal

Adobe 99U Conference – Link | NYC, USA

British Columbia HR Professionals Conference – Link | Vancouver, Canada

Rocketrip Company Offsite | NYC, USA

BCG Digital Ventures Offsite | NYC, USA

Intercorp Executive Leadership Summit | Lima, Peru

4As Talent@2030 Conference | NYC, USA

Google DeepMind Summit | London, UK

Culture Amp Culture First Conference – Link | NYC, USA

Amplifi Leadership Offsite | NYC, USA

Mirum Opus – Link | San Diego, USA

Mirum Talent Talks | Stockholm, Sweden

Culture Amp Masterclass – Link | NYC, USA

Adobe 99U Conference – Link | NYC, USA

TH!NK Conference – Link | NYC, USA

Ladies Get Paid | NYC, USA

Carat USA Leadership Summit | Philadelphia, USA

SheSays x Edelman – Link | NYC, USA

Calvin Klein Codify Event | NYC, USA

Food + Enterprise Summit – Link | NYC, USA

When I was in high school, I had handwritten “you can keep going long after you can’t” on a strip of paper and pinned it above my desk. I looked at it nearly every night when I sat late into the wee hours finishing my load of AP homework.

And I could. I could keep going. I was praised for my work ethic and focus by, well, all of society. The other thing is… work works. Sure you can find productivity hacks and work “smarter not harder,” but on the whole, in my experience, hard work actually does pay off.