Phumzile Van Damme is a former Member of Parliament of South Africa, winning multiple awards for her work counter-electoral disinformation, digital rights and platform accountability focusing on Africa. Phumzile’s first foray in the fight against disinformation centered on the rise and fall of the controversial global...
Your Chief Diversity Officer is likely leaving; or they've already left. The CDO tenure at under 2 yrs remains one of the shortest-among all exec roles. Here's why brands are approaching diversity all wrong! #diversity ...
“Where are your uniforms?” In 2006, Harold Ford Jr. called his friend Mellody, to ask for help with some national press as he was running for the US Senate in Tennessee. Mellody, an investor, in turn called a friend at a major media organization and put...
“You might be President of PepsiCo. But when you enter this house, you're the wife, you're the daughter, you're the daughter-in-law, you're the mother. You're all of that. Nobody else can take that place. So leave that damned crown in the garage. And don't bring...
Hours after she became the youngest woman ever to take a company public, Whitney Wolfe-Herd blinked back tears. These were not however tears of joy and relief, but frustration at the way her narrative was being told by the media: focused on Wolfe’s alleged harassment...
The recent mishap of Bain Capital’s Crypto Fund and what it reveals beyond the obvious bad timing, is just the tip of the iceberg of what many of us are working hard to address across our organizations. I sat down with Beyond The Billion® (launched as...