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Co-founder and CEO, Gatheround
Lisa Conn is the co-founder and CEO of Gatheround, a new way to connect over video. She draws on her background as a mother, activist, founder, and executive to power connection in the workplace, and has written on this topic for Forbes and Fortune. Lisa started her career as an organizer with the Obama campaign and later earned her MBA from MIT; she went on to lead Facebook’s efforts to mitigate division on the platform.
In the anonymous grid of a video meeting, it’s easy for people to tune out – and miss out. Here’s how meeting leaders can fight it.