Suzy and the Substitutes is a name that says a lot about the project before the first note plays. The name came partly from necessity. Suzy originally wanted to record simply as Suzy, but the search results were crowded, and nearly every usable name seemed taken. More importantly, the name reflected the way the music […]
Mimmo Cricchio did not enter travel through a traditional agency path. His story began in the restaurant business, where his family operated Da Mimmo Restaurant in Baltimore’s Little Italy for decades and built the kind of community trust that often becomes the foundation for other opportunities. The travel business grew naturally from that world. Guests […]
Dr. Vedaprabhu Basavarajappa’s work begins with something most people depend on every day but rarely stop to think about: radio frequency technology. RF sits behind much of modern life. It helps phones connect, networks communicate, satellites transmit, and wireless systems function across distance. For Basavarajappa, founder and CEO of Beam Grid, that technology is not […]
Professional networking has started to feel broken in a very specific way. There are more apps than ever, more events than ever, and more ways to message people than ever, yet many young professionals still find it difficult to build the kind of real relationships that actually last. A lot of the usual spaces feel […]
For many high-achieving professionals, the old advice was simple: work hard, keep your head down, and eventually someone will notice. Janese Murray knows how limiting that advice can be. As the founder of Inclusion Impact Consulting, Murray works with women of color navigating corporate spaces where performance alone is rarely enough to advance. Being good […]
Brian Fielkow spent much of his career in industries where mistakes carry immediate consequences. Trucking, logistics, waste management, and risk-heavy operations do not leave much room for theoretical leadership ideas. Failures show up in damaged equipment, injured workers, broken customer trust, and financial losses that move beyond spreadsheets very quickly. But the lesson Fielkow carried […]
Anthony Vinci doesn’t talk about prediction as a crystal ball. He talks about it as a discipline. Before founding Vico, Vinci spent years working as an intelligence officer, collecting information to help leaders make decisions where the cost of being wrong could be severe. Later, as an investor, the stakes shifted, but the core problem […]
Sid Dobrin is not interested in treating artificial intelligence as a distant future problem. For him, the more urgent issue is already here, built into the ordinary systems people use every day without thinking much about them. Dobrin, a professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida and CEO of Flying Fish […]
Louis Bélanger-Martin has spent enough time in the air to see flying differently from most people. For many passengers, a flight is a stretch of time between two places. For Bélanger-Martin, it has been something else entirely: a laboratory, a media platform, and one of the most interesting places in the world to study how […]
Luke McEndarfer’s path into music began in the plainest, most human way possible. He was a child watching someone he loved sing. His grandmother sang in her church choir every Sunday, and that small act of devotion became something larger in his imagination. By second grade, he had joined the Holy Family Children’s Choir in […]
