Legacy Through Choices: Insights from Influential Lives

““Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett Introduction: Legacy as Presence Recently, my Podcast Partner on Open Doors and I, Lauren, recorded an episode and in it we added a segment called, “What’s on my Mind.” I had spent that morning as IContinue reading “Legacy Through Choices: Insights from Influential Lives”

The Wild World of Sports. A new sports streaming platform, a $5B Netflix WWE deal, and a $100M football game, and $10,000 SuperBowl Tickets?

Let me be clear, I love the Sports Business. It’s why I write so much about it. Love the players and love the game. Why? Because, it’s a space for real people to feel and be a part of real fandom. Where they put aside other the other things that might keep us apart andContinue reading “The Wild World of Sports. A new sports streaming platform, a $5B Netflix WWE deal, and a $100M football game, and $10,000 SuperBowl Tickets?”

The Leapfrog Disruptor: Humane Ai Pin

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. –William Pollard Ironically, when I last left here and got busy with work and life, I was talking about Apple’s Vision Pro Headset for its potential to beContinue reading “The Leapfrog Disruptor: Humane Ai Pin”

The Impact of Diversity & Disruption

In today’s rapidly evolving world, the concepts of diversity and disruption have gained significant traction. The dynamics of our society and the business landscape have undergone transformative changes, necessitating a deeper understanding of these concepts and their intersection. Diversity encompasses a range of dimensions, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation,Continue reading “The Impact of Diversity & Disruption”

How Apple’s New Mixed Reality Headset, the Vision Pro, is a catalyst for Imagination and Empathy.

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” ~ J. K. Rowling Not toContinue reading “How Apple’s New Mixed Reality Headset, the Vision Pro, is a catalyst for Imagination and Empathy.”

Welcome to Diversity & Disruption with Shannon Pruitt. What is Diversity & Disruption?

“What is now proved was once only imagined.” ~ William Blake Welcome! I am so thrilled you have stopped by to say hello and spend some time. This is is my space. It’s an intersection of my personal and professional interests, but given I do get to do a job I love that fuels myContinue reading “Welcome to Diversity & Disruption with Shannon Pruitt. What is Diversity & Disruption?”