Michelle Sims is the Global Community Lead at Finimize and Host & Creator of Behind The Community Podcast.

Remote Daily Roundtable with Laura Zug and Luca Buchholz

Jean-Michelle Lopez is the Director of Community & Culture at NeueHouse

Web3 was hailed as the dawn of a new internet – bottom-up, community-built, immersive – with a strong focus on transparency and data ownership, fixing the mistakes of web1 and web2 and reuniting humankind. What is left of that vision? How does community really work in web3? And how can we be a part of it?

Carrie Melissa Jones is an award-winning author, community builder, and researcher of online communities. Her work has influenced communities for startups, non-profits, solopreneurs, and the world's leading brands, including Airbnb, Google, Microsoft, and two U.S. presidential campaigns. She is the Founding Partner of CMX, co-author of the book Building Brand Communities with Charles Vogl, and holds an M.A. in communication focused on virtual communities and belonging.

We all know the struggle: how to scale so it’s sustainable for us and valuable for our members? To get quality over quantity? We’ll hear from Gareth Wilson of Community Inc. and Céline Riemenschneider of Canva! Join us for a roundtable discussion with experts in the field, followed by a Q&A where we hear from you.

Last month in “What’s the ROI of community?” we spoke with Max Pete on how to best show that what community builders do matters. This month, we go even further! Tim McDonald, Community Engagement Specialist with 15+ years of experience in the field, weighs in what makes a community a must-have.

Welcome to the Community Roundtable! Join us once a month for an all new Remote Daily format - a roundtable discussion with experts in the field followed by an Ask-Me-Anything Q&A. This month we focus on mental health for community builders. Panelists will share their own burnout stories, what they learned from it and speak on how to put wellness at the forefront while building a business or community.

I’m Max, a Community Builder based in San Diego, CA. I have been in the community space for over 5 years and I currently work at Square as their Community Engagement Program Manager. Prior to this, I led Community at SuperHi, Creative Mornings, and Freelance Founders. At the beginning of the pandemic, I got my bearings in the community industry by happenstance - a happy accident stemming from job burnout, loneliness, and wanting a career reset after spending nearly 10 years in marketing and advertising ranging from music labels, agencies, and my own freelance business.

As Global Head of Real Estate for CBRE, Peter Van Emburgh leads CBRE’s corporate real estate organization and is responsible for managing the firm’s rapidly-growing 500+ office portfolio spanning over 7M sq. ft. Peter oversees a global team delivering real estate strategy, transactions, lease administration, construction, ground-up development, design, occupancy planning, and facility operations.

Tiffany Dufu is founder of The Cru. Their algorithm matches women in accountability circles to help them meet their life goals. She’s the author of the bestselling book Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less. According to foreword contributor Gloria Steinem, Drop the Ball is “important, path-breaking, intimate and brave.” Her writing has appeared in The Oprah Magazine, ESSENCE and the New York Times.

Join our trusted mindfulness guides and yoga teachers, Keris Timol and Jade Alexis, for a brand new offering every Wednesday at noon (ET)!

Rhett Power is Co-founder of Accountability Inc., is a distinguished executive coach, CEO, best-selling author, Forbes columnist, and co-host of Best Seller TV on Amazon. Accountability Inc., a leadership coaching and consulting firm, empowers founders and executives to combat fear, enhance focus, and create accountable, high-performance cultures. The firm's team has worked with notable brands such as The World Bank, United Airlines, FIFA, Xerox, Vodafone, Allstate, and Novant Health.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is director of research and programs at 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit promoting the 4-day workweek. His books— WORK LESS DO MORE: Designing the Four Day Week (Penguin, 2023); SHORTER: Work Better, Smarter and Less— Here’s How (Public Affairs, 2020); REST: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less (Basic Books, 2016), and THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION (Little Brown , 2013)— show how companies and individuals can better integrate rest, creativity, and focus into digital-age lives and work.

David Spinks is the author of The Business of Belonging and writes a popular weekly newsletter on community building and social science. Previously he co-founded CMX a conference and global network for community professionals. Spinks works with organizations of all sizes, from Google and Meta to startups and local gyms, on how to build more engaged, healthy, and impactful communities.

Join our trusted mindfulness guides and yoga teachers, Keris Timol and Jade Alexis, for a brand new offering every Wednesday at noon (ET)!

Corporate Natalie engages with her 1M+ follower communities across Instagram and TikTok through relatable corporate videos. She balances her content between humorous bits and tips for career growth, confidence, and navigating new work models. Natalie also consults early-stage startups and assists fellow creators with their own social growth through her virtual assistant company, ExpandVA. She has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, E’s Top Accounts to Follow, and is a 2023 LinkedIn Top Voice. Each day brings new and exciting trends, challenges, and learnings which is what Natalie loves about her job.

You’re in for a treat: a look behind the curtains of one of Sweden’s most popular startups Mentimeter! We’ll take the journey with Oscar Svernlöv, Menti’s Product Marketing Manager. We’ll unpack connecting and engaging in digital spaces and how to take the most of your skills to ace your meetings or webinars. 

Amy Webb is CEO of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. In 2021, FTI was named to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Amy Webb was named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020, and in 2021 was ranked on the Thinkers50 list of the 50 most influential management thinkers globally.

Angela R. Howard is a former CPO/CHRO, Organizational Psychologist and the CEO of Call for Culture - an organization that applies psychology, anthropology, and, sociology to the science of culture development and change. Her mission is to help transform companies into environments where employees can deploy their contributions for positive organizational outcomes and social impact. Her podcast, Social Responsibility at Work, interviews change makers who are actively creating solutions for this mission.

Join our trusted mindfulness guides and yoga teachers, Keris Timol and Jade Alexis, for a brand new offering every Wednesday at noon (ET)!

Fred Stutzman is the Founder and CEO of Freedom, where we are developing the future of focused work. Fred is a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur, having taken multiple consumer technology companies from the idea/R&D phase to market. His core strengths include technology development, remote team formation and management, and using research-driven strategies to identify market needs. Fred has conducted research at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science (HCI), and degrees in Survey Research and Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Additionally, he completed postdoctoral work in Behavioral Economics at CMU.

Baratunde Thurston tells a better story of us, weaving together threads of race, technology, democracy and climate through his work as an Emmy-nominated host, producer, writer, and public speaker. He is the host and executive producer of the PBS television series America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston, creator and host of How To Citizen with Baratunde.

Howard Yu is LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation and heads IMD’s Center for Future Readiness. He specializes in technological innovation, strategic transformation, and change management. Author of the award-winning best-seller LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, he was named by Poets&Quants as one of the world’s leading business school professors under 40 in 2015, and in 2018 he was included on the Thinkers50 Radar list of management thinkers to watch in the year ahead.

Greg Larkin is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to do their most transformative work - everywhere they work, even when it’s very hard. He is the author of the international best-seller This Might Get Me Fired, an international keynote speaker, and has built some of the most disruptive innovations of our time. He is the founder of Punks & Pinstripes, a global community of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and punks who support and empower each other.

Charlie Fink writes the weekly Forbes column "This Week in XR" and co-hosts its companion podcast. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books "Charlie Fink’s Metaverse" (2017), and "Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data" (2019). Fink teaches XR and Metaverse Studies at Chapman University in Orange, CA.

Rhett Power is Co-founder of Accountability Inc., is a distinguished executive coach, CEO, best-selling author, Forbes columnist, and co-host of Best Seller TV on Amazon. Accountability Inc., a leadership coaching and consulting firm, empowers founders and executives to combat fear, enhance focus, and create accountable, high-performance cultures. The firm's team has worked with notable brands such as The World Bank, United Airlines, FIFA, Xerox, Vodafone, Allstate, and Novant Health.

2021 Wine Enthusiast 40 under 40 Tastemaker, 2022 Tory Burch Fellow, and Inc. 2023 200 Female Founders List; Alexandra Schrecengost founded Virtual With Us in 2020 following Culture With Us in 2021 - and serves as the CEO.

Join our trusted mindfulness guides and yoga teachers, Keris Timol and Jade Alexis, for a brand new offering every Wednesday at noon (ET)!

Katie Hillier is chief digital anthropologist at the Liiv Center, a Social Intelligence Insider Top 50, and a founding member of the World Metaverse Council. She spent a decade running digital anthropology labs at What If Innovation and later at Accenture and believes digital anthropology is essential to building a more equal and ethical digital future.