Invoking the Hero’s Journey

Last year, Groupaya worked with a Fortune 500 company to understand how, in one exceptional project, they managed to “crack the code” on global collaboration, figuring out typical challenges such as how to deal with the biology of different time zones, how to work across cultural differences, and how to deal with local/global decision-making tensions. In the next few months, we will be writing several blog posts to share some of our learnings not only from this global collaboration project, […]

Bringing Human Back

I had the privilege of spending the afternoon with Lain Shakespeare. Lain is not only my favorite descendant of famed storytellers Joel Chandler Harris and Shakespeare, he’s also my favorite MailChimp employee. He’s spent the past year serving as an ambassador between MailChimp and social change organizations. And he’s loved every second of it. I can’t think of the last time I heard a millennial so happy and enthusiastic about their job and organization. For those of you who don’t know, […]