In Parternship with Declare, a leadership accelerator that empowers leaders to ascend by helping companies get underrepresented talent to the top The impacts of crises are never gender neutral, and COVID-19 is no exception. In a recent town hall, António Guterres, the Secretary-General of UN, cautioned against the “reversal effect”…

With more than half of the workforce currently working from home, Zoom has quickly become synonymous with video conferencing. Zoom usage increased 67% between Jan and mid-March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic (Apptopia), and is also now used by 90,000 schools in 20 countries to teach remotely. …

Now on the 6th week of self-quanrantining in my small studio in Battery Park, NYC, I’ve not only mastered the cooking skills that my Chinese parents considered “not bad” (which is a Chinese way of saing “wow amazing!”), but I’ve also became sort of a crazy shopper. I don’t hoard…

During the holidays I got unsolicited ads each day on anything from a Dyson hairdryer to a discounted subscription at MasterClass on my social media pages. Growing up in Asia, the world of online classes feels like family. I’ve been taking classes outside of school since I was 10 years…

Recently I’ve been following many fashion rental companies out of curiosity and personal interest to save on items that I rarely wear but would like to have. Fashion rental as a space gives consumer plenty promises — a rotating wardrobe; no more expensive dry cleaning and boring cloth-folding; and on…

We live in an ironic age where people and technology are so intertwined that I sometimes wonder if we really made the right decision to switch our eyes from all the excited and vast unknown around us to a black screen just a couple inches big. I was born in…

One of the trendy words lately that caught my eye is “Femtech”. Essentially, femtech companies direct their attention to solve the existing issues that the female population specifically faces, ranging anywhere from personal finance to healthcare. It’s easy to understand and appreciate the values female-oriented services or products such as…

News just in: Lime, the scooter startup, is laying off about 100 workers, or 14 percent of staff, and pulling out of a dozen cities in the U.S. and Latin America, including Atlanta and San Diego where scooter-related deaths have taken place. CEO Joe Kraus is confident that the company…

I attended a talk by Kirsten Green, a venture capitalist and founder of Forerunner Ventures, a couple days ago, and specifically remembered the moment when she discussed Away, a modern travel and lifestyle brand widely known for its minimal suitcases and travel bags. Kirsten mentioned how she had met many…