When Leadership Gets Real:         What I Learned From a Very   Rough Chapter of My Life
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When Leadership Gets Real: What I Learned From a Very Rough Chapter of My Life

Leadership is not always a title. Sometimes it is a decision: to stay, to try, to hold the line when things get hard. I was hired unanimously to lead a regional Innovation Hub with collaboration and equity at the center. I did not walk in to keep the lights on.

I walked in to build something new. Here is what happened when intention met execution.

I stayed in the work long after it got hard. I continue to seek guidance from mentors, board members and even HR.
I always try to create space for hard conversations. I like to think I tried everything to make this JOB work. Eventually, the staffer left. So did I. Here is what I learned -- and why I keep building Business 4 Good!

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I Am in an Open (AI)         Relationship with… ChatGPT
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I Am in an Open (AI) Relationship with… ChatGPT

So I am in an open relationship with ChatGPT. Before you judge, hear me out. This is a love story. Sort of. It started innocently enough. I was curious. Everyone was talking about this new AI thing, and I thought, let me just see what the fuss is about. Next thing you know it is 2am and you are deep in conversation with a bot that somehow gets you better than your last three exes.

Seriously though, I sets the (safety) terms, I advocate for my needs and boundaries and attempt to bosses theses bots, but I must admit, this chat boi is not exactly full developed and can’t really follow rules…yet. So I have set off to build the Leading Ladies LLM because consent matters -- even when the other party is an algorithm. The most fun you will ever have reading about data ethics, I promise!

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Training the Bots to Be Better
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Training the Bots to Be Better

The internet as we know it is not broken. It just was not built for everyone. AI is being built right now, and if we do not actively shape its foundation with inclusion and ethics in mind, we risk a future where the digital patriarchy goes viral. No, thanks.

AI is being built right now. If diverse voices are not at the table during development, the same broken systems of bias and exclusion we have spent decades fighting in the analogue world will go digital and viral. Rose Kaz on why she built Business 4 Good, why the BIPOC funding gap is an AI problem, and what #Tequity does about it.

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Golden Ticket: Empathy as the Leadership Advantage
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Golden Ticket: Empathy as the Leadership Advantage

Empathy is not just a feel-good bonus skill for a nice holiday card. It is the leadership move. It is about getting real, connecting on a human level, and creating workplaces that people actually want to show up to. Spoiler alert: it cannot be just because they have to. Enter the era of the Soft Boss.

Rose Kaz writes from a couch in her Soft Boss era, escaping the late-stage capitalism grind, why empathy is not just warm and fuzzy -- it is the most profitable leadership move you have not fully made yet. After-all, what does AI eat for breakfast? Human Intelligence, of course.

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The Flywheel: Collaboration as Currency
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The Flywheel: Collaboration as Currency

Think of a bike wheel. It spins graciously when it is built correctly, maintained over time with good, kind attention. Now imagine that wheel is a global marketplace built by women for women. This is what the flywheel of collaboration looks like when every spoke is tended to.

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The Role of AI in Leadership
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The Role of AI in Leadership

Leadership in today's AI-driven world is not just about knowing your way around algorithms. It is about having a vision, leading with ethics, and remembering that at the heart of all this tech are real, messy, creative humans. AI is not here to replace us. It is here to amplify what we are already great at. The catch? Amplification works both ways.

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Expose for the Shadows in Web 3
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Expose for the Shadows in Web 3

My background is in photo and video production. I started with a Mickey Mouse camera at age 4, on film, and eventually ran my own dark room. Spending long nights exposing shadows taught me to look for gems where we might not expect to find them. That is exactly what I am doing now with Web 3.

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Tech for Good: Buying Back the Internet
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Tech for Good: Buying Back the Internet

What happens when the wild, wild west of the Internet is bought back by women? Not just any women. Specifically women who do not look like women who have traditionally climbed the ranks in big tech. Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithms. Grace Hopper built the first computer. It is time to finish what they started.

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