Author: Hanson Hosein

  • Think Tank

    What’s in it for you? What’s in it for me? That’s the candid calculation when considering any request to collaborate on content. It’s about risk, reputation and whether it’s even worth the effort in today’s vast ocean of multimedia. If it’s to support someone else’s brand (in this case, creative agency Clyde Golden’s marketing podcast…

  • Victory Lap

    Times of adversity are a constraint that can produce incredible creativity. My own productivity kicked into high gear during this period of fear and uncertainty. The race now run, a victory lap’s in order — just long enough to rejoice, reflect and recover — before a return to the starting line.

  • Convene, listen and lead

    A few years ago, I hosted a series of closed-door salons with industry pioneers and our graduate students. In those pre-pandemic days, we met in person, enjoyed some appetizers and communed with visionary leaders from my professional network. As we pondered how to continue to ignite such high-value connections this past year, my successor and…

  • A time to show up

    We can’t courageously communicate, until we do the potentially more courageous work of convening our stakeholders to determine what matters most to all of us. With that foundation of principles, ethics and values, we can then more easily make decisions in the fog of uncertainty, which should always align with that cultural bedrock.