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Event Recording: Book Talk: Cogeneration in the Age of AI

Event Recording: Book Talk: Cogeneration in the Age of AI

Simple question: Do you miss human connection when you use self-checkout at the grocery store? Complex question: How is cogeneration threatened by AI, profit-driven “efficiencies,” and automation — and what can we do about it? Allison Pugh, author of the book The Last...

Putting Two Things Together

Putting Two Things Together

On Friday, May 15, I had the great honor to address the 2026 graduates of Drew University, including the undergraduate College of Liberal Arts, the Theological School, and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. I'm very grateful to Drew's remarkable President...

Introducing the CoGen Voices Fellows

Introducing the CoGen Voices Fellows

Across the country, young people and older people are stepping up as civic leaders. But too often, they do this critical work with peers, in age-segregated spaces. Young people work without the benefit of older generations who bring lived experience, networks, and a...

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Susan Stautberg

PartnerCom
Purpose Prize Fellow 2006

Bringing diversity to corporate governance

At the top 200 companies in the S&P 500, women make up only 16 percent of the members of boards of directors, while African Americans account for only ten percent. Susan Stautberg, a former broadcast journalist, founded PartnerCom, which creates and manages Advisory Boards globally to help diversify power within corporations. Over the past eight years, PartnerCom has placed more than 250 women and minorities on corporate and advisory boards. Stautberg also co-founded On Board Bootcamp, which helps unconventional candidates obtain board seats in the private, public and non-profit sectors, introducing them to experienced directors and search firms and helping them create strategies for advancement. Having observed the power of the Bohemian Grove, a 130 year old elite old boys’ network of former Presidents, businessmen, military, musicians, academics, and nonprofit leaders, and realizing that women didn’t have a similar organization, Stautberg created the Belizean Grove, a constellation of influential women from five continents and all sectors who are building long-term, mutually beneficial relationships to both take charge of their own destinies and help others do the same. To spur the development of younger women leaders, in 2005 she started TARA, Today’s Already Rising Achievers, for global leaders in their 30’s and early 40’s. The Grove and TARA focus on both mentoring and the opportunity to meet and learn from each other in a reverse mentoring program.