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On October 12, 2025, Kathleen was a panelist on
After reading this article, please read Dorlisa Flur’s The Magic Matrix: Purposeful Networking to Land Your Board Seat as it’s an excellent example of weak ties in action.
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Kathleen Graham’s Panelist Remarks During econVue's 8/25/25 Panel Presentation
These topics covered at the Jackson Hole 2025 Economic Symposium all involve factors that impact people significantly AND are all topics that are in flux currently, i.e., major impactors on people’s lives where what the outcome/direction will be is currently unknown. The question then becomes: how will people respond to such uncertainty in the near term? This article covers likely responses from US employers and US employees.
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Kathy Graham was requested by econVue to join as a Contributing Author and Panelist. econVue is a global consortium of economic, geopolitical experts from a wide range of specialties who discuss trending issues. econVue is also one of the top Substack thought leaders in terms of subscription numbers.
Kathy's Top 3 Predictions for 2025, which was all about The AI Explosion, was published on econVue on 1/16/2025. It turned out to be pretty timely given the news that arrived a week later about China's DeepSeek AI.
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Corporate profits and growth (new markets/products, new/existing clients) happen through employing the best mixture of innovation, people, processes, and culture alignment. The heart of the puzzle is identifying, then executing, what would work best for your particular company and situation. Answering the 3 questions below will point the way to designing the optimal fit for all stakeholders—customers, community, and workforce from executives through rank and file—that actually delivers the desired profits and goals.
1. Does your company produce products/services that are exploitative innovations, i.e., are they improvements/changes to existing products/services? Example: are your company’s products/services like the Apple iPhone 14, which is an improvement on the first-generation Apple iPhone? If yes, then: ...
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1. The risk of unmet stakeholder expectations is incinerating business value.
2. Enterprise risk professionals recognize that it is vital to understand the expectations of stakeholders, which is only possible via the reporting of knowledgeable staff who have their fingers on the pulses of those stakeholders. These critical reporting processes are vulnerable to human frailties, such as the biases of management.
3. There is a path to mitigate human capital systemic bias, ensuring more reliable enterprise intelligence for the purposes of reputation risk management. This path is built around three core actions: ...