Kate PL

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Work, people, power, careers, culture, leadership, AI, events, and the human behavior hiding between the agenda items.

So, Was the Event Worth It? editorial hero
Events & ROI

So, Was the Event Worth It?

A practical guide to event ROI, attribution, pipeline, objectives, and the measurements leadership can actually use.

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Everyone at This Party Is Wearing a Costume editorial hero
Workplace Culture

Everyone at This Party Is Wearing a Costume

A Halloween edition about imposter syndrome, workplace personas, and the energy it takes to keep professional armor on.

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The Call Is Coming From Inside the Calendar editorial hero
Productivity & Boundaries

The Call Is Coming From Inside the Calendar

Why vague meeting invites hit so hard, and how practical career preparation makes uncertainty less powerful.

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The Witching Hour Is Two Hours Before Doors editorial hero
Events & Operations

The Witching Hour Is Two Hours Before Doors

What event professionals check, protect, and stop editing during the tense two hours before the doors open.

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Your Event Plan Is Only as Good as the People You Build It With editorial hero
Inside Events

Your Event Plan Is Only as Good as the People You Build It With

Why strong relationships with event organizers, vendors, show services, and onsite crews help reduce mistakes and solve problems faster.

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The Chaos Usually Starts in Your Head Before It Starts on the Show Floor editorial hero
Inside Events

The Chaos Usually Starts in Your Head Before It Starts on the Show Floor

How experienced event professionals use contingency planning, escalation paths, operational judgment, and calm decision making to keep the show moving.

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The Door Is Open. There Is Just an Invisible Wall in Front of It. editorial hero
Leadership · Workplace

The Door Is Open. There Is Just an Invisible Wall in Front of It.

Why an open-door policy means little without a real path to access, clear expectations, and leaders who are actually findable.

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The Company Formed a Boy Band and Nobody Told HR editorial hero
Workplace · Leadership

The Company Formed a Boy Band and Nobody Told HR

A sharp look at workplace alliances, performative pushback, and why volume rarely replaces specific, actionable feedback.

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You Were Shortlisted Before the Crate Shipped editorial hero
Inside Events · Field Notes

You Were Shortlisted Before the Crate Shipped

A practical four-part playbook for modern B2B tech shows: know the room, translate the product, work beyond the show dates, and measure what leadership respects.

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What Your AI Intern Can Actually Do editorial hero
Insider’s Eye 07 · AI & Events

What Your AI Intern Can Actually Do

What event professionals can hand to AI today—and what still needs human judgment, accountability, and a nervous system.

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What The Room Never Sees Us Fixing editorial hero
Inside Events

What The Room Never Sees Us Fixing

The work behind the polished event: moving targets, backup plans, live problems, and the fixes almost nobody in the room ever sees.

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Do You Have a Wicked Witch at the Office? editorial hero
Workplace Culture

Do You Have a Wicked Witch at the Office?

A sharp look at inflexibility, group dynamics, and what happens when one personality starts controlling the temperature of the room.

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My New Job Started in My Head Three Weeks Early editorial hero
Career

My New Job Started in My Head Three Weeks Early

The offer was exciting. Then anxiety began onboarding itself before the first day even arrived.

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Closure Is Not a Group Project editorial hero
Workplace

Closure Is Not a Group Project

You do not need someone else’s apology before choosing your health, your future, and your next chapter.

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One Event. A Thousand and One Comments. Satisfaction Still Pending. editorial hero
Inside Events

One Event. A Thousand and One Comments. Satisfaction Still Pending.

One event leader still has to turn every opinion, contingency, and last minute request into an executable experience.

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AI Is Not Another Cosine or Tangent editorial hero
AI & Work

AI Is Not Another Cosine or Tangent

AI may not be the problem. The way we explain it might be. A practical conversation for people who want to use it, not build the engine.

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Apparently, Looking for a Job Is Now a Full Time Job editorial hero
Career

Apparently, Looking for a Job Is Now a Full Time Job

ATS scoring, almost remote jobs, and the obstacle course experienced professionals now run just to be noticed.

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Apparently, My Idea Needed an Ego Friendly Adapter editorial hero
Workplace

Apparently, My Idea Needed an Ego Friendly Adapter

Sometimes the idea is not the problem. The room, the hierarchy, and the ego-friendly packaging are.

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