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Awesome, Michael! Helping build a better future.

Stride Consulting builds custom software for clients aligned to our purpose and core values. We’re based in NYC and hiring software developers in Charlotte, Denver, and Chicago. https://lnkd.in/eNw6NGf.

Building our leadership team.

I am filled with joy and inspired by a sense of duty as Stride’s new CEO. It’s hard to express how beautiful and rare Stride is https://lnkd.in/gauz-b6 Debbie Madden remains Chairwoman of the board.

Praise to Madelyn Freed and Brian Lam who led a company wide process to refresh our core values culminating in an all hands sociocratic consent round. If you haven’t seen that work before, I hadn’t either. And I’ve tried. Amazing. Thanks also to our mentor Diana Larsen (she/her/hers) Nothing but gratitude to all concerned!

For a company founded with such a human-centric purpose and composed of such thoughtful and hopeful people, measures of business value and professional success are necessary but not sufficient descriptions of the future we want to build together.

Two of Webster’s five definitions of politics: “competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership” and “the total complex of relations between people living in society”. By that standard, operating a business is a political act. We are accountable for the societal harm and benefit furthered by our decisions.

All packed with ppe, nuts , water and pb&j for my day as an Election Day poll worker. Great hope for excited lines of masked day of voters.

Our political conflict is over our system of advantage along lines of wealth, race, gender, health status, and orientation. Pandemic, climate change, and outrage collide with this system and the resulting loss on both sides is unimaginable even as it fails to surpass the suffering of past generations for our sin of American racism. Joining in common cause for social justice witnesses this truth and finds grace in our terrible moment.

Weinbergs Law of Twins, “Most of the time, for most of the world, no matter how hard people work at it, nothing of any significance happens.” And yet we persist. How beautiful is that.

Transformative change is not safe. It is walking a precipice. Progress and set backs can both feel like falling into a void.

Stride is supporting a safe, fair election by paying any of our full time employees who choose to work as an Election Day poll worker for that time. I’ve applied myself https://bit.ly/2Z9RmEo