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New Stand | Fuel for workspace hapiness | Icebreaker

New Stand | Fuel for workspace hapiness

New Stand | Fuel for workspace hapiness

We create an experience that only our brands and partners can deliver.

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Erika Velazquez Alpern

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CoFounder & Chief Business Officer, The Purse | Principal, Tactile

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Hedge Fund Manager | Technology Executive | Creative Technologist | Hacker | Algorithmic Trader 24+ Years of Experience

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Entrepreneur & Investor

MacCalvin Romain

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Product Lead @ Google | MBA | Former Consultant | Business, Product, & Operational Strategy | B2B + B2C | Multiple Startup Exits

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Product, Data & Analytics @ KKR

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Brand | Design | Creative

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Over the years building and investing in companies, advising founders, and launching new products, I’ve learned that breakthrough growth rarely starts with consensus. It usually begins with an itch or an idea that feels offbeat, risky, maybe even a little stupid. I’ve chased those instincts into untapped markets, unexpected partnerships, and brands people love. My approach blends data and strategic clarity with unconventional thinking, helping teams spot overlooked opportunities and turn them into practical wins. Specialties: Market invention, brand strategy, creative R&D, and translating bold ideas into results.

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I believe every person deserves to feel inspired and empowered in their own learning journey. For over 15 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of education, technology, community design, and storytelling, building systems that center engagement, agency, and belonging. I’m the co-founder of The Future Frequency (FQ), a personalized learning ecosystem designed to help learners own their growth and for guardians to grow alongside them. At the heart of FQ is LearningFREQUENCY (LF), a platform that visualizes how individuals engage, process, and evolve, transforming insights into living data and verifiable credentials that stay with the learner for life. Alongside LF, I co-created Gatekeepers to Guardians (G2G), a personalized LMS supporting the adults guiding learners, equipping parents, educators, and mentors with tools to support deep, aligned learning. I’m also a principal at Skyway, a global initiative of the Transforming Education Exchange (TEE) and the Learning Economy Foundation. Through Skyway, I lead ecosystem design and co-create equitable learning systems with global partners across research, technology, storytelling, and governance. My Seventh Level Engagement Framework, developed during my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and based on research by Bangert-Drowns and Pyke, has been taught in programs at Yale, Howard University, and Emerson, and shared with more than 1,400 professors in partnership with HubSpot. My book The Seventh Level became the foundation for CatalystU, where I’ve partnered with organizations like HubSpot and American Express to help individuals apply this framework to build intentional, engaged communities. From 2012 onward, I co-founded and led CatalystCreativ with Tony Hsieh as part of the 350 million dollar Downtown Las Vegas revitalization project. Through CatalystCreativ, I worked with clients such as Google, Coca-Cola, NPR, Dell, W Hotels, The Raiders, and The Nature Conservancy on brand development, community design, and experiential strategy, as well as developed a Cannes Lion award winning campaign for WildAid. I’m also the co-founder of Runway Health and have been an active advisor and angel investor in more than 30 companies, including HubSpot, SEED, Clay, Kiddie Kredit, and Solsten. I’ve been featured in TIME, WSJ, Fast Company, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, and have spoken at TEDx, INBOUND, Summit, the UN, and Founders Forum. I continue to explore how learning ecosystems can unlock purpose and potential for every learner and every guardian.

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Executive Sales Director, CPG

Brenden Lovejoy

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brendenlovejoy.com