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Higher Ground

Alison Taylor, Lily Zheng, Toni McKee
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A better place on the internet to talk risk, responsibility, ethics, human idiosyncrasies

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  • Alison Taylor

    Professor at NYU Stern, author of Higher Ground. Lots of other hats, even more opinions. Join me to talk about corporate power, ethics, accountability. And human idiosyncrasies.

  • Lily Zheng

    Scholar-practitioner, organizational designer, no-nonsense consultant. Author of Fixing Fairness. Architect of the FAIR Framework. Here to help you fix what needs fixing.

  • Toni McKee

    An American abroad pulling together various threads from the three places I consider home, covering American politics, British arts & culture, Nordic sustainability – and wherever the three shall meet. (All views are my own, for better or worse.)

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