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Saturday Spark #10 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO This week, I learned that we have a “Happiness Crisis” on our hands, especially here in the US. At a conference for 600+ human resources executives, the keynote speaker shared the latest World Happiness Report, which came out a few weeks ago. Commissioned originally for […]

Did you know that due to existing inequalities, women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change? Yet at the same time, engaging women and girls is pivotal to addressing global warming successfully. Or did you know that the power sector currently accounts for around 40% of annual greenhouse gas emissions, making […]

Saturday Spark #9 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO Earlier this week, I was blessed to be sipping a piña colada with a view of the ocean. I was also thrilled that the drink came with a paper straw. I hate plastic straws. Like many, I cried seeing the video of the sea turtle […]

Saturday Spark #8 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO Last year, WeWork rocked the business world. Not for the staggering amounts of capital raised or opening more than 200 new locations, but for a simple and yet profound announcement signaling their values. The headline read:  We Will Not Serve or Pay For Meat. The […]

Saturday Spark #7 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO During dinner this week, my 14-year old son posed a hypothetical, but achingly relevant question. “Mom, if you had all the money and all the power in the world for 24 hours, what would you do to fix the climate.” The combination of great schools […]

Saturday Spark #6 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO I have stood in airport security lines close to fifty times in the last twelve months. So a few weeks ago in Newark, I was startled when one of the TSA agents said something besides, “Cell phones go in the bins.” She said, “Welcome ladies […]

Saturday Spark #5 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO I am a sucker for online quizzes, whether learning that I’m most like Darryl Philbin in The Office or that Austin, TX is the city that most fits my personality (who knew?). So when I learned from one of the campaigns on WeSpire about a short, […]

This week was a big week at WeSpire, as our 7th annual State of Employee Engagement research report was released.  This year, we surveyed over 1,700 full-time US employees and expanded our survey to include a separate track for employees in human resources, as well as added more questions about preferences for rewards/incentives and additional […]

Saturday Spark #4 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO On Monday morning, I woke up at 3:50am and set out for New York City in the middle of a blizzard. My destination was a CEO-only summit for the top 100 fastest growing SaaS companies. For the first time, WeSpire made the list. I arrived […]

Saturday Spark #3 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO For the past few weeks, I’ve been transitioning our children’s playroom to a room for teens. Our family challenge was to try and do it without buying anything new and coming out economically even, spending no more than we were able to generate by selling […]

Saturday Spark #2 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO One thing I love about my job is that I get to interview different people about their unique cultures at work. So last week, it was rather unusual to have eerily similar, very honest, almost heartbreaking conversations: I don’t really know how or why, we […]

Saturday Spark #1 By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO Like many tech startup CEOs, my natural speed of life is fast. I talk fast, eat fast, type quickly, and walk at a good clip. High-speed spinning, with a splash of soul, is not shockingly, my workout of choice. I cram as much as humanly […]