Do you dread networking and small talk? Wonder why we always talk about the weather? Lose sleep about what the future of interaction looks like post-pandemic?

Well listen up because today’s guest Susan McPherson, Founder of McPherson Strategies and Author of the new book “The Lost Art of Connecting” offers ways to build and maintain your community as well as tips on how we can all re-emerge from this odd world in terms of human interaction with intention. Susan is warm, funny, thoughtful and sincere. By fully embodying all of these traits, she guides you with recommendations that replace any daunting thoughts of relationship building into an incredible adventure in humanity. Throughout this incredible conversation, we discuss the root of it all: human connections -- how to make them deeply meaningful opportunities to learn from and about one another with each engagement.

Susan has 25+ years of experience in marketing, public relations, and sustainability communications, speaking regularly at industry conferences, and contributing to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. She has appeared on NPR, CNN, USA Today, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Susan is a Vital Voices global corporate ambassador and has received numerous accolades for her voice on social media platforms from Fortune Magazine, Fast Company and Elle Magazine. She resides in Brooklyn.

You can connect with Susan on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.