Sometimes it’s possible to get a lifetime’s worth of education in just 30 minutes. Such was the case in our latest Inclusive Leadership Session with Michael Baptiste on Committed Leadership. Michael is the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Metro Atlanta Chamber and he is responsible for…

The #1 thing you can do for employee engagement and company innovation is simpler than you think. This past year at Film Forward we worked with over 30 enterprise clients to deliver our workplace capacity building program called Behaviors of Belonging which develops individuals, teams, and organizations to build more…

Bear with me, I am emotional today. 11:59am on December 1, 2012. My tiny Brooklyn apartment was filled with filmmakers who were taking a risk on a brand new crowdfunding platform called Seed&Spark. Their crowdfunding campaigns were about to become the “founding campaigns” on our brand new website, which was…

On May 2, 2022, Seed&Spark will transition to a 4-day work week. We’re joining a cohort of US-based companies that includes other community-based platforms like Kickstarter and OwnTrail who are all piloting this work schedule at the same time in association with 4 Day Week Global. This impacts our service-level…

Let’s cut to the chase: the last couple years have been brutal and we need as much good news as we can get. So that’s what we’re here to do, and you, Seed&Spark’s community of creators, made this good news happen. You all have shown profound resilience, creativity and courage…

White leaders: we are not supposed to feel comfortable as we pursue equity work in our organizations. To do this work is to dismantle some of the very structures that led us to be where we are. Over the last several months we’ve seen stories break of companies — nearly…

I no longer believe the entertainment business has solutions for the problem we at Seed&Spark have long been interested in solving — helping films to shift culture. If you want them to shift culture, they can’t just shift perception, they have to shift behavior. …

Refrain: What was “right” before probably doesn’t make sense anymore. As we face down humanity’s biggest crisis in our lifetime(s), whose long-term implications we’re only just starting to understand — I’ve come to a destabilizing realization: There are no experts on how to lead right now. Building Seed&Spark for the…

It has become very clear that the best path forward for all of us is to actively participate in mitigation of a global pandemic. The best plan for mitigation is social distancing. In the face of so much uncertainty about how distancing will affect our health and the health of…