A queer feminist, anti-racist innovation and leadership studio
At Mandel Creative, we know with the confidence that comes from EVIDENCE that critical discourse on creative and technical collaborations is THE innovation engine of our collective future.
When you MAKE UNEXPECTED CONNECTIONS, you become able to make different decisions.
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We are all going to have to live with the consequences of the decisions being made today about how we use AI and how AI uses us, and to what end, in the boardrooms of Fortune500 companies and emerging tech companies alike.
Mandel Creative’s brilliant, delightful, badass clients are the subject matter experts asking the hard questions in those rooms.
They're there, for example:
when banks decide how and how not to handle your data
when game developers decide who can and can't message your kid
when technical implementation teams decide how you can and can't use AI at work, and how your employer can and can't use what you tell AI at work
when healthcare companies determine policy around AI and pattern recognition
when official approval is given—or not—for how easy it is (or isn't) for you to incur hidden fees when buying or subscribing.
Those rooms are less hospitable to their perspectives than ever.Damn right there are days they'd rather be writing poetry, rewiring electrical circuits or digging in the dirt instead.
But they're not ready to let the robots drive, and they're not ready to cede the critical decisions in those rooms to what the boss man willing to say yes to.
These women might cure cancer or water pollution or make game platforms safe for kids or make AI not evil, if they don't burn it all down and become beekeepers.
This is our main Why right now: there is way too much at stake at this moment in humanity for the #brilliantweirdos to rage quit.If this is you, please don’t rage quit today, when you can get Billie as your Leadership Secret Weapon.
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Especially in turbulent sociopolitical times, critique resilience— the ability to engage in critical dialogue with others who may hold divergent perspectives— is not only a desirable social skill, but a business superpower.
The individuals and organizations who nurture this collaborative skill will continue to combine their ideas in new, surprising ways, generating exciting, valuable products and services.
Those who do not will produce only what their boss is willing to say yes to.
Get in touch to bring Billie’s signature keynote or 3-part interactive workshop series to get your team making unexpected connections this season!
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Why build our future with the limited perspective of the past?
We are interested in #femtech, #agetech, small business enablement tech, and regenerative, non-extractive approaches to social networking and sharing.
To those she advises as a Fractional leader or Board member, Billie brings Jedi-level creative ideation and facilitation, top-tier coaching for R&D collaborative effectiveness, and access to a powerhouse network of the most brilliant, kind humans.
Trusted by teams and leaders at companies including:
about billie
Billie Mandel is the CEO, Founder and Chief Instigator of Mandel Creative. She has 30 years’ international business experience as an R&D leader in the tech industry, a background as a multidisciplinary social scientist with degrees from Stanford and Berkeley, and ten years as a coach and serial entrepreneur.
After decades as the ONLY (woman, designer, lesbian, Jewish person, person with multiple intersectional identities, etc etc etc) in countless corporate boardrooms, she has a full collectors’ set of stories of what NOT to do, and fun, exciting ways to teach motivated clients to learn from our collective mistakes.
Billie’s expertise is most often sought out on two very specific topics: leading collaborative creativity, and helping leaders with multiple intersectional identities increase decision-making confidence and set better boundaries in the workplace.