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Who We Are
We’re The Ready
We’re here to change how the world works—from business as usual to brave new work. It takes an unusual person to disrupt decades of tradition and guide hundreds or thousands of people through an experience that demands their bravery, vulnerability, and curiosity. It takes conviction to join a decentralized, self-managing, public benefit corporation where reputation matters more than position.
Our people
The people who make up The Ready are specialists in the ways of organizational culture and transformation. Yet within that world we are generalists drawing freely from the principles and practices of dozens of theories and hundreds of iconoclastic firms. We are coaches, facilitators, academics, psychologists, technologists, and corporate veterans who have found each other in our quest to make work better. Our backgrounds are varied but our ambition is united.
The Ready’s purpose is to change how the world works—from business as usual to brave new work. We believe that brave new work is work that’s more human, adaptive, meaningful, and equitable. Joining the thousands of organizations that awakened to the long-standing, global movements for racial justice, we too recognized that The Ready could not fulfill our purpose—could not live into our principles honestly—without making equity a fundamental component of the impact we hope to make in the world. Is a future of work that’s more human and meaningful for some good enough? Our answer to that question was, is, and will always be “No.”
We want The Ready to represent the future of work through the principles and practices we embody. Our shared future is a more diverse and inclusive one—and we are committed to having our membership reflect that, too. That’s why instead of sharing a brief statement, we want to share more—as transparently as we can—about the work we’ve been doing on ourselves and the work still left to do. We are naming our intentions, gaps, and attempts to hopefully make it easier for people of color and others with marginalized identities to be more well-informed when applying to join The Ready.
Join our team
We are always on the lookout for our next stunning colleague. If you either have experience working closely with organizations to help them think and act differently or are hoping to apply your unique skillset toward changing how the world works and participating in a self-managing environment, please learn about our hiring process and consider applying with us!
The Ready’s hiring team reviews all applications anonymously and will be in touch if there is a fit. If you need to get in touch with them, please email join@theready.com.
The Ready from A–Z
Sharan Bal
Georgia, USA
Matt Basford
New York, USA
Jason Beck
California, USA
Whitney Davison
Georgia, USA
Aaron Dignan
Colorado, USA
Zoe Donaldson
North Carolina, USA
Lucy Ellis
Georgia, USA
Rodney Evans
North Carolina, USA
Véronique Hamel-Vallières
Schwyz, Switzerland
Benoit Hurel
Pays de la Loire, France
Tiani Jones
New York, USA
Sarah Koegler
West Virginia, USA
Alisha Lochtefeld
Ohio, USA
Valeria Lopez
Connecticut, USA
Carol Mase
Pennsylvania, USA
Yehudi Meshchaninov
New York, USA
Colin Mulholland
Georgia, USA
Travis Packer
North Carolina, USA
Tanisi Pooran
Ontario, Canada
Ali Randel
New York, USA
Ashley Reid
Georgia, USA
Jon Roth
New York, USA
Meg Saxby
Ontario, Canada
Tabea Soriano
New York, USA
Sam Spurlin
Virginia, USA
Alastair Steward
Utah, USA
Sara Valasek
Ohio, USA
Jack Van Amburg
California, USA
Will Watson
Tennessee, USA
Chelsea Weber
Missouri, USA
Richard Wood
Hertfordshire, England
Michael Woodley
California, USA
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Zimari Yumva
Nova Scotia, Canada
