Session Type
Main Stage
Session Name

Advocacy & Activism: What People-First Leadership Looks Like Now
Featuring DAVE GILBOA, co-founder, Warby Parker
Interviewer: CHRISTINE LAGORIO-CHAFKIN, senior writer, Inc.; host, Inc.’s What I Know podcast; and author, We Are the Nerds

Description

In 2020, consumers and employees expect their company to be actively antiracist, mission-driven, and civically engaged. Warby Parker, this year alone, redesigned its in-store experience to focus on employee and consumer health and safety, released a plan for increasing equity in the company, launched company-wide civic-engagement efforts, and pivoted its giving-back platform to distribute personal protective equipment in communities. The company’s co-CEO discusses how to hold yourself accountable to your consumers and employees through communication, sincere internal reform, and outreach.

Speakers
Dave Gilboa - Warby Parker