The In-Between
A companion for uncertain times
ann le &
Meg Buzzi
How can we stay engaged and motivated given the chaotic landscape of work?
What can we do right now to prepare for a future we do not know?
Learning how to adapt is a critical skill for leaders, learners, and all of us in the in-between.
This guide is dedicated to creating new patterns around work and management, and finding certainty in yourself by cultivating agility and patience.
“it is exactly what I needed to read …
I am going to USE THE book consistently as I structure what working for myself looks like, as well as how I engaGE WITH MY TEAMS. ”
— Matt Stevens
“MY TAKEAWAY: we need to stop, wait a minute, interrogate our experience, and be open to to the immediate discomforts of a radical mindset shift, and then be open to them again, for the betterment of ourselves and our world.”
— Maithri Vangala
About Ann
Ann Le is thinker, leader, and finance/operations pro, working on building strong, sustainable, anti-racist systems and organizations. She’s leaning into how we can leverage new technologies, finance and community to combat racial and economic injustice. As an entrepreneur and ally, she frequently participates in work and conversations around circular economies, solidarity movements, and innovative, non-extractive financing mechanisms.
Prior to consulting, Ann spent a decade as a VP in investment banking, then spent 5 years at a major film studio. After her MBA, Ann has worked and held leadership roles with over 50+ organizations from large corporations to start-ups, non-profit, government, and has served on numerous boards. She’s also written a great, but not best-selling cookbook, and produced an award-winning Sundance independent film. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Economics, with a focus on history and labor, and has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business. Ann will ask you if any of this matters as we move out of the In-Between, and we enter a new paradigm of work and community: there’s a new way to see and value ourselves.
Ann has been described as a great teammate, a caring, intuitive human with a strong Slack game who also writes the “opposite of boring” emails.
About Meg
Meg Buzzi is a change artist helping to build imaginative solutions to systemic challenges, especially at work. She is a certified coach, facilitator and member of FIXCHR consulting group as well as the Enspiral and Starter Cultures networks. She helps teams, leaders and communities rekindle their purpose.
A former Chief Information Officer, Meg has led multi-million-dollar change efforts in K-12, higher education, government, and tech. Her most valuable learning is how to practice trust when teams are faced with complexity and challenge.
Meg is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, an Art of Hosting practitioner and a contributor to the books Fieldworking (Bedford/St. Martin’s), The Rhetoric of Inquiry (Bedford/Macmillan), and Narrative Generation. She lives in Los Angeles.
