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Great People Make BlueVine a Great Place to Work
Great People Make BlueVine a Great Place to Work
Choosing your next career step can be a complicated process. With so many companies offering such a wide range of…
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Culture: How Do Companies Live Their Values?
Culture: How Do Companies Live Their Values?
We live in an era where “culture” and “values” have become corporate buzz words, but what does that really mean? How do…
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Gianna Driver shared this✨Wonderful evening celebrating the reopening of our San Francisco showroom alongside teammates from One Workplace and two*, customers, partners, and the broader architecture + design community. 🔥 One of the things I continue to appreciate most about this industry is the deep understanding that physical spaces influence #culture, collaboration, creativity, and human connection. So wonderful thinking big with Brian Wilson, Brian Buhl, Christopher M. Good, Audrey C. Meller, Jennifer Ferrari, Manali Khatri Jasper, and others from our team of superstars.🌟 As #AI and technology continue reshaping how we work, it’s becoming even clearer that the future of work isn’t just about digital transformation. It’s also about designing intentional experiences and environments where people can connect, create, and thrive together. 💙 Grateful for the conversations, community, and shared passion for building workplaces that bring out the best in people. 🫶🏽 #OneWorkplace #ArchitectureAndDesign #WorkplaceExperience #FutureOfWork #AI
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Gianna Driver shared this✨ End-of-week reflections + gratitude ✨ Wrapping up a truly stellar week at One Workplace and feeling incredibly grateful for the humans I get to work alongside every day. 💚 From our executive team to our People & Places crew to teammates across the broader organization, I continue to be inspired by the intelligence, passion, creativity, care, and FUN 😄 that people bring to this company. Looking at you, Dave Albert, Mona Heffernan, CPA, Kyle Haakenson, Brian Wilson, Audrey C. Meller, Karen Slichter, Lisa J. Jones, SHRM-CP , and so many more! 👀 What’s becoming increasingly clear to me is that One Workplace isn’t just in the business of designing spaces. We’re deeply passionate about the intersection of #people, #place, experience, and connection. And in a world moving rapidly toward #AI and automation, that human element matters more than ever. 💗 Also, strong early evidence that this team is equal parts high-performing and completely addicted to fun, laughter, and spontaneous group photos!😂 Feeling lucky to build, learn, laugh, and make a little magic with this crew. ✨ #Gratitude #Leadership #WorkplaceExperience #Culture
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Gianna Driver shared thisSpent yesterday at Human+Tech Week talking about one of my favorite topics lately: 👉🏽 How do we embrace #AI and emerging technologies while building cultures that still feel deeply… human? 💜 The panel was energizing, thoughtful, candid, and honestly just FUN. Huge gratitude to Jessica Swank, Cara Brennan Allamano, and Hamet Watt for such a rich conversation around leadership, AI, workplace design, and the future of work. A few themes that continue to resonate with me: ✨ AI only works when the culture supporting it works 💡 Winning companies won’t simply adopt AI faster. They’ll build organizations that are more adaptable, human-centered, and ready for change 🤖 Too many companies are investing in technology faster than they’re investing in leadership, empathy, and change readiness 🏙️ Badge swipes are not the best measure of collaboration or connection 💛 Intentional, curated workspaces matter because gathering should have purpose 🫶🏽 The strongest organizations are built with people who are mission and values aligned, not just transactional participants One thing I keep coming back to: Technology can accelerate productivity, but #culture determines whether people thrive inside the systems we create. At One Workplace, this conversation feels especially meaningful. We think a lot about how thoughtfully designed environments shape connection, creativity, performance, and belonging. Not just where people work, but how they experience work together. 👉🏽 The future of work is not just AI transformation. It’s leadership transformation, culture transformation, and human transformation too. Left feeling energized, hopeful, and grateful for the conversations and community in the room yesterday. 🚀 So wonderful to see AJ Thomas ⚡️ , Al Dea, Samara Jaffe, Jennifer Turner, Sally Thornton (she/her), Kelley Steven-Waiss, and others, but I want more time together! ⏳ #HumanTechWeek #FutureOfWork #PeopleAndCulture #WorkplaceCulture #HumanCenteredLeadership
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Gianna Driver shared thisExcited to be joining Human+Tech Week this Tuesday in San Francisco alongside leaders, builders, and thinkers exploring a question I care deeply about: 👉🏽 As #AI continues to reshape how we work and live, how do we ensure we’re expanding #human potential, not diminishing it? 💡Some of the conversations I’m most energized by right now sit at the intersection of technology, leadership, culture, and human connection. Not just what we’re building, but why and for whom. In #HR and #workplace leadership especially, I don’t believe the future belongs to organizations that simply adopt AI the fastest. I think it belongs to the ones that use it most intentionally to create more clarity, opportunity, creativity, belonging, and meaningful human experiences at work. Really looking forward to the conversations ahead and to learning from so many thoughtful people in the room, including industry greats like Jessica Swank, Cara Brennan Allamano, AJ Thomas ⚡️, Kelley Steven-Waiss, Nichol Bradford, and others! If you’ll be at HTW this Tuesday, I’d love to connect. 💜 #HumanTechWeek #AI #FutureOfWork #Leadership #HumanCenteredAI #WorkplaceCulture #PeopleLeadership #HR #Technology #Innovation
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Gianna Driver shared thisA few days at Running Remote reinforced something important: the future of work conversation is getting smarter 👏🏽 I had the chance to facilitate a panel, join a panel, record a podcast, reconnect with old friends, and meet many new ones over the last few days. As much as I loved the formal sessions, some of the richest moments came from the in-between conversations, like the hallway chats, shared meals, and candid exchanges with leaders trying to solve for many of the same things. Three themes came up again and again 👇🏽 1️⃣. #AI conversations are finally maturing 🤖 We’re moving beyond “How do we start using AI?” and into much more strategic territory: How do we use AI to create more human connection? How do we remove friction for employees and managers? How do we create capacity for deeper coaching, creativity, and collaboration? The best leaders are no longer chasing AI for novelty. They’re figuring out how to use it in service of #people. 2️⃣. Equitable employee experience doesn’t mean identical employee experience 🌍 Distributed, hybrid, and remote organizations all wrestle with asymmetry. Not every employee will experience work in the exact same way, and that’s okay. The goal is not sameness. The goal is intentionality. How do we ensure every employee, regardless of location or work mode, feels connected, informed, supported, and seen? That requires much more thoughtful design than simply choosing “remote” or “in office.” 3️⃣. In-person gatherings still matter, but only when they are designed with purpose 🏢 This one came up repeatedly. Gathering people because an old framework says face time equals innovation is not enough. Gathering people because there’s office space to fill is not enough. If we bring people together, we need a clear #why. What outcome are we solving for? Connection? Faster decision making? Creativity? Trust building? Training? Cross-functional momentum? Then we need to measure whether gathering actually delivered that outcome. And yes, the physical environments where we gather matter tremendously. Flexible, modular, connective spaces change the quality of interaction more than many companies realize. (Hello, One Workplace 😉) I’m heading home with pages of notes, fresh perspective, and a lot of gratitude for the thoughtful leaders pushing this conversation beyond old binaries and toward more intentional design for humans at work. The future of work is not about choosing AI or humans. Remote or office. It is about designing systems, spaces, and moments of connection that help people do their best work… and making the times we gather truly count ✨ #RunningRemote #FutureOfWork #AI #EmployeeExperience #Leadership #Culture
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Gianna Driver shared this✨ I’m beyond excited to share that I’ve joined One Workplace as Chief People Officer. ✨ As I’ve reflected on what matters most in both life and work, one theme keeps coming up: it’s the #people, the #culture, and what we build together that truly make the difference. That’s what drew me to One Workplace. This is a company that doesn’t just create physical spaces; we create environments where connection, creativity, and performance thrive. The opportunity to help shape a culture that enables people to do their best work and feel deeply connected while doing it is incredibly meaningful to me. Grateful to Dave Albert, the Ferrari family, Mona Heffernan, CPA, Brian Wilson, Kyle Haakenson, Audrey C. Meller, Kelly Steitz, Leigh Zils and others for the warm welcome. Also incredibly appreciative of the teams across California and Washington for such a thoughtful and beautiful introduction. I’ve felt it from day one. 🧡 Looking ahead, I’m excited for what’s to come and for the opportunity to build, grow, and have fun together. Here’s to magic! 🚀 And to my People & Places community, if you’re ever interested in seeing our spaces in action, I’d love to host you for a personal tour of one of our offices. We’re creating some truly special environments. 🤩
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Gianna Driver shared thisEvery year when I return to the Philippines, the place of my heritage, I’m reminded of the humanity that connects us all. 🇵🇭✨ This year felt especially meaningful. As my 12-year-old daughter, Abigail, and I volunteered with Project PEARLS (where I’m grateful to serve as a Board member), we helped prepare and distribute hot meals to more than 600 families in Tondo, on the outskirts of Metro Manila. Tondo is home to more than a quarter million people living in abject poverty, many surviving by scavenging from Manila’s largest landfill. And yet, amidst this hardship, there is joy, resilience, and profound connection. 💛🤲🏽 One moment stays with me: Walking toward the feeding area early one morning, a group of children ran up to me and wrapped their arms around my legs, smiling cheek-to-cheek. Their joy, pure, unfiltered, and immediate, reminded me that even in the starkest conditions, people find reasons to hope, to laugh, and to connect. ✨ Poverty is hard. It humbles you. And every visit reminds me that #leadership at its core is service: holding space for others, seeing their humanity, and doing what we can to lift communities, workplaces, and individuals up. 🙏🏽 As leaders, especially in #HR and People roles, we sit at a unique intersection of responsibility and privilege. We shape systems, cultures, and experiences that can either reinforce inequity or help reduce it. My time in Tondo is a grounding reminder that what we build inside our organizations matters far beyond workplace walls. True leadership is seeing and honoring the humanity in others. This season of giving, I hope you will consider supporting an organization that speaks to your heart. ❤️ If you feel called to support Project PEARLS, it is a registered 501(c)(3) and donations are tax-deductible, but truly, any act of generosity, in any corner of the world, makes a difference. We come from different life experiences, but we all crave the same things: dignity, connection, and care. May we lead and live with those truths in mind. 💛#Thanksgiving #LeadWithHeart #PeopleFirst #Community #SeasonOfGiving
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Gianna Driver shared this✨ Joining a company is one of the most intimate choices we make. It’s a vote of confidence in the CEO, the leadership team, the mission, and — most importantly — the people. I’m beyond thrilled to share that I’ve joined OpenTable (part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)) as Chief People Officer. What drew me here is the confluence of: 💡 Inspiring leadership — our CEO Debby Soo, who drives hard and leads with heart, and Paulo Pisano, whose leadership across Booking Holdings reflects a rare balance of rigor, empathy, and global perspective. 🌟 A stellar leadership team I’m honored to partner with: Amy Wei, 🥄 Robin Chiang, Chantal Boctor, Sagar Mehta, and John Longstreet 🙌🏽 Incredible teammates across People & Culture and the entire company 🍽️ A mission that resonates deeply: empowering human connection through the universal joy of dining OpenTable helps people find the right restaurant for every occasion — from casual lunches to milestone celebrations — and helps restaurants thrive in the process. What a beautiful mission to champion! 💚 I’m energized to work alongside this talented team to nurture a culture where people can do the best work of their lives — while bringing others together around the table. 🥂 Here’s to great food, great people, and meaningful journeys ahead. 🚀 #Leadership #OpenTable #PeopleAndCulture
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Gianna Driver reposted thisGianna Driver reposted this🤖 What happens when your colleague isn’t human? 🤖 Things have gotten very practical lately. Don’t get me wrong, I love a session with clear outputs. But admit it - you miss the early AI days. When everyone spent their time scare-mongering and AI generating pictures of the robot apocalypse. So what if you could have both? Practical takeaways AND a peek into the sci-fi future. That’s what this session is about. I’m teaming up with the most dynamic People trio around - Gianna Driver, Hebba Youssef, and Berzhang (Bee) Karimi—to dig into the hybrid workforce: what managing agents looks like today, and what it could mean for tomorrow. Come for the practical tips (straight from one of our Harriet customers). Stay for the sci-fi. See you there? 📍 Thursday 18th September ⏰ 18:00 GMT, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST 👇 Sign up link below
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So lovely spending time with you today, Craig Forman! Let’s go conquer the world! (with AI enabling our success!) #HumanCenteredLeadership 💫
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Gianna Driver liked thisGianna Driver liked this500 Davis has officially been warmed! Last week we opened our doors and the community showed up, and we could not be more grateful. The energy, the faces, the connections made, it was everything we hoped for and more. 11 years of doing this TWOgether, and nights like this remind us exactly why. To our clients, partners, and everyone who came out to celebrate with us: thank you. This community is everything. Cheers to many more.
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Gianna Driver liked thisGianna Driver liked thisI spent a long time being someone people could count on for everything. Every ask. Every crisis. Every “just one more thing.” And I was proud of it. Until I realized the cost. It wasn’t dramatic burnout. It was quieter. Me consistently showing up for everyone else while slowly disappearing from the things and people that matter most. Here’s what I’ve learned: access to my time, my energy, my presence is not a default yes. It never should have been. Being taken for granted isn’t just something that happens to you. It’s something you allow. I’ve been allowing it for too long. The most powerful leaders I know aren’t the ones who are available to everyone all the time. They’re the ones who are fully present for the right people, the right moments, the right work. That kind of intentionality isn’t a weakness. It’s the job. So I’m in a new era. My health. My kids. The people who actually show up for me. They get the best of me — not the leftovers. Access to me is earned. Not assumed. And I’ve never led with more clarity than I do from that place. 🖤
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Gianna Driver liked thisGianna Driver liked thisDistributed work doesn’t scale by accident. It’s designed. At Running Remote 2026, Allison Vendt (Dropbox), Scott A. Aicher (CXC), Nawal Fakhoury (HubSpot), Gianna Driver (One Workplace), and Mikaela Cohen (Morning Brew) came together to discuss what it really takes to build distributed organizations that last. The conversation went beyond remote work policies and flexibility. It focused on the fundamentals: • Clear ownership • Intentional governance • Thoughtful operating models • Leadership systems that scale One theme stood out: The most successful distributed companies don’t leave culture, communication, or decision-making to chance. They design for them. Because flexibility isn’t the outcome. It’s the result of building the right systems first. 🚀
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Gianna Driver liked thisGianna Driver liked thisYesterday was mine and Cary Kletter’s 25th anniversary! Ironically, we spent it apart because I was in NYC mixing a little work + pleasure… which he was 💯 supportive of. My friend Yasi Baiani recently wrote in her LI post: “Your life partner is your most important career decision.” and I couldn't agree with her more. It was definitely because Cary was always by my side that allowed me to build a thriving career in tech. Back in 2000, before we were even married, Cary agreed to move with me to California (leaving his family & NYC law career behind) so I could chase this wild dream of joining a young internet startup called eBay. Since then, he has supported every leap, pivot, risk, reinvention, and occasional “I’m leaving this job even though I don’t fully know what’s next” moment in my career. And these days, when I hop on planes every month to build communities, host events, teach, and pursue work that lights me up, he quietly holds things down at home including solo parenting. Together, we’ve raised three amazing boys who make us incredibly proud. And while life is never perfect or balanced all the time, I do believe it’s possible to build a life that mixes a meaningful career, a loving family, deep friendships, adventure, and joy. It’s just a whole lot easier with the right partner standing beside you. So here’s to 25 years! And hopefully a proper celebration together soon at some Michelin-star restaurant… even though Cary would probably be just as happy with McDonald’s :) Btw, this is a photo of a photo from our wedding. That’s how long ago it was… digital phones didn’t even exist yet. 😂
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Gianna Driver liked thisGianna Driver liked thisMy son just published a TEDx Talk. He titled it "Becoming." It's the story of a 15-year-old growing up as the son of two moms - searching for the half of himself he doesn't yet know. His story is deeply personal. Two moms. An unknown biological father. Half siblings (one known, many not) that he carries with him in identity if not in life. What struck me is how universal his insights are for anyone thinking about their next job, their career aspirations or what they want their professional journey to look like. Three lessons stayed with me from his talk: 1. "Who am I becoming?" Rather than focusing on landing that next job or climbing toward a destination role, ask who you're becoming in the process. Do you like that person? What strengths do you want to amplify? What do you want to develop, change or learn? 2. Patience. His talk reminded me of that Rolling Stones lyric, "you can't always get what you want...but sometimes, you get what you need." Acceptance of your journey - and being ready to receive whatever shows up, whenever it shows up - can be the unlock to an incredible leap forward. 3. "Waiting doesn't mean standing still." What proactive steps can you take to position yourself for what you want next? Taking risks and putting yourself out there is part of "becoming." Yes - I'm a proud mama. But more than that, I'm a lifelong learner who's grateful to have a son who teaches me something new almost every day. His talk made me pause and ask, "who am I becoming - as a mom, a wife, a CPO, a leader?" And it got me thinking about patience, and about not standing still. Who are you becoming - and what are you doing while you wait? https://lnkd.in/gKErGJGW #Leadership #Family #BecomingBecoming | Luciano Vitale | TEDxCrystal Springs YouthBecoming | Luciano Vitale | TEDxCrystal Springs Youth
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Gianna Driver liked thisOne of the great privileges of serving as a Macalester College Trustee is participating in Commencement. Mac's is simply the best, filling me with inspiration that extends well beyond the day itself. The music alone was extraordinary: the Scottish Pipe Band, Spirit Boy Native American Band, African Music Ensemble, and Concert Choir each brought something unique and powerful to the celebration. And the address by Drs. Tony Fauci and Christine Grady was something special, not just motivating, but personal to Macalester. It was clear they truly understood this special place and the values it stands for. In unison, they left the Class of 2026 with words to live by at work, and at home: "Stay curious, allow yourself to be awed, keep your eyes open, be astounded by the wonder of our world — there will always be great surprises." If you are interested, the full ceremony is worth your time: https://lnkd.in/gwCmC5jB Congratulations to the newly-minted Macalester graduates! We alumni stand ready to support you as you launch into the next phase of your lives. 🎓 #Macalester #Commencement2026 #HigherEducation #Inspiration
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Post Typhoon Disaster Relief
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Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
A few days after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) struck the Philippines in November 2013, I flew to the disaster area and led a relief mission to rescue a missing colleague. After we found my colleague, I organized additional deliveries of food, medicine, and other relief goods. Truly a life-changing experience.
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Glamour Magazine, May 2011. Pages 266-267. Article by Emily Rosenbaum.
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