Benjamin Oghene is a digital inventor and the CEO and Founder of The Cozm. During his tenure as Global Product Innovation Lead at a leading Big 4 firm, he pioneered digital products and solutions for business travelers and remote work. Driven to push the boundaries of innovation through intelligent automation, Ben founded The Cozm to build smarter, more efficient solutions for global mobility. He is passionate about simplifying complex compliance issues and transforming how businesses manage a globally mobile workforce. By augmenting human and artificial intelligence as part of an integrated business strategy, Ben helps organizations gain a competitive people advantage while mitigating human bias in the hiring and management lifecycle. 🛋️ My Red Couch Talk with Benjamin Oghene Benjamin […]

Rapid changes influence the traditional workforce in digital market trends, technology advancements, and connectivity. New attitudes toward work and careers evolve from the connected workforce generation. Disruptive technology already affects long-standing business models and established companies in all business areas. “Disruptive technology,” coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in 1995, is defined as “ when a new business model attracts an under-serviced market or revenue stream and grows until it supplants incumbent competitors. Technologies are not in themselves disruptive, but their application in a new business model can be” (Christensen subsequently refers to the same concept as “disruptive innovation”). Have you recently faced increased pressure to adapt the way you work to the new digital market trends and […]

ELEVATING WELLBEING, INNOVATION, and CONNECTION with special guest Caitlin Krause When people ask Caitlin about her mission, she always goes back to her core values: “empowering meaningful connection, inside and out.” – The “how” is through wonder and curiosity. *** Caitlin Krause is an experience designer, author, and keynote speaker who bridges timeless wisdom with modern technology. She founded the interactive consultancy MindWise in 2015 and teaches about digital wellbeing and mindful XR technology practices at Stanford University and the University of Oregon. She has authored six books, including Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI (2024) and Mindful by Design (2019). She presented about emotional intelligence, storytelling, and awe-inspired spatial computing at the […]

Lessons from the Master Class Series By Diana Kübler Growing up with a dad who was an eternal optimist and a mom who was a realist left me somewhere in the middle. To me, the word resilient was best embodied by the pesky dandelions that kept growing back through the cracks in our driveway despite my best efforts to remove them. Rather than getting frustrated, I saw it as a challenge to overcome — and a rewarding one at that, since I earned a penny for every weed I pulled. As an adult, resilience took on a much deeper meaning. Moving to a new country meant learning a new language, adapting to a different culture, and rebuilding a sense of […]

By Angie Weinberger | Global People Transitions  Many years ago, I met a woman on LinkedIn and supported her without charging because I felt she needed it and could not (under no circumstances) pay for our coaching. Recently, we got reconnected, and she connected me to a really interesting community in the NGO DEI space where female startup founders can also connect with investors. I don’t really know yet what will come of this connection, but I definitely feel inspired, and I am so grateful to this woman. I am telling you this because you never know when the “networking karma” hits back (the empire strikes back in a good Jedi sort of way). This was an example of how […]