Lead facilitator for leading Silicon Valley conference exploring the future of company culture, experience design, and employee engagement. Responsible for training and managing 20 professional workshop facilitators/coaches. The Culture Conference is an immersive 2-day event for business leaders from companies like Airbnb, Southwest Airlines, Google, The Ready, The Energy Project, and Dropbox, who are committed to building positive teams and cultures. An invite-by-application group of 175 business leaders share their personal triumphs and challenges as culture pioneers, and learn from each other about what’s working in creating and shifting culture in their organizations.

Three-time Emcee for 500-person Culture Summit, one of the leading conferences on company culture, HR strategy, employee engagement, people ops, DEI, and talent development.

http://boldacademy.com/ -Principal host and public speaker at The Bold Academy, an entrepreneurial leadership program for emerging young professionals to unleash their unique gifts on the world. -Developed curriculum, managed operations, designed user experience, coach program attendees. -Lead generation: recruited applicants, booked entrepreneurs/speakers for program. -Speakers include co-founders of Asana, The Unreasonable Institute, General Assembly, GoldieBox, SunSaluter, ReWork, Photojojo, Moneythink, as well as yogis, mindfulness experts, writers, artists, marketing experts, the world's youngest venture capitalist, the innovator-in-residence at IDEO.org, among others.

Lead generation and account management: scouted locations, managed contracts, secured film permits for multi-million dollar projects. Credits available on IMDb: (I Am Legend, The Wackness, Adrift in Manhattan, Uncertainty). http://imdb.com/name/nm2179130/

Hired and managed 40-person crew, raised $30K budget for short film 3rd of July, supervised all aspects of production. http://vimeo.com/6519682 Official Selection: BET/Urbanworld Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival

Emcee at 9 different Hive Global Leader Programs. Former Director of Community Engagement for Hive Global Leaders Program. Responsible for connecting alumni and helping millennial leaders collaborate to create social change. Emcee for 3-day conference and group facilitator. Hive is a training program in San Francisco for extraordinary purpose-driven leaders and entrepreneurs who want to create a joyous, abundant, and sustainable world for all people. For more info: hive.org

Wrote and edited speeches and official remarks, press releases, blogs, memorandum, talking points, and presentations for Peace Corps Director and agency leadership, State Dept. and White House officials, and senior leadership at international NGOs. - Wrote proposal paper, leading to development of public-private partnership with PEPFAR and Foundation for Global Health Service (NGO). - Managed agency partnership development and implementation with VSO (NGO). - Planned President Obama’s Forum with Young African Leaders with the White House and State Department. Managed $50K budget, organized logistics, secured VIP speakers from partner NGOs/social enterprises. - Coordinated visit of Michelle Obama on official travel to Peace Corps/Botswana. Managed in-country VIP events, coordinated logistics with Secret Service, and developed communications assets/social media strategy.

* Supervised daily campaign office operations. Recruited, trained, and managed volunteer staff of 200 * Exceeded weekly targeting goals/quotas for voter registration and volunteer recruitment * managed online voter database. - Managed five get-out-the-vote satellite offices * helped Obama win Madison County, Indiana by 4,000 votes (a +15,000 vote swing from Bush victory in 2004).Helped Obama become first Democratic presidential candidate to win Indiana since 1964.

* Author of The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, a guide for millennials to find meaningful work. * An Amazon Best-seller * 1 Top Rated book on Amazon for Business/Job Hunting/Internships * Pre-ordered in 38 countries! * http://amzn.to/QzNjMn * http://smileyposwolsky.com/ * www.thequarterlifebreakthrough.com * As seen in The Washington Post, Fast Company, GOOD Magazine, Thought Catalog, The Huffington Post, Indiegogo, J weekly, Under30CEO.

Since 2003, StartingBloc has helped social innovators address the most pressing global challenges of our time by giving them the education, inspiration and connections they need to create lasting change. Our signature leadership development program, the StartingBloc Fellowship exposes young leaders to new models for achieving social impact. The Fellowship begins with the transformative five-day Institute for Social Innovation. The Institute is a boot-camp in Social Innovation. The curriculum is designed to include all the basic skills required for social change agents. Following the Institute, our Fellows become part of the larger StartingBloc community which currently consists of 2,000 Fellows representing 221 colleges and over 53 countries.

13-time Camp Counselor for Camp Grounded: Tech-Free Summer Camp for Adults (!!!), where adults go to unplug from technology and be kids again. Responsible for leading intensive creative writing workshops, village leader for over 30 adult campers, empowering adults to have fun, play, disconnect, overcome their inner-critic, and become their best selves. http://www.campgrounded.org/

THE QUARTER-LIFE BREAKTHROUGH was published by TarcherPerigee (Penguin Random House) on October 4, 2016. It is an 800CEO Business Book Bestseller and #1 Top-Rated Job-Hunting Book on Amazon, and has been translated into multiple languages. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Quarter-Life-Breakthrough-Invent-Meaningful-Matters/dp/0143109529/