Danielle Vermeer

Humans are finding new ways to express themselves in both the digital and physical realms in order to join wider communities and reject our most physically distanced era. In other words, the rise of community through visual identifiers is a growing phenomenon. Second, these trends allow people to explore their identity through relative... See more

A board chair leads the board’s effort to excel at advising on strategy, monitoring performance, overseeing finance and controls, and evaluating management. A CEO establishes within the company a shared set of values, practices, and goals that enables the company to execute its strategic plan and build a meaningful future. To grow, a company needs... See more

Sojo is a London-based app that connects brands and consumers with seamsters with the goal of extending the life of new, pre-loved and vintage clothing.

UGC is the most powerful content to acquire, but also the most painful to scale for big co's. People trust other like-minded or aspirational people, always have, always will.

Human communication is based on the exchange of social signals that are essentially multimodal. If these signals deviated from expected patterns, this indicated problems in the communication. The pattern of deviation identified the type of problem suggesting how to repair it. 

Instagram has made shopping your feed a near-seamless experience, which has spawned an endless stream of brands that only exist on the app. But the thrifting accounts toe a line between the personal and commercial. Auctioning off old clothes on Instagram is a very 2020 part-time job, and it follows in the footsteps of other ways teens use social... See more

Eschewing an overt materialism, the rich are investing significantly more in education, retirement and health. Education accounts for almost 6% of top 1% household expenditures, compared with just over 1% of middle-income spending. Inconspicuous consumption confers social mobility.