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As an entrepreneur, business executive, attorney, and advisor, I have over two decades of experience founding, leading, and advising SMBs across diverse sectors, including technology, consulting, retail, banking, and real estate. I've advised start-up executive teams, family business owners, large publicly traded company executive teams, and leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as led multiple national security and defense technology companies to successful acquisitions. I serve as president of ACME General Corp., a leading public sector innovation advisory business based in New York, Austin, and Morgantown, and counsel at Spilman Thomas & Battle, a Mid-Atlantic regional law firm. I launched Initiative Labs LLC to help business leaders apply principles from my book, The Structure of Success, to create the conditions for success in their business ventures. I earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a master's degree in modern history from the University of Oxford, my professional background includes executive roles in a venture-backed software company and a high-growth financial services firm.
Patrick Esposito
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Nov 30, 2023
Fast Company Executive Board member Patrick Esposito is facilitating user-centric design processes to implement new tech in the public sector.
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Leading experts share 20 tips to help managers and their employees find a reasonable work-life balance that gets the job done. Even before the COVID-19 crisis took the world by storm in 2020, managers at most companies were not promoting the idea of a remote or hybrid work culture environment. But when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a shelter-in-place mandate, employers had to quickly adjust their traditional policy. Realizing the cost-effectiveness on both sides of the aisle, some companies have fully leaned into the idea of enabling employees to WFH and have never looked back while others continue to resist the idea when their staff members question whether they must commute from home just to sit inside a cubicle space. Below, 20 Fast Company Executive Board members weigh in on how employers can work with employees to find common ground and implement the right policies—aside from the current standard hybrid solution.
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Leading business professionals offer advice to the next generation. In a changing world market and tough economy, no one can predict what the future of work will look like in the short term or 10 years from now. One way or the other, what people are realizing in the new norm is that although technological innovations are being elevated every day, companies need to embrace them if they don't want to be left behind. However, these business leaders also agree that the human touch is still essential to ensure smart decisions are being executed for the growth and success of organizations. Below, 14 experts from Fast Company Executive Board discuss how specific industries are currently being impacted and what the next generation of leaders should do to prepare for the unknown.
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ACME General Corp.
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ACME General Corp. provides innovation services to the United States Department of Defense and other public sector organizations to solve critical problems. Our services, grounded in decades of global public sector expertise from our executive leadership, focus on three key areas: problem identification and analysis, solution ideation and development, and solution validation and acceleration. ACME unites diverse stakeholders to address complex issues and deliver measurable results.