My career has taken a long and winding road — from part of Shutterstock’s early executive team, to a Senior Director serving under Secretary of State John Kerry, to moving back into the startup world while managing a remote team across eight different time zones. Suffice it to say, I have been through more meetings than I can count. The one common thread through almost every meeting across the private and public sector — both physical and remote — is the awkwardness at the beginning of meetings while waiting for all participants to show up. Are we all here?  We’ve…

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