In this video, our co-founder and CEO Anna Love discusses how bringing our whole selves (Love and All) to work can really up each other's game. It changes our sense of responsibility to each other and makes our lives more seamless and less segmented.

In this short video, Stoked Head of Innovation, Brent Taylor discusses how difficult it can be to come into innovation work and start prioritizing your sense of curiosity over the sense of expertise you’ve spent years honing and accumulating. The ego loves to know things much more than not know and be curious.

Every quarter we make time for our team to gather, review work we’re doing, find inspiration, re-connect, and hopefully just relax and have some fun! In September of 2020, after a (globally) tough start to the year, we brought our team to Nashville for team time.

In this month’s video, Brent talks about the importance of play as a critical element in learning new skills and behaviors.

In this month’s video, Brent talks about the importance of play as a critical element in learning new skills and behaviors.

Parker discusses Stoked’s experiments to help keep the team sane and creative during these difficult times where burnout is rampant!

In this video, we follow Parker Gates around the Swiss Alps as he talks about the necessity of time away from work in order to be able to do good work.

Anna talks about the power of admitting you're wrong. Not only can it heal a relationship, but it sets a cultural tone for an organization to be able to try hard, fail, and recover while learning.

Several members of the Stoked team chimed in on who their heroes in the work world are. As you might imagine, every one of them is radically different and for very different reasons. Yvonne Chouinard, Bruce Springsteen, Andy Puddicombe, Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Devin Carty, Ian MacKaye, and Clark Kensinger. These are the people out in the world doing work we respect and admire and maybe to some degree even try to replicate in our own work.

In a wonderful written piece by Stoked's Head of Culture, Barbara Patchen relays her personal experience with the role work has played in her life. Starting with how she observed her parents relationship with work, to her present day idea of what work means in her life.

Parker shares how the influential music of his youth ended up playing such a large role in the way he views and does things in his mid-fourties. These ethos and mindsets that seemed to steer him towards trouble as a kid end up saving and guiding his life in adulthood.