Rewire
Center around empathy, inclusion and allyship.
What if…
How It Works
Through social/online learning and habit-building, we’ll ask you to reflect and build muscles that help you be more self-aware and in-tune with daily opportunities to show up for those around you.
Allyship from a Historical Perspective
Having Difficult Conversations about Diversity
Diving Deeper Into Privilege
The Psychology of Empathy
- Low-lift, highly meaningful topics
- 15-20 minutes each exercise
- Asynchronous engagement on our Learning Management System (LMS)
- Directed and moderated optional group discussions
Your Guides
Corey Ponder
Corey Ponder is an empathy practitioner and educator who works with innovative companies and individuals to build empathetic spaces for inclusive and diverse experiences.
Corey believes in the power of human connection and how that drives real impact. Over his 11 years of professional experience as a policy analyst in the public sector and a program manager and policy professional in the private sector, Corey knows that an emphasis on emotional intelligence—self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills—leads to a more committed, productive, and engaged workforce creating a real impact in the workplace and spaces they occupy.
Corey has scaled diversity initiatives across several companies, including with CIA and Facebook, and has spoken on allyship and empathy for several organizations, including Google, Chan Zuckerberg initiative, Fitbit, Expedia, InnovatorsBox, and General Assembly. He has also developed and facilitated many workshops on empathy, allyship, bias, privilege, and race. He continues to publish on these topics as well — essays, podcasts, and articles — being featured in Fortune Magazine's raceAhead newsletter, Women 2.0, and Change Catalyst's Leading With Empathy Series.
Corey holds a Master's in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.
Senior Director of Empathy & Allyship
Kate Brodock
Kate is CEO of SWITCH and General Partner at the W Fund, a venture capital firm investing into women and underrepresented-led tech startups.
She’s lived in the tech startup world for almost 20 years, and has played an active leadership role in the women in tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem throughout, having previously led as President a global, 60+ chapter organization focused on the issue for several years prior to coming to Women 2.0 (now Switch) in 2016. The two decade combination of her operational experience in startups, her active work with thousands of early-stage founders, and her deep expertise on and central commitment to gender and representation in the ecosystem has positioned her as a expert and leader on the creation and development of a more equitable future for our innovation economy.
She’s also an EIR at LaunchNY, and a long-time mentor for Techstars. She’s held prior roles as CMO of untapt, an AI-driven tech talent marketplace based in NYC, COO of Atribute, a next-gen scaled learning platform, and Adjunct Professor in PR and Marketing at at Syracuse University.
Kate has keynoted, spoken at and been featured in 100s of places, including SXSW, Collision Conference, Fast Company, Fifteen Seconds, UNLEASH, Microsoft, IBM, MSNBC, Techcrunch, IBT, the BBC and Al Jazeera.
She holds BAs in Political Science and African American History from the University of Rochester, an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
When she’s not doing all *that*, she’s a very non-professional (but adventurous!) athlete, an equally as non-professional musician, can be found outdoors in any weather — skiing, biking, hiking, sailing — loves a good meal with bubbly, craft beer and good friends, hilariousness and life. Her husband is a startup-web-developer-turned-beer-guy and they live on a hops farm in Upstate New York with their two boys.
CEO of Switch & General Partner at W Fund