About Responsive
The future of work remains as unpredictable as ever. Responsive brings people together to reshape how we work.
Robin P. Zander
Robin is the founder and CEO of Zander Media, an unusual creative shop. He is the executive director of Responsive Conference and the author of two books, Responsive: What It Takes To Create A Thriving Organization and How To Do A Handstand, which became a best-seller in Japan. He writes Snafu, a free weekly newsletter about sales and persuasion.
Marie Szuts
Marie Szuts is a leadership coach and culture strategist, and the former Head of People at Figma. Trained as a medieval historian at Yale University where she earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Marie learned to think across disciplines and see patterns in complex systems. She has been part of Responsive as an attendee, speaker, and organizer since 2017.
Liz Salib, PhD
Liz’s work is empowering leaders through executive coaching and leadership development. Leveraging over three years of partnership and prior consultancy, she specializes in translating complex psychological insights into practical strategies that drive organizational change and personal growth. This expertise enables Liz to guide CEOs and their teams towards more inclusive and innovative cultures.
Rachel Murch
Rachel Murch is the co-founder and CEO of Viggo, an organizational design software, and co-founder of Moanach, an org design consultancy. She previously led strategy at Zappos under the famed leadership of Tony Hseih, and brought Responsive Conference to Zappos in 2019. As part of the Responsive Conference team, Rachel supports with strategy and comms.
A Letter From Our Founder
In 2015, the authors of Responsive Org wrote that “the future is becoming increasingly difficult to predict.”
Today, with global instability, political partisanship, and a more rapid rate of change than ever seen before in human history, those words feel prescient.
The tension between organizations optimized for predictability and the unpredictable world we inhabit has reached a breaking point. Only organizations that adapt to this ever-changing world are going to survive.
I founded Responsive Conference because I had witness the organizational dysfunctions and counter-productive habits across two dozen different industries.
In selling to the Fortune 100s, I learned how much of business is relationship-driven. As the first employee at a non-profit education tech. company, I witnessed how slow our educational systems are to change. As an acrobat with the San Francisco Opera, I experienced the century-old practices of one of our most storied arts institutions. And in my own little brick-and-mortar restaurant, I learned about San Francisco city politics.
We still structure our organizations as we did in decades and centuries past; for a time where predictability mattered more than speed of execution.
I started Responsive Conference because I was interested in exploring these topics and learning from the best thinkers and practitioners around the world. The theme of this year's conference is “Design for change” because the world is changing so rapidly. And it is only those individuals and organizations who can keep pace with change which are going to thrive.
I hope you’ll join us at the Oakland Museum of California for Responsive Conference 2025.
Let’s build the future of work together!
Best,
Robin & the Responsive team
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What Is Responsive Org?
Responsive Org aims to develop a shared language and independent global community that promotes and enables a fundamental shift in our way of working and organizing. We aspire to act as the central hub for Responsive thinkers and practitioners.
