About Responsive

The future is unpredictable.
Your work doesn’t have to be!

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A Letter From Our Founder

In the beginning, Responsive.org wasn’t a conference. It was a question.

What if how we’ve worked for the last hundred years didn’t have to define work in the future?

There were no guarantees anyone would show up. We expected only a small group of people willing to explore a new way of thinking about work. Instead, hundreds came and filled the room with their curiosity and courage. They spoke on stage, shared what they knew, and listened.

That first gathering became more than an event. It became a community.

Over the years, that question has grown into a movement of leaders and teams reimagining how organizations work. Since 2015, we’ve explored company culture, remote and distributed work, the acceleration of AI, and the messy process of collaboration.

The answers to that first question keep changing. But the question has not.

2026 marks ten years of Responsive Conference — of asking questions, building, and learning together. 

Responsive Conference 2026 will go deeper into what it means to build organizations that can adapt in an age of accelerating change and increasingly distracted attention.

The future of work isn’t just about responding to change. It’s also about people — about how we pay attention, learn and work together.

That’s what Responsive.org is about. And that’s what Responsive Conference 2026 will celebrate.

Warmly,
Robin

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Meet the Team

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    Robin P. Zander

    Robin is the founder and CEO of Zander Media, a different kind of creative agency. He is the executive director of two annual events — Responsive Conference and Snafu 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.

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    Lisa Anne (LA) Logan

    Lisa Anne Logan is a full-stack people leader with two decades of experience at purpose-driven companies including Asana, Pinterest, Airbnb, Slack, and Apple. As Chief of Staff, she focuses on organizational effectiveness and internal AI strategy, helping teams understand and embrace new tools with confidence. Lisa builds environments where people thrive and grow. Outside of work, she’s a modern quilter, archer, and lifelong learner who believes the best days are the ones that offer a new perspective.

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    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.

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    Grace Moen

    Grace Moen is a Norwegian-American writer and producer. She hosts the "Health Care Incarcerated" podcast, studied journalism at Harvard, and produces a small selection of conferences. She serves as our Speaker Liaison.

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    Zach Fish

    Zach Fish is an interactive experiential producer with a deep background in immersive event production. With 15 years experience programming genre-defying immersive experiences, Zach joins the Responsive team to make the conference an unforgettable experience for our attendees.

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    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.

“The conference has been great — it’s just so magical”

“I love the culture of the conference”

“[For] anybody who wants to build an intentional workplace”

“These are people who are going to change the world”

“You curated the speakers really well”

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.

Learn more at Responsive.org →

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