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Whitney Hess

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Whitney Hess coaches business leaders on how to more mindfully and compassionately design their products, their companies and themselves. She writes at Pleasure & Pain and co-hosts the podcast Designing Yourself. Her life鈥檚 mission is to put humanity back into business. Best known for her work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The MLK Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Seamless and Boxee, Whitney has spent the last decade partnering with senior leaders and product teams at Fortune 500s, nonprofits and startups. Whitney graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master鈥檚 degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor鈥檚 in Professional Writing and H...

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