Tuesday, September 23, 5-8pm / VCU Cabell Library
A HUGE success!! Thank you to everyone who made it happen! Look for videos, photos, and stories here in the coming weeks!
Proceeds support event costs, with additional funds fueling the Institute for Transformative Leadership's vision to develop leaders with the courage and capacity to care.
Director of Operations, Lost Office Collaborative
CEO, Buckingham Greenery
Assistant Vice President, Marketing Operations, Jenius Bank
Roxanne Brown and Ed Cook
Co-Owners & Champions for DisruptRVA
Todd does it again!! Our perfect emcee for DisruptRVA, Todd creates an atmosphere for everyone that’s uniquely Disrupt.
Speakers have a big task: Deliver a powerful message inside a challenging format (5 minutes, 20 slides advancing automatically every 20 seconds) and energize, inform and empower the audience. Speakers mess up! Perfection is not the point.
Success is when an audience member takes something away and tries something new the very next day.
Todd makes sure everyone understands this. He keeps the energy up -- the audience encouraging the speakers, the speakers inspired by the audience. A complete uplift for everyone!
DisruptRVA is the Richmond chapter of Disrupt, an international speaker series challenging conventional thinking about work. By showcasing forward-thinking ideas in a rapid-fire format (5-minute presentations with 20 auto-advancing slides), DisruptRVA inspires professionals to build a better future for work.
DisruptRVA first came to Richmond in 2017 and was held at In Your Ear Studios, then in 2018 at The Frontier Project, and in 2019 at Dominion Payroll. The event was on hiatus due to COVID in 2020-22 (to achieve the spirit and mission of the event, Disrupt requires events to be held in person). DisruptRVA returned in 2023. In 2023 and 2024, the events were held at the VCU School of Business.
DisruptRVA is produced by volunteers who are passionate about DisruptRVA's mission. Roxanne Brown and Ed Cook are the current license holders for the local chapter and the drivers of the event. The partnership with a Richmond area academic institution to produce the event began in 2023 with VCU, with the intent to bring student voices and ideas into the conversation. If momentum continues to grow, DisruptRVA may partner with other Richmond area academic institutions to hold more than one event a year.
Proceeds support event costs, with additional funds fueling theVCU's Institute for Transformative Leadership's vision to develop leaders with the courage and capacity to care.
DisruptRVA is for anyone who’s curious about what work could be. The call-to-action for the event is for participants to walk away with at least one small thing they’ll try because they’ve been inspired by a speaker or a conversation.
President
The Change Decision
CEO
The Change Decision
Professor
VCU School of Business
Vice President - Employee Benefits and Organizational Risk
Lockton Companies
