There's a pattern emerging, and it's not just happening in the design industry.

In a field where women represent 87.5% of students and 85% of the workforce, only 40% reach leadership at top firms. So what's happening between entry and advancement?

Live from Mannington's Chicago showroom, Amanda brings together a panel of leaders to connect the dots, pairing insights from the design industry with data from other sectors to better understand what's driving the gap.

Because when the pipeline is strong but leadership still doesn't reflect it, it's time to ask bigger questions about what's getting in the way and what we can do differently.

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AI is rapidly changing how work gets done, but the workplace hasn’t necessarily kept pace.

Amanda is joined by Isadora Godley of Haworth and Eric Gannon of Gensler, bringing together two sides of this shift. Isadora works across Haworth to turn AI into real business value—from product development and innovation to governance, adoption, training, and internal processes. Eric brings the workplace and design perspective, exploring through research how AI is changing work—and what those changes mean for the environments designed to support it.

From employees “hacking” their environments to compensate for performance gaps, to AI power users reporting stronger relationships and new patterns of connection, emerging research suggests this shift goes far beyond technology. As AI changes how we focus, collaborate, create, and connect, it may also change what we need from the workplace itself.

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Recorded live from the Mannington Commercial New York Showroom, this conversation explores an unexpected model for the future of work: guide dog training.

Amanda Schneider is joined by Deborah Golden, author of the foreword of Work for What’s Next, and John Miller, CEO of Guide Dog Foundation and America's VetDogs, to examine what the process of raising and training guide dogs reveals about judgment, trust, confidence, and independence—capabilities becoming increasingly essential as organizations navigate artificial intelligence, accelerating change, and greater uncertainty.

Rather than teaching obedience, guide dog training prepares dogs (and the people who depend on them) for situations that cannot be anticipated one by one. That same shift is reshaping leadership today. The conversation explores what it means to develop good judgment, design environments where people can succeed, and prepare organizations for a future without a complete playbook.

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