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From The Culture · April 23 · 1 hr 12 min

S1, E16 - The Double Bind

On this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Felicity Fellows, a global community strategist who has built and scaled cultural ecosystems through her work with TED, TEDx, and her fandom agency Stan—to unpack the hidden dynamics shaping workplace culture. Starting with a striking reality, HR is overwhelmingly made up of women, yet remains one of the most undervalued functions in organizations—they explore how roles rooted in traditionally “feminine” qualities like care, empathy, and nurturing are often dismissed as soft or secondary. From HR to community-building, the conversation reframes these roles not as peripheral, but as foundational, asking what might shift if we treated care and connection as central to how work actually works.

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On this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Felicity Fellows, a global community strategist who has built and scaled cultural ecosystems through her work with TED, TEDx, and her fandom agency Stan—to unpack the hidden dynamics shaping workplace culture.

Starting with a striking reality, HR is overwhelmingly made up of women, yet remains one of the most undervalued functions in organizations—they explore how roles rooted in traditionally “feminine” qualities like care, empathy, and nurturing are often dismissed as soft or secondary.

From HR to community-building, the conversation reframes these roles not as peripheral, but as foundational, asking what might shift if we treated care and connection as central to how work actually works.