One of the biggest opportunities for folks who want to make an impact through entrepreneurship is to tackle things that Corporate America has gotten wrong and so we’ve asked some of the best and brightest in the community to share examples of what Corporate America is getting wrong in their industries.

Casilda García López

Outside of unionized shoots, freelance Production lacks an industry standard of worker’s rights. I am a strong defendant in placing the crew’s well-being forth in any budget. Offering up-to-date rates, safety rides for longer commutes, and guaranteed overtime if necessary. My hot take is that since the Production team call time is typically earlier than anyone else’s, all PAs should first eat before starting with their day of work. Read more>>

 Ingvar Jacobson

In recent years, the music industry has undergone a transformative shift, marked by the digitization of music and the rise of streaming services, providing unparalleled accessibility to music enthusiasts worldwide. Read more>>

Sabrina Trueblood

Corporate America doesn’t truly support working mothers. They take away roles from pregnant mothers, place limits to their rising star, and punish them for prioritizing family. When I was pregnant with my son working at a big consulting firm, I was assigned to a new project when I was 8 months pregnant. The project knew I was pregnant but I guess seeing me in person rubbed them the wrong way. I was assigned on a Friday morning and completed my first day. The following Monday, I showed up to work and as I sat to check my email, I read an email I wasn’t expecting. Somehow this project, that had been looking for a resource for months, suddenly filled the role internally. The role that I just accepted the previous business day. I guess hearing about the resource being pregnant is very different from seeing the baby. What was even worse? The project manager I met that Friday on my first day, was a woman. That lack of support continues after pregnancy and when the baby is born. You normally do not receive the support needed for a breastfeeding parent, which normally leads to the parent allowing their personal parental goals to go to the bin. It is unfortunate that the organizations that people dedicate their life’s work to, normally put them in a situation where they have to choose work over family. Read more>>

Crystal Jackson

Let’s be honest Corporate America has EVERYTHING wrong in any industry! Lol But, specifically here, they have taken the heart and soul out of it. It’s been replaced with greed and corruption. People don’t take care personal anymore so it’s viewed as a job instead of an opportunity to heal someone. Read more>>

Mya-Breyana Morton

In my experience as a filmmaker, I believe one of the areas where Corporate America often falls short in our industry is the insufficient representation of diverse voices and perspectives. While my bio doesn’t explicitly delve into this issue, it’s a prevalent concern that impacts the entire filmmaking landscape. Read more>>

Brynlee and Degan Sullivan

At Samantha Cade Collection, we think what Corporate America gets wrong in our industry is quantity over quality. Big chain stores sell candles and bath products sometimes at a fraction of what small businesses and artisans do and in most cases, they are inferior products with a lower quality wax and/or fragrance oil. Because we are a teen entrepreneur business that wanted to be taken seriously, we thought it was important to not only do as much research as possible to create a quality product, but make sure that the ingredients that went into those products were high quality as well. Our wax is a blend of soy wax, vegetable wax and food-grade paraffin and we seek to only use fragrance oils that have been formulated be phthalate-free and adhere to IFRA standards for safety and purity. Read more>>

Kate Greene

There’s a significant oversight in how Corporate America typically approaches pricing for creative work. With the rise of AI and online platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and Design Pickle, there’s a trend to pigeonhole creative tasks into an hourly pricing model. But, in reality, that’s not the best way to view it. Read more>>

Olivia Guenther

Watching the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes begin shortly after graduating from art school was daunting as someone who aims to enter an adjacent field of work, yet I was very inspired to see the picket lines held until negotiations for better working conditions were made. Artists deserve stable employment with living wages as compensation and it shouldn’t take a months-long fight for that to be recognized by some of the largest, wealthiest companies in the business. Big-name employers expect employees to churn out project after project in order to meet their unreasonable deadlines, to burn themselves out for an insignificant paycheck so that executives can make a profit. True artistry cannot be replaced with the poor imitations that are produced by AI because computerized generation will never equate to anything created with the essence of humanity, with care and passion. For there to be such discrepancies over wages, job security, AI usage, and so on shows that the battle for artists to be respected is one still being fought. Corporate America doesn’t realize attempts to disparage artists only turns away the people who possess the talents needed to produce everything that keeps their companies running, and that they are the ones who will struggle if creatives turn on them due to suboptimal treatment. Read more>>