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.

Winston Zhou

Being someone who has worked on both sides of the freelance/corporate coin, I think that the pain points in the in-house vs freelance relationship tend to be pretty consistent. That being said, consistency means a certain amount of predictability, and reasonable ability to work around that. Obviously there are exceptions and none of these are true for every freelancer and every business. These are just a few of the trends that I’ve seen as a professional still life photographer. Read more>>

Mia McKinney, MCRP

In corporate real estate, what’s often missing is a true balance between driving returns and building community. It’s treated as either/or, when both can coexist in a for-profit model. In my experiecnce, part of the issue is a lack of diversity in thought, exposure, and lived experience within these corporations, which limits how space and place are created for different people. Read more>>

Laura Clark

That photographers just point and shoot. There are mechanical and technical aspects to using a DSLR or a Mirrorless camera that go into getting a good shot.

This is something as a photographer that I get quite a bit. There are also aspects of photography that go into the cost beyond the “point and click” that people think we do. There is a way we shoot our shots to make sure that we get the best shot for each pose. Composition, editing, knowing our equipment and using it in the proper context with lighting and understanding how to pose shots and get the most genuine aspects of our clients story. Read more>>