I want you to get excited for COVID-19! If you feel the collective exhaustion and the rush to get back to “normal,” then this talk is worth listening to. Don’t believe me? Look around, and you will see that this pandemic has underscored all the things that were not working. As a journalist by training Alex has had her hand on the pulse of the world and will share an incredibly timely and powerful narrative that will trace through where we have been, where are right now, and why we should take to reexamine and reshape the future we want to rebuild for ourselves. A talk worth sharing.

Alex Lyman is a media professional with a career that has spanned television and print news, independent film, marketing writing, blogging, media coaching, and business consulting.
She attended Western New England University, where she earned a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Media Theory and Production and an M.S. in Organizational Leadership. Her graduate research was published by Palgrave Macmillan in the textbook Leadership and Role Modelling: Understanding Workplace Dynamics, as part of the Palgrave Studies in Leadership and Followership series.
Alex began her media career at local news station ABC40/FOX6 as the weekend assignment editor, and was promoted to 5:00 p.m. newscast and weekend producer. She also experimented in the world of independent film making as a production assistant with Merritt Films and was a freelance reporter for The Republican newspaper and Masslive.com.
Currently, Alex is a senior copywriter at her alma mater in the Division for Marketing and Enrollment Management. She has been a blogger for The Huffington Post, contributed a variety of guest blogs for several companies, and had made appearances on business-related podcasts. Alex also freelances as a writer and media/business coach with start-up companies and small businesses. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx