What if the crisis of work and the crisis of mental health are actually one and the same? Kristen Beveridge, founder of phae, explores why finding work that fits who we are is essential to our wellbeing, how traditional career paths are breaking down, and why the future of work must give people greater agency over their careers and lives.
What if the crisis of work and the crisis of mental health are actually one and the same? Kristen Beveridge, founder of phae, explores why finding work that fits who we are is essential to our wellbeing, how traditional career paths are breaking down, and why the future of work must give people greater agency over their careers and lives.
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Kristen is the Founder & CEO of phae™ (phae.com) — the Personal Holistic Advancement Engine — a new kind of lifelong guide for navigating life and work in a rapidly changing world. Phae helps people not just find jobs, but design meaningful, future-ready lives where work truly fits. phae democratizes access to the best life and work guidance ever available, for people of all ages and stages. It's the guide everyone needed – and it's available to everyone for $1 a day. A product leader, design thinker, and entrepreneur, Kristen has spent over 25 years at the intersection of technology, culture, and human experience. She has co-founded and built multiple companies, with two successful exits, and has led groundbreaking digital platforms for both startups and Fortune 500s. After studying design, culture, and technology at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, and MIT, she began her career leading the design team for Ameritrade, the first online trading platform. She went on to be a founding team member of BzzAgent, the first-ever word-of-mouth marketing platform (acquired by Dunnhumby), and later served as product and brand lead for Rapid Payer Response, a global pharmaceutical research platform (acquired by Genesis Research). Her portfolio of work spans global brands and causes — from Volkswagen, Ralph Lauren, and Estée Lauder, to Citibank, Pfizer, Audible, Komen, and Bono’s RED. Kristen has deep expertise in digital product strategy, cultural insight, AI-driven design, and building cross-disciplinary teams to tackle complex, human-centered challenges. Today, with phae, she is channeling three decades of experience into solving one of the biggest crises of our time: helping people thrive in the age of AI and automation.