Hello Beautiful People,
Last week, we met Michele Kory and Jori Bell of The Lunch Read. Today, you’ll get to know Sutton Kauss.
For those of you who missed the articles, lets recap…
The Lunch Read began as a social experiment between two friends looking for good reads for their lunch breaks. New to their desk jobs, they found that when it became lunchtime, there was hardly ever anything good to read. The group quickly expanded to 9 and so The Lunch Read began. Six months into the project, the group thought others might find interest in a curated list of lunch reads so we started sending the weekly edition. Now, just over a month in, The Lunch Read delivers a weekly Wednesday edition and tweets out interesting finds, or “leftovers” for people to read during the week on their breaks. Get your daily dose of The Lunch Read by signing up here.
The nine founding members Michele Kory, Jori Bell, Sutton Kauss, Mathew Lasky, Adam London, Sam Goodman, Michael Hoffman, Alexa Rosenbloom, and Eric Stupnitsky, were kind enough to participate in our Movers & Shakers Q&A Series, and so, during “lunch break” hours we’ll be introducing you to these Movers & Shakers of new media.
Ladies and Gents, meet Sutton Kauss…
MM: What’s your day job?
SK: I am a recruiting manager at a global management consulting firm.
MM: What role do you play in the structure of TLR (The Lunch Read)?
SK: My title is President. In that role I help shape the overall direction and growth of TLR through goal setting/management, process improvements, etc. We’ve got a great team, so my job is easy! Just aggregating the stellar visions of the 8 other board members to keep TLR moving and growing in the right direction!
MM: If you were stranded on a desert island, what movies, albums, and television shows would you want to have with you?
SK: As far as music– the more Motown the better! For TV shows…. is it cliché to say that I would want to watch Lost? It’s a show that you could watch a million times over and still not pick up on all the foreshadowing and symbolism so I’m hoping it would keep me pretty occupied.
MM: If we were to walk into your home/apartment, what books would be on your bookshelf?
SK: Hmm, good question. If you were to take a look at the stack of books on my bedside table and right now, I have The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen (which I am currently reading), Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You, Steve Jobs biography, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink.
MM: In today’s economy, arts programs are being cut in schools. What reasons would you give to a politician/school board for preserving the arts?
SK: The arts allow students to think differently, to flex their creative muscles in many different ways, to gather a different viewpoint of the world. There is so much value in diversity of thought and if we are taking away an outlet for students to learn and grow through art, then how are we ensuring that we are teaching and creating the BEST problem solvers, the BEST workers, the BEST citizens?
MM: What’s the best piece of advice that you would offer to college graduates entering the job market?
SK: Be ready to learn and be prepared to seek out those learning opportunities. Your first job might not be what you do for the rest of your life, but if you are committed to learning everything you can from your managers, co-workers, and your company– it could be a job that changes your life.
MM: We believe that art can be a tool for social change, that it can transform lives. How would you disagree or agree with this statement?
SK: I completely agree. I think that passion (as cheesy as this sounds) is really what drives social change. It takes a person who is fired up about a cause, a mission….something! anything! to really drive change. If you are passionate about art and that becomes your tool, then yes, I believe it absolutely can transform lives.
MM: Who is/was your greatest teacher?
SK: Hands down my high school Spanish teacher. He was tough. Man, was he tough– but he pushed you until you got better and really wanted to see you to succeed. He wouldn’t let us speak a word of English in his classroom. Ever. When taking his classes, I would even notice myself starting to think and dream in Spanish, that’s how well his teaching method worked! I had him for 3 years, and I never learned more from a teacher than I did from him.
Thank you, Sutton!
Live, Love, Learn,