Val Corbett brings decades of experience to a deceptively simple question: how do we get people talking again?
From prison reform to professional networking, Val argues that isolation has become a default state and that connection often has to be deliberately engineered through structure, shared spaces, and face-to-face interaction. She suggests that age doesn’t equal mindset and why phone bans don’t really work. As an advocate for speed networking she sees it as a social equaliser where connections are made through relationship-building, not selling
Val Corbett Takeaways:
- Face-to-face interaction builds trust faster than text
- Structure lowers anxiety for younger people
- Attention is the currency of connection
- Common ground exists if you design for it
- Isolation needs action, not nostalgia
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