Stanford University

The Dalton School

Co-Founder of Toucan | Asking the questions @ QuestionAble Strategy

What's one skill that you can work on today that's guaranteed to help you in your professional life AND your personal life? Asking better questions.

But a VC asks different questions from a late night talk show host, and an investigative journalist asks different questions from a therapist. And all of these differ from what you'd ask on a first date. What exactly sets them apart? And where do they overlap?

The QuestionAble Strategy Podcast unpacks great questions and the techniques behind them. I interview foremost experts in their respective fields to understand why they ask what they do, so young professionals can adopt these practices and apply them to their own lives and careers. In fact, at the end of every episode, I go out into the world and try out a question suggested by my guest and report back on how it went. I'm hosting this podcast for the same reason anyone would listen to it.

I also publish tips, analysis, and other nerdy stuff about questions on the QuestionAble Blog: https://www.questionablestrategy.com/blog.

Let's get QuestionAble together.

QuestionAble Strategy

Producer & Host

World Technology Games

Advisory Board Member

Building a video platform to host dynamic, lively virtual networking events. On Toucan, you can gather up to 150 people in one event space, but everyone can create, leave, and move among smaller conversation groups however they please. This allows each person to speak with the people they actually want to speak with and talk about what they really want to talk about - thus, boosting engagement and leading to stronger relationships.

Toucan

Co-Founder & CEO

Techstars

Techstars London '21 Cohort

Analyzed corporate data to optimize audience engagement for Fortune 50 companies; developed algorithms to produce growth reports using Civis Platform; dissected political survey data for advocacy organizations.

Precision Strategies

Data & Analytics Intern

Edited and conducted research for a forthcoming book on the politicization of the U.S. Judiciary.

Stanford University Department of Political Science

Research Assistant for Prof. Adam Bonica

Prospected potential donors using contribution datasets from the Federal Election Commission; organized campaign finance data in Excel and by using Java; used NGP Van and ActBlue to assess donations; contacted and organized volunteers for canvass events; constructed letters to donors using Microsoft Word; staffed campaign fundraisers and events.

Antonio Delgado for Congress

Finance Intern

Used NGP VoteBuilder to cut turf for the primary ‘Get Out the Vote’ canvass events; organized turfs for volunteers; conducted research to identify local organizations that would support the campaign; input volunteer canvassing data; used NGP VoteBuilder and HubDialer to phone-bank.

NY State Coordinated Campaign

Campaign Fellow

Wrote union endorsements; used Java and Excel to filter and organize financial data; prospected potential donors using NGP Van and public databases; contacted donors for support; conducted opposition research on other candidates’ finances; used NGP VoteBuilder to canvass several neighborhoods and to phone bank; staffed campaign fundraisers and events.

Antonia Hellman