Jay Lauf is no stranger to a significant challenge. He’s spent the last 30 years leading start-ups and turnarounds in the media space. As the publisher of WIRED in the 2000s, Jay helped lead it to be named Ad Age's magazine of the decade and then joined The Atlantic as its publisher where he turned its commercial fortunes around, twice earning him Publisher of the Year (once from AdWeek and once from Ad Adge) in the 20-teens. He went on to co-launch Quartz (qz.com) where he served as co-CEO until the end of 2019. 

After a year's very intentional sabbatical, Jay joined start-up advisory boards and eventually became a co-founder of Charter. With a mission to transform every workplace and catalyze a new era of dynamic organization where all workers thrive - giving people a tactical playbook on what work can and should be.