Expertise · Power · Public life

Who gets heard?

Independent conversations about expertise, power, and who gets heard, with a particular focus on women shaping business, science, technology, policy, culture, and public life.

The premise

Attention is abundant. Authority is not.

Attention & Authority centers serious expertise by passing the microphone to the (mostly) women builders and doers who rarely claim the spotlight, while making room for conversations with anyone whose work sharpens the inquiry.

The project is independently funded and intentionally unmonetized. There are no sponsors, memberships, paid placements, or funnels. The purpose is to create space for consequential voices, not to convert attention into revenue.

Expertise before performance.The work matters more than the showmanship around it.

Conversation before content.The point is inquiry, not a content machine built around it.

Attention without extraction.Not every audience, relationship, or idea needs to become a transaction.

Conversations

Latest conversations

Jing Yang · Sr. Director, Global Sourcing at Flexsteel · November 2026

Global Sourcing with Jing Yang

Jing Yang is a global sourcing leader with 15+ years of experience across consumer goods manufacturing, including leadership roles at Flexsteel, ASSA ABLOY, Spectrum Brands, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool. She holds an MBA from Missouri State University. She's an expert at new product development, especially when it involves big box retailers, and what global sourcing requires beyond price negotiation: VA/VE, supplier performance, operational judgment, and managing complexity across companies, products, and geographies.

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Chelsie Moranda · HR Leader, See’s Candies · October 2026

Human Resources with Chelsie Moranda

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What does good HR leadership look like when the work moves beyond policy and process and into trust, judgment, culture, and the difficult realities of managing people?

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About the host

Tessa Turner

Tessa Turner is a strategy and operations executive working across logistics, infrastructure, and networked systems. She currently leads U.S. strategy at Bloq.it, after serving as Vice President of Operations at Luxer One, an ASSA ABLOY company, and in senior operating roles at Starbucks Coffee.

She serves on boards at California State University, Sacramento and the University of San Francisco School of Management, and is an Executive Champion with the American Heart Association. Her civic work includes volunteer service with the World Trade Organization and Global Ties Sacramento. She's also a mom to a wonderful boy named Colin.

Research: applied transportation systems and network design, alongside applied mathematics including granular flow and jamming.

Why I made it

“I wanted my son to grow up hearing more than one model of what authority sounds like.”

Tessa Turner · Founder