Fifty Years in the Room: The Prelude to 44 Predictions for 2036

What every disruption taught me about the one we are living through now.

I came to the events industry through the back door of Washington society journalism. A month after I graduated from American University I launched Washington Dossier, a magazine that covered the soft power of the nation’s capital: the dinners, the embassy receptions, the charity galas, the private gatherings where the real decisions got made in rooms t…