Deborah Perry Piscione is the Co-founder + Chief Metaverse Officer of Work3 Institute, a startup at the crossroads of future-of-work solutions, the metaverse and web3 technologies. She is also the co-author of the forthcoming book, EMPLOYMENT IS DEAD! HOW THE METAVERSE WILL RADICALLY SHIFT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WORK (Harvard Business Review, October 2024). 

Deborah is a serial entrepreneur turned web3 venture capitalist, New York Times best-selling author of SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY and four other bestselling books. She is the architect of a bottom’s up innovation process, called Improvisational Innovation, that has been adopted at many Fortune 500 companies. Deborah is a thought leader in the future of work and web3 (co-creating the first global hype-free, web3 community, WAGMAS), a LinkedIn Learning author with courses on risk-taking and innovation, and a former congressional + White House staffer and television commentator for CNN. Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review (HBR.org), The Economist, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, Fast Company, among numerous other publications.