July, 2025
Monica Dreger Cultural Fluency Maker
“It used to be that if you didn’t step into the arena, the better it was. But now you step out of the arena and you’re forgotten, you’re done. You don’t stand for anything.”
This powerful insight comes from our latest podcast guest, Monica Dreger, Global Head of Research and Innovation at Airbnb. She is the strategist behind the transformational insights for Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign and Barbie’s inclusive, future-facing repositioning.
In this episode, we explore what it truly means to be culturally fluent and how to find the human insights that drive billion-dollar strategies. We cover everything from the challenges of navigating a polarized market to the future of AI in research.