We just got home from the Regrid Summit in Detroit, so of course I’m excited to share some photos and highlights!

Our theme this year was “What Could Go Right?” with a focus on positive beliefs and visions for our future.

• What could go right if we live up to our vision of becoming the accessible standard for parcel data that shows up everywhere location decisions are being made – from the individual to the nonprofit to the enterprise?
• What could go right if we truly focus on understanding our customers, telling their stories, keeping them for life, and finding all others like them?
• What could go right if we continue to invest in our next generation infrastructure so we can do all of the geographic data enrichment, analysis, and AI/ML we aspire to?
• What could go right if we work on how we work together so Regrid stays a place where people can achieve their own visions and thrive within the company vision?

Regrid is experiencing growth on multiple levels (customers, team size, geographic coverage…), which also means growth in the number of pebbles that want in our shoes. This is an important time to recognize that with all the “more-ness,” not everything that got us here will get us there without proper planning, teamwork, and internal investments, so we talked about it head on from a place of positive beliefs and renewing our vision.

To that end, one of our invited guests was Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of the Zingerman’s Community of Businesses in Ann Arbor, who is a famously outstanding teacher and philosopher on building meaningful, sustainable businesses. Ari took the team on a 4-hour workshop covering Zingerman’s 12 Natural Laws of Business, how to write and make use of Visions, and the Power of Beliefs in Business. The team loved it, and we’re likely to keep working with him and the Zingtrain team.

Among the many team conversations and meals, we also took a sunset cruise (hello, Canada!), welcomed partners from Esri, reconnected with former colleagues, and heard amazing presentations from Laura Granneman, Executive Director of the Gilbert Family Foundation and Rocket Community Fund, and Bernadette Atuahene, co-founder of The Coalition for Property Tax Justice and author of Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Home Ownership in America.

With a distributed team of 43 and growing that now covers 23 states, it’s a beautiful thing to get everyone together, and awesome to see how strong the culture and relationships are. Even as a relatively small team, we are a true cross-section of America and that’s part of our strength.

E pluribus parcel. And thank you for the encouragement to all of us over the years.