Mary Shea, PhD

Meerkat, Inc.

Meerkat is the AI Teammate for modern work. The platform joins meetings, captures context, and connects relationships. As a live advisor and trusted partner, Meerkat guides next steps, fuels momentum, and turns conversations into progress. Founders, fast-moving distributed teams, and dynamic communities rely on Meerkat to stay aligned and keep work moving forward.

Co-Founder + Chief Growth Officer

Wednesday Women

Wednesday Women is a mission-driven organization dedicated to spotlighting extraordinary executive women leaders to increase their visibility in social feeds, keynotes, panels, and podcasts.

Founding Member Executive Community

HireQuotient

HireQuotient is a purpose-driven AI company that believes in simplifying the recruiting process, finding exceptional and diverse talent, and fostering more meaningful conversations between recruiters, candidates, and executives. The company’s cutting-edge technology, supported by a dedicated and customer-obsessed team, empowers recruiters to concentrate on impactful activities such as nurturing relationships with candidates, preparing executives for interview loops, and closing candidates.

General Manager, North America

Mediafly

Mediafly is a revenue enablement company market-facing teams rely on to plan, predict, coach, and engage at the highest levels. Our integrated platform empowers sellers to lead with value, managers to coach at scale, leaders to forecast with confidence — and buyers to interact through personalized, content experiences.

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Outreach

Outreach is a leading sales execution platform that helps market-facing teams efficiently create and predictably close more pipeline. From prospecting to deal management to forecasting, its platform leverages automation and artificial intelligence to help revenue leaders increase efficiency and effectiveness of all go-to-market activities and personnel across the revenue cycle.

VP Global Innovation Evangelist

Forrester

The age of the customer changes everything. Thriving in today’s market requires businesses to pivot strategy and operations, going beyond simply knowing their customers to anticipating their needs, delighting them decisively, and maintaining this customer-centric approach as a singular imperative.

Principal Analyst

StartOut

StartOut's mission is to increase the number, diversity, and impact of LGBTQ+ founders and amplify their stories to drive economic empowerment for the community. As a former Director and current Advisor, I provide strategic advice and support to the organization’s 17,000+ members.

Member Board of Directors; Advisory Board 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Building Effective Go-to-Market Organizations is the course I designed to arm the next-gen of business leaders with the strategies and frameworks, to lead in the 21st century. Through lectures, readings, business case discussions and a computer-based simulation, my students gained the knowledge and skills to build, lead and scale a global commercial organization.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Marketing

The RevvEx Group

I founded The RevvEx Group to help businesses of all shapes and sizes quickly and dramatically increase their topline results. As RevvEx's CEO, I worked with clients to land funding; create and refine go-to-market strategies; source and onboard sales talent; acquire marketing and sales technologies, and functioned as a fractional chief revenue officer.

Founder - CEO

InContext Solutions

I joined InContext Solutions to build out its professional sales organization from opportunistic founder-led sales. While in this role I recruited and hired top-tier sales talent, designed and documented repeatable sales and marketing processes, propelled the business from $500K to $5M and led the international expansion in Europe and Asia.

Chief Commercial Officer

Co-Founder & CGO @ Meerkat 🐾 | Shaping the AI Teammate Category for Modern Work | Powering Founders, Distributed Teams & Communities

I believe great conversations power modern work, and AI should push them further. That belief led me to co-found Meerkat, the AI Teammate built to bring memory, momentum, and meaning to every interaction.

At Meerkat, we are shaping a new category. One that combines relationship intelligence, real-time recall, and live AI guidance to elevate the way people connect, collaborate, and follow through. Founders, fast-moving distributed teams, and dynamic communities rely on Meerkat to capture what matters, surface what comes next, and turn talk into traction, whether they are pitching investors, aligning a team, or closing a deal.

As Chief Growth Officer, I lead strategic positioning, go-to-market execution, and investor engagement. I am passionate about distilling big ideas into clarity and creating momentum that lasts. I have advised the world’s most innovative tech brands as a Forrester analyst, held GTM leadership roles at Outreach, and, as co-CEO of Mediafly, I led the company’s turnaround and raised $80 million in growth capital.

Now I am focused on scaling Meerkat into a category-defining platform that helps ambitious teams remember more, move faster, and unlock the power of their networks.

If you are building in AI, rethinking the future of work, or believe, as we do, that relationships drive results, let’s connect.

Mediafly is the revenue enablement company market-facing teams rely on to plan, predict, coach, and engage at the highest levels. Our integrated platform empowers sellers to lead with value, managers to coach at scale, leaders to forecast with confidence — and buyers to interact through personalized, content experiences. 

In today’s complex, unpredictable market, top revenue teams around the world, including PepsiCo, Nestle, Databricks, Honeywell, and Sealed Air, turn to Mediafly to accelerate pipeline growth and close more deals faster. 

To learn more, visit www.mediafly.com.

🦃💛 A little Thanksgiving Gratitude from the Meerkat Den!

Before we all unplug for a few days of rest, reflection, and maybe a slice of pie, Ralph and I wanted to share a short Thanksgiving message. 

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This year has been a big one for Meerkat, Inc. We’re officially stepping into prime time with live integrations across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, plus deeper LinkedIn insights, redesigned People profiles, smarter Relationship Mode, and a cleaner, faster experience on iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows.

And we’re just getting started.

Early Q1, we’ll open our full beta and head toward our first commercial launch -- bringing Meerkat into more conversations, more networks, and more teams who are ready for an AI Teammate that truly works the way they work.

Behind the scenes, our unified dataset keeps growing too, combining professional and consumer insights, property intelligence, and affinity signals into one memory layer that supercharges prospecting, outreach, segmentation, and CRM enrichment.

To our early users, investors, advisors, guest bloggers, and every single person who shared Meerkat with a colleague or friend: thank you. Your encouragement fuels us every day.

If you want to see where the future of teamwork is heading, my new Ways We Work essay digs into the shift toward networked intelligence:

 📘 https://lnkd.in/dRBFaHNv

Wishing everyone a warm, restorative holiday. Grateful for all of you -- and excited for everything ahead.
 
🧡
 Mary

I am the co-CEO of Mediafly, a leading revenue enablement platform that helps market-facing teams plan, predict, coach, and engage at the highest levels. Alongside Carson Conant, I co-lead the company's vision, strategy, and growth, as we empower buyers and sellers to interact through personalized, content experiences.

With over 25 years of experience in the sales technology space, I am a recognized thought leader, keynote speaker, podcast host, author, and advisor to many of the world's top B2B brands. 

I am passionate about the future of buying and selling, the criticality of having diverse, equitable, and inclusive sales organizations, and the role of innovation in driving revenue performance. 

My work has been featured in various academic and commercial publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Insider, The Journal of Selling, and more.

“The real opportunity ahead lies in building AI that understands relationships, context, and the dynamic nature of human networks.”

The next big productivity unlock won't come from faster prompts or better summarizers. It will come from AI that understands the people around us.

Here are a few stats to consider:

 ▶️ Employees lose 1.8 hours every day searching for context they already created (Microsoft)
 ▶️ Teams redo work 37% of the time because key information gets lost (Asana)
 ▶️ Eighty-five percent of new opportunities emerge through second or third degree relationships (LinkedIn)

This is where work is going. And it is exactly where we are leading with Meerkat, Inc.

Full blog: https://lnkd.in/dRBFaHNv

#FutureOfWork #AgenticAI #AIProductivity #HumanAI #Leadership #Collaboration #StartupLife #AIInnovation #ProfessionalNetworking #RelationshipIntelligence #WomenInTech #Founders

This is a fun one!


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I love this podcast! If you haven’t checked it out please do. Vince Chan CFA CPA has a real gift for getting her guests to fully open up and share the goods!

Chief Change Officer: Global Top 1% Podcast Producer+Host. Billion $ Investment StorySeller, Fundraiser and Dealmaker turned Gen X Media Personality and Speaker on Breakthroughs by Choice for Careers, Leaders and Teams

People ask me all the time when and how I built an interview-based podcast that hit #1 in US Careers — even above #simonsinek.

Here’s my honest answer:

𝙄𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢𝙨, 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨, 𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧.
𝙄𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙨.

Content is king in #movies, #Netflix, #podcast, #YouTube — everywhere.
But content doesn’t come from a strategy deck. It comes from people.

It comes from my guests and from me.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘆, 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱.

No AI can replace that.
No machine can simulate the depth and breadth that comes from living — from failing, watching, trying again, and staying human through it all.

In this photo are two friends I’ve known for 25 years. We’ve shared time, stories, wins, losses, and everything in between. Guests like them open up for me in ways they don’t for anyone else — about pain and progress, secrets and facts, intelligence and pure luck.

𝙂𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙, 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙝, 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙤𝙥 1% 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬. 𝙂𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚.

Thank you for your support since its birth in 2024. We’re just getting started.
2026 is a fresh new direction.

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