Host
Shalece L. Daniels
Founder, Edge to Ease™ / Live As If Co.
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October 10 · Detroit · Every seat sponsored
Take two hours off the usual route.
The Michigan Workforce Table, Onyx Edition
A two-hour sensory experience, a short workforce conversation and a live capacity demonstration, staged at Newlab at Michigan Central for the people whose work touches the people doing the work.
Saturday, October 10 · 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Newlab at Michigan Central · Detroit
Produced by Edge to Ease™
Femology, event partner
A pattern interruption in the middle of your weekend
Your Saturday already has a route.
Errands. Practice. Groceries. Family logistics. The list that never quite ends, and the week that starts again Monday whether you are ready or not.
For two hours, take a different one.
2:00 PMArrive. Check in. Eat something good on the Boulevard and meet the room.
2:30 PMWe walk in together. This part matters.
ThenTwenty minutes that are easier to feel than to explain.
ThenA short conversation with Michigan leaders about what they see before strain becomes a cost.
ThenA live reset. We read the room before and after, and put the shift on the screen.
ThenA way to take it with you.
4:00 PMOut the door, with the rest of your Saturday still ahead of you.
Step onto Joy Road
Five senses. One room.
SeeThe room will change on you.
HearThen it gets quiet.
SmellSomething you will recognize.
TouchSomething in your hands. Maybe in the air.
TasteBefore you even sit down.
NoticeWhat shifts.
Joy Road is the part we are not going to explain here. A designed sensory sequence, a few things you did not expect on a Saturday afternoon, and a room full of people finding out with you.
Come curious. Leave connected.
This is not a room you sit in alone.
Round tables. Good food. Real conversation with Michigan leaders who also decided to spend this Saturday differently. You will experience the afternoon together, and you will leave knowing people you did not know at 2:00.
Come curious.
Eat something good.
Meet somebody new.
Play a little.
Notice what shifts.
Then we talk about work
First, feel the interruption. Then let's talk about why it matters at work.
Pressure shows up long before it shows up in a report.
- Shorter answers.
- Slower decisions.
- The rework nobody logs.
- The absence that starts as one late morning.
After the experience, Michigan leaders sit down for a short, moderated conversation about what those earlier signals look like inside real organizations, and what they do about them before they become absence, turnover, mistakes, rework or lost decision quality.
Twenty minutes. Then the room becomes the demonstration.
Panelists announced as confirmed
The lineup
The people at the table.
Moderator
Clarinda Barnett-Harrison
Executive Leader, Educator & Workforce StrategistFounder, Ascending Together
Co-MC
Keir Worthy
Brand Strategist & Design AdvocateExecutive Director, Organization of Black DesignersChief Creative Officer, Rhythm Alchemy Creative Consultants
Panelist
Minito Reasor
Founder, Minito HR Solutions, LLC
Panelist
Perri Storey
Special Assistant for Innovation and EvaluationDistrict of Columbia Government
Panelist
Dr. Nutrena H. Tate
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Scientist, Educator, Executive & Entrepreneur
Sensory Experience Guide
Lauren Sowell
Spoken Word Artist & Immersive Storyteller
Advisor
Jason A. Cole
Executive Director, Michigan Minority Contractors AssociationEconomic Development & Real Estate Leader
Advisor
Racheal Allen
CEO, Keynote Speaker, Serial Entrepreneur & Author
The live Edge to Ease™ demonstration
Ninety seconds. Then we read the room again.
Don't take our word for it. We read the room before and after.
Read
A brief, anonymous pulse. A few questions on your phone. No names.
Reset
Shalece L. Daniels guides the room through one short applied-neuroscience protocol. Everyone, together.
Read again
The same questions. The room's aggregate shift, on the screen, live.
One room. One afternoon. Read honestly. The room becomes the data.
The sixth sense
The experience doesn't have to end when you leave the room.
Five senses tell you what is happening around you. The sixth tells you what is happening in you, and what to reach for.
The Edge to Ease™ Kit puts that within reach: small, physical tools and a ninety-second protocol, made for between meetings, after the hard conversation, before the decision that matters, at home, at work, and whenever pressure starts building.
Keep one close.
Explore or order an Edge to Ease™ Kit for yourself, and keep what you felt in the room within arm's reach.
Explore the KitBring it to your team.
Kits for teams, a workplace activation, or an Edge to Ease™ workforce pilot. Talk with the team in the room on October 10, or start the conversation now.
Book a conversation with ShaleceWho should be in the room
If your work touches the people doing the work, there's a seat for you at this table.
- Executives and founders
- HR and People leaders
- Workforce and talent leaders
- Employee experience and organizational health leaders
- Civic and community leaders
- Researchers
- Economic development stakeholders
A curated room, by design · Not a general-public event
A decision we made on purpose
Every seat is sponsored.
There is no cost to attend.
Registration is required.
Your seat carries no price. It carries a commitment to show up and be in the room.
- The full afternoon, 2:00 to 4:00 PM
- Food and drink on the Boulevard
- The Joy Road sensory experience
- The workforce conversation
- The live demonstration
- An Edge to Ease™ Kit, yours to take home
Claim your sponsored seat
Seating is limited · Seats made possible by our sponsors and partners
Official partners and sponsors
The organizations behind the table.
Host
Edge to Ease™
Partner
Femology
Partner / Venue Support
Michigan Central
Sponsor / Table Partner
Novarna
Sponsor
Detroit Development Fund
Interested in supporting The Michigan Workforce Table?
We welcome aligned partners committed to strengthening Michigan's workforce.
Contact us about partnership opportunitiesThe look
Black After Five
All black, dressed up, camera-ready. Your interpretation.
Saturday, October 10
Your Saturday already has a route. For two hours, take a different one.
Saturday, October 10, 2026
2:00 to 4:00 PM
Newlab at Michigan Central, Detroit
The look: Black After Five
Step onto Joy Road
Claim your sponsored seat · Registration required