Susan MacTavish Best is the founder of Posthoc, an organization that hosts salons around the world—and a longtime strategic advisor who helps founders, CEOs, and institutions build trust, shape narrative, and lead through complexity.
During Covid, she launched The Salon Host as an educational resource to help others create their own gatherings when the world reopened. The Salon Host offers simple guidance on hosting a low-fuss salon and celebrates what happens when people share ideas in real life: spirited conversation, unexpected connections, and the kind of community that can’t be replicated online or designed by AI. Read her manifesto – The Human Moat – here.
Susan’s been called Martha Stewart meets The Royal Tenenbaums, the Gertrude Stein of our time, and “the hippest party hostess in the history of Silicon Valley’s pocket pen-protector set” (San Francisco Chronicle). Her salons are built around warmth and candor—often a dinner she cooks herself, a live conversation with a guest, and fantastic music—designed to make it easy for people to drop their armor and get down to the nitty-gritty of what’s real.
Urgent, relevant, and on-point, her POSTHOC salons create thought-provoking, spirited conversations that continue to resonate in the world at large, long after the last guests go home.
“We’re ready for something new that nourishes our soul, sparks our curiosity and connects us. I’m changing the world one salon at a time. I’m building a movement around stimulating conversation in real life, and I’m having so much fun doing it that I’m here to convince you to join me on this journey.”
Susan MacTavish Best
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