Shelton Mercer

Founder & Chairman, Mercer Innovation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shelton Mercer is an entrepreneur and innovation strategist who founded The Mercer Advisory Group and Mercer Innovation. He previously co-founded data technology platform Audigent and social impact platform TwitCHANGE.

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Opinion

Mercer: Corporations Are the Biggest Recipients of Welfare

“You know, you and I both know that corporations are the biggest recipients of welfare, and all my corporate leaders know that, and they might try to, you know, we may argue with it, but we know it's true.”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 31:32 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Opinion

Mercer: Full-time social media managers are no longer necessary due to AI

“Having a full-time social media manager is no longer necessary. It's, it becomes an expense on your, in your burn that you're looking at saying when we have so many tools that can do this faster and sometimes better, more efficiently, and definitely more affor…”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 17:02 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Insight

Hosting mega-events motivates leaders to break through political gridlock

“Something like a pivotal moment, like the, this city is going to play host to the world, has a wonderful way of motivating leaders to get something done.”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 5:51 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Disclosure

Mercer: Activate Uses Generative AI to Rank and Validate City Initiatives

“We've built a AI tech enabled platform that creates outcome intelligence. And so activate becomes not just that one day and then 100 leaders. We now have some permanence because we've provided some actual data of the cities that we've had these ideations in cr…”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 8:33 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

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Mercer: Atlanta's World Cup electric bus rollout came from Activate ideation

“One of the issues was refurbishing their light rail line, their MARTA high speed line. They have a 104 miles of track. And being able to enact electric buses. That idea came out of our ideation. I understand that they have enacted a bunch of that ready for the…”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 10:33 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Disclosure

Shelton Mercer: Meeting with U.S. World Cup Host City Leaders on Permanent Investment

“I mean, right now we've been meeting with leaders in America around the, that have host the world cup cities where the world cup is being hosted this summer and the ideas to have some permanence.”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 2:01 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

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Mercer: AI cut pitch analysis workflow from 60 days to 60 minutes

“It used to take us 60 days to get all of the data. We record all of the pitches from our leaders, and then we would take them and our group would listen to them And pull out all the highlights and try to do some actual cross-referencing through things that are…”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 13:28 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Insight

Mercer: School Meal Programs Directly Drive Female Education in Developing Nations

“Well, if we realize that in local communities all over the world, and developing nations, if we said to parents, your daughters are going to eat today, something as very similar, simple as that, they would send their daughters to school with the boys Just so t…”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 34:41 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Disclosure

Mercer: Activate Convenes 100 Civic Leaders for 24-Month Actionable Frameworks

“We get one city, one day, 100 leaders, and we lead them through a rapid ideation that we've developed, and we've had an entire framework Where we can run eight round tables at one time, focusing on different issues like a region's economy, strength, the talent…”

Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 7:57 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team	Jun 23, 2026	29m

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