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Vaz is an engineering manager for the Pages product at LinkedIn, where he helps organizations establish their presence and connect with professionals at a global scale. In this episode, we discuss Va…

Another episode where I speak with a fellow author! Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You - a practical guide for navigating one's c…

As the Vice President of Data Management at Castlight Health, Lauren Bui leads a diverse and dynamic team that delivers insights and modernization to 20+ million patient datasets through Castlight's …

Does your daily work involve a lot of time on Slack?  If you're anything like me, it can sometimes feel like we live and die by Slack messages - and especially in the modern, remote-first workplace, …

In this week's episode, I chat with a sales leader at BetterUp, a platform for coaching teams and people - very needed in today's uncertain world. A few weeks ago, one of Matt's posts on LinkedIn wen…

Emily Sander has an impressive rap sheet. Among her achievements: being on the testing team for the first Kindle device, working on a 6-person startup team, building a global client management team f…

As a new people-manager, one of the most critical peer relationships to establish and nurture from day one is that with your recruiting team.  Together, your recruiting partner and you will collabora…

In this episode, I have an insightful conversation with Alex Black. Alex  is a Leadership and Team Development Coach for new managers and founders, and is a firm believer in providing coaching for fi…

Naz Irani is a PreSales leader who has spent the past decade building Enterprise PreSales teams at companies including Akamai and Stripe. Her true passion lies in building high performing user-focuse…

Emily VerMeulen is a customer service professional, a rescue dog enthusiast, an introvert, and a Gemini. She is currently working at Vineti, a cell and gene therapy logistics start-up, doing one of h…

Robert Kipp is a construction legend - and happens to be a thoughtful people leader with a unique perspective of having served in the armed forces as a Captain in the United States Army. His two tour…

In this episode (recorded about a year ago) I speak with Lorrin Blair - a former Woman in Construction turned Woman in Tech. A Civil Engineer by training, she spent the first part of her career suppo…

In today's episode, I converse with William A. Adam - an award-winning D&I innovator, engineering trailblazer, and global philanthropist. We cover many topics, but with a focus on how people managers…

On this episode, I discuss the unique journey of Mitzi Yue, a finance and culture leader in the healthcare technology sector. Mitzi's early experiences as an Asian-American female in the workplace we…

Amy Buechler has worked with thousands of the world’s best startup founders as Y Combinator’s first Batch Director and only embedded Founder Coach. Founders are often in an awkward position to not on…

If you're a people-manager and you think of "marketing" -- do you just think "advertising?" 

If so - you'd be wrong. Marketing has become a huge strategic growth lever in tech, and leaders of all type…

How could an experience at a teenager's after-school-retail job  shape the future leadership style of an Engineering Director at a unicorn in Silicon Valley? And what *really* is the career path of a…

Formally transitioning genders in the workplace can be a tricky process to navigate, and a supportive manager and team can make all the difference in the world. But what happens when you ARE the mana…

In this special Labor Day episode, we chat with a corporate-manager-turned-blue-collar-people-manager Leslie Caccamese about her pivot from a 15 year stint in corporate America to her role today in f…

Jo Halstead believes that people managers can make or break a company - and that new managers rarely get any real training on how to take care of their team, themselves, and the company.  Let's chang…