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Are you a new people manager looking for advice on where to start? An experienced leader wanting to learn from your peers? Or maybe - you're considering a career in management but not sure if it's right for you? You've come to the right place! Listen and learn from a diverse and experienced team of people managers, reflecting on their journey and sharing intimate details of their highs and lows along their career path. You might pick up a thing or two, or maybe just get the courage and "know how" to raise your hand to step into a leadership role yourself. Learn more at www.emilytsitrian.com
Episodes
25 episodes
An engineering manager's take on measuring performance of individuals
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 Vaz's journey as a software engineer into leade...
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37:08
How do managers stay sharp with their craft while developing new leadership skills?
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 career that is packed with real-life skills th...
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35:17
A Data Management VP reflects on management, innovation in tech, and Asian-American identity in leadership
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 suite of applications. That in and of itself ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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33:17
Why managers should stay people-first in times of rapid change
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, it's become a critical part of how we co...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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29:37
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Turning mistakes into management lessons, without losing your humanity
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 went viral and caught my eye - it was a raw, can...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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32:07
How do "Type A" people become managers without internally combusting?
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 from scratch, serving as a Chief of Staff for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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35:30
How do hiring managers and recruiters work together to build a team?
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 collaborate to create a hiring strategy, execute ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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48:15
Why executive coaching for new managers should be a thing
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 first-time managers and founders to help t...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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45:10
Finding your North Star in the chaos of hypergrowth
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-focused teams in high growth environments, and more...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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37:17
How to meet the ever-increasing expectations employees have from their managers in the 21st century corporate world
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 her favorite things- building a support depart...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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41:12
From rebuilding Iraq to building the NYC skyline - one combat veteran's view of people management
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 tours of duty in Iraq taught him quite a few less...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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37:20
What life experiences shape a new people manager's leadership style? And what are the biggest early "gotcha's"?
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 supporting construction jobsites all over North Am...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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35:17
How can people managers be champions of inclusion, and intrepreneurs in large companies
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 can gain confidence and become influence...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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33:39
What does finance have to do with people management (and vice versa!)?
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 were formative and shaped her leadership perspe...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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54:17
A former Y-Combinator batch director's best advice for new people leaders
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 only build their companies but quickly transiti...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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35:25
What Every People Manager should Know about Marketing
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 types would be well served to unders...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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37:59
Is Management a Doomed Conclusion to a Fruitful Engineering Career? Liz Leddy doesn't think so.
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 young software engineer at a startup? B...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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47:09
Gender Diversity and Management - a Reflection from a QA Leader
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 manager and are ready to come out as trans? ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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40:24
Why People Managers Should Care about Labor Day
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 farming, and why tech workers should to rememb...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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33:46
A Later-in-Life Career Renaissance and the Power of Strengths-Based Coaching
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 change that!Jo currently manages a te...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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38:33
As Pfizer makes History, their VP of CX Discusses Leading with Authenticity
This is a historic moment in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as the FDA just fully approved the Pfizer vaccine for individuals 16 and over. In this episode, I am thrilled to speak with Miya Gray, who leads the Customer Experience ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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27:09
The Emotional Labor Tax for New Managers, and Coming Out in the Workplace
Drew Register is the Director of Epic Support and Staffing at Tegria, a healthcare services group focused on enterprise support and operational transformation. In this role, he manages 65 remote consultants and provides strategic direction to t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:47
Make Every Interaction Count: a Sales Leader's Journey to Founding a Company that Helps Managers Thrive
David Salinger is the co-founder and CEO at EyeLevel.io, the private social network for managers and their teams to build productive and engaging team culture. Prior to starting EyeLevel, his career has focused on building sales organizations f...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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46:44
Leading through a Crisis: a head of Customer Support Reflects on 2020 and Workplace Racial Equity
Nicole Patterson is a seasoned leader of customer support operations at a Castlight Health - a health tech navigation company. Two years ago, her entire support center uprooted from Charlotte, NC to Salt Lake City, UT and Nicole was tasked with...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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32:06
Conversations with a VP of Engineering: Staying Customer Obsessed and Building Great Teams
Pat Copeland has been building software for over 25 years and has worked at Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He is currently a Vice President in Amazon Advertising, responsible for the products, science, and engineering of Brand Advertising and S...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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