205: Vulnerability in Leadership: Breaking Down Barriers
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
Do you want to boost team productivity, retention, and innovation while fostering an environment where your team feels comfortable being their authentic selves? Let’s talk about embracing vulnerability in leadership and how this openness can help you create stronger connections with your team and peers. In this episode, I dive into the critical role of vulnerability in demonstrating a strong executive presence and fostering genuine connections within your teams. I explore what it truly means to be vulnerable, ways you can embrace more openness in your leadership, and how giving yourself and...
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204: Bounce-Back-Ability: Mastering the Art of Resilience as a Leader with Angie Read
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
In this episode, I have the privilege of speaking with Angie Read, a remarkable woman who spent 25 years in corporate communications, navigating the complexities of big tech and other industries. Known for her extraordinary resilience, Angie faced a life-altering challenge at 46 when she suffered a massive ischemic stroke. Despite her determination to return to work after just a few months of rehab, Angie found herself battling debilitating anxiety and depression. Join us as Angie bravely revisits her journey through a career that lacked fulfillment, her mental health crisis after her stroke,...
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203: Redefining Success Beyond the Quantity of Work
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
Do you feel you must work crazy hours to get the recognition you deserve? It’s time to redefine success beyond the quantity of work! In this episode, I discuss the barrier of the traditional success model, the major pitfalls of quantity over quality, and how you can shift your mindset to redefine success for yourself and your team. I dive into boundary setting, redefining success metrics, and how to escape the burnout cycle by prioritizing high-impact tasks, celebrating wins, and coaching your team to work proactively vs. reactively. Ready to find success in the quality of your work...
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202: Hacking Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Being a Great Leader with Dr. Hayley Nelson
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
Let’s talk neuroscience (and leadership, of course)! Join me for this enlightening conversation with Dr. Hayley Nelson, a passionate neuroscientist and professor, who dives deep into the intricacies of how our brains operate and the neuroscience of being a great leader. In this episode, Dr. Hayley shares her personal journey, detailing how overcoming a traumatic experience led her to pursue a career in neuroscience, despite having other early ambitions. We discuss the difference between the brain and the mind, how to rewire our brains to change our outlook, and embracing...
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201: Negotiating Your Worth: Salary, Recognition, and Opportunities
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
It’s time to seek the rewards you deserve! Let’s talk about negotiation - a core skill essential for your career success. In this episode, I dive into useful strategies for negotiating your worth and how to own your value regarding salary, recognition, and advancement opportunities. I discuss my top tips for negotiating compensation, handling job offers (counter and multiple), and positioning yourself for advancement. But it’s not just the practical tools you need, we’ll dive into the mindset around owning your value, understanding your limits, and overcoming the specific...
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200: Celebrating Women in Tech, Beating the Burnout, and Letting Go of Needing to Be Like the Men in the Room with Lindsay Kulzer, Allison Williams, and Jennifer Peters
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
Ready to dive into the empowering journeys of three extraordinary women in tech? In today’s episode, I invite three amazing women I have the honor of supporting to dive into their experiences, insights, and triumphs through the lens of executive coaching. Lindsay, Allison, and Jennifer candidly share their motivations for seeking executive coaching, its transformative impact on their professional development, and powerful career lessons around overcoming imposter syndrome, burnout, gender bias, and more. We explore the pivotal moments that led them to join The Lit Up Leadership Academy, the...
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199: From Glass Ceiling to Glass Microphone: How Women Can Break Through Communication Barriers in Tech Leadership
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
The glass ceiling concept is well known in the world of work, especially in male-dominated fields like tech. But what about its lesser-known counterpart - the glass microphone? Many of us have felt the frustration of not being heard or taken seriously, our ideas dismissed before we can fully express them. This glass microphone barrier can hurt our career advancement and lead to stress and burnout. Let’s talk about how you can break through this communication barrier in your tech leadership! In today’s episode, I explore how to recognize the presence of the glass microphone and why...
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198: Mindfulness in Leadership: Cultivating Presence
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
Mindful leadership is powerful leadership! Let’s talk about the power of mindfulness and how cultivating presence in your leadership will benefit your professional journey. In today’s episode, I dive into the important role mindfulness plays in leadership development and elevating your executive presence - and how to cultivate it! I explore how key elements of executive presence such as adaptability, strategic vision, and confident communication can be improved through mindfulness, and the practical steps you can take toward more presence in these areas to become a more mindful...
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197: Getting Started With Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion with Jacqui Barrett
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
If you’re interested in being a leader that promotes a sustainable, enjoyable, and nurturing work environment, prioritizing equity, diversity, and inclusion is a must. In today’s episode, I invite Jacqui Barrett, CEO of Wider Thinking, to share her inspiring career journey and passion for fostering inclusive workplaces and driving organizational change. We dive into an important discussion on equity diversity and inclusion (EDI) and share actionable insights on creating nurturing work environments, implementing strategies like flexible working arrangements to promote diversity, and...
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196: The Cost of Constant Hustle: Avoiding Burnout in Leadership
Leading Women in Tech Podcast
It’s time to shift the narrative, to recognize that being in a perpetual state of hustle isn’t the key to success - it’s a catalyst for burnout. In today’s episode, I explore the cost of constant hustle and why, contrary to popular belief, it’s not the path to greatness in your leadership career. Join me as I disprove the myths surrounding overwork and dive into solutions, from realistic goal setting to the importance of delegation and healthy boundaries. Ready for the actionable leadership steps you can take to combat burnout and foster a healthier, more sustainable work...
info_outlineAs a business leader, I embrace failure. I encourage my team to try new things and learn from their mistakes. But when does this strategy stop working?
Can failure truly be BAD for business?
Let’s talk about the culture of “fail fast” and if your business or career is paying too high a cost for failure.
In this episode, I invite Debbie Lovett, MBA and CFO of Delta CX, to challenge our ideas on failure as she dives into the high costs companies are paying for a culture that glorifies failure and ultimately ignores the customers’ needs.
Ready to understand where failure should be embraced and when it’s bad for business?
Let’s go to the show!
We dive into:
- Debbie’s career journey to becoming a consultant in the CX and UX space
- Her unique perspective on empathy in business
- How stereotyping your customers is hurting them and your business
- The high costs you could be paying if your company is running on agile, fail-fast cycles
- Exploring corporate failure vs. personal failure
- Debbie’s best advice for hitting the brakes on your high failure rate
- And more
**Useful links**
- Connect with today’s guest and sponsor, Debbie Levitt:
- Debbie’s current read: Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You by Harry Brignull
- If you are ready to uplevel your career, get unstuck or you are simply ready to unlock those leadership time-management techniques then join us in my monthly career & leadership coaching program exclusively for women in tech: https://www.tonicollis.com/academy
- Catch the show notes, and more details about today's episode here: https://tonicollis.com/episode183
- Check us out on Youtube.
- Join the Leading Women in Tech community in Slack where we discuss all-the-things for women’s tech leadership, covering everything from early-career leadership to C-level executives.
This episode was sponsored by our guest, Debbie Levitt. Thank you Debbie for helping to bring Leading Women in Tech to this community!