Grow Together

We're delighted to have Helen Kupp join us on the podcast. She's a Co-founder at Future Forum and Senior Director of Product Strategy at Slack.   She shares insights about how the Future of Work is going to be inclusive, flexible, and connected based on insights from tens of thousands of employees around the world. Plus, she shares playbooks to help leaders avoid burnout, man

Jesus Gadhia, Engineering Manager at BetterUp, joins us on this episode. We start with research, studies, and strategies to support engineers in doing their best work. Then we dig into surveys, pulse checks, and data that can help individual contributors grow and improve team process. Grow is the place for your team to grow together. Celebrate key moments and encourage your team to

This episode, we welcome Jean King, Senior Program Manager, Support Strategy and Operations at Figma.   She shares stories and tactics about stewarding change management with deep empathy, data-driven decisions, and frameworks for communicating with stakeholders.  She also shares her non-linear career path for becoming a Program Manager and explains how her passion f

Chris Haag, VP Software Engineering at Salesforce joins us on the podcast. He shares how thinks about balancing engineering quality with impact for the customer based on wisdom he’s earned through hard won lessons in his career. Then we talk about how processes like continuous discovery and delivery can help Engineering Organizations partner with Product to build features that ul

Bethany Stachenfeld, Co-founder and CEO at Sendspark joins us on the podcast. We’ll hear how she thinks about organization design, incentivizes career growth, and selects the right process to support their business goals. Plus, she shares her perspective of the unique challenges of building and maintaining culture while scaling a startup. Grow is the place for your team to grow t

Bruce Wang, Director of Engineer API, at Netflix. We hear his tips about how to regularly and  authentically communicate to create better relationships, culture, and ultimately output.  Plus, he let’s us in on how he’s begun embracing the ebbs & flows of his career journey to find fulfillment in a way that was never truly available to him before. Grow is the place

Genefa Murphy, CMO of Five9 joins us on the podcast. We discuss how to find and define your unique voice as a manager. You can hear this theme cascade into other important topics like being vulnerable, encouraging people to learn by doing, and how you can get people to explicitly share their communication styles to ultimately improve collaboration on your team. Grow is the place fo

Frédéric Rivain, CTO of Dashlane joins us on the podcast. We get super specific about how he sets goals, gets alignment through bottoms-up decision making, and embraces the only constant: change. Listen for strategies, tactics, and how to set up dashboards to keep a pulse on your engineering organization’s health. Grow is the place for your team to grow together. Celebrate key

Chuck Talk, Senior Technical Partner Manager at Atlassian, joins us on the podcast. Learn how he disarms bullies by listening with empathy, plays as a team by empowering people to take ownership, and keeps his cool while being a true servant leader. Grow is the place for your team to grow together. Celebrate key moments and encourage your team to collaborate and communicate more ef

Tiffany Jachja, Engineer Manager of Data Science at Vox Media joins us on the podcast. Hear the discussion about being an agent for change as a manager and how to nurture the right culture for your team. Themes for this episode include you and your team reaching your true potential, finding and adhering to core values, and how that makes for stronger teams. Grow is the place for yo