Sara Wachter-Boettcher - Finding and Using Your Active Voice
Sara Wachter-Boettcher inspires us through her actions, reminds us why it’s important to see shades of grey, and helps us to design the careers we actually want.
Highlights include:
Is it career limiting to enforce a work/life boundary?Do we have to accept that companies exist to serve shareholders?Should we ever sacrifice our wellbeing to solve important problems?Who or what inspired you to become a feminist leader?Why are some people uncomfortable with life’s shades of grey?======
Who is Sara Wachter-Boettcher?
Sara is the CEO of Active Voice, a leadership development company that’s on a mission to make work culture better for everyone - in particular those of us working in design and tech.
Through Active Voice, Sara helps organisations - like LinkedIn, Etsy, and Mastercard - to build radical and courageous leadership practices, the kind needed for today’s world. She does this through 1-on-1 coaching, workshops and the facilitation of strategy sessions.
Before starting Active Voice in 2020, Sara was the Principal of Rare Union, a content strategy and user experience consultancy. Sara also ran a feminist leadership community and event series called Collective Strength, and hosted a podcast for feminists called Strong Feelings.
She is the author of three influential books, Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content, Design for Real Life, and Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech.
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Find Sara here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraboettcher/Medium: https://medium.com/nice-work-from-active-voiceWebsite: https://www.sarawb.com/
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