Belonging Leadership

In today's episode we will be talking to Bianca Pryor on data and humanity in leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our guest: Bianca’s passion for fighting for equity and inclusion has long been burning. She currently co-steers the Insights Association IDEA Council, which stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. The organization is steadfast on lifting up historically untapped voices, talent, and research participants. IDEA Council has spent the last year establishing a presence, creating content and building its base. Bianca also launched in ’19 a 501c3 that centers Black maternal health called Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project and launched a peer-to-peer empowerment app dedicated in her name called Believe Her earlier this year. To draw further on her passion for IDEA/DEIB work, data, and tech all together, she is also part of Black Women in Artificial Intelligence and leads research at BET Networks for Consumers Insights, Content Optimization and Marketing Strategy. Bianca is originally from Richmond, VA. She graduated from Virginia Union University in Marketing and Spanish, then Purdue for her Master of Science in Consumer Behavior. She is the proud mother to her four-year old, Everton. Together they love to cargo bike ride the Bronx.

In today's episode we will be talking to Mike Robbins about tough conversations and leadership. You can find his bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the deck. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our guest: Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including Bring Your Whole Self to Work and, his latest, We’re All in This Together. He’s a thought-leader, executive coach, and sought-after motivational speaker who works with Fortune 500 companies, pro-sports organizations, government agencies, and people of all kinds throughout the world. Mike lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and some of his clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Gap, Airbnb, Citibank, LinkedIn, Roche, the NBA, eBay, Schwab, the Oakland A’s, and many others. He and his work have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and O Magazine, as well as on ABC News and NPR. He’s a regular contributor to Forbes, hosts a weekly podcast, and his books have been translated into fifteen different languages.

In today's episode we will be talking to Linda wolf about confidence in leadership. You can find her bio in the description or on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our Guest Linda Wolf is a humanistic photographer known for her global portraiture which focuses on women and indigenous cultures. Over her fifty plus years as an artist she has moved seamlessly through photojournalism, fine art, street, portrait, and rock & roll photography. Her work is part of numerous collections in institutions, libraries and museums worldwide. Her work has been published in Le Monde, Japan Times, The Times of London, Los Angeles Times, Artweek, Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, WET Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, Rolling Stone, and in feature films, including Twenty Feet From Stardom; Fanny: The Right to Rock, Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen; Learning to Live Together: The Return of Mad Dogs & Englishmen; and Bridge of Glass, a short about her mother, the poet Barbara Wolf. She is the author of Tribute: Cocker Power, co-author of Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood and Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century. She was one of the “100 top photographers worldwide” for the book, Twenty-four Hours in the Life of L.A. and has contributed to numerous books, CD, music videos, and record album covers. She is the founder of the nonprofit, Teen Talking Circles, and on the board of advisors for Restore Her Voice. www.lindawolf.net  www.teentalkingcircles.org www.restorehervoice.org

In today's episode we will be talking to Trier Bryant about following and leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our guest: Trier Bryant is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She co-founded this company with Kim Scott, NYT best selling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair, to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier is a strategic executive with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. She has been featured as an influential diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier has an unwavering commitment to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces that produce prosperous companies. The depth of her work ranges from recruiting, talent development, performance management, compensation, communications, and brand strategy. Additionally, Trier advises leading companies like Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Most recently, Trier was the first Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company building low orbital rockets to launch a new generation of services to connect and improve life on earth. She was also the VP of People and Workplace Experience at SigFig, a global FinTech company striving to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimize employees’ impact and experience. Prior to leading full People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter responsible for over 70% of hires. As a member of Twitter’s People Leadership Team, Trier led multiple initiatives across various HR disciplines including compensation, L&D, mobility, and inclusion. In addition to her day-to-day Talent Acquisition responsibilities, she partnered across various teams on both Engineering, Product, Design, and Revenue (Sales & Partnerships) to provide input on product functionality and client deliverables--most notably the multi-million dollar Black Panther Twitter activation and the Twitter Safety Council to combat abuse on the platform.

We kicked off our first podcast episode of Unlikely this week with Pete Carroll. We talked about professional vulnerability, generosity in leadership, along with other burning topics. This conversation is filled with so many “schooling life” takeaways on how to navigate heartbreaks, disappointments, and staying true to yourself through it all. There’s something for everyone in this episode. Check out the key lessons below from this week’s podcast!

Unlikely is an entertaining-diverse-educational podcast for leadership soft skills and expertise that will develop you as much as it inspires you. I will be talking about leadership with every type of professional person you can imagine and then I will distill those leadership lessons enabling you to start practicing them that day. This is a podcast for businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, Influencers, college students stepping into a career or anyone who wants to take hold of what they are up to and confidently-effectively manage and lead.