Christine Tao, Haas undergrad alumna, co-founder, and CEO of Sounding Board shares her insight with host Sean Li. She talks about how coaching and development led to her rapid career advancement in Silicon Valley's media, mobile, and tech sectors. Discover what inspired her to create Sounding Board with her co-founder Lori Mazan. 

Learn why leadership development creates a direct impact on business outcomes in the episode and how she made leadership development coaching accessible to all levels of an organization.

Episode Quotes:

Her inspiration for building Sounding Board:

“I ended up seeing just the impact that coaching had on my own development. I brought coaching to the people on my team as well. I was able to build a team that was high-performing... The more people that got exposed to coaching, the better that they would operate. It's great for companies to have a well-equipped leader.”

How can start-ups have access to coaching?

“When you graduated and your start-up needs coaching, check in with your alumni office. They often have a deep network of coaches, facilitators, and folks that can help support alumni around their coaching needs”

Why do people of color and women get overlooked for opportunities?

“You get overlooked sometimes because you don't look and sound like the patterns that other people recognize as leadership, like the prototype...It also becomes easier if you have diverse people that are in leadership positions. There also need to be more women. There need to be more people of color on the other side writing checks. It starts there. Then from there what happens is you attract and impact the other people around in the ecosystem.”

Show Links:

• LinkedIn
• Christine Tao’s Profile at Sounding Board
• Lori Mazan, Co-founder and Chief Coaching Officer at Sounding Board
• Maha Ibrahim, General Partner at Canaan
• Sounding Board, Coaching Leaders for Business Impact

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