Ellen Petry Leanse is a Silicon Valley pioneer. She joined Apple in the 1980s and was a member of the Macintosh launch team and created the company’s first user focused online presence. Ellen has worked at or with company’s including Google, Facebook and Microsoft to make innovation more meaningful. Ellen is now Chief People officer at Lucidworks as well as being a Stanford Instructor, entrepreneur and author of The Happiness Hack, a best-selling guide to the neuroscience of Happiness and life satisfaction.

Ellen and I chat about:

• Women’s thinking super-power

• Creativity as a strategic tool

• Overcoming the use of permission language and showing up as equals

• Mindfulness and reflective time

Links from our chat:

• The Happiness Hack by Ellen Petry Leanse
• “Just” Say No by Ellen Petry Leanse

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