Jennifer Bunk

Episode 77: Author and Head of Foundation Engineering at Stripe, Will Larson talks about the best career advice he ever received, why Inclusion must precede Diversity, sizing teams, career ladders and much more

July 7th, 2019  |  48 mins

Author and Head of Foundation Engineering at Stripe (https://stripe.com), Will Larson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-larson-a44b543/) stops by the People Stack to talk about what the Foundation Engineering team does, the best career advice he ever received, why Inclusion must precede Diversity, sizing teams when managing ICs and Managers, handling on-call status, career ladders and much more

Episode 76: Founder, author, and speaker Ronald Cummings-John talks about the meaning of quality, selling the concept and need for quality in your software, the people challenges of communication and more

June 23rd, 2019  |  48 mins 17 secs

Founder, author, and speaker Ronald Cummings-John stops by the People Stack to talk about the meaning of quality, selling the concept and need for quality in your software, the need to convince people all of the time, the people challenges of communication and more. Ronald's book gets released in September 2019 and is called "Leading Quality."

Episode 75: Founder, Marketer and Author Sarah E. Brown talks about her book "Power to the Startup People," how you can contribute to a startup when you aren't a founder, the challenges of transitioning between phases of a company and the power of mindset and more

June 9th, 2019  |  41 mins 59 secs

Founder, Marketer and Author Sarah E. Brown talks about her book "Power to the Startup People," how you can contribute to a startup when you aren't a founder, the challenges of transitioning between phases of a company and the power of mindset and more

Episode 74: Innovator, Author, and Speaker Tania Katan talks about how to bring more of yourself to your work, how creativity can inspire those around you, the power of walks to unlock hidden ideas and more

May 26th, 2019  |  45 mins 31 secs

Innovator, Author, and Speaker Tania Katan visits the People Stack to talk about her book "Creative Trespassing" (https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Trespassing-Spark-Back-into-ebook/dp/B07D22GYDT), her many methods of sparking more creativity in everyday work, how you can bring more of yourself to your work, how creativity can inspire those around you, the power of walks to unlock hidden ideas and more

Episode 73: Rob May, Managing Director of the IT support company Ramsac talks about your organization's human firewall, interviewing to see who people really are, the importance of your team members to feel they are growing and more

May 13th, 2019  |  47 mins 28 secs

Rob May (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpvmay), Managing Director of the IT support company Ramsac (https://www.ramsac.com) talks about your organization's human firewall, interviewing to see who people really are, the importance of your team members to feel they are growing and more

Episode 72: Bryan Helmig, founder and CEO of Zapier talks about the behaviors Zapier looks for in their employees, when to raise the bandwidth of your comms, starting out remote, and more

April 28th, 2019  |  49 mins 23 secs

Bryan Helmig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanhelmig/), founder and CEO of Zapier (http://zapier.com) talks about the behaviors Zapier looks for in their employees, when to raise the bandwidth of your comms, the different tools Zapier uses for their remote teams, starting out remote and more

Episode 71: Founder, CEO and Investor Adrian Enache talks about the differences in the startup environments of eastern and western Europe, how his company Angels Den Funding maintains a high number of successful businesses years on and more

April 15th, 2019  |  44 mins 14 secs

Founder, CEO and Investor Adrian Enache (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianenache87) talks about the differences in the startup environments of eastern and western Europe, how his company, Angels Den Funding (https://www.angelsden.com/), maintains a great percentage of 5-year+ businesses and more

Episode 70: Speaker, Advisor and Export Champion Russell Dalgleish talks about his work with the Scottish Business Network like connecting Scots across the globe, the differences between a diaspora organization and a networking group, how you overcome the resistance to connect with people you don't know and more

March 31st, 2019  |  46 mins 7 secs

Russell Dalgleish (https://www.linkedin.com/in/russelldalgleish) is on a mission to create the largest network of people with a common interest in the country of Scotland through the Scottish Business Network (https://www.sbn.scot/). Russell talks with us about connecting Scots across the globe, the differences between a diaspora organization and a networking group, how you overcome the resistance to connect with people you don't know and much more.

Episode 69: Leadership coach, speaker, author, and passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity Karen Catlin talks about how to be a better ally, how her career grew in this direction, her reluctance to be on video and more

March 17th, 2019  |  48 mins 6 secs

Leadership coach, speaker, author, and passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity Karen Catlin talks about how to be a better ally, ways to improve inclusion in meetings, meeting more people at conferences, how her career grew in this direction, her reluctance to being on video and more

Episode 68: Author and Technology Leadership Expert R. Michael Anderson talks about the difference between a job, a career, a calling and a legacy, finding your purpose, where love comes from and more

March 3rd, 2019  |  48 mins 29 secs

Author and Technology Leadership Expert R. Michael Anderson (https://www.rmichaelanderson.com) stops by the People Stack to talk about the difference between a job, a career, a calling, and a legacy, finding your purpose, where love comes from and more

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RMAElevates
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallmikey/

Episode 67: Katie Womersley, the VP of Engineering at Buffer.com talks about the manager ReadMe, game face, being 100% remote and more

February 17th, 2019  |  44 mins 36 secs

Katie Womersley, the VP of Engineering at Buffer.com stop by the People Stack to talk about her career journey, having never worked in an office, the value of a manager ReadMe, avoiding manager game face, the challenges of being 100% remote, the needs of a distributed team and more...

Episode 66: Sexual Harassment Researcher Vicki Magley talks about the life of an IO Psych professor, the myths around harassment, how far we've come, how far we've yet to go and more

January 27th, 2019  |  51 mins 15 secs

Sexual Harassment Researcher Vicki Magley talks about the life of an IO Psych professor, the myths around harassment, how far we've come, how far we've yet to go and more

Episode 65: CEO and Leadership expert Claire Lew talks about the 3 things needed to be a better leader, how teaching makes her run her business more effectively, and the limitation of software in making better leaders

January 13th, 2019  |  46 mins 6 secs

CEO and Leadership expert Claire Lew from https://knowyourteam.com/ talks about the recent pivot her company made in order to focus on helping managers instead of just CEOs, the 3 things leaders needed to be more effective, how teaching makes her run her business better, and much more

Episode 64: Jared Spool, Maker of Awesomeness at CenterCentre and UIE, talks about data, design and how understanding our users as people makes the best of both

December 30th, 2018  |  47 mins 24 secs

Jared Spool, Maker of Awesomeness at CenterCentre and UIE (http://uie.com), talks about the four stages of learning and how they lead to bad designs, how easy it is to manipulate data through design, the overall impact and need for good design and how understanding our users as people makes the best of both

Episode 63: IT Consultant and Podcaster Phil Burgess talks about what he's learned in 100 Podcast Episodes, the future of the IT industry, Productivity, Personal Branding and more

December 16th, 2018  |  38 mins 31 secs

IT Consultant and Podcaster Phil Burgess talks about what he's learned in 100 episodes of the IT Career Energizer Podcast (https://itcareerenergizer.com/), the future of the IT industry, Productivity, the myths of Multitasking, the necessity of personal branding, how to rise above the noise and more

Phil's Productivity article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-things-highly-productive-people-do-differently-phil-burgess/

Episode 62: Manager of Developer Experience Ainsley Robertson talks about building her amazing role, nearly doubling Clio's gender diversity, career paths for individual contributors and more

December 2nd, 2018  |  50 mins 56 secs

Ainsley Robertson, the Manager of Developer Experience at Clio.com, talks about building her amazing role from her strengths, nearly doubling Clio's gender diversity when growing their engineering team, building and protecting non-manager career paths for individual contributors and more