People Leading People

When your team feels psychologically safe, they are more likely to share open and honest feedback with you and others at the company. But, as a manager, psychological safety can be hard to foster. Today we're chatting with Michael Lopp (aka @rands) and he's sharing what he’s learned from his time at Apple, Pinterest and Slack about sharing hard feedback with your team while maintaining an environment where people feel safe enough to say “no”. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Camille Fournier is best known for being the former Chief Technology Officer of Rent The Runway, former vice president of technology at Goldman Sachs, and author of The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change. Currently she is the Managing Director at the hedge fund, Two Sigma. Today we're talking to Camille about Manager Readmes, a doc used to introduce yourself to your team. Are they good or bad? We're getting to the bottom of it today. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today, we're speaking with Mark Roberge. Mark is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School where he teaches sales, marketing and entrepreneurship. He's also managing director at Stage 2 Capital, a venture capital firm backed and run by go-to-market executives, helping startups build world class go-to-market capabilities. He's the author of the best-selling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula: using data technology and inbound selling to go from zero to a hundred million. Prior to these roles, Mark served as SVP of global sales and services at HubSpot scaling revenue from zero to a hundred million dollars. Mark was ranked #19 in Forbes top 30 social sellers in the world. He's an MIT graduate and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Inc magazine, Boston Globe, TechCrunch, Harvard Business review and other major publications for his entrepreneurial ventures. Phew, That's a mouthful. Today, we're chatting with Mark about how to be an incredible sales leader using a simple weekly tactic to coach your team. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today we're chatting with Katie Womersley, VP Engineering at Buffer. Katie manages a completely remote engineering team at Buffer. She's sharing her tips for building a productive and motivated team from afar. With so many misunderstandings happening in face-to-face meetings,  it's hard to imagine these pains don't just get amplified when your team is remote. Katie shares her tips on how to make it all just work from a unique perspective. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

We’re chatting with Eoghan McCabe, CEO at Intercom. Eoghan is a serial entrepreneur. After starting two other companies, in 2011 he and his co-founders started Intercom, a business messaging platform that delivers real-time, contextual communication consumers expect, the personal experience they demand and the tools to scale businesses’ needs. Intercom’s mission is to make internet business personal. The company became one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing startups, going from $1M - $50M ARR in 3 years. Today, the company has over 650 employees and has raised $241M in funding. More than 30,000 businesses, including New Relic, Atlassian, Autodesk, Sotheby’s, and Shopify, use Intercom to connect with 4 billion unique people worldwide. Today we're diving into how Eoghan developed authenticity in his leadership style while he built and grew the rocket ship we all know as Intercom. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

That's a wrap on season one! In this final episode, Brennan and Jill reflect on all the things they learned this season. People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today we're chatting with Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale, best selling authors of “How F*cked Up Is Your Management? An Uncomfortable Conversation About Modern Leadership.” Melissa and Johnathan have worked with some of the biggest tech companies across North America, like Mozilla, IBM, Hubba, Edmodo, Wattpad and Creative Commons. Now they're helping even more companies build better bosses with their latest venture, Raw Signal Group. They’re also co-editors of the Co-Pour, a blog about effective leadership, dumb mistakes and whisky. Listen in to hear about the pitfalls of going from peer to manager (and how to avoid them), and how to know if you’re a results-oriented or relationship-oriented manager. People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today we're chatting with Mike Katchen, co-founder and CEO at Wealthsimple, a global digital investment service that’s turning the wealth management model on its head. Wealthsimple’s mission is to make smart investing easy, low-cost and transparent for everyone.  Before founding Wealthsimple, Mike left his job as a business analyst with McKinsey & Company to help build 1000 Memories until it was acquired by Ancestry.com.  We're getting actionable advice from Mike about building high performing teams at extremely fast-growing companies. People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today we’re chatting with Derek Marshall, CTO at Flight Network, the largest travel agency that is both owned and operated in Canada. Before landing at Flight Network, Derek spent time at various startups and enterprises including Bitstrips, ClearFit, Syncapse, CBC and Rogers, growing high performing technology teams and coaching them through the challenges of scale and cultural change. We're talking with Derek about inheriting teams and hacking the bureaucracy. People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today we're chatting with Alyssa Furtado, co-founder of Ratehub Inc. and CEO of Ratehub.ca, the leading Canadian financial comparison site for mortgage rates, credit card deals, deposit rates and insurance. Alyssa and James Laird co-founded Ratehub Inc. in 2010 and have since grown the company to 70 full time employees. Under their leadership, Ratehub Inc. has launched its own in-house mortgage brokerage, CanWise Financial. We're talking to Alyssa about EOS (entrepreneurial operating system), a framework for setting and communicating goals across the company. People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. Read the full transcript here: https://soapboxhq.com/blog/management-skills/alyssa-furtado-on-people-leading-people If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Today we're chatting with Paul Teshima, co-founder and CEO at Nudge, a relationship intelligence platform that helps you find and grow the right relationships that drive sales.  Before founding Nudge, Paul built the Customer Success team at Eloqua as the SVP of Product and Customer Success through to its acquisition by Oracle for $957 million US.  We're talking with Paul about how he builds and coaches high performing teams at giant companies – and small startups.  People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. Read the full transcript here: https://soapboxhq.com/blog/management-skills/paul-teshima-on-people-leading-people If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏

Welcome to People Leading People: the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. In this episode, Brennan and Jillian give you a quick run-down of what you can expect this season. Spoiler: look out for a ton of actionable management tips from expert leaders. Read the full transcript here: https://soapboxhq.com/blog/management-skills/introducing-people-leading-people If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews. 🙏