Diversity and Inclusion and Building High Performing Teams with Erica Stanley

SimpleLeadership Podcast

English - April 29, 2018 23:40 - 48 minutes - 47 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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Erica is an engineering manager for the integrations and data analytics teams at SalesLoft –
where she’s helping grow the product engineering team for the 4th fastest growing software
company in North America and #1 best place to work in Atlanta. During her 18 year career in
tech, she’s worked with large companies, including Boeing, FOX Interactive Media and Turner
Broadcasting, as well as early-stage startups--of which 2 were acquired, by MySpace and
Oracle.

Erica works passionately towards diversity and inclusion in tech, via education and exposure to
opportunities. In 2013, she started the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, where she
organizes conferences, hackathons, developer workshops, monthly tech talks and networking
events for women technologists. In addition, Erica collaborates with companies to help improve
strategies around diversity and inclusion. She also helps develop and teach youth coding
programs, speaks at tech events and mentors entrepreneurs for various incubators and
accelerators.

On today's episode we discuss improving diversity and inclusion at companies and how important it is in building high performing teams. We also discuss Women Who Code, The WeRise Conference and 100 Girls of Code.

Contact Info:
Company Website: https://salesloft.com/
Personal Website: http://www.ericastanley.io/
Conference Website: https://werise.tech/
Twitter: @ericastanley

Show Notes:

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team