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A
Hi
christy
thanks
for
joining
us
for
our
learn
from
leadership
for
our
q2
learning
and
development
newsletter.
Could
you
start
off
by
introducing
yourself.
B
It's
a
pretty
long
career
so
at
this
point,
we're
looking
about
22
years
and
it's
spanned
a
really
broad
variety
of
things.
My
undergraduate
degree
is
in
psychology.
B
This
was
back
before
user
experience
was
really
a
thing
and
so
graduating.
With
that
degree,
I
went
into
human
resources
for
a
while,
and
that
was
actually
my
entree
into
tech
and
what
made
me
realize?
Oh,
I
really
enjoyed
technology
and
what
got
me
into
doing
my
first
ux
related
work
was
website
design.
B
A
B
That's
a
great
question:
I
I'm
gonna
have
to
say
this
one,
because
I
have
been
promoting
it
to
people
internally
for
the
last
two
weeks,
because
I
enjoyed
it
so
much
and
I
actually
watched
it
twice,
which
is
the
executive
leadership
course
on
linkedin
learning.
I
found
it
unbelievably
useful.
A
B
Geared
towards
c
levels,
but
frankly-
and
I
told
my
team
this-
I
think
it's
useful
to
everyone-
every
leader
can
get
something
out
of
it
and
then
individual
contributors
get
a
sense
of
what
they
should
be
expecting
from
their
executive
leaders,
and
I
was
truly
inspired
by
thinking
about
my
own
leadership
style.
The
things
I'm
doing
well,
things
that
I
could
be
doing
better.
It
was
a
really
really
great
course.
I'm.
A
So
glad
that
you've
found
value
in
linkedin
learning,
since
we
just
launched
it
a
couple
months
ago
internally,
so
that's
oh!
I
have
used
it
so
much
awesome,
good,
good,
so
kind
of
off
of
that.
What's
your
preferred
learning
style.
Do
you
prefer
to
do
things
visually?
Like
pictures
images
auditory,
you
prefer
to
listen.
Kinesthetic
you
like
to
use
like
you
like
to
actually
try
things
out
or
by
reading
and
writing.
B
I
am,
I
guess
I
would
say,
I'm
a
good
combination
between
visual
and
reading
and
writing.
I
am
not
a
good
auditory
learner
watching
videos
is
real
hard
for
me
when
I
can
see
something
written
and
I
can
read
about
it.
I
can
look
at
a
diagram.
B
Oh
my
gosh
one
because
I
know
there
is
no
point
at
which
I'm
going
to
know
everything
that
I
need
to
know
one
because
there's
just
so
much
out
there
too,
because
we
work
in
an
industry
where
things
are
changing
all
the
time.
So
I
did
front
end
web
development
15
years
ago
and
it
is
an
utterly
different
world.
Today
from
what
it
was
back,
then
I
can't
rest
on
what
I
knew
then
to
get
me
where
I
need
to
be
now.
A
B
B
Don't
take
things
at
face
value
unless
you
truly
believe
that
you
have
really
understood
what
the
other
person
is
communicating
to
you,
because
what
is
in
our
heads
is
not
always
what
comes
out
of
our
mouths
and
when
we
make
assumptions
based
on
what
we
hear,
we
can
run
off
in
some
really
bad
directions.
So
that
could
be
personally
you
could
somebody
could
say
something
to
you.
You
could
take
it
very
personally:
it's
not
what
they
meant.
A
B
If
you
just
ask
them
a
question
like
I
hear
you
saying
this,
is
that
what
you
meant
and
they
can
give
them
a
chance
to
say?
Oh,
no,
that's
not
what
I
meant.
Oh
great.
Now
we
have
an
opportunity
to
really
have
a
meaningful
conversation
around
something
also
professionally.
It
can
spin
you
off
in
a
bad
direction.
So
someone
asks
you
makes
a
request
of
you
and
you
go
yeah
yeah
got
it.
I
don't
want
to
ask
you
any
questions,
because
I
don't.
B
That's
a
tough
one.
I
would
say
that
I
don't
have
a
specific
role
model.
Instead,
what
I
found
is,
I
learn
from
everyone
all
the
time
I
learn
from
other
leaders.
I
work
learn
from
the
people
who
work
on
my
team.
B
I
learn
from
the
individual
contributors
on
my
team
all
the
time
they
bring
things
to
the
table
that
I
just
hadn't
expected
didn't,
have
access
to
and
they
come
up
with
amazing
ideas
that
I
never
would
have
considered
myself
and
then
personally,
I
learned
from
my
kids
every
day
that
I
think
every
relationship
we
have
is
an
opportunity
to
learn
something
from
someone
else.
B
A
A
B
Yeah
I
had
a
really
wonderful
manager
much
earlier
in
my
career.
This
was
back
when
I
was
a
technical
writer,
so
this
was
much
much
earlier
in
my
career
and
she
really
helped
me.
She
and
I
have
very
different
personalities,
but
in
a
really
good
complimentary
way-
and
she
is
one
of
my
dearest
friends
today-
something
that
sticks
out
that
she
told
me
that
I
really
took
to
heart,
because
this
is
something
I
was
really
bad
at.
B
She
very
kindly
and
compassionately
said
to
me
christy,
you
know
sometimes
it's
okay
to
let
things
fail.
I
mean
what
no
that's
my
job
is
to
make
everything
perfect
and
successful,
and
she
said
no,
when
you
go
out
of
your
way
to
force
things
to
be
successful,
you
cover
up
problems.
Sometimes
it's
more
important
to
let
things
play
out
so
that
you
can
see
what
the
real
problems
are
and
then
address
those
and
tell
you
right
now.
It
blew
my
mind
and
it
utterly
changed
my
leadership
style.
B
It
took
me
away
from
feeling,
like
it
was
my
responsibility
to
make
sure
that
my
team
did
everything
perfectly
to
realizing
that
my
role
is
to
empower
people
to
let
them
learn
to.
Let
them
have
ideas,
and
sometimes
those
ideas
are
going
to
be
amazing
and
other
times
they're
not.
But
if
we
learn
something
from
it,
that's
what's
important.
A
Yeah,
even
as
an
individual
contributor,
I
love
that
advice,
that's
awesome!
So
what
are
you
doing
to
ensure
you
continue
to
grow
and
develop
as
a
leader.
B
Yeah,
I'm
doing
things
all
the
time.
I
read
a
lot.
I
liked
a
lot
of
articles
because
they're
short
and
easy
to
consume,
especially
like
nielsen
norman,
has
amazing
blog
posts
that
they
put
out
very
frequently,
and
I
do
read
books
as
well,
and
then
I've
been
using
a
lot
of
linkedin
learning
yeah
a
lot
of
good
stuff.
A
I'm
excited
about
that.
Is
there
anything
else?
You
would
like
to
tell
us
about
leadership
at
get
lab.
B
Yeah
gitlab
is
a
really
inspiring
place
to
be
a
leader
one.
We
are
working
on
a
really
cool
product,
it
changes
people's
daily
work
lives
and
how
often
do
you
get
the
opportunity
to
work
on
something
that
has
so
much
impact
and
the
other
thing
is,
I
don't
think
I've
ever
worked
at
a
company
where,
broadly
everyone
was
so
think
about
how
I
want
to
say
this.
B
Just
such
good
people
who
are
trying
to
do
the
right
things
who
want
to
do
it
in
ways
that
are
compassionate
and
collaborative
people,
people
don't
pull
rank.
We
are
all
just
truly
trying
to
help
each
other,
and
I
think,
in
the
end,
that
makes
for
one
a
better
product
and
then
two
it
makes
you
wanna
come
to
work
every
day
and
learn
from
people.
So
I
man,
I
love
not
just
my
team,
but
the
teams
I
get
to
work
with
every
day.
Yeah.
A
That's
awesome.
I
love
that
cool.
Well,
those
are
all
the
questions
I
had
for
you
today.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
joining
us
on
this
q2
learn
from
leadership
for
our
learning
and
development
newsletter.
Thanks
so
much
been
my
pleasure
thanks.