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We cover how to uplevel your eng team with Elaine Zhou, CTO @ Change.org! She shares some of her favorite frameworks and strategies for creating self-sufficient teams, amplifying high-performers, performing self-assessments, and hosting prioritization conversations. Plus Elaine shares the story behind how she got involved with Change.org, navigating different operating constraints in your business model (from non-profit to VC-funded contexts), and what it's like investing in high-impact areas with no revenue expectation.ABOUT ELAINE ZHOUChange.org CTO Elaine Zhou joined the platform for change in 2020. Prior to Change.org, she was at Vidado as CTO, and has held leadership positions for over a decade at companies including HomeStore, PlanetOut, IAC and more. She's been a longtime mentor at Upwardly Global. Follow her on Twitter at @softwired."High performance need to be in that fail safe environment so they're willing to explore and to iterate. So really help them to do that, the way that I solve the problem with them is not just that, “You are good, you're good.” Just pump them up. No, it's actually, “Let's look at a problem. I actually agree with your solution and this is why I like your solution.”Help them to gain the confidence and give them that kind of hard opportunity to try that and you know they will build their confidence so much.”- Elaine Zhou   SHOW NOTES:Why Elaine got involved with Change.org (2:24)The importance of understanding the business / non-profit model for eng leaders (6:29)How business, technology, & financial constraints impact business decisions (9:44)Investing in impact with no revenue expectation (14:42)Strategies for creating self-sufficiency within teams & traps eng leaders fall into when leveling up their team (18:06)Questions to ask yourself during self-assessments to determine priorities (22:05)What you should do as an eng leader after transitioning your team to be self-sufficient (28:10)Frameworks for prioritization conversations (29:14)The technical area Elaine is most focused on growing right now (32:23)Strategies for amplifying & supporting your best performers (33:58)Rapid fire questions (38:35)LINKS AND RESOURCESThe Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - Eric Reis' book outlining his strategy for building a start-up that he developed during his time as a founder and start-up advisor.Measure What Matters - John Doerr's collection of first-person accounts that demonstrates the focus, growth, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred in many great organizations.

Growing up in Northern CaliforniaTraveling to Mexico City as a kidLearning SpanishParenting magazineMoving to New York CityGetting mugged in NYC on her first night thereLatina magazineJennifer Lopez - JLo - on the cover of the first Latina magazineLiving in Chelsea, ManhattanMoving to her happy place - from New York City to Hermosa Beach in SoCal, Southern CaliforniaMoving with a cat, RoccoFlying cross-country, not drivingMoving from Hermosa Beach to San DiegoThe surprises and trials of living in San DiegoAbout Ramona GonzalesDigital Advertising & Technology ConsultantRamona Gonzales ConsultingRamona Gonzales is a digital media veteran who started her career as a magazine editor. After nearly two decades of working for publishers, digital agencies, and technology companies—and active participation in industry initiatives—she launched her consulting company in 2009. Her clients encompass digital publishers, ad tech companies, and industry organizations such as the IAB, IAB Tech Lab, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the Association of National Advertisers. Her consultancy provides services and solutions that are infused with revenue, data, and yield management principles and tactics, as well as industry best practices.Before then, she consulted for online publishers and media companies for Microsoft Advertising and Rapt (acquired by Microsoft in 2008). Prior to that, as Director of Digital Media, she led LPI Media's digital media operations, P&L, strategic direction, business goals, and product development for four years. (LPI Media, the publisher of Out and The Advocate magazines, was acquired by PlanetOut and subsequently by HereTV Media.)In the late 90s, Ramona oversaw the assessment, definition, and organization of digital content for major clients at Ogilvy Interactive (Director of Content Strategy in the Information Architecture Group). Her first foray into the digital arena was in 1997 as one of two producers who created SesameStreet.com. She moved to New York City in 1996 to launch Latina magazine, the first national magazine for Hispanic women in the US. Prior to Latina, she was an editor at Parenting magazine in San Francisco.Ramona earned a BA in Journalism (minor in Women Studies) at San Jose State University.  ConnectRamona Gonzales: www.ramonagonzales.comMusic by Eves Blue and used by permission.  CREDITSHost and creator: Christi CassidyContact: christi@movingalongpodcast.comArtwork by Phyllis BusellMusic by Eve's Blue. Show notes written with assistance from Podium.page. LINKS:More information and to listen to past episodes: https://movingalongpodcast.comPast episodes are here too: https://moving-along.simplecast.com/Tag and like Moving Along episodes on Facebook and Instagram!

This week's interview features Megan Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of shift7 and former US Chief Technology Officer. JB and Megan discuss innovation/collaboration, human-centered solutions, and how they tie into the sustainable development goals (SDGs).Hosted by JB Holston.  Produced by Jenna Klym, Justin Matheson-Turner, Christian Rodriguez, and Nina Sharma. Edited by Christian Rodriguez. Learn from leaders doing the work across the Capital Region and beyond. These conversations will showcase innovation, as well as history and culture across our region, to bridge the gap between how we got here and where we are going.About our guest:In 2014, President Obama named Megan Smith the United States Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role, she served as an Assistant to the President. As U.S. CTO, Smith focused on how technology policy, data and innovation can advance the future of our nation.Megan previously served as CEO of PlanetOut, a leading LGBT online community in the early days of the web, where the team broke through many barriers and partnered closely with AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and other major web players. Megan was part of designing early smartphone technologies at General Magic and worked on multimedia products at Apple Japan.Over the years, Megan has contributed to a wide range of engineering projects, including an award-winning bicycle lock, space station construction program, and solar cookstoves. She was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car 2000 miles across the Australian outback.  Megan has served on the boards of MIT, MIT Media Lab, MIT Technology Review, and Vital Voices; as a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; and as an advisor to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Malala Fund, which she co-founded. She holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she completed her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.

Welcome to the Intergenerational Dialogues Podcast! Hosted by photographer  Captain Maggie Hallahan, this podcast is an open conversation with a wide variety of Co-Hosts and guests, candidly talking about gender equality and other important issues in the world.The podcast will officially launch on March 23, 2020, but before we drop the First Episode, we are sharing some bonus content that was produced last year, during Women's History Month 2019.In this Throwback Episode, Captain Maggie moderates a conversation between tech entrepreneur Megan Smith and ocean navigator Captain Lehua Kamalu. --More about Megan Smith: Megan is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and tech evangelist. She recently co-founded shift7, a company focused on tech-forward networked innovation for impact and economic inclusion. Smith served as the third U.S. chief technology officer from 2014-2017. She spent over eleven years as a vice president at Google, leading new business. In that role, she led acquisitions of Google Earth, Maps, and Picasa. Earlier, Smith was CEO of PlanetOut, worked on early smartphone technologies at General Magic and at Apple Japan. She is an advisor to the MIT Media Lab, Vital Voices, Thinkof-Us, co-founded the Malala Fund, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she serves on the board as a life member. She completed her master’s thesis work at the MIT Media Lab and was a member of the MIT student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car 2,000 miles across the Australian outback.More about Captain Lehua Kamalu: Lehua is the first woman to serve as captain and lead navigator of a long-distance ocean crossing for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, on the ancestral voyaging canoe Hikianilia. Her 13-person crew traveled some 2,800 miles over 23 days from Honolulu to Half Moon Bay, California, to raise awareness about the dire state of our oceans. Instead of GPS, the crew used traditional Polynesian wayfinding techniques, taking cues from the sun, stars, waves and birds. Lehua was born in New York and raised in Hawaiʻi, and holds a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi. She’s been involved with the Polynesian Voyaging Society since 2009. 

Faced with an impossible challenge? Don’t reinvent the wheel. Find someone who’s already solved the problem – and help those inventors keep inventing. Megan Smith calls that technique “scout and scale.” She used it as the United States' CTO. She did it as an exec at Google. She did it as CEO of PlanetOut. And she continues today with the company she co-founded, shift7. Cameo appearance: Monique Sternin (co-founder of the Positive Deviance Approach & Initiative).

SummaryTom Rielly was the founder of PlanetOut, the largest LGBT website and community of the 1990s. Tom recounts the unique impact the web and online technology had on the LGBT community and, prior to that, remembers the early days of the Mac industry. But of course, Tom is best known today for his work at TED, where he is director of Community as well as the TED Fellows program. So we get some interesting TED history as well, especially how posting TED Talks online has transformed the organization. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING EXPERT - This week our guest is MATTHEW SKALLERUD. Matthew is President of Pink Banana Media. They help companies build their businesses by reaching the LGBT Community using SEO, Web 2.0, Social Network Marketing and Strategic Online Media Placement. Matthew has become a trailblazer and a true trend-setter in this field. He has been featured in many articles and websites such as "Gay.com," "PlanetOut.com" and in the Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal.

BUSINESS MARKETING EXPERT - This week our guest is MATTHEW SKALLERUD. Matthew is President of Pink Banana Media. This company helps businesses reach gays & lesbians on the Internet, using traditional means such as: banner ads, e-mail, blogs, YouTube, Facebook and more. Matthew began his career in the GLBT marketplace in the mid-90s when there weren't too many companies that catered to the GLBT community. Matthew has become a trailblazer and a true trend-setter in this field. He has been featured in many articles and websites such as "Gay.com," "PlanetOut.com" and in the Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal.

"Michael Moniz has over 6 years in the field of coaching. Michael holds a Masters degree in the field of Communication from Rollins College. He started out working with many corporations and universities helping develop the next generation of leaders. He realized the needs for support in the gay and lesbian community and opened his own personal coaching practice soon after. He works with various clients from the gay and lesbian community but hosts groups for support to recently diagnosed and living with HIV. Helping HIV+ people move from merely just surviving to thriving in their lives with health, love, relationships, goals and adventures. Michael's life coaching practice is all about living life out loud. His energetic and dynamic personality helps clients take action in their lives and make their dreams into reality. Michael is an avid blogger and writes bi-monthly articles for PlanetOut and several regional papers. Michael speaks at many conferences and events all over the US working to help people get more out of their lives and become "unstuck". Michael truly believes that "life is not about finding yourself; life is about creating yourself." Visit Michaels website - www.Michael-Moniz.com