Sara Wachter-Boettcher - Finding and Using Your Active Voice

Sara Wachter-Boettcher inspires us through her actions, reminds us why it’s important to see shades of grey, and helps us to design the careers we actually want.

Highlights include:

• Is it career limiting to enforce a work/life boundary?
• Do we have to accept that companies exist to serve shareholders?
• Should we ever sacrifice our wellbeing to solve important problems?
• Who or what inspired you to become a feminist leader?
• Why are some people uncomfortable with life’s shades of grey?

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Who is Sara Wachter-Boettcher?

Sara is the CEO of Active Voice, a leadership development company that’s on a mission to make work culture better for everyone - in particular those of us working in design and tech. 

Through Active Voice, Sara helps organisations - like LinkedIn, Etsy, and Mastercard - to build radical and courageous leadership practices, the kind needed for today’s world. She does this through 1-on-1 coaching, workshops and the facilitation of strategy sessions.

Before starting Active Voice in 2020, Sara was the Principal of Rare Union, a content strategy and user experience consultancy. Sara also ran a feminist leadership community and event series called Collective Strength, and hosted a podcast for feminists called Strong Feelings. 

She is the author of three influential books, Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content, Design for Real Life, and Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech.

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Find Sara here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraboettcher/
Medium: https://medium.com/nice-work-from-active-voice
Website: https://www.sarawb.com/

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