Sarah Zelechoski (ReactiveOps)

About this Episode

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Sarah talk about:

• Choosing all the available options
• The value of being able to anticipate the ways in which something will go wrong
• Using silence as leverage
• A callback to having to make the choice of scaling your management style vs customizing it
• Sarah's background in astrophysics and how the funding dance is terrible
• Falling in love with being helpful
• A tall step up to VP
• Mild anxiety around maybe having reinvented the wheel in coming to one's own conclusions
• How Sarah and rachel are origin story twinsies!
• Kendall having to interrupt us from staring into each others' eyes
• Structure in compensation and leveling as a way to offer needed leverage to under-represented groups
• Having values that make it more comfortable to have authority
• Turning the tables on rachel vis-a-vis the introversion vs extroversion question
• The importance of modeling healthy work-life balance
• Coaching and teaching as an embodiment of 'helping' on an ongoing basis

You can find Sarah on twitter as @szelechoski and on the Hangops Slack.

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3