The world doesn't change when you grow up. It changes when you show up. Hi everybody.My name is Anuka Chada and today I want to tell you a story about what happens when young people are trusted to lead. A year ago, I walked into a room that changed everything for me. Hundreds of people, glowing laptop screens, music lasting in the background, and the type of energy that makes you feel like anything is possible.I was at my very first hackathon. I was excited. I was nervous, but I was ready to build.But when ...

[applause] One core memory that I have from when I used to live in Turkey was the importance national holidays held for students. Every year, our classes would put on performances where students read poems, sang songs, perform traditional dances, and more. During our preparation for these performances, there was one position that also got to play behind the scenes, the leader.chosen in a classroom, buzzing with whispered guesses, scraping chairs, and my stomach tightening as I wondered whether if I'd ever b ...

[music] [applause] I still remember the sting of my first real disappointment at work. I was a young woman working in a busy bookstore when my manager suddenly quit. I kept with the day-to-day operations, opening and closing, bank runs, placing textbook orders, and reconciling customer complaints, all during the busiest season of the year, only to find out I wasn't even considered for the managing position.Somehow, I wasn't qualified enough to be promoted. Yet, I was qualified enough to train the new manage ...

PagerDuty CFO Howard Wilson shares his journey from coder to finance leader, lessons on speaking up, leading through change and why you don’t have to stay in your lane. https://t.co/kt9jAZJY8r (Photo: PagerDuty) https://t.co/MX3YIOByAC ...

RT X Freeze (@XFreeze)"For a while there, I was just sleeping under my desk, which is out in the open in the factory, for an important reason. And it was damn uncomfortable sleeping on that floor always when I woke up, I’d smell like metal dustI stopped using the couch in the little conference room and just slept on the floor under my desk so that during shift change, the entire team could see meAnd that’s important because if they think that their leader is off somewhere having a good time, drinking Mai Ta ...

Successful teams aren’t necessarily about star talent, but more often depend on “Glue” employees—the quiet leaders who make everybody else look good and rarely get rewarded for their contributions.🔗: https://t.co/7E53wUGOCV https://t.co/z9J4e2n4Dk ...

[applause] One core memory that I have from when I used to live in Turkey was the importance national holidays held for students. Every year, our classes would put on performances where students read poems, sang songs, perform traditional dances, and more. During our preparation for these performances, there was one position that also got to play behind the scenes, the leader.Chosen in a classroom, buzzing with whispered guesses, scraping chairs, and my stomach tightening as I wondered whether if I'd ever b ...

Why an orchestral conductor and a sports psychologist. Why now. >> Because connection is the bedrock for high performance.Good evening everybody and uh really appreciate your time. Our agenda tonight for this talk is going to focus in on three combined areas that myself and EMR have tremendous passion on. We hope that these areas relate to you.It concerns leadership, connection, and performance. The challenge in what you're about to experience over the next 10 to 15 minutes is we are going to enter into the ...

At the GameStop stuff, for instance, the things that I had to do was figure out how we communicate to the public what was going on with this very complex situation and then also raise uh billions of dollars overnight. You're woken up at 5:00 a. m.by a telephone call saying you need to raise $3 billion by the end of the day or you're toast. It's a CEO's worst nightmare. Vlad, the CEO of Robin Hood, lived through this story, came out the other side stronger than ever.Vlad's become legendary for this unflapabl ...

Canada's conservative leader faces leadership test - and grapples with widening his appeal https://t.co/KYJtOzLBAT ...