Meg Bear is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Services at Imperva. In addition to her “day job”, Meg is also a disruptive technologist, change agent, career coach, startup advisor, intrapreneur, keynote speaker, blogger, patent holder, TEDx host, wife and mother of two powerful girls. She lives and works at the intersection of people, business and technology. With over 10,000 hours and more than 20 years’ experience in Enterprise Applications, Meg is skilled across a broad spectrum of functional domains including: Cloud, Security, Software as a Service, Customer Relationsh ..read more

  Yvonne Wassenaar a recognized thought leader in how to maintain relevancy in a rapidly changing world. Her impact has earned her recognition as WSJ Woman of Note, Silicon Valley Woman of Influence and theBoardlist Top 20. Her passion is partnering with leading companies to grow their businesses leveraging technology, agile leadership and diverse teams. Yvonne also is a vocal advocate for the growing interdependence of technology and diversity. Currently, Yvonne is the Chief Information Officer at New Relic, a digital intelligence platform company. She joined New Relic to prepare the com ..read more

Lately, leaders have been tested in ways they could never have imagined. They were expected to have all the answers and provide direction to their teams when they had no idea what was coming next or how to take the next step forward when the curveballs kept coming... In this special episode host, Bobbie LaPorte and guest Erin Baudo Felter, VP of Social Impact and Sustainability at Okta, discuss Erin's approach to leading through uncertainty, social turbulence, and the multiple curveballs leadership faced in recent times.    ..read more

How to Motivate Your Team without Micro-Managing In this Episode: 01:23 Definition of Motivation 01:35 Learn What Motivates/De-Motivates Team Members 05:00 The Practice of Strengths-Spotting 06:35 Providing Certainty in Uncertain Times ..read more

Because of the pandemic, and the unique challenges it is presenting for business leaders, we’re continuing our special series of extended In the Fire segments featuring executives who are managing through the biggest curveball many have seen in their lifetimes, COVID 19. In this episode we’re featuring Nadya Duke Boone, VP of Product at DAT Solutions, which is the leading provider of freight matching analytics for the truck industry. Nadya shares with us how the pandemic has affected her role as a leader, her biggest challenges and her thoughts on “what’s next ..read more

Because of the pandemic, and the unique challenges it is presenting for business leaders, we’re continuing our special series of extended In the Fire segments featuring executives who are managing through the biggest curveball many have seen in their lifetimes, COVID 19. In this episode we're featuring Nancy Michaels, Director of Business Development, Silicon Valley at GCI, a commercial general contracting firm, who shares with us how the pandemic has affected her role as a leader, her biggest challenges and her thoughts on “what’s next ..read more

Because of the pandemic, and the unique challenges it is presenting for business leaders, we’re conducting a special series of extended In the Fire Segments featuring executives who are managing through the biggest curveball many have seen in their lifetimes, COVID 19.  In this episode we're featuring Erin Baudo Felter, Vice President of Social Impact at Okta, leading Okta for Good, who shares with us how the pandemic has affected her role as a leader, her biggest challenges and her thoughts on “what’s next ..read more

In this episode we’re featuring a special In the Fire Segment with Mike Hamilton, formerly IT exec at MuleSoft and Salesforce, now Vice President of IT at Databricks. In an earlier episode of LCBB, Mike shared how he successfully navigated the Salesforce acquisition of MuleSoft as well as multiple role changes while he was at Salesforce. Mike returns today to give us an update on what he’s learned since his last guest appearance on LCBB and the latest job and organizational changes he’s navigating through. We know from our survey of tech executives that reorgs continue to be the biggest curveb ..read more

IN THIS EPISODE: 00:50 - Curveball of the Week: What to do when your boss gets fired or resigns unexpectedly 03:35 - Confidence Killer of the Week: How to respond when you are asked to reapply for your current job 06:50 - In the Fire special guest, Commercial Executive, Anil Jhanji, shares how he managed the transition of five CEOS in ten years         ..read more

IN THIS EPISODE: 00:45 - Curveball of the Week: How to respond to yet another reorganization in your company 04:05 - Confidence Killer of the Week: What to do when your work is not valued 09:25  - In the Fire special guest, Customer Success Executive April Oman, shares what happened when she took a new job that didn’t work out ..read more