In this episode, we're joined by Susan Liao, a product leader and champion of liberatory leadership working at the intersection of digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and non-profit impact strategy.
In this episode, we chat about:
- Her journey into tech and product
- Navigating her life through agencies and startups
- Pivoting from the corporate world to impact-driven work
- Conforming into inequitable systems and role, and shifting away to find her voice
- Why we adapt as marginalized communities and how to break away from upholding inequitable systems
- What's in Susan's "kitchen sink"
- The future of work, diversifying the spaces we are a part of, and creating different forms of distributing wealth
- Challenging existing systems of work, capitalism, and labor
- The concept of "Space, pace, and grace" - how are we acknowledging rest as part of our work?
- Honoring the north star of the communities around us
- Creating more intention behind our beliefs, words, and actions
- The importance of rest and filling our cup
You can find Susan at:
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/susanliao
- Startups for All: startupsforall.org
- Leaders Like Us: leaderslikeus.us
About Ecocycles and strategy knotworking
Improving cross-disciplinary collaboration with strategy knotworking and ecocycle planning, by Nancy White
Petra Vega (She/Her/Ella), Liberatory Leadership Coach, Facilitator, Radical Social Worker and Emergent Strategist
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