Tania is someone I know because of TED Active! She is the Co-Founder of Life Labs Learning and the Author of "The Leader Lab - Core Skills to Become a Great Manager, Faster." She also has a podcast called "Talk Psych to Me," and she is a lot of fun to talk with. Her experience and perspectives make this a fabulous conversation. We discuss all kinds of interesting things she has learned from watching what great leaders do differently. We discuss Micro-behaviors, Linking Up, and more. She encourages leaders to move from statements that end in periods to saying things that end in question marks more often. We talk about Collective Wonder. Qstep, Deblurring, how communicating across diversity gets blurry, things like bias, confusion, miscommunication, and what that means to you. We also talk about how people expect and get training for everything else, but we rarely expect or get leadership training! Leader Manager... expect training for everything else, but not leaders.
Tania is the Co-Founder of LifeLabs Learning, Author of The Leader Lab and Surprise, co-host of the podcast Talk Psych to Me, Partner at Columbia University's eLab, and Founder of Scarlet Moon Sanctuary.
LifeLabs Learning has helped over 350,000 people at the world’s most influential companies (including TED, Yelp, Tinder, Slack, Reddit) become more capable and compassionate leaders.
"Talk Psych to Me" blends humor and psychology to help people get better at being people.
eLab is an accelerator for entrepreneurs who increase equity and access to education.
Scarlet Moon is a non-profit that helps people help animals.
Tania is a researcher, educator, and advisor to startups that create alternatives to animal products. She writes for Psychology Today, Harvard Business Review, Faunalytics, and some other delightful places. For some mysterious reason, her TED talk about her experience as a Ukrainian immigrant has over 1.8 million views.
Tania lives with rescued pigs, dogs, goats, a cat, and the love of her life. She does lots of things, but each is an attempt to give people research-backed and play-packed tools for being kinder to ourselves, each other, and all living beings.