Trier Bryant & Kim Scott: Helping Leaders To Create Healthy Workplaces

Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Fostering a healthy workplace where difficult issues are discussed openly & effectively is a huge challenge for any leader. Trier Bryant & Kim Scott, co-founders of Just Work LLC join us for a discussion around:

• typical stressors experienced by leaders
• helping leaders understand their own bias & how bias can be identified & discussed effectively, openly & safely
• embracing discomfort in the service of difficult, but necessary conversations & the importance of navigating shame to tolerate discomfort
• differences between an executive coach & psychologist
• effectively managing difficult interpersonal situations (e.g., bullying) from a management perspective
• pros/cons of various courses of action when confronted with workplace harassment/bias i.e., active confrontation vs. strategic disengagement
• understanding & appreciating the complex relationship between bias & performance
• ending the "default to silence" when confronted with unhealthy workplaces

Trier Bryant is Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She previously held leadership roles at Astra, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, & proudly served as a combat veteran in the US Air Force while spearheading diversity, equity, & inclusion initiatives for the Air Force Academy, Air Force, & DoD. Trier advises leading companies like Equinox, Airbnb & SoundCloud. She has been featured by several publications & outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Kim Scott is the author of Just Work: Get Sh*t Done Fast and Fair as well as Radical Candor. Kim co-founded the company Just Work LLC to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces.. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google.