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Leading Into The Unknown

Jana Rich, CEO of Rich Talent Group: Advice from the top of the people business

Leading Into The Unknown
Leading Into The Unknown
As the woman USA Today called, “the power broker of Silicon Valley,” Jana Rich knows a thing or two about how to build diverse and inclusive teams (hint: it continues far beyond recruiting.) Pulling from her experience working with CEOs of today’s most visionary companies, Jana shares her thoughts on strong leadership, how to evaluate leader-organization fit, and her favorite leaders in Silicon Valley to work with.

Jana is the founder and CEO of Rich Talent Group, a San Francisco-based executive search firm that partners with leading innovators to diversify and build transformative teams. Her clients—which include TIME’S UP, WW, Eventbrite, Walmart, Stitch Fix and Warby Parker—have launched revolutions that have changed the way we do business today.

Transcript at www.sypartners.com/podcasts

Hosted by Lisa Maulhardt: At SYPartners, Lisa ensures that the experiences people have as employees, and the experiences the world has with our people and our ideas, meet our aspirations for greatness for our brand. She joined the company in 1994 as a writer and assumed greater leadership responsibility over the years, including several years leading the San Francisco consulting practice, until she transitioned to her current role in 2013. While consulting at SYPartners, Lisa’s clients included Apple, Disney, Gap, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Old Navy, PBS, Starbucks, and Sundance. Lisa holds a B.A. in English and Poetry from Stanford University and an M.A. in Fiction Writing from the University of California at Davis.
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