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Mouthwash Interview : Kim Scott + Trier-Lynn Bryant / The Future of...Bias

Kim Scott is a powerhouse in Silicon Valley and Trier Bryant is a strategic executive leader with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. Together they are reshaping corporations around the globe. Before being an author, Kim taught the big tech companies how to sell and talk to each other. She is a master of communication and wants to make bad bosses a thing of the past with Trier who is Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. From micro-aggressions to outright harassment, Kim and Trier have seen it all and through the new ‘Just Work’, they are about to reshape the way bias is handled.

You could say the pandemic has made monsters of the meekest of each of us and made bad bosses terrible ones. Kim and Trier are going to talk about to manage your way out of those situations, how to identify bad bosses and general readdress the balance in the workplace - or the new hybrid workplace experiment that’s looming large. Kim is a TBD ‘Mollitiam’ alumni speaker!

ABOUT TRIER (@trier)

Trier-Lynn Bryant is s previously held leadership roles at Astra, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, and proudly served as a combat veteran in the United States Air Force as a Captain leading engineering teams while spearheading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives for the Air Force Academy, Air Force, and DoD.

Trier advises leading companies like Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Trier has an unwavering commitment to employees within organizations to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces producing prosperous companies. She has been featured as an influential DEI practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW.

Trier earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering with a minor in Spanish and Leadership from the United States Air Force Academy (Beat Army, Sink Navy) where she played Division I volleyball. She enjoys spending time with her close-knit family who taught her to live by the family motto "...good enough isn't."

Find out more about Trier here.

ABOUT KIM (@kimballscott)

Author of Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair as well as Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Trier Bryant and Kim co-founded the company Just Work to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Jason Rosoff and Kim co-founded the company Radical Candor to help rid the world of bad bosses. 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. Earlier in her career, Kim managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.

Find out more about Kim here.

Preorder ‘Just Work’: Done, Fast, Fair’ here + buy ‘Radical Candor‘ here.