Episode description
Today’s guest is Sonja Gittens Ottley, the Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Asana.
From her beginnings as an attorney at the Ministry of Legal Affairs for the Attorney-General in Trinidad & Tobago to her time at Yahoo, Facebook, and Asana, Sonja has been an advocate for building initiatives to promote privacy, free expression, and a more inclusive workforce.
While at Yahoo, Sonja helped create the companies Global Policy Counsel on Business & Human Rights, focusing on initiatives to promote privacy and free expression on the Internet. The counsel also explored the effects that the company products and tools may have on culture, human rights, activists, and more.
Recently, Sonja has been key to Asana’s efforts to incorporate diversity and inclusion into all aspects of the business by creating strategies that help build diverse and inclusive environments where every employee can thrive.
During our discussion, Sonja and I speak more about the responsibility the tech industry has to think deeper about how its products can impact society.
We also take a deep dive into the effects phycological safety has on productivity, and how Asana has worked to create frameworks to help employees succeed through a culture of open conversations and opportunities for discussion.
And finally, we take a closer look at the results of Asana’s Anatomy of Work Report, the results of a survey of over 13,000 global workers, and dive into the key findings on burnout, distributed work, tool overload, and more.
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Sonja Gittens Ottley
Show Notes:
Anatomy of Work Report: https://asana.com/resources/anatomy-of-work
Asana: https://asana.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SonjaOttley