We’re always interested here at Voxgig in how people get into public speaking in their careers. Lesley Tully started off studying Film. She tells us how this training gave her an understanding of visuals, which turned out to be a great asset in her subsequent career and in the role she is now in: an expert on Design Thinking.
Orla and Lesley get into the subject of evangelizing for your own job; in other words, how to convince sometimes sceptical colleagues - who may be in the organization a lot longer than you - that your role and your expertise can enhance their work and output. This takes persistence, belief in what you’re doing, and a good dose of authenticity. If you’re authentically passionate about what you do, people eventually will be won over by what you have to say.
Using a great mortgage analogy based on her days as Head of Design Thinking in Bank of Ireland, Lesley reveals how putting the human being at the center of everything is the key to good business. This applies across all industries and sectors, including the world of tech startups.
Learn more about Lesley here.
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Episode 179 Ryan Donovan Senior Content Marketer at Stack Overflow
Episode 178 Sandy Dunlop, Mythology Expert & Brand Identity Consultant (Repeat)
Episode 177 Tun Shwe, VP of data and DevRel at Quix
Episode 176 Stephanie Prenderville Founder and Talent Development Director
Episode 175, Julie Hubschman, Head of Developer APIs at FIS
Episode 174, Veronica Breene, CEO and Founder of Vesta Insights
Episode 173, Jack Bridger, Engineer and Host of Scaling DevTools
Episode 172, Brian Rinaldi, Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly
Episode 171, Jorge Barrachina Gutiérrez, DevRel, Engineer and Developer Advocate
Episode 170 Christos Gkoros (repeat) API Designer at Postman
Episode 169 Caroline Lewko, Co-Founder of DevRel.Agency
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Episode 160, Sebastian Witalec (repeat), Head of DevRel at Weaviate
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