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My name is Greg Kielstrom and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Career Gig and

host of the Agile World Podcast. Today we're going to talk about agility and

teams and how productivity, psychological safety, and an agile approach work together for the benefit of organizations and those who work within them.

To let me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Duena Blomstrom, an accomplished author and co-founder and CEO of People Not Tech.

People Not Tech offers a revolutionary machine learning powered software solution

in the form of a work tool that checks and improves psychological safety and teams.

First, why don't you tell me a little bit about your background and what led you to start people not tech?

First and foremost, thank you so much for having me guys and these are topics that are tough but necessary at this point so the more we talk about them the better.

Sometimes I hear myself say the same thing over and over again. I wish there were other ways to put them, but this is the time to be a broken record, I'm afraid.

So my journey so far is very long, but I would attempt to keep it short for for the sake of

any of my listening. I come from a background of psychology and business ended up

in FinTech for my scenes one way or another a few years ago at the

beginning of FinTech really many years ago and in that capacity I fell in love with

agile while making innovative products for FinTech and

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