Kate Eberle Walker, THE GOOD BOSS: 9 Ways Every Manager Can Support Women at Work
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
CEO of PresenceLearning, Kate Eberle Walker, joins Zibby to talk about her new book, The Good Boss, and what it actually takes to become one. After deciding to stop telling other women that they needed to change in order to fit into workplaces that were designed by men for men, Kate realized she needed to create a guide to change the workplaces themselves. Kate and Zibby connect over similar work experiences, and Kate shares some of the nine steps she recognized as essential for making working environments more supportive for women.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | Kate Everley Walker is the author of The Good Boss, nine ways every manager can support women at work. Kate is the CEO of |
| 0:44.3 | Presence Learning, the leading provider of online special education services for K-12 schools. In this |
| 0:50.0 | role, she leads a majority female employee population, whose mission it is not only to serve students |
| 0:55.2 | with learning needs, but to provide a flexible career path for more than 1,500 special education |
| 1:00.0 | clinicians, many of whom are working mothers. Kate took on her first CEO role at age 39 at the |
| 1:05.9 | Princeton Review. Before becoming a CEO, Kate navigated the male-dominated world of Wall Street |
| 1:10.7 | as a Goldman Sachs investment banker for five years and then worked her way up through management roles. |
| 1:15.5 | She offers straight, tell it like it is, advice to her fellow managers and is an approachable and relatable mentor to younger women who she regularly supports and advises on career decisions. |
| 1:24.8 | She is the author of The Good Boss. |
| 1:27.3 | Enjoy. Welcome, Kate. Thank you so much for coming |
| 1:30.0 | on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss The Good Boss. Nine Ways Every Manager |
| 1:34.3 | Can Support Women at Work. Thanks for having me. I'm very excited with you. So Kate, tell |
| 1:41.2 | everybody a little bit about your background and how you sort of escalated quickly |
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