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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I

interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any advice

they have for the rest of us. So today, I am delighted to welcome Rebecca Heinz to Before Breakfast.

Rebecca is the author of the new book, Your Best Meeting Ever, Seven Principles for Designing

Meetings That Get Things Done.

So Rebecca, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, Laura.

I'm excited you could be here, and meetings is a good topic.

Why did you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself first?

Sure.

So I've always been fascinated by organizational design and how do you create organizations

that are good for business and good for people and collaboration in particular as an area

I've long been fascinated by ever since I did my bachelor's. I went to Stanford and fell in love

with organizational behavior design there.

I then did my master's in the same program and subsequently my PhD.

Currently, I lead the work AI Institute at Glein, which is our internal think tank.

And previously I led the work innovation lab at Asana, which was an internal research center

and have long been fascinated as well about

translating academic-type rigorous research into practical strategies and frameworks for

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