Tina Tchen, CEO of Time’s Up: "Building better workplaces for our employees [is]...essential to build resilient workforces and workplaces for the future."

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theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tina Tchen is challenging companies to build better workplaces. As the CEO of Time’s Up, she’s focused on equality in the office. As a lawyer by trade, Tina has also been a political aide as chief of staff to former First Lady Michelle Obama, and the executive director for the White House Council on Women and Girls. She sat down with us this week to talk about how she creates impact at scale- and what it’s like to manage up when your boss is the First Lady. In this episode, Tina shares how she grew her confidence in a corporate setting (10:08), what it was like to be a single parent working in the White House (23:42), and her strategies for creating meaningful impact (28:30). Stay tuned at the end for a spotlight on arfa, a new consumer goods company that develops personal care brands based on close relationships with people who use them. And the customers aren’t just consumers - but actual stakeholders in the brands.

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0:00.0	As we emerged from the crisis, it is a really stark example about why these issues around building better workplaces
0:15.4	for our employees are not just nice to do things.
0:18.4	I'm Carly Zaken.
0:21.6	I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:24.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:28.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:30.0	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:36.2	We started the skim from a couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it began
0:41.0	on a couch. Hi everyone,
0:48.0	Hi everyone, this show might sound a bit different today
0:52.0	because we're skimming from three different couches.
0:54.8	The skim is working from home for the time being because of COVID-19.
0:59.8	So today we welcome Tina Chen to skim from the couch. She is the CEO and
1:05.9	president of Times Up, an advocacy organization that was founded in the wake of the
1:10.4	Me Too movement. Tina has focused on issues of gender equality and
1:14.1	diversity throughout her career, a lawyer by trade. She has also been a political
1:20.0	aid as chief of staff to First lady Michelle Obama and the executive director for the
1:25.3	White House Council on Women and Girls. Tina, thank you for being here today.
1:30.3	Welcome to Skim from the couch. I also, it sounds like a dog is very excited to be here as well.
1:35.0	We invite all background noises in the time of COVID. We're all dealing with it.
1:40.0	Yes.
1:41.0	I'm delighted to be here. Well, Tina as Danielle said, we'm so glad to be here.
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