'Women were leaving workplaces and not getting the top paying executive positions for many reasons related to workplace cultures.'
TweetShareShare When Hayley Sudbury started her career, she was working in finance. It was rewarding and challenging in many ways, but she reached a point where she saw fewer and fewer people that looked like her, a gay woman, at the top. She struggled to find mentors and role models who could help her see what true career progression could look like in the C-suite.
We got to talk with Sudbury about her company, mentorship, diversity and inclusion in today’s workplaces, and her experience as a gay woman in the predominantly male industries she’s been in. Mentoring is often seen as a very human-centric action. Talk to us about adding tech to it. Does it work? What do you say to naysayers who might think you can’t do this through tech? You can absolutely do it without technology. That’s where all this started. We just have a fundamental belief that mentorship and sponsorship can be improved with technology.
Technology helps us take that activity and scale it across organizations, networks so that there are more stories and more opportunities for individuals to have better experience and better access to people who have been there and done it. You have a lot of great experience behind you. What sorts of valuable career and leadership traits have you picked up along the way? It’s important to have a strong vision and to give your people autonomy in what they’re building and creating. That’s what allows a business to move forward and I’ve certainly seen that both in corporates, but also in early-stage businesses. We know micromanagement doesn’t work.
There was a point in your career where you were struggling personally with presenting yourself as a gay women the male-dominated workplaces you were in. Could you tell us how you worked through this, and where you are now? It’s pretty clear where I am now, very open and out in the world and it’s part of who I am. I’m extremely public about that. But it took me a while to get to this point, and be really comfortable and feel like that wasn’t something that I was going to be judged on.
When you think about people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry, what are the biggest problems you see, and how can we take steps to solve them? It’s about the role model piece that is hugely important and it continues to be. Today I was working from a coworking space in New York. When I walked in, there were about a hundred people, and just four were women.
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