Britnee Weza, Vulnerability as a Superpower - On The Journey Podcast: Episode 02

Welcome to Season One, Episode Two of On The Journey This is a special one I got to talk to a good friend of mine that I haven't connected in a while Britnee Weza. We met at Alteryx and she has a long leadership career working for companies like Johnson and Johnson, Tableau, and Alteryx. Today, Britnee is the Sales Director for the Digital Natives segment at Databricks. It was a fantastic conversation, I enjoyed it a lot. She's one of the first leaders I talked to that said "leadership is hard". And it's true. It's a hard profession. It's tough, we don't typically talk about it among leaders, or recognize it. And it's hard. And that's part of the vulnerability that characterizes Britnee. She also talks about vulnerability and how she got advice throughout her career: to show her chinks in the armor and how that impacted her career positively. She talked to me about differences between a mentor and a sponsor and how they made contributions to her development and shares one of the best advice she got, which was ...Find problems and take a stab at solving them... Britnee talks about giving feedback and why it should be ongoing and not just at the end of the quarter on some particular times. She touches on something very important that I think most of us leaders struggle with, which is leaning in on people's positives and their style to make them successful and not just trying to imprint the things that made you successful as individual contributor. It was a wide ranging, fantastic conversation with Britnee. Thanks to her for being part of the podcast. All these and much more in this episode of On The Journey.