My management style focuses on transparency, inclusiveness, and levity.
Some books that have led me to the manager I am today:
How I know my hard work pays off
Shawna, you’ve done so much for the org and our experience practice! it’s hard to sum up all the feels. It has truly been a gift to learn from you and have you as our leader! we are lucky to have experienced your magic!”
– Former direct report at CfA
Thank you to Shawna for bringing your leadership to the Experience practice and the Design team. I appreciate the practices that you introduced that brought more transparency to our work, including the capacity tracker, design all hands, and the leadership share-outs on Slack. You built bridges across disciplines and brought your whole self to our team and we all really, really appreciate you for it!”
– Former design team member on my team at CfA
Shawna, thanks for always showing care in all of our meetings this week (and always) and holding SO much across the org. Your conciseness and clarity are always a breath of fresh air.”
– Former direct report at CfA
Thank you so much for always listening to even the hardest of conversations. Your transparency, empathy, and servant leadership has kept me sane and ready to clock in every day fully energized… I hope one day we can clone you for the goodness of the world.”
– Former direct report at Ad Hoc, on VA.gov
You’re an amazing leader. Thank you for caring so much! None of this would be possible without you.”
– Former direct report at Ad Hoc, on VA.gov
Thank you for always connecting members of the team! SO many times I had no idea there was overlap and you have made us totally in sync.”
– Former direct report at Ad Hoc, on VA.gov
Learn more about what I do as a manager
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