Episode Details

Today's guest is Danielle Clark, VP Talent at Fastly. Danielle has experience as both a consultant and working in-house within the tech industry, and has a pragmatic and people-focused approach to solving problems within a business. In today's show we find out what work Danielle is currently involved with, how businesses are beginning to recognize the value of people-based solutions, the differences between working as a consultant and in-house, how to best advocate for yourself as an employee, advice for getting that promotion, and much more! 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Danielle explains what overhauling performance management entails.
• Motivation behind the decision to overhaul management.
• What the ultimate goal of overhauling management is.
• We find out what Fastly is and what Danielle's current role there entails.
• Frequency of scaling and hyper-growth after the initial public offering.
• Responsibilities Danielle had when she was a consultant.
• Common threads that companies have regarding talent and leaders.
• Danielle's decision to leave consulting and begin working in-house.
• How to become a real consultant and partner and not just take orders.
• Advice for juggling different jobs and responsibilities as a consultant.
• The importance of leaders acknowledging the role and potential of recruitment.
• A discussion about the contribution of individuals to an organization.
• Why clear expectations are so important during recruitment drives.
• Advocating for yourself to help you grow in the organization.

Tweetables:

"You also have to be prepared to embrace a lot of different backgrounds and different kinds of business principles and operational rigor that maybe you hadn't had to do when you're a private company." — Danielle Clark [0:07:42]

"Consulting gives you so much exposure to so many things so quickly. There's no way I would have got the experience I had if I'd worked those eight years in-house, it's just impossible." — Danielle Clark [0:13:51]

"Take stock of what the purpose is, really think about how that fits into the bigger business and the value that you are adding to that." — Danielle Clark [0:19:23]

"Everyone listening to this should have a perspective on the role of talent in their organization, which is not just putting bodies into seats or in front of screens but really bringing in new ideas." — Danielle Cl