Erica is an engineering manager for the integrations and data analytics teams at SalesLoft – where she’s helping grow the product engineering team for the 4th fastest growing software company in North America and #1 best place to work in Atlanta. During her 18 year career in tech, she’s worked with large companies, including Boeing, FOX Interactive Media and Turner Broadcasting, as well as early-stage startups--of which 2 were acquired, by MySpace and Oracle.

Erica works passionately towards diversity and inclusion in tech, via education and exposure to opportunities. In 2013, she started the Atlanta network of Women Who Code, where she organizes conferences, hackathons, developer workshops, monthly tech talks and networking events for women technologists. In addition, Erica collaborates with companies to help improve strategies around diversity and inclusion. She also helps develop and teach youth coding programs, speaks at tech events and mentors entrepreneurs for various incubators and accelerators.

On today's episode we discuss improving diversity and inclusion at companies and how important it is in building high performing teams. We also discuss Women Who Code, The WeRise Conference and 100 Girls of Code.

Contact Info: Company Website: https://salesloft.com/ Personal Website: http://www.ericastanley.io/ Conference Website: https://werise.tech/ Twitter: @ericastanley

Show Notes:

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Diversity and Inclusion and Building High Performing Teams with Erica Stanley