#10 - Julie Reddish, Engineering Happiness in tech.

In this episode, we chat with Julie Reddish. Julie is the Head of People and Culture at Optimal Workshop and was formerly the happiness engineer at Xero.  She has traveled throughout the world leading programmes that transform people’s lives and now she empowers teams of tech humans as they navigate moving from start-up to scale-up.  Julie is highly invested in growing people.  She is their champion.  Julie has seen the positive impact this has on an individual basis, on a team, on an organisation - and globally. She believes in people's ability to influence positive change and wants to make a difference in the NZ tech startup ecosystem.  You can watch more of Julie here with her "Do we really need Managers?" talk.  In her spare time, Julie is into sports, jewelry making, brain science, parenting, and dog-breed identification. We hope you enjoy this episode.