May 28, 2019 in Business Resources
What I’m Learning: How to Create Balanced and Diverse Teams
Hey everybody! 👋 Ryan here again. I have some exciting news. I’m assuming you’re here for two reasons. First: You want to learn more about how to create balanced and diverse teams at your company. Second: You care about the…
May 21, 2019 in Business Resources
10 of My Best Tips on How to Start a Tech Apprenticeship Program
If you haven’t yet read the IWSI America report on Modern Apprentices, then I suggest you do. It talks about how to get started with apprenticeship and gives a list of key tasks to tackle. Here’s my list of what…
January 2, 2019 in Business Resources
LaSean Smith Q&A
We recently had a chat with LaSean Smith from Microsoft. We asked him a few questions around the topic of diversity and inclusion and why it’s important to create diverse teams. Q. What can companies do to get more people…
December 20, 2018 in Business Resources
Shari’s Story
Let us introduce you to Shari. She is one of 12 women working toward an entry-level engineering job made possible by Dress for Success Oregon (DFSO) and our TalentPath program, a training solution for hiring and retaining engineers from underrepresented groups….
December 13, 2018 in Business Resources
Interview with Chris Bennett at AfroTech
While at AfroTech, we fired off a few questions to Chris Bennett, CEO and co-founder of Wonderschool – a company that makes it easy for individuals to create early-learning programs out of their homes. We asked him the question on…
December 10, 2018 in Business Resources
The Real Issues Behind Diversity in Tech
We recently attended AfroTech and had the chance to catch up with Michael Ellison from CodePath.org. He works tirelessly to address the problem of diversity in tech and so we asked him: What are the misconceptions that companies have about diversity?…
December 6, 2018 in Business Resources
Amber’s Story
This is Amber. After navigating a particularly tough time in her life, she was living in transitional housing with her son Liam and trying to figure out her next step. She turned to Dress for Success in Portland, OR to…
December 3, 2018 in Business Resources
Joy’s Story
Meet Joy. She is one of 12 women working toward an entry-level engineering job made possible by Dress for Success Oregon (DFSO) and our TalentPath program, a training solution for hiring and retaining engineers from underrepresented groups. Her path to technology, however, has…
October 24, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 008: Laine Campbell
Laine Campbell is SVP of Engineering at Fastly. Over her 19 year career, she has specialized in distributed and high traffic databases, operations and reliability and building large distributed teams for some of the largest infrastructures in the world. Highlights…
October 19, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 007: Isaac Councill
Isaac Councill is the VP Engineering at Oscar Health, where he is responsible for all Software and Site Reliability Engineering teams. Prior to Oscar, he worked on applied computational linguistics at Google and as a Research Scientist at IBM Almaden…
October 18, 2018 in Business Resources
Three Healthy, Sustainable Ways to Incentivize Employee Learning
Think beyond the gift cards and shoutouts in company chatrooms — here’s how to motivate employees to engage with training resources on their own.
October 17, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 006: Kimber Lockhart
Kimber Lockhart is CTO at One Medical, a rapidly growing model of primary care that integrates innovative design with leading technology to deliver higher quality service while lowering the total cost of care.