Decolonizing technology and humanizing productivity

A Podcast by Forward Looking Leadership

Kerry Ann King (eluminatelabs.com), Founder and CEO of Eluminate Labs, joins host Dan Freehling (contempusleadership.com). Kerry Ann explains the background behind her company's debut offering, Fin, an app designed to help users understand their productivity style and break the cycle of productivity-related anxiety.

She also shares her insights from her time with Google on corporate culture change. Kerry Ann emphasizes decolonizing tech and the need for a shift in corporate culture and government policy to protect workers and promote wellbeing.

Kerry Ann and Dan also discuss building a global remote team based on mutual respect and collaboration, leadership lessons from the arts, the value of incorporating diverse perspectives and methodologies in technology development, and more.

Recommended reading: The “Poldark” series by Winston Graham, “Decolonizing Philosophy of Technology: Learning from Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Decolonial Technical Design” by Cristiano Codeiro Cruz, “Kaandossiwin” by Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe). Show notes at forwardlookingleadership.com.