Episode 67: Miki Habryn (Splunk)

Authority Issues

In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and Miki talk about:

• The three eras of Miki so far: technology, self-identity, and relationships
• Early failures to thrive -- early admission to college, and the professional world
• Navel-contemplation and some key realizations
• Getting a job with room to evolve and let off steam
• The differences among marketing-driven, engineering-driven, and sales-driven companies
• A change of pace: the finance industry :)
• The Google-related diaspora of an early household
• Flying ever-nearer to the flame of leadership, getting burned, and taking another orbit
• Delaying the investment in building relationships until she could fully be herself at work
• The requirement for executive support when driving change
• Making an incremental transition and beginning to invest in relationships
• Engineers and the skewed power dynamic involved in managing them
• Scalability in the decisionmaking process
• Decoupling personal life from professional life, intent and authenticity
• 3D printing as aspirational pandemic hobby

You can find Miki on Twitter as @dichro and on Instagram as @hbmiki

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3