Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2019 · No. 02

A New Leadership Requirement

Annette Walker

From the recording

We can't reserve personalization just for our personal life or our customers. We have to include our employees.

Annette Walker

About this episode

Annette Walker started with the personalization we already take for granted, from Siri to a watch that tells us to breathe, and the friction of filling out the same form at every doctor's visit. Those expectations now follow people to work. Building City of Hope's $1 billion cancer center in Irvine, where 72 languages are spoken in the school district, she argued that the care we give customers belongs to employees too, even to loving the people we lead.

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