Less than 60 seconds ago, as of writing, I left the 3-hr video call Flip the Script, a micro-retreat organized by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Jen Dionisio of Active Voice.

I’ve been learning from Sara sometime soon after I joined Booking.com, ~2013–2014; we had met at a conference I can’t recall, in a place I can’t place…likely Europe. I bought her 2018 book—Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech—as soon as it was published. I inhaled it, reading through in a weekend. It’s one I’ve returned to, referencing & remembering throughout my career.

When she launched Active Voice, her leadership coaching company, I was excited about what it could become. I’ve just left my first event with many feelings—grateful; inspired; hopeful; energized—of what it became.