S3 | Episode 172: Aligning Leadership, HR, & DevOps with Duena Blomstrom, People Before Tech

About the Episode

Today we’re going to talk about the gap between leadership, HR, and DevOps in many organizations, and how aligning them can bring better results to both the individuals within the organization, as well as the success of the organization as a whole. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Duena Blomstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, People Not Tech and author of the book “People Before Tech” to her second time on this show. Duena - welcome back to the show!

About Duena Blomstrom

"HumanDebt™ is the equivalent to Technical Debt but for people. All of the initiative, the projects, the intentions we (the organisation) had to do better by them, but we abandoned halfway. All of the missed opportunities to make their lives and their work easier and more joyful. All of the empty talk on equality, respect, lack of blame, courage and trust. All of the missing talk on teams. All of the lack of preoccupation or resources for building better team dynamics. All of the toxic culture that comes from it. That’s Human Debt. - The answer to it: Psychologically Safe teams."

Duena is the author of “Emotional Banking” and “People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age”. She is a doer, an entrepreneur, an industry influencer, a blogger with cutting edge opinion style, a writer for Forbes, an international keynote speaker and the creator of the Emotional Banking™ and Human Debt™ concepts. Over the past 20 years, Duena has worked with multiple large organizations be it to assist them in their digital strategy or to help them transform. With a background in Psychology as well as Business, Duena is on a crusade to see lasting change in this VUCA world, to help companies avail themselves of Agile and the new ways of work and bring humanity back to the workplace. Today, Duena is the Co-Founder and CEO of PeopleNotTech -a company designing a revolutionary team software solution measuring and increasing Psychological Safety for high performing teams.

Duena writes a weekly LinkedIn Newsletter on "Chasing Psychological Safety" on Mondays and Tuesdays and one on "The Future is Agile" about the Future Of Work and #Agile on Wednesdays to an audience of 110k+ subscribers.

Duena Blomstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, People Not Tech