🧑‍🏫 How skilled coaches can help underrepresented leaders break through ceilings - with Holly Chen, founder of Ceiling Breakers, formerly at Slack & Google ⚒️

The Mobile User Acquisition Show

In today’s episode, we take a detour from growth marketing into professional growth with Holly Chen. Holly is a digital marketer and growth advisor, consulting with companies on how to unlock scale and establish growth strategies. She was on our podcast earlier this year - on one of our more insightful episodes to date, where she spoke of how she helped Slack set up cross channel attribution to reverse a declining growth trajectory on mobile.
But today we are talking about Holly’s new project, Ceiling Breakers, a group coaching program for people from underrepresented communities to accelerate their careers into leadership roles. Holly talks about what inspired Ceiling Breakers and how she has been personally impacted by working with leading edge coaches. She outlines why and how guided introspection in the presence of a skilled coach can enable underrepresented leaders to embrace their authentic identities - and step into their power as leaders. This is a fascinating episode on how powerful guided reflection can be in breaking down systemic barriers to diversity.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS

🥳 Introducing Ceiling Breakers
🕯️ Why inspired Holly to start her coaching initiative
🔗 The link between a growth mindset and leadership
🧩 Characteristics of a growth mindset
🔭 Understanding the larger context of work
✊🏿 How the BLM movement galvanized uncomfortable conversations
🧑‍🏫 The power of leadership coaching
👔 There is more to work than work
🤹🏻 Skills are only a fraction of what makes up work
⛔ 3 obstacles faced by underrepresented communities in the workplace
🙃 How people overcorrect to battle stereotypes
👬🏾 Why having a like role model is linked to adopting a leadership style
🌿 One leadership style doesn’t fit all
🗣️ How to deal with the negative inner voices
🧺 The wide buffet that is the coaching space
📚 Reading about leadership doesn’t prepare you for a trigger moment
☯️ Below the line vs above the line leadership
👀 How coaches encourage a different perspective
🦋 Work and life are both impacted by deep personal changes
🧑‍💻 Why coaches from the same industry understand issues better
➿ The two-fold advantage of group coaching
🧱 The importance of building a community
💪 How to embrace your diversity as a strength
💬 Hearing others’ stories builds empathy
📝 How it is possible to learn from observing coaching in practice
Check out the show notes here: https://mobileuseracquisitionshow.com/episode/how-skilled-coaches-can-help-underrepresented-leaders-break-through-ceilings-with-holly-chen-founder-of-ceiling-breakers-formerly-at-slack-google/
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