Improve your work culture with diverse teams

Monica will share her experience as a woman in tech. From once being a female college graduate that no one was likely to trust, to now being in the driving seat of key technical product development decisions, Monica has embraced so many opportunities from both a personal and professional perspective and is excited to share her journey with the audience.

The story combined with real statistics has the purpose to inspire and motivate not only women in tech, but especially the male audience. Because many of the biases are unconscious, it helps to put themselves in the shoes of a women in tech for a few minutes. We can work together on eliminating biases.

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1. Improve your work culture with diverse teams Monica Sarbu Director of Engineering, Ingest @Elastic
2. !2 Computer Science University time Start Packetbeat Packetbeat acquired by Elastic Co-founder Beats
3. Beats Logstash Stack Monitoring ECS Director of engineering, Ingest team
4. !4 Put yourself in the shoes of a women in tech
5. !5
6. !6 How does that make you feel?
7. !7 Women leaving the engineering field of engineering graduates 40% https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/female-engineers_n_5668504.html
8. !8 Why women leave tech?
9. !9 Survey on women leaving the engineering field http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ 716 interviewed 2014
10. !10 http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ 35% 251 women out of 716 interviewed 65% 465 women out of 716 interviewed Non-tech jobs Not working Women leaving tech
11. 35% 251 women out of 716 interviewed Non-tech jobs 18% 45 women out of 251 Running their own company http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Women leaving tech
12. Women leaving with no plans to return to tech 625 women out of 716 interviewed 87% http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/
13. !13 Average tenure for women leaving tech 716 interviewed 7 years http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/
14. !14 Reason to leave tech * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Workplace culture 716 Interviewers 27%
15. !15 Reason to leave tech * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Motherhood 716 Interviewers 68%
16. !16 * http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/ Stay-at-home mothers 716 Interviewers <6%
17. !17 Motherhood was just the amplifier. It made all the problems that I’d been putting up with forever actually intolerable Rebecca, a former motion graphics designer
18. !18 Why diversity matters
19. !19 Change the mentality
20. !20 It’s proven that more diverse companies are often more innovative and creative because .. Duke Energy Chief Diversity and Inclusion Office Joni Davis
21. !21 Companies with more diverse leadership teams report higher innovation revenues +19% Innovation revenue increase Source: https://www.bcg.com/en-us/publications/2018/how-diverse-leadership-teams-boost-innovation.aspx
22. !22 Growing diverse teams
23. !23 RECRUIT RETAIN ADVANCE The three areas to consider
24. !24 80 participating companies http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf 2016-2018 628,000+ technologists 150,000+ women technologists Hardware & software Business services Consulting Financial services Insurance Media Research Retail Survey from anitab.org
25. !25 Recruitment Rates Retention Rates Advancement Rates p < 0.014 significance p < 0.001 significance http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf
26. !26 RECRUIT Think about diversity from the start
27. !27 RECRUIT Gender-neutral job descriptions
28. !28 RECRUIT Enforce diverse interviewers
29. !29 RETAIN Equal pay for equal work
30. !30 Does your company have a formal pay equity policy? RETAIN http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf Formal Pay Equity Policy
31. !31 88.2% of companies with a formal pay equity policy reported that they hold themselves accountable through formal audits RETAIN http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf Formal Pay Equity Policy
32. !32 Offer Flex schedule RETAIN
33. !33 Work from home RETAIN
34. !34 ADVANCE 45% of women say they would like to become CEO or be in leadership positions
35. !35 ADVANCE Does your company have a formal leadership development programs specifically for women technologists? http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf Leadership Development
36. !36 ADVANCE Mentorship programs
37. !37 Be aware of (unconscious) bias ADVANCE
38. !38 ! This is because the subconscious brain doesn’t “speak” the same language as your conscious brain. The subconscious speaks through emotion, intuition, your gut, your instincts. ADVANCE “
39. !39 ADVANCE Unconscious bias Unconscious bias is considered a top factor in having fewer women technologists MEN 38.2% WOMEN 66.3% p < 0.001 significance http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf
40. !40 ADVANCE Men still believe the myth of meritocracy Women have fewer opportunities than man MEN 10.8% WOMEN 38.3% p < 0.001 significance http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf
41. !41 ADVANCE Does your company offer formal training programs that address the value of gender diversity and/or the barriers to achieving diverse and inclusive teams? http://anitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/top-companies-insights-report-2018.pdf Gender Diversity Training (not a stand-alone solution)
42. Thank you! @monicasarbu