Jennifer Dulski, Founder and CEO of Rising Team, joins the Ask A CEO Podcast. Jennifer shares her twenty-five-plus years of leadership and management journey, the tips on creating the right equation between the leader and the team members, and how Rising Team helps leaders and organizations grow.
Key Facts
- Jennifer’s LinkedIn
- Rising Team’s website
- Jennifer has more than 25 years of experience in leadership and team building
- Jennifer is a former Founder and Executive Director of Summerbridge Pittsburgh
- Jennifer is a former Group VP/General Manager of Yahoo,
- Jennifer is a former CEO and Co-Founder at The Dealmap, acquired by Google
- Jennifer is a former Global Head of Product Management at Google
- Jennifer is a former President and COO at Change
- Jennifer has served as a board member at Little Passports, TEGNA, and Move
- Jennifer is a Lecturer in Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- Rising Team empowers managers to level up their leadership and build more engaged, connected, and successful teams
- Rising Team raised $3 million seed funds in 2021, led by a Female Founder Fund
Key Takeaways
- After completing her MBA from Cornell University in 1993, Jennifer founded Summerbridge Pittsburgh, with the aim of helping middle school students with their career counseling
- Throughout her career as a leadership and management expert, Jennifer has worked with various renowned brands such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Change, The Dealmap, and Little Passports, handling various key roles/positions
- She started Rising Team in 2020, with a mission of empowering managers to level up their leadership to build more engaged, connected, and successful teams
- Rising Team offers first of its kind subscription tool, LeaderKit, for the managers to enable them to engage with the employees and create an effective working environment
- LeaderKit provides a complete package of interactive sessions, coaching, discussions, and team-building workshops on the monthly subscription
- LeaderKit toolkit is particularly designed to keep remote and hybrid work environments in consideration
- LeaderKit offers a monthly subscription to boost your leadership acumen and skillset that helps you in managing large teams
- Jennifer believes that the leaders who ignite their team member’s potential to grow, build great teams, and serve as a change agent
- Jennifer says that teams make work fun for you. “Right equation between the leader and the team members bring wonders to life”
- Rising Team provides proprietary assessments and tools that are fully backed by science and data. Jennifer admits to having practiced these tools for more than two decades at various responsible positions. She shares that her learning started from the National Champion Crew Coxswain, which was the time when she learned some valuable lessons on training teams to be goal-oriented.
- Jennifer believes that regardless of the results “a leader should be well connected with the teams, and listen to their queries to be a part of the game”
Jennifer’s advice for CEOs
“Courage, Community and Commitment ”
Jennifer advises organization leaders and CEOs to have the courage to take the first step for what they believe, know your community, care for them, and stick to your commitment, no matter what difficulty comes your way.
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About Creating Future Leaders with Jennifer Dulski, Founder and CEO of Rising Team
Jennifer is a CEO & Founder at Rising Team, Board member, and Bestselling author of Purposeful. She has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups. Dulski writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, Forbes, and Huffington Post and serves as a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.