# Kerry Ann King on Rethinking Productivity, Culture Lessons from Google, and Decolonizing Tech

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Podcast: [Forward-Looking Leadership](https://stenobird.com/podcast/forward-looking-leadership-6473861)
Published: 2024-09-10T17:31:24+00:00
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## Resource

Kerry Ann King (eluminatelabs.com [https://eluminatelabs.com/]), Founder and CEO of Eluminate Labs, joins host Dan Freehling (contempusleadership.com [https://www.contempusleadership.com/]). Kerry Ann explains the background behind her company's debut offering, Fin, an app designed to help users understand their productivity style and break the cycle of productivity-related anxiety. She also shares her insights from her time with Google on corporate culture change. Kerry Ann emphasizes decolonizing tech and the need for a shift in corporate culture and government policy to protect workers and promote wellbeing. Kerry Ann and Dan also discuss building a global remote team based on mutual respect and collaboration, leadership lessons from the arts, the value of incorporating diverse perspectives and methodologies in technology development, and more. Recommended reading: The "Poldark" series by Winston Graham, "Decolonizing Philosophy of Technology: Learning from Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Decolonial Technical Design" by Cristiano Codeiro Cruz, "Kaandossiwin" by Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe). Show notes at forwardlookingleadership.com [https://forwardlookingleadership.com].

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