Hilary Gridley

“So at its core, when I say take a punch, what I mean is you're going to run into situations where something has gone wrong. Maybe you have misstepped. Maybe you are just hearing someone speak critical...”

“It's a very physical feeling. And I think as managers, you spend a lot of time teaching your team how to be successful. You want to prepare them to maximize the chances of good outcome. But if you don...”

“And I did some research very, very quickly on what are some emerging public health concerns that people really aren't talking about that would be interesting to track? And I found some interesting res...”

“I challenge it and I say, "First of all, I don't think there's evidence for that. Is there evidence for that? And even if there is, it doesn't really matter. What's something that you could do to show...”

“Let yourself have the pity party, let yourself feel those things, but then you got to move on as quickly as possible because those feelings, they actually do tend to spiral and get worse if you're not...”

“I want to help them, A, see that, see the ways they are in some ways sabotaging themselves, getting in their own ways with whatever is going on in their head. And then I want to help them counter-prog...”

“I know there's a ton of people out there doing really, really important work in really, really hard spaces, and I see you and I appreciate it and shout out to you.”

“And it makes things super inefficient. I think people will often say like, "Oh, it's a process problem." It's not a process problem. It's not approval problem. I think it's a transparency and it's com...”

“I feel like this is just making me sound like a crazy force.”

“Yeah, I think that's true. And if you disagree with it, you probably shouldn't be working at that company.”

“And I do think that's exactly where the people in the rank and file can be tremendously influential. It's that level of, "I'm going to fight with you about how the world's going to work in five years,...”

“And I think, to your point about pushing back, because you asked about this. Again, I never want it to sound like I'm just defeatist, "just accept it." I'm a very opinionated person.”