Who's the boss? Being brown and female in leadership

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Zaina Orbai, Chief People Officer at The Real Real. The RealReal is the leader in authenticated luxury consignment sales and we talk about how they are disrupting the luxury retail industry, a space that is the epitome of exclusion by making luxury retail items more accessible. Zaina is someone that I have known and admired for a very long time. She is a fellow brown female leader and someone I can always trust in a sea of white male leaders. We talk about how her role as a HR leader takes on different forms in different situations and the importance of being flexible and listening so that you can meet the needs of that individual at that moment. Zaina is someone that does equity work as part of the business and not just as a percentage of her time, and it makes a huge difference when people at any company actually care about the holistic view of the company from a 'human as an asset' perspective as opposed to revenue first. We hope you enjoy this episode. Check out The Real Real to find out more, they are hiring too in case you're in the market. Find out more about our work with the Race Equ(al)ity Project on our website .

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Who's the boss? Being brown and female in leadership is an episode from Equality Matters by The Race Equ(al)ity Project.

This episode is 00:58:23 long.

This episode was published on Apr 30, 2021.

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