Virtual Fireside ~ Cultivating + Building High-Performing Lean Teams

Sienna Brown, Tracy St.Dic

Virtual Fireside ~ Cultivating + Building High-Performing Lean Teams

We've all heard it: Do more with less. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, lean teams have become the norm. Companies are striving to stay agile, efficient, and competitive, often with fewer resources. Join PowerToFly and Talent Collective for a dynamic and engaging workshop where you'll learn the secrets to building and maintaining high-performing lean teams. Hear from industry experts about attracting top talent, fostering a vibrant team culture, and maximizing productivity (while avoiding burnout). Let's learn to work smarter, not harder together!

Audience Takeaways:

Effective Talent Acquisition: Strategies to identify and attract the right talent for lean teams.
Team Cohesion and Culture: Best practices for fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
Productivity Optimization: Techniques to maximize productivity and efficiency within lean team structures from AI to project management.
Avoid Burnout: Learn work-life integration tips to keep your team happy & healthy

Meet The Speakers

Sienna Brown

Head of Growth

Sienna J. Brown is a visionary Leadership Strategist and Global Speaker with over a decade of experience partnering with global leaders and institutions. As the Head of Growth at PowerToFly, a scaling Series-B start-up, Brown drives innovation and expansion.

Throughout her career, Brown has been instrumental in helping organizations gain investment while prioritizing diverse talent. Her expertise lies in developing strategic programming to enable, elevate, and re-energize leaders to guide organizational transformation. Brown's approach focuses on redefining work through inclusion, impact, influence, and integrity.

Previously, as Sr. Director of DEIB at PowerToFly, Brown built a department from the ground up, delivering strategic learning and development programs that increased employee engagement and advocacy in over 50+ global organizations.

Her work has gained recognition on platforms such as Forbes, TedX, Insider, CNN, and NPR. Brown collaborates with organizations to create transformative strategies that secure employee, consumer, and financial investment while staying true to their vision and values.

Tracy St.Dic

Global Head of Talent at Zapier

Tracy St.Dic (she/her) is the Global Head of Talent at Zapier, a no-code automation platform. Leading a brilliant global team, she oversees talent acquisition, talent intelligence, sourcing, employer branding, diversity partnerships, internal mobility, and executive talent planning. She is committed to building inclusive and high-performing teams, and is obsessed with talent density, T-shaped talent, and why automation may be key to both.

Before Zapier, Tracy’s career was in education non-profit. She taught for two years as a kindergartner teacher through Teach For America (TFA), and eventually joined TFA’s recruitment team as a recruiter on the West Coast. She served as Senior Vice President of Recruitment at Teach For America, with her 200+ team fueling the most diverse teacher pipeline in the country - supporting thousands of teachers a year to teach in low-income, high-need schools.

Tracy holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MS in Education from Pace University. She are passionate about arts access in low-income communities, systems change in public education, and organizational diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. Outside work, she enjoys redeeming points for travel, live theatre, wine-tasting, cooking, and being a mom to two daughters.