UNCONVENTIONAL HUSTLE: Career, Community and Creating Impact with Sydney Piggott

Sydney is a social impact leader, researcher, and advocate for gender equity and social justice on a global scale. She is currently the Senior Social Impact Manager at Shopify where she champions education programs for underrepresented youth in tech and entrepreneurship with partners around the world.

Before joining Shopify, she held leadership positions at Elevate and YWCA Canada. She is also a member of the Equal Futures Network Advisory Committee and the Reach Alliance Advisory Council. Sydney brings an intersectional feminist lens to all her work informed by her proud Afro-Caribbean heritage. She recently co-authored a chapter on financial inclusion in a book called Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies: A Behavioral Lens.

In this episode we discuss:
💸 The incredible role models that helped shape her social justice path
💸 The surprising moment she realized she could make a career in social impact
💸 The wide range of roles that you might not expect to be fundamentally 'impact focussed'
💸 Misconceptions that can actually hinder progress if context isn't factored into the impact equation
💸 The role her worst bosses played in shaping her unique and intersectional leadership style
💸 What you must understand to successfully work across diverse contexts and teams
💸 Why traditional academia can be considered anti-innovation and outdated
💸 What she learned administering and 'technolog-izing' cash transfer programs in various countries
💸 How she really 'does it all' having a full time job, authoring research papers, speaking tours and community mentoring

You can find Sydney and her book at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneypiggott/
X: https://twitter.com/sydneypiggott
Book: https://a.co/d/0GdPgQo

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