Addressing Burnout in Your Engineering Org with Erica Lockheimer, Sabry Tozin & Lori Allen #66

The Engineering Leadership Podcast

This conversation is about BURNOUT! You’ll hear holistic perspectives to help you identify the causes, conditions, & early indicators of burnout. Plus organizational & individual practices to address & become resilient to burnout with Sabry Tozin (VPE @ LinkedIn), Lori Allen (VP HR @ LinkedIn), & Erica Lockheimer (VPE, LinkedIn Talent Solutions, LinkedIn Learning & Glint @ LinkedIn).

About Erica Lockheimer

Erica Lockheimer is VP of Engineering, Talent Solutions, Learning, and Glint @ LinkedIn. During her more than 10 years at the company, she built the Growth Engineering team into a high-performing 120-person team, focused on increasing membership, and deepening member engagement. In January 2018, she was promoted to Head of Engineering for the LinkedIn Learning team, formerly known as Lynda.com.

She is also responsible for LinkedIn’s Women In Tech (WIT) initiative, which is focused on empowering women in technical roles at the company. Prior to LinkedIn, she worked at Good Technology as Director of Server Engineering to securely manage and synchronize e-mail and calendar data between Exchange and mobile devices. Erica loves the challenge of starting with something nascent and carving out the right strategy, hiring the best people, and plotting a course to drive results. In 2014 and 2015, Erica was recognized as one of the top 22 women engineers in the world by Business Insider.

About Sabry Tozin

Sabry Tozin is the Vice President of Enterprise Productivity Engineering at LinkedIn. In this capacity, Sabry leads the organization that powers the productivity of LinkedIn employees through innovative, scalable, and secure information technology solutions. Before joining LinkedIn, Sabry held engineering leadership roles at Netflix and IGN Entertainment. He’s a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley.

About Lori Allen

Lori is a Speaker and Coach and serves as VP of Human Resources, Engineering for LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s Mission is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce which aligns to Lori’s personal goal of helping others reach their full potential.

She has spent the last 20+ years as an HR Leader responsible for designing talent strategies and partnering with Executives to drive business results. Lori is passionate about Diversity Inclusion and belonging and was named in the 2018 list of women worth watching in the Profiles in Diversity Journal.

Originally from Wichita, Kansas, she graduated from the University of Kansas with a BA and later received a master’s degree from Webster University. Lori has resided in the Bay area for the past 20+ years and has had the privilege of working

Shownotes

• Burnout in Q1-2021 & what caused LinkedIn to take a company-wide week off (3:31)
• Are patterns of burnout repeating with the new covid variant? (7:59)
• What are the causes, conditions, & indicators of burnout in engineering orgs? (12:19)
• How to detect & identify the early signs of burnout in your engineering team (19:14)
• Favorite non-invasive "how are you doing" questions to get better signal from your engineering team (23:47)
• How to build resilience against burnout by leveraging Lencioni’s “First Team Concept” (31:01)
• Conversation framework for internal mobility (36:44)
• Erica, Lori & Sabry’s personal practices to prevent burnout (40:29)
• What do you admire most about working with each other? (42:31)
• Takeaways (44:59)

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