Rising - Conversations with Leaders On Their Way Up

Marsha Askins is the Chief of Staff for UBS Global Wealth Management and UBS Americas with an extensive 35-year background in financial services. In this episode, she discusses how her current position is a compilation of everything she’s done in her career, from starting as a systems analyst right out of school in the back office of a bond department to working in major banks, and a startup. Marsha shares defining leadership skills she’s learned through the years such as listening and understanding employees as they could be the best or worst advocates for a firm.

Top Picks:

Marsha:
1) Video clips on  https://www.themakersconference.com/
2) The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table, by Minda Harts
3) Being Black in Corporate America by the Center for Talent Innovation, a nonprofit group

Maddie:
Think Dirty App

Josh
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata