Presentation Slides from Leanne Pittsford, Founder, Lesbians Who TechLesbians Who Tech SF Summit 2016 #LWTSUMMIT How Your Badass Leadership Betters the World ♦ If The World Were More Like Lesbians Who Tech the World Would Be a Better Place ♦ Our X Factor ♦ Four Values ♦ Every Great Leader Should Have ♦ Where No One Can Lose Their Job Because of Their Sexuality or Gender Identity. ♦ Where Women Make More Than ♦ Where Transgender Women of Color Are Not Being Murdered ♦ Where Our Congress Actually Reflects the People That Live in This Country ♦ I Want to Live in A World Where There Is A Black Lesbian President ♦ Are We On the Same Page? ♦ Take Big Risks ♦ Visionary Leaders Take Big Risks ♦ Without Risk There Is No Progress ♦ Everyday Risks ♦ Asking Someone for Coffee ♦ Hiring Someone Based On Potential ♦ We Have to Take Risks and Invest In Women, LGBTQ People, People Of Color, Trans People ♦ There Will Always Be More White, Straight, Cis Men in Power…Until There Are Not ♦ Experiment ♦ Assumptions ♦ I Thought Lesbians Who Tech Would Fail ♦ Do Lesbians in Tech Exist #LWTSUMMIT // Do Lesbians in Tech Exist ♦ Start Small ♦ What You Learn Through Experimentation Is 100x More Valuable Than Any Strategic Plan ♦ #SHOWUP ♦ Great Leaders Show Up for One Another. Period. ♦ If We Want That World We Are Working So Hard to Create We Have to Show Up for Women, For Transgender People, For People of Color, For LGBTQ We Have to Show Up for Women, For Transgender People, For People of Color, For LGBTQ ♦ Let’s Add Gender & Racial Equality to The Gay Agenda ♦ We Have to #SHOWUP for Ourselves ♦ Do Not Opt Out ♦ #GIVEFIRST ♦ $100,000 ♦ What Are You Going to Do to Create the World You Want to See? ♦ What Kind of Leader Will You Be? ♦ #TAKEARISK #EXPERIMENT #SHOWUP #GIVEFIRST ♦

1. HOW YOUR BADASS
LEADERSHIP BETTERS
THE WORLD

2. @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

3. IF THE WORLD WERE
MORE LIKE LESBIANS WHO
TECH THE WORLD WOULD
BE A BETTER PLACE

4. OUR X FACTOR

5. FOUR VALUES
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

6. EVERY GREAT LEADER
SHOULD HAVE

7. WHERE NO ONE CAN
LOSE THEIR JOB BECAUSE
OF THEIR SEXUALITY OR
GENDER IDENTITY.

8. WHERE WOMEN MAKE
MORE THAN

9. WHERE TRANSGENDER
WOMEN OF COLOR ARE
NOT BEING MURDERED

10. WHERE OUR CONGRESS
ACTUALLY REFLECTS THE
PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THIS
COUNTRY

11. I WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD
WHERE THERE IS A BLACK
LESBIAN PRESIDENT

12. ARE WE ON THE
SAME PAGE

13. TAKE BIG RISKS
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

14. VISIONARY LEADERS
TAKE BIG RISKS

15. @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

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18. WITHOUT RISK THERE IS
NO PROGRESS

19. EVERYDAY RISKS

20. ASKING SOMEONE
FOR COFFEE

21. HIRING SOMEONE
BASED ON POTENTIAL

22. WE HAVE TO TAKE RISKS
AND INVEST IN
ü WOMEN
ü LGTBQ PEOPLE
ü PEOPLE OF COLOR
ü TRANSGENDER PEOPLE

23. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE
MORE WHITE, STRAIGHT,
CIS MEN IN POWER UNTIL
THERE IS NOT

24. @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

25. EXPERIMENT
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

26. ASSUMPTIONS

27. I THOUGHT
LESBIANS WHO TECH
WOULD FAIL

28. DO LESBIANS IN TECH EXIST
#LWTSUMMIT // @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford
DO LESBIANS IN TECH EXIST

29. START SMALL
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

30. WHAT YOU LEARN
THROUGH
EXPERIMENTATION IS
100X MORE VALUABLE
THAN ANY
STRATGETIC PLAN

31. #SHOWUP
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

32. GREAT LEADERS
SHOWUP FOR ONE
ANOTHER. PERIOD.

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34. @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

35. @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

36. IF WE WANT THAT WORLD WE
ARE WORKING SO HARD TO
CREATE
WE HAVE TO SHOW UP
FOR WOMEN,
FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE,
FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR,
FOR LGBQT
WE HAVE TO SHOW UP
FOR WOMEN,
FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE,
FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR,
FOR LGBQT

37. LET’S ADD GENDER &
RACIAL EQUALITY TO
THE GAY AGENDA

38. WE HAVE TO #SHOWUP
FOR OURSELVES
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

39. @lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

40. DO NOT OPT OUT
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

41. #GIVEFIRST
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

42. $100,000
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford

43. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO
DO TO CREATE THE WORLD
YOU WANT TO SEE

44. WHAT KIND OF LEADER
WILL YOU BE

45. #TAKEARISK
#EXPERIMENT
#SHOWUP
#GIVEFIRST
@lepitts // @lepittsFounder, Leanne Pittsford