Episode 67: Leading with Love - Odessa Jenkins

Send us Fan MailFeatured on Fox, CBS, ESPN, Yahoo Sports and more, Odessa "OJ" Jenkins is a sports disrupter and known leadership expert who was also named one of the most influential and powerful women in sports by Sports Illustrated. She co-founded women's national tackle football league, is the first female owner (and coach) of a national sports team and the winningest female football coach in football history. In addition to her sports background, she recently took a position as one of Silicon Valley's only openly gay, black female presidents of a technology company, Emtrain, that is helping to improve diversity, equity & inclusion programs among Fortune 500 companies.Prior to Emtrain, she served as head of business development for Parity, and VP of operations at YourCause, a start-up that helped to revolutionize the CSR industry. An in-demand national speaker, Jenkins is a recognized market leader in CSR, DE&I, Team Dynamics, and SAAS technology with multiple years of leadership experience in private funded start-ups, joint ventures and Fortune 100 public companies. Football was OJ's shield growing up and her ticket out of central L.A., where her brother was murdered by gangs when OJ was just 11. From that point on, she lived by the motto, "create opportunities where none exist before your life is over". That motto has served her throughout her professional and personal life, and its one to be shared with your audience. We discuss How to lead from love while holding people accountableHow to breakdown workplace inequitiesWhy leading with your "why" is critical to future successCreating champions of your people OJ is a female football Hall of Famer, a 5X National Champion, 2X USA National Team captain, 2X Gold Medalist and was named the world's leading running back by FIFA in 2013. Odessa’s Profilelinkedin.com/in/odessajenkinsTwitterOJENKINS3Rebel HR is a podcast for HR professionals and leaders of people who are ready to make some disruption in the world of work.We'll be discussing topics that are disruptive to the world of work and talk about new and different ways to approach solving those problems.Follow Rebel HR Podcast at:www.rebelhumanresources.comhttps://twitter.com/rebelhrguyhttps://www.facebook.com/rebelhrpodcastwww.kyleroed.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-roed/Rebel ON, HR Rebels!  Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showRebel HR is a podcast for HR professionals and leaders of people who are ready to make some disruption in the world of work.  Please connect to continue the conversation! https://twitter.com/rebelhrguyhttps://www.facebook.com/rebelhrpodcasthttp://www.kyleroed.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-roed/