Ancestry’s CEO on how women can get ahead even when the playing field isn’t level

The trio also discuss Liu’s book, Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work. The book guides women on ways to get around workplace obstacles on the way to getting ahead. Liu credits Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta and author of Lean In, for helping nudge her toward the career she has today. Does Liu think anything has changed for women in the workplace between the publication of Sandberg’s Lean In and her own book? It’s all in the podcast.

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Transcript

Alan Murray: Leadership Next is powered by the folks at Deloitte who, like me, are exploring the changing rules of business leadership and how CEOs are navigating this change.

Welcome to Leadership Next, the podcast about the changing rules of business leadership. I’m Alan Murray.

Michal Lev-Ram: And I’m Michal Lev-Ram.

Murray: So Michal, today’s guest is someone that you suggested we invite on the show, Deb Liu, who became CEO of Ancestry in 2021. What is it about Deb that made you think she’d be a good guest for Leadership Next?

Lev-Ram: Well, I think Deb has always been a really thoughtful leader when she was at Facebook as well. And she’s someone who’s comfortable kind of talking about her own path. She’s really come into her own. And I think just a comfort with sort of telling her story and being vulnerable and not necessarily knowing all the…