Build High Performing Teams with TRUST

Hosted by Anita Yuen and Mo Fong

77 students

What you'll learn

Learn the #1 predictor of team success

Learn and implement a tested technique to make your team members feel safe to speak up, share ideas, and take risks.

How to deal with decision ambiguity

Learn the decision protocol that greatly reduces meeting time and clarifies how decisions get made in your team.

Build alignment that lasts

Discover how to create the three levels of team alignment for achieving greater performance.

Get a preview of the TRUST framework

Learn how addressing both human and structural elements at multiple levels is critical for team building.

Why this topic matters

In today's businesses, individual talent isn't enough. Studies show high-performing teams deliver 21% greater profitability, yet 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional. The difference between struggling and exceptional teams isn't about having the right people - it's about creating the right conditions. This session will help you create the conditions for sustainable high performing team.

You'll learn from

Anita Yuen

Product Executive |Ex-Google & Microsoft

Anita is a product management executive with extensive experience driving innovation and growth across tech industry leaders and startups. Her career includes product leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, and various startups.

Over 17 years at Google, Anita built impactful consumer and business products across multiple divisions including Google Search, Maps, Shopping, and Kids & Families. She led high-performing product and marketing teams, developed successful leadership programs, and served on hiring and promotion committees to invest in top talent. Anita was a 3-time executive award recipient and received two prestigious Webby awards.

Currently, Anita coaches emerging leaders and provides strategic advisory services to early-stage companies.

Anita holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where she was also a Mayfield Fellow. She also holds a AI Product Management certificate from Duke University.

Mo Fong

Stanford Adj Lecturer | Ex-Google/PayPal

Mo’s extensive coaching and consulting practice focuses on assessing and rooting out destructive friction and to navigate challenges with greater agility. She has experience in building effective teams, leading through crisis and change management, and scaling for excellence.

Mo is an adjunct lecturer with Stanford Management Science and Engineering and is a leadership coach at Harvard Business School. Mo has served as the ED at STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15 years at Google as a Sr. Director leading global teams in Google Technical Solutions, Financial Operations and People Operations. Mo is the founder of Friction Fixers, dedicated to making work better by rooting out destructive organizational friction while planting good friction. She is also the founder of LeiFongCoaching, LLC and is the President and founding member of the Asian Women Coaching Collective

Stanford University: BS, ChemE and MA, Edu, Harvard Business School, MBA

Current / Previously at

Google
Microsoft
PayPal
Stanford University
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