Lean Out with Marissa Orr

Orr suggests understanding your main character. There are many ways you can “lean out,” and they aren’t all what you think: The greater your self-awareness, the greater your ability to know what you need and want from your career as well as choose which stories to believe. “Lean out” doesn’t mean quit your job, reduce your ambition or lower your standards. It means leaning out of anyone else’s story of who you should be, what your career should look like or how you measure success. “Lean out” means to reject dogma and rhetoric. Define your success on your terms. 2 By Rachael Romig Senior Director of Events & Special Programs, Greater Reading Chamber Alliance

Find Your Dream Home! Lean Out with

W2W Evening of Empowerment Keynote Speaker

Marissa Orr is a former Google and Facebook executive as well as a bestselling author and leadership speaker. She spent 15 years working at today’s top tech giants and she has conducted talks for thousands of people in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, at companies and universities such as Google, Twitter, Pace University, New School, American Express and more. Originally from Miami, Orr received her Master’s degree in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida. Her best-selling book, Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace, was released by HarperCollins Leadership in June of 2019. Based on in-depth research and personal experiences, Lean Out follows the journey of Orr, a single mom of three trying to find success in her career at the world’s top tech giants. In an eye-opening account, Orr exposes the systemic dysfunction at the heart of today’s most powerful corporations and how their pursuit to close the gender gap has come at the expense of female well-being. Lean Out provides a new and refreshingly candid perspective on what it’s really like for today’s corporate underdogs while challenging modern feminist rhetoric and debunking the philosophy that suggests everyone has to be the same in order to be equal. Follow Marissa on Twitter and Instagram @marissabethorr and on Medium @marissaorr.