Me too. I’ve been part of a layoff this year. Six months after the event, with more distance, it still feels a little bitter. Why? Why are we taking it personally and emotionally when we are let go? As a Team and Studio Lead, I have been more often in…

I used to think of money in a negative way. As a woman, it is bad to talk about money, it is bad to have money. It is unnatural and unfamiliar. Why is that? For a long time, women didn’t have the financial autonomy to even be in a place…

When I think about talent sourcing and mapping, I think first about the missed opportunities of not having a diverse workforce, and why we see such a gap in our industry. Last month, Women In Games published the “Women In Games Guide: Building A Player Field”, a detailed report with…

In a previous post, I wrote about what you can and cannot control as the Team Lead. So, what exactly do you need to focus on? Your biggest area of impact is the Team As a team lead, it’s tempting to want to control everything but the most impactful area is the team. Team Structure and Evolution I…

I often ask other leaders in my podcast interviews: “What keeps you up at night?” When I ask myself this question, I cannot think of anything but “How do I keep my team together on our mission to create something bigger than ourselves?” This question keeps me busy all the…

This article is the text transcript of the episode#07 of Rise and Play podcast. You can listen to the episode here. Today is a special episode as I decided to self-record a reflective episode about my Calling — My Why — behind Rise and Play. …

Sophie Vo, Studio & Game Lead at Voodoo, shares her key lessons from building up Voodoo’s new studio in Berlin — It goes without saying that building up a brand new games studio is a complex task. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing in the last year or so — building a new studio at Voodoo in Berlin. What went well according to the plan? What didn’t go well? What would…