Breaking leadership barriers with hockey coach Jessica Campbell

I never ever dreamt of being the first in a space where I've always been part of this game. I've been on fantastic all-girls teams. I've had men's coaches. I've had women's coaches. I was the only girl on an all-boys team.

I've always saw myself belonging in hockey, but I never really understood what I was doing until I was standing behind an NHL. bench in a space no woman had held before and I felt this flood of emotion and pressure and responsibility to do something good with it. Hey everyone it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast with Ted on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist.

I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. Jessica Campbell is a hockey coach with the Seattle Kraken. She's the first full-time female assistant coach in NHL history to work behind the bench, and her approach to the game has been a winning combination for the teams and players she's coached. When you're often in a room or on a team where no one looks like you, That difference is an edge and it's perspective, its input, its skill, its different lived experience.

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