Shannon Deegan ‘87 Senior Director, Google Psychology and Political Science

In this episode, I’m joined by Shannon Deegan, Senior Director of Google to share his career journey - from a professional hockey career cut short to advising the Prime Minister of Canada, to his current role managing one of Google's biggest projects in finding and creating innovative workspaces for its employees.

This interview really hit me differently - Shannon has held leadership roles at one of the best companies in the world, with very high-level responsibilities.

And do you know what we talk about the most on this episode? Empathy. Being a good human. Kindness.

Sometimes there is a perception of needing an aggressive “get ahead at the expense of others” mentality to succeed, but there is a strong movement of emotional intelligence proving otherwise, and Shannon really embodies that.

If I still haven't sold you on this episode yet, Shannon talks about how he used to have to send Larry Page an e-mail of all the proposed new hires before offers were finalized. He shares exactly what Larry Page looked for in reviewing those candidates.

Does it get any better than that?