Google UX + Design Leadership: Margaret Lee

3,326 views · Published 13 November 2018 · 27:48 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: Google Design · 2018 · Science & Technology

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In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews Margaret Lee, a UX director at Google, about her journey to leadership and questioning cultural diversity in the workplace. Lee shares personal vignettes—including the career stories of her immigrant parents, and stewarding the opinionated nature of her young daughter—to discuss her own path to becoming a “reluctant leader.” Listen in to hear how Lee found a healthy balance between meeting performance expectations at work and being her authentic self.

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