Debbie Millman: Rose, let's talk a little bit about your origin story.You grew up in Santa Clara Pueblo, surrounded by generations of artists and thinkers.
Thank you so much for having me. Debbie , thank you for that wonderful, warm introduction.Great pleasure to be here.
Don't bring people down. Debbie Downer, we catch people's bad or whatever the case is.But it is actually verifiable.
But I said, I'm going to die if she gets breast cancer. Debbie was determined to find a way to test her daughter, Jordan, but her husband was adamantly opposed.And now she agrees with him.
And then we started newspapers. Debbie Anderson. Yes. And it turns out it's the same person that I had e-mailed previously, but I didn't get far with her,
And so I'm really pleased to have her here to talk a little bit about both. Debbie is a Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women in Leadership Emerita-- she doesn't look retired, but she is-- and a distinguished research fellowat the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons School of Management.
She's also an adjunct professor at INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France. Debbie runs women's executive leadership programs for places like Time Warner and Deloitte and Deutsche Bank.And using what she's observed about executives there in these leadership programs, Debbie has integrated those stories into this book.
I'm your lawyer. And this woman looked at me. Debbie looked at me.And she said, so you basically want me to tell you all of the most humiliating horrible things that have ever happened to me in my entire life
to Hugh Hefner. [Long pause, video shows new slide titled "Three epochs porn" with bulleted points listed and an image of the VCR box for the movie "Debbie Does Dallas"] Um, so that of course, that whole market developed. And that is how we got to the home entertainment era, which kind of started with PT BN, the VCR. The VCR is probably the best example in the history of porn technology. It is not
But there was a deeper reason, and it was one that I wasn't really willing to talk about. But Debbie 's case and representing her was an important transformative experience for me, and I'll step back for a moment and just say, I'm happy to be back on the west coast.
to bring down the swelling on her cheekbone on her face so she could be presentable. And Debbie , my client, looked at me like you're not my lawyer. You're like me. What's going on here?
wire. And that was my first moment of talking about the experiences that I'd had in the second half of my childhood. And Debbie after that said, I felt in that day that we were like a couple of war veterans and that we were rolling up our sleeves to compare our scars-- both figurative and literal-- and that's when I trusted you.
- So it's not just HR, it's just this managerial class where it's like Bob from this department has to schedule a meeting with John from this department and Debbie . like, they have to have a meeting 2 1/2 weeks from now.
And this hence, the name of broken heart syndrome. So when Debbie Reynolds died just after Carrie Fisher, her daughter, died. But other things dancing, marriages, affair, even things
So does anybody play accordion in here? I know Debbie was saying there are some-- yeah, OK, wow. All right. That's more than most, usually.
And she has a BRCA mutation. So this is Debbie , right after she found out via ultrasound that she was having a daughter I came out saying, oh, my god, what if she gets breast cancer?
But-- not really. We're acting like we are. I'm Debbie Bial. I run the Posse Foundation. I'm Lani Guinier, and I'm a law professor who is very fond of the Posse Foundation.
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, If we abandoned Debbie , if we didn't keep up with her case, there was no one who was going to step forward and help her.
He's written a bunch of western novels that did pretty well. That versus finding Debbie -- the little girl.
impression I'm telling you that because it's a real possibility after this A Chorus of anxious voices crackled through the speaker Senator Debbie stabenau urged that if the president was going to send such a tough message he ought to couple it with a strong statement of support for the Auto industry Senator Leven beseeched him not to use a broad brush in criticizing the companies and to
And it's just been so wonderful to see people just be able to interact outside of being represented in this two-dimensional profile that is so easy to just swipe Nobody wants to date a Debbie Downer.
And then we started newspapers. And then when we talked to Debbie Anderson, so he said there's one person who could help us write the proposal, which is Michael Everson.
And then the first thing Debbie asked so how many golf balls fit into a-- and I was like wait.
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, including revelations that not only was Debbie legally innocent and she had this battered woman's defense, but she was actually factually innocent, didn't do the killing
Sylvia Lafair: That's good and Debbie Ford's work is really good.
It's again, soul-drenching to like, be excited, show up, and now you hit this wall of paperwork. Like you have to wait for John and Debbie and I forgot the third guy's name that I imagined in my head, to have a meeting. And then you kinda slow down and you disappear in terms of that fire, that passion
or whatever, one was Debbie Fields of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
And for some reason, Debbie reached out to me and asked would I host this particular talk of Authors at Google.
I wouldn't be where I am without people like Debbie Myers from the Science Channel.
You know, everyone knows Debbie .
And for me that was an extraordinary musician and teacher named Debbie Friedman, of Blessed Memory.
OK, Debbie . All right, thanks.
And one of the things that we cover there is leadership and a lot of things around gender, also negotiations. So I've had the privilege of having Debbie as a lecturer for my course. And so my class actually ranges from people who are politicians, like there's a mayor of a small town in Connecticut,
And for those of you who don't know much about Simmons, the center is actually funded by the Ford Foundation. From 1991 to '94, Debbie was executive director of the Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School. And she currently is a senior fellow of that program, where she co-directs the negotiations at the Workplace Project.
But under a new law that was passed in the state of California that allows cases involving battered women to be reconsidered, two lawyers took on the task of getting Debbie out of prison. Joshua and his colleague Nadia got to work setting her free, and they hit basically every conceivable obstacle
And shortly thereafter, we began to have media inquiries. We had raised a lot of attention with Debbie 's case. We ended up disqualifying all 1,000 attorneys of the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for conflicts of interest, which was a really big story.
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, And also one of the takeaways that I gained from Debbie , my client.
Can I just tag on maybe as a Debbie Downer for a second, just on the crowd funding?
And then subsequently, did Debbie Stone and her colleagues-- in the book that they published in 2005, has a similar set of guidelines--
tattoo parlors in the crack part of town. So they again, this is a case where they would be early adopters. If you look at a top 10 rental list in the late 70s and early 80s, it was dominated by porn movies such as "Debbie does Dallas." So the DVD was kind of a repeat. Hollywood was very nervous about getting into DVDs because previous similar technologies such as CD-ROM and video discs flopped. So they were kind of gun shy about it, but the porn companies said "Hey this fantastic; look the picture
Wow. Jake's a real Debbie Downer today.
Aw. They decided I wasn't a Debbie Downer when it started, and so one of the chairs came up with Morose Mark.
Great. We've all met Debbie .
Hi, everyone. I'm Cathy Chen, and I am a product manager here in Cambridge. I just wanted to kind of express how excited I am to bring Debbie here to Cambridge to talk to all of us. I'm actually a grad student at Columbia University full time in a masters degree program in something called organizational psychology.
And even then in that class, like of very experienced people, everybody learned something about negotiations when Debbie was there. So another day during class, Debbie actually talked a little bit more about diversity and leadership training. And so I'm really pleased to have her here to talk a little bit about both.
There's also a Dory there if you have questions, and she's going to talk for about half an hour and then take questions at the end. So with no further ado, here's Debbie Kolb. Thank you, Cathy. Can you hear me?
I was really surprised by it, and it's a heart wrenching story about a woman named Debbie . And without getting into the gory details-- because I'm not a lawyer-- Debbie was convicted of the murder of her abusive boyfriend and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
socialism. Wow. Jake's a real Debbie Downer today.
for like, I don't know, Debbie in Ohio Yeah.
And so that's thrilling every night to see people up on their feet by the end that maybe were Debbie the doubters at the beginning,