Rise and Play’s Sophie Vo on leadership challenges when scaling your studio | Podcast
- Companies can only go from good to great when they have exceptional and empathetic people at the helm
- Sophie Vo lifts the lid on the three questions you can ask yourself to elevate your emotional management skills
A seasoned games professional with over 15 years of experience at top-grossing studios, including Rovio, Voodoo, and PlayStation, Sophie Vo knows the drill and how to drive success.
But she also learned first-hand that companies can only go from good to great when they have exceptional and empathetic people at the helm. That's why she founded Rise and Play, a company helping studio leadership up their game.
Offering services from high-performance team and 1-1 coaching to streamlined hiring, training, and onboarding processes, Rise and Play equips games professionals with the resources and network they need to level up and create lasting change within their company.
Sophie joins our hosts Peggy Anne Salz and Brian Baglow this week to discuss common leadership challenges, why she "sees suffering in most leaders," and lift the lid on the three questions you can ask yourself to elevate your emotional management skills.
What's inside:
00:00 - Intro
02:44 - Sophie's journey
04:55 - Why pivot now?
08:35 - Common leadership challenges
11:37 - Managers vs leaders
14:40 - What good leaders look like
17:22 - Training leaders
25:28 - Creating the right system
28:50 - How to reinvent yourself
32:46 - Expanding outside the game market
36:05 - Three questions to ask ourselves
38:28 - Favourite games Q&A
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