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Phoebe Yang

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
275 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

So I learned a little bit of discovery.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

I was able to take over.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

But it was a really interesting time because we were looking at the transformation of health systems from hospitals and acute care into really thinking about what's happening in the broader world.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

lives of the patients or people that we were really trying to serve in those communities.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And so I really wanted to be at the forefront of that and decided to really kind of pivot into that.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And candidly, at the same time, I had gotten married and had a child.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And so my life was looking very different, became very personal.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

Healthcare became very personal to me.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

But like everybody, most people I know who are drawn to healthcare, we all have a personal story where the healthcare system didn't work for us.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

Yeah, you're right.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And mine was my father.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And so I was determined that when you look at the quotient of brokenness

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

to potential impact or impact to potential brokenness, the quotient is actually quite high there.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And you come to a point where you say in your life, I wanna have impact, right?

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And so I made that sort of intentional switch into healthcare, but really always through the lens of what can technology help us do and do better?

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

One of the key...

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

predictors of success is what I call curious humility.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

Understanding that you don't know everything, but actually being interested, not just at the surface level, but root causes and why

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

organizations operate and function the way that they do and why they're successful and why they're not.

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang)

And in a board role, you have to step out, you have to be willing to step out of an operator's role, but bring your operator's experience and lens into seeing around corners, recognizing patterns of intrinsic value, but also of lost opportunity and help to guide around those