Articles
Discover Lauren Wu's engaging articles on building a psychologically safe workplace, focusing on leadership, privacy, and innovation. Gain insights on fostering trust, authenticity, and ethical data usage while advancing workplace culture. Learn how to align values and actions to create environments that support innovation, trust, and team engagement. Start your journey today towards a workplace that thrives on empathy and safety.
Published by Influential Women
In this piece Lauren challenges traditional leadership norms that prize emotional distance and conformity, arguing that humanity, especially empathy and authenticity, is a strategic advantage, not a liability. Women leaders often receive feedback pushing them to suppress their natural strengths, but research shows that qualities like empathy and psychological safety actually improve team engagement, trust, innovation, and decision-making. Authenticity isn’t about oversharing; it’s about aligning values, words, and actions, which builds trust and clarity, especially in uncertain environments.
Published by the American Health Law Association
This privacy Christmas story was born out of a paradox we found ourselves in as privacy professionals and parents. Santa is notoriously bad at privacy. This is an objective fact. So much about the beloved story of Santa Claus undermines the core tenets of privacy and data protection that we privacy practitioners espouse daily. And so, in our story, we reimagined and modernized Santa’s operations by bringing him up to date with privacy and data protection laws and helping him to discover privacy-by-design. As part of our efforts to assist Santa, we wanted to examine Santa’s previous privacy posture. To do so, a brief review of the most basic principles of privacy and data protection is in order.
Published by the ABA, American Health Lawyer
An article describing the established concepts of privacy and security by design in a new light, making the case that integration of "by-design" activities and efforts in the product lifecycle are not only required, but can be framed as a market differentiator. The article also provides some practical tips for promoting privacy and security awareness and embedding privacy and security by design in a company's culture.
Published by the ABA Health eSource
An article attempting to dispel the notion that data-driven healthcare comes at a cost to individual privacy and proposing the building blocks for a privacy-friendly path forward. This article is shows how a pragmatic framework can be established to allow for symbiosis between ethical data usage and protection of data subject rights.