Lean In remained a core outlet for Ms. Sandberg, too. She contributed essays about women in the workplace and other topics to The Journal and The New York Times. She spoke regularly about women at work, and her Facebook feed was full of news about Lean In.
Today, the staff of Lean In works in the Sheryl Sandberg Dave Goldberg Family Foundation office, which is named after her and her husband, who died in 2015. Ms. Sandberg still hosts Lean In Circle leaders at her house.
But what has changed is that some of those leaders and even friends of Ms. Sandberg’s are playing down her role, and positioning her as a peripheral character to the movement.
“From the very beginning, Sheryl drew people in,” said Deborah Gruenfeld, a professor at Stanford and a co-director of the university’s Executive Program in Women’s Leadership. “But I don’t think of her as all that central to what’s happening right now.”
Alexa Crisa, a digital strategist who leads Lean In Atlanta alongside Ms. Schwarz, told me: “We don’t work at Facebook, we work with Lean In. We only ever even mention who Sheryl is to explain why her experience is relevant to women. That’s where it ends to us in terms of the mention of Sheryl.”
Ms. Allen, in Dayton, said, “We’ve taken this thing, and we’re driving it.”
These women were ones Lean In suggested I call.
Most anyone not on its list had a different take. Gia Punjabi, a senior finance analyst at Levi Strauss Company, founded a Lean In Circle in San Francisco in August 2017. She said that she had noticed a recent drop in interest, and that she suspected it was tied to Ms. Sandberg’s changing brand.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/technology/lean-in-sheryl-sandberg-problem.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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