A Assist Supervisor at LearnDash on the significance of clear communication, the thrill of technological advances, and her love of journey.
Kasia Zukowska was born in Seattle, Washington, to political refugees. When she was seven years outdated, her dad and mom had been allowed to return to their residence metropolis of Walbrzych, Poland, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Zukowska grew up in Poland, making lifelong pals with whom she maintains robust relationships regardless of the space due to know-how. “My childhood was type of a rollercoaster,” she says, “nevertheless it made me who I’m right this moment.”
Zukowska all the time knew she would return to the USA, and at 19, she moved to Florida, the place her father was engaged on a ship. Finally, her mom and youthful sister adopted. Nonetheless a resident of Florida, she plans to maneuver to Boston quickly. “I really like Boston—the historical past, the meals, the climate. Plenty of snow!”
Maybe partially as a result of nomadic nature of her upbringing, Zukowska deeply loves journey and exploration. “I’m at my happiest when I’m touring,” she says. “I’m good as a solo traveler, however nowadays I often journey with my important different, Ryan, household, and pals. High quality time with family and friends is vital to me.” For Zukowska, the one draw back of journey is lacking her two French Bulldogs, 3-year-old Gaia, and 6-month-old Freya.
Zukowska has labored in tech since 2013. “Earlier than that, it was all customer support positions in retail, eating places, and name facilities,” she says. However her first know-how job was beginning her personal enterprise designing WordPress web sites for patrons and internet hosting and sustaining these websites. “Beginning my very own enterprise was one in all my proudest accomplishments. I’ve all the time been an entrepreneur at coronary heart,” she says. “It’s how I specific my creativity and concepts. So beginning a enterprise was each a problem and an accomplishment.”
In 2016, Zukowska joined a tech firm as a contractor, however upon discovering that she disagreed with their enterprise practices, she started searching for an organization that was moral and cared about its workers. “That’s how I discovered LearnDash,” she says. Having spent almost 5 years with LearnDash, Zukowska works as a Assist Supervisor, making certain her workforce and prospects are cared for and completely happy.
“There are a number of issues I really like about being in tech,” she says. “I really like the flexibility to work remotely from anyplace on this planet, which fits hand in hand with my ardour for journey. It’s additionally wonderful to have the chance to study new abilities, and the consolation of figuring out the trade solely retains rising with extra demand. I really like the tradition, too! I’m all the time excited to see the instructions during which know-how is progressing and using rising applied sciences.”
In her life and work, Zukowska says that it’s important to know what she stands for in order that her actions can mirror her values. “I wish to align myself with companies and use merchandise that share the identical values I’ve—defending Equality, Animal Rights, Ladies’s Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, Social Justice, and the Setting.”
Zukowska brings ardour to her work and is all the time striving to develop and assist others the place she will be able to. “Figuring out somebody is relying on me is a good motivator,” she says. “I work a lot tougher once I know my outcomes are straight impacting somebody like teammates or prospects.” Good communication can be the spine of her work. “Communication is essential to me! When issues go mistaken, it’s often as a consequence of a break in communication. I wish to preserve all events knowledgeable and clear on our objectives.”
She is raring to see what technological advances are in retailer within the years to return. “Generally I’m jealous of youthful generations as a result of know-how goes to revolutionize the world much more than it already has. I need to see it occur too! There are already fascinating issues know-how is used for, like reside language translation headsets getting used to interrupt the language barrier. (I might be attempting a kind of out on my journey to Poland since my important different doesn’t converse Polish, and I don’t need to play translator!).”
She encourages younger ladies to discover the alternatives tech provides if it sparks their curiosity. “I’ve a niece, Wiktoria, who is eighteen and shortly going to school,” she says. “I all the time attempt to expose her to as a lot know-how as potential and information her in the direction of a profession that might be right here 20 years from now. One which she is enthusiastic about however provides her the life-style she desires.”
To younger ladies like her niece, Zukowska provides the recommendation that studying must be ongoing. “Know-how modifications so rapidly. If you wish to succeed within the subject, you have to proceed studying to maintain up and keep related.”