{"id":16517,"date":"2026-10-09T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr2rec.com\/?post_type=womenrock&#038;p=16517"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:57:16","slug":"becca-martin","status":"publish","type":"womenrock","link":"https:\/\/sr2rec.com\/en\/womenrock\/becca-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"People First: Leadership, Co-ops and Parenthood &#8211; The Developer Society\u2019s Becca Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some workplaces expect you to leave life at the door. Others make room for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/becca-martin-uk\/\">Becca Martin<\/a> became Chief Operating Officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-developer-society\/home\/\">The Developer Society<\/a>, she worked in education &#8211; a highly structured world where people are expected to fall in line, and for good reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her next move took her somewhere very different: a not-for-profit digital agency, run as a co-op, helping mission-led teams build smarter, more sustainable digital services. Leading inside a co-op taught her to collaborate, to try things and adjust, to disagree comfortably and to turn shared ideas into real change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add a leadership programme that rewired how she thinks about decisions (and two children who ask big questions with zero prep time) and you get a leader whose focus isn\u2019t driving profit up. It\u2019s helping her team do their best work for the people they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this conversation, we explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How leading within a co-op shaped her people-first approach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why separating decisions from outcomes, and letting go of sunk costs, helps teams keep moving<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What a people-friendly (and parent-friendly) culture looks like day to day, from \u201cchemistry calls\u201d in hiring to a team turning into dragons and strawberries on a call to cheer up her poorly son<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The lessons parenthood has taught her about honest conversations and adapting when plans change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Becca Martin - The Developers Society - Women rock podcast V1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1236582452?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":16512,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"womenrock-category":[],"womenrock-tag":[115],"class_list":["post-16517","womenrock","type-womenrock","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","womenrock-tag-inclusion-workplace-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>People First: Leadership, Co-ops and Parenthood - The Developer Society\u2019s Becca Martin - SR2 Recruitment Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sr2rec.com\/en\/womenrock\/becca-martin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"People First: Leadership, Co-ops and Parenthood - The Developer Society\u2019s Becca Martin - SR2 Recruitment Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some workplaces expect you to leave life at the door. 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