ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rebekah Bastian is a corporate culture leader, tech executive, writer, artist, speaker, mentor, wife, mother, and aerial acrobat. She has held leadership roles including vice president of product and vice president of community and culture at Zillow and cofounder and CEO of OwnTrail.

Rebekah serves as an advisor to tech startups and on several nonprofit boards. She is a contributor at Forbes.com and is a frequent speaker at conferences and community events. She has been recognized in the Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40, the Inman 33 People Changing the Real Estate Industry, and the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards.

Rebekah earned her Master’s of Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley and her Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle, WA, with her husband and two sons. Her path has never been linear or predictable, and she loves it that way.