Ariella Steinhorn is the CEO and Founder at Lioness. Lioness is a storytelling platform and new media company that brings forward stories about encounters with power. Ariella has guided hundreds of whistleblowers, former employees, and others through the process of bringing their story forward in the press and to the public, and has broken non-disclosure agreements herself to change culture through stories.
In this episode Ariella discusses:
- How Lioness started as a place where potential whistleblowers can go before talking with a journalist to get advice
- The evolution and public acceptance of whistleblowing
- Implications of revealing or concealing identity when whistleblowing
- The risks of whistleblowing and how it can be masochistic for those who whistleblow
- Economic, psychological, legal, and physical consequences of being a whistleblower including loss of health insurance and professional credibility
- How defamation laws in different countries can affect a whistleblowing case
- Best practices for not going public, but telling others about harm they’ve experienced
