Leadership

What Working As An Emergency Doctor Taught UberEats’ GM Jodie Auster About Business

Auster studied medicine before making the leap to Silicon Valley and later joining Uber. Here, she shares the three lessons that apply to both saving lives and solving office emergencies.

By jitendermittal

Published 10 July, 2025

Leadership

What Working As An Emergency Doctor Taught UberEats’ GM Jodie Auster About Business

Auster studied medicine before making the leap to Silicon Valley and later joining Uber. Here, she shares the three lessons that apply to both saving lives and solving office emergencies.

By jitendermittal

Published 10 July, 2025

When Jodie Auster landed the job of her dreams as General Manager ANZ at Uber in 2018, she had no idea a sexual harassment scandal would engulf the company on a global-scale just three weeks later.

“I thought at the time, I’ve got a couple of choices,” she told Brooke Boney as a recent guest on Future Women’s Next Generation Innovators’ Podcast. “I can get out of here and say, ‘Well that was the wrong place to join’ or I can really stand up and be part of the change that’s necessary in this business.”