> For other introverts, how do you speak up in meetings? It definitely takes practice and experience to feel comfortable doing this. If there's someone you tru

> For other introverts, how do you speak up in meetings? It definitely takes practice and experience to feel comfortable doing this. If there's someone you trust, perhaps you could enlist them privately to give you feedback on your contributions in meetings - that kind of feedback can be really helpful. On a single team (yours), the advice I'd give is: (a) strive to make yourself really valuable, even indispensable to the team through your technical contributions and increasing knowledge; (b) when you have something relevant/helpful to add to a discussion, speak up! However, when interacting with multiple teams that you don't work with, I think (b) is probably the best advice. Wait until you have something helpful to say (this may be seldom - that's OK), then say it. Also, when interacting with other teams there may be a lot of discussion that has nothing to do with you. It can be helpful to learn to tune out irrelevant discussion (although that may take time to build that mental filter), if only to keep your brain from getting overloaded.