In this episode of Women In Technology, I'm chatting with Harsha Bennur, the senior director, leading industry partner, technology strategy in Microsoft's Global Partner Services organization. Read the description to learn more about Harsha and how to connect with her. Enjoy the video, you don't want to miss this one!
About Harsha:
Harsha Bennur is the senior director, leading industry partner, technology strategy in Microsoft's Global Partner Services organization. She started her career at Wipro Infotech, India and after that, she has been working at Microsoft for over the past two decades in various capacities. Most recently, she leads partner technology strategy for Healthcare and Life Sciences, Government and Education partners in Microsoft's One Commercial Partner organization, where she works with a team of strategists aligned to Microsoft's largest Systems Integrators, ISV's and Managed Services Providers. She works closely with a portfolio of managed partners to help grow their business by building solutions and practices on Microsoft Clouds. She has worked with many small and Fortune 100 customers and partners around creating different practices and solutions that drive digital transformation. She is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion and is passionate about empowering everyone that she works with to achieve their highest potential. Over the years, Harsha has been very focused on career mentoring both internally and within the channel. She has been on WIT panels at Columbia University, United Nations, Grace Hopper, Global Gender Dialogues, and other panels where she talks about STEM, Gender Inequality, Disability, Comp Science, equal access to education, etc. She has a BS in Computer Science (valedictorian) from Karnatak University's GIT and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from UCF, Florida. Her passion is to encourage young women and girls to pursue their dreams and use technology as an enabler to do the same and she loves spending time with her family, especially her daughters.
✉️ Connect with Harsha:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/hbennur/
📚Books & Podcasts mentioned
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
The Daughter from a Wishing Tree by Sudha Murty
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
Women of Color in Tech by Susanne Tedrick
Blindspot by Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji
How to Listen and How to Be Heard by Alissa Carpenter
Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani
Get Inspired Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1uBPVVu...
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