Description

In this episode, my guest Mariana Cogan shares her story and expertise in marketing and digital transformation. She is a leading Latina in the tech industry and for my work in marketing and sales digital transformation. Mexico-born Mariana Cogan held various roles of increasing responsibility in the software industry, and she is an advocate for diversity, inclusion and uplifting minorities in the tech space. She believes deeply that diverse companies are more innovative and outperform less diverse ones. She earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Babson College and a bachelor's degree from Jochi University in Tokyo, Japan.

She is currently the CMO of People.ai, a company that delivers the industry's leading Revenue Operations and Intelligence (RO&I) platform, transforming business activities into account and opportunity management solutions to accelerate revenue growth and maximize marketing ROI.

In this episode, Mariana and I talk about:

•         Her professional background and her journey from being a banker to becoming the CMO of People.ai
•         How she came to study in Japan and found her passion for the Japanese language
•         How she came to work and live in the US
•         Her American dream
•         Cultural adjustments and challenges she faced when she moved to the US
•         Becoming a multicultural leader
•         The statistics that shows only a handful of minority females in the CMO role in high tech
•         The importance of self-branding and storytelling to foster a more diverse, innovative, and productive workforce
•         How adjusting and understanding the US culture may help create connections in business, and growing your professional network
•         Showing up as her authentic immigrant self
•         How she is using her leadership platform to spread the word about the importance of minorities in the workforce to create more diverse and innovative companies
•         Things Mariana knows now that she wishes she knew back when she was starting her immigrant journey

Connect with Mariana Cogan here: 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianacogan/

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