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Femme LeadS06 E10 Shaping the Future of AI and Building Communities with Rebekka Gunnarsdóttir, AI & Data Team Leader at EY Denmark.Send us a textRebekka Gunnarsdóttir is redefining what it means to lead in the tech industry. As a Senior Manager in AI and Data at EY Consulting in Copenhagen, she brings a powerful blend of business insight, digital innovation, and a deep commitment to community. In this episode, Rebekka shares her journey from finance to tech, her passion for shaping the future of AI, and how she founded KATLA, an Icelandic women’s network to help others visualize and reach their career goals. We also discuss authenticity in leadership, building inclusive workp...2025-06-0430 min
Femme LeadS06 E09 Beyond the Numbers: Sophie Jelstrup’s Insights on Leadership and Success in Trading.Send us a textIn this special episode of Femme Lead, host Alexandra welcomes back Sophie Jelstrup, Head of FX Trading at Nordea Markets in Copenhagen. Sophie returns to share her remarkable journey from Chief Dealer to leading the FX trading desk, offering exclusive insights into career progression, leadership, and the evolving world of finance.Whether you’re curious about what it takes to rise in the financial sector or want to learn how leaders like Sophie navigate market trends, innovation, and inclusion, this episode is packed with actionable advice and behind-the-scenes stories.Fo...2025-05-2136 min
Femme LeadS06 E08 Make Your Own Pizza: Crafting Your Leadership Journey with Anja Leth Zimmer, Novo Nordisk.Send us a textDigital Transformation | Leadership | Pharma | Engineering & Data | HealthTech | Step into the world of digital leadership and transformation with this episode’s inspiring guest, Anja Leth Zimmer. As the Corporate Vice President of Digital Products & Software Engineering at Novo Nordisk, Anja brings over 16 years of experience spanning Pharma, Consumer Goods, and Management Consulting. Her career journey includes pivotal roles at Deloitte and Carlsberg, and today, she leads a diverse team of software engineers, designers, and project managers-driving innovation at the intersection of technology and healthcare.Anja shares the...2025-05-0836 min
Femme LeadS06 E07 Oana Leonte on Building Unmatched Brands: The Future of Branding & Entrepreneurship.Send us a textIP | Branding | Creator Economy | Unmtchd Mindset | Personal Branding | Community | In this episode, we welcome Oana Leonte, the founder of Unmtchd., a media and education platform dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs with the tools they need to scale their brands. With over 20 years of experience in the entertainment, fashion, and sports industries, Oana has worked with major brands like Disney, Puma, and Warner Bros., mastering the art of brand building, intellectual property (IP) strategy, and licensing. Now, through Unmtchd., she’s on a mission to help t...2025-04-1742 min
Femme LeadS06 E06 Breaking Boundaries in FemTech: Ida Tin on Innovation, Health, and Empowerment with Clue.Send us a textFemTech Founder | Clue App | Female Health Tech | Entrepreneur | Agency | Women’s Right |In this insightful interview, Ida Tin, the co-founder and CEO of the menstruation-tracking app Clue, shares her journey from a motorcycle tour entrepreneur to one of the leading voices in healthtech. Ida discusses how she coined the term "FemTech" and the vision behind creating Clue as a tool for empowering women to track their health. She also delves into the importance of setting healthy boundaries - both personally and professionally and how these principles have sha...2025-04-0341 min
Femme LeadS06 E04 Alina Vandenberghe on Building from the Ground Up: Charisma, Growth & Breaking the Glass Ceiling.Send us a textBillion Dollar Company | Entrepreneur | Tech SaaS| Career Progression| Climbing Corporate Ladder | Alina Vandenberghe is a visionary entrepreneur, tech leader, and the co-founder & co-CEO of Chili Piper, a pioneering SaaS company transforming how businesses manage meetings and customer engagement. Born and raised in Romania during communism, Alina’s journey is one of resilience, adaptability, and a relentless drive for innovation.In this episode, Alina Vandenberghe shares her rapid career progression - from intern to SVP in just six years - unpacking the strategies she used to bui...2025-04-0140 min
Femme LeadS06 E05 Angela Timofte, Global VP of Engineering at Trustpilot on Unlocking Potential with Technology.Send us a textTech Career | Engineering | AI Era | Managing Tech Teams | Leadership | Career Promotion | Visibility In this episode, Angela Timofte, Trustpilot's Global Vice President of Engineering, shares her insights on navigating the fast-paced world of tech management and the growing influence of AI. We dive into how AI and emerging technologies are transforming how tech teams are managed and how they drive efficiency and performance within her team. Angela also discusses the delicate balance between leveraging AI for workflow improvements while keeping teams agile and human-centered. Throughout the con...2025-03-3143 min
Femme LeadS06E03 From SDGs to Pop Culture: Vision of Global Action with Katja Iversen, CEO of UN Live.Send us a textUN | Impact Career | Financial Independence | Role Models | Tech4Good | Sustainability | Creative Campaigns | Global Impact | Leadership | Today, we’re honored to be joined by a trailblazer in global leadership, social impact, and cultural innovation, Katja Iversen, the CEO of UN Live.Katja’s remarkable career spans civil society, the United Nations, and global leadership training for Fortune 500 executives. She works at the intersection of arts, culture, and the world’s most pressing issues, embracing music, film, arts, sports, and gaming to drive progress on the Sustainable Develop...2024-12-1151 min
Femme LeadS06 E02 Pioneering the Future with Samantha Huang, BMW iVentures Principal: Venture Capital, Mobility, and Sustainability.Send us a textVenture Capital | Innovation | Mobility Trends | Sustainability | Career Transition | Investment | Community | Advice Join us for an engaging conversation with Samantha Huang, Principal at BMW i Ventures, where she focuses on early-stage investments in transformative technologies such as AI, big data, Industry 4.0, mobility innovation, and sustainability. With a passion for driving progress, Samantha dives deep into the trends shaping the future of transportation, the next generation of human experiences, and the rise of sustainable solutions.In this interview, Samantha reflects on her dynamic career journey, from her legal and research background t...2024-11-2148 min
Femme LeadS06 E01 Driving Corporate Sustainability: A Conversation with Lubomila Jordanova, CEO of Plan A and Co-founder of Greentech Alliance.Send us a textFounder Spotlight | Climate Tech | Sustainability | Carbon Accounting | ESG | Women in Tech | InnovationIn this episode, we’re joined by Lubomila Jordanova, co-founder and CEO of Plan A, Europe’s leading corporate carbon accounting and decarbonization software provider. Lubomila is also the visionary behind the Greentech Alliance, a thriving community that connects over 3,500 Greentech startups with 500+ advisors from venture capital, media, and business. Her expertise extends beyond Plan A—she’s a member of the International Advisory Board for Social Innovation in Germany and advises on the Sustainability Board at Chloé.Lubomil...2024-10-2544 min
KarriereklubbenTo be or not to be international in Denmark Panelet i dagens episode:Tegan Spinner, CEO WorthmoreChris Rycroft, People development in Percepti GlobalAlexandra Ciobotaru, founder of FemmeLeadVært: Caroline RossmeislEpisoden er på engelsk Lyt med og send og gerne spørgsmål på LinkedIn, instagram eller Karriereklubben@gmail.com Følg os på LinkedIn:Nima: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimatisdall/Caroline: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-rossmeisl-b115465b/André: www.linkedin.com/in/andréthormann/Karriereklubben: https://www.linkedin.com/company/karriere-klubben/about/?viewAsMembe2024-07-0849 min
Femme LeadS05 E13 Navigating Strategic Leadership and Wellbeing with Mel Simons: A Conversation on Career Growth and Customer Success.Send us a textCustomer Experience | Strategic Leadership | Customer Success | Well-being | Actionable Advice | Career Growth | Join us for a great conversation with Mel Simons, Global Director of Customer Experience at Dreamdata! Dreamdata is a SaaS B2B revenue attribution platform that gathers, joins, and cleans all revenue-related data to present a transparent, actionable analysis of go-to-market data. This empowers you to easily see a 360° customer journey view, understand ROI, reveal buying signals, send data back to ad platforms, and much more.Mel Simons is a seasoned professional with a st...2024-06-1655 min
Femme LeadS05 E12 Ann Rosenberg on The Power of Networking and Using Your Unique Experiences to Propel Your Career.Send us a textSustainable Business Transformation | Global Career | Intentional Networking | Board Member | Empowerment | Know Your Worth | Discover the remarkable journey of Ann Rosenberg, a Denmark native now shaping the global stage from LA with over 25 years of corporate expertise in technology, sustainability, and purpose-driven endeavors.As a Senior Sustainability and Climate Advisor and Board Member, Ann co-founded the UN SDG Ambition and has dedicated her life to driving impact through initiatives that matter. But that's not all—Ann's influence extends far beyond her corporate achievements. Liste...2024-05-081h 01
Femme LeadS05 E11 Annemarie Meisling on The Road to Regenerative Leadership: Why make sustainability a core part of your business?Send us a textRegenerative Leadership | Sustainability Strategy | Co-founder | Sustainable Development | Board Member Annemarie Meisling is a visionary leader who stands at the forefront of sustainable business and organizational development. Her career has included influential roles at Chr. Hansen and Novo Nordisk, where she worked on integrating sustainability into their core strategies, as well as engagements with the World Bank and COWI, focusing on sustainable development. Beyond her professional roles, Meisling has held leading board positions in key think tanks and industry organizations, including Danish Industries and the United Na...2024-04-1649 min
Femme LeadS05 E10 Redefining Leadership & Owning our Power with Christina Bizoumi, Senior Director of Product at Universal Robots.Send us a textConscious & Intentional Leadership| Young Female Leader | Empowerment | Digital Experiences | IKEA | Women in Technology| Coaching | Parenthood | For this episode, we’re introducing Christina Bizoumi, a trailblazer in product innovation and leadership. As the Senior Director of Product at Universal Robots, she spearheads the Digital Experience organization, dedicated to ensuring that customers triumph in their automation endeavors.With a career steeped in the synergy of people and business, Christina is a seasoned leader who has navigated the realms of leadership and pro...2024-04-011h 08
Femme LeadS05 E09 How to use a solution oriented mindset to propel your career with Violeta Todorova, Chief of Staff at Monta.Send us a textChief of Staff | Management Consultant | Start-up | Strategy | Leadership | Success Mindset | Building Relationships | Sponsorship & Mentorship | Advice | Violeta Todorova is the Chief of Staff at Monta, a platform powering the entire EV charging ecosystem. Before diving into entrepreneurship, Violeta was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group in Copenhagen. Previously, she spent five years at one of the largest marketing & communication companies - Publicis Groupe - working across clients such as Samsung and Heineken. After exploring education and career options across various locations such as the US...2024-02-2150 min
Femme LeadS05 E08 Oana Jinga, Dexory Co-Founder & CCO on Unveiling the Robotics Revolution.Send us a textCo-Founder | Growth | Robotics | Logistics | Leadership | Successful Career |In this episode, we dive into the world of innovation and robotics with Oana Jinga, the Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Dexory, a groundbreaking robotics and data company in Central London.🎙️ Oana's career journey, spanning from strategic partnerships at Google to innovative product development at Telefonica, has culminated in her current role at Dexory. Her passion lies in bringing robots to the logistics industry, driving significant business value and advocating for the benefits and ethics of robotics, alongside the impor...2024-02-0343 min
Femme LeadS05 E07 Dealfront Growth Manager Jessica Cohen on Building a Successful Career in Sales.Send us a textSales Manager | Growth | Transferrable skills | Sales leadership | Successful Career | For this new episode, please welcome Jessica Cohen, the North America Sales Manager at Dealfront as our guest and we cannot wait to spotlight her experience! In this episode, Jessica shares her journey from a decade as a Sales Leader in B2C to her current role as the Sales Manager at Dealfront. Dealfront, a dynamic go-to-market platform, equips sales and marketing teams with crucial data, applications, and insights to conquer leads and seal deals.Jessica emp...2024-01-2350 min
Femme LeadS05 E06 Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 Engineer Andra Groapa on Career Growth and Innovation at Red Bull Powertrains.Send us a textFormula 1 | Oracle Red Bull Racing | Powertrains | CFD Engineer | STEM | Career Development | Mental Health | CV Tips | Dream Job | Meet Andra Groapa, the driving force behind innovation at Red Bull Powertrains! 🚀In 2021, Red Bull Powertrains roared to life, supplying power units to Formula One giants Oracle Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri. 🏎️💨Join us as we dive into Andra's incredible journey from dreaming big in Romania to becoming a pivotal engineer at the forefront of Formula 1 technology. As...2024-01-1051 min
Femme LeadS05 E05 Ula Caroto on Financial Freedom and Finding Prosperity.Send us a textFinancial Wellbeing | Financial Freedom | Wealth Management | Prosperity | Impact Consulting | Personal Transformation | Art of Kintsugi | Angel Investor | Ula Caroto is a mentor, coach, thinking partner, and a trusted welllth-being (wealth + wellbeing) advisor. She combines her extensive wealth management knowledge with powerful coaching and exquisite listening skills to help her clients find true prosperity in every area of their lives.In our interview, we discuss insights on how women approach investing and what they need to succeed in the financial realm, key strategies o...2023-12-1248 min
Femme LeadS05 E04 Eylem Demir Sentürk on Sponsoring Women to Empower Career Progression.Send us a textWomen on Stage | Founder | Immigrant Stories | Sponsoring Women | Empowerement | Success Story | Eylem Demir Sentürk is the founder and CEO of 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲, and her goal is to increase the number of female leaders within the Pharma & Life Science Industry. As a mother with 23 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry at global companies, she knows exactly which challenges women face.To overcome these challenges, she designed the «𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻» program, which increases the visibility of the female talents in business and grants them access to the next level positions with the help of powerful leaders. At the age of 12, I i...2023-11-2956 min
Femme LeadS05 E03 Chisom Udeze, Diversity Leader of the Year & Co-founder at Diversify on Dreaming Big and Owning Your Voice.Send us a textDiversity & Inclusion | Economist | Mental Health | Belonging | Diverse Founders | Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact-driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil, and The Economist Group. Chisom has just been honored with the prestigious title of "Diversity Leader of the Year" at the Nordic Women in Tech Awards! 🌐👩💼As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with co...2023-11-1344 min
Femme LeadS05 E02 Simone Gemkow, McLaren Automotive on Sustaining a Career in STEM and Advice for Future Managers.Send us a textAutomotive | Engineering | McLaren | Leadership | Management Advice | Simone Gemkow is an automotive product engineer with over a decade of experience in British automotive brands. She boasts a robust academic background, including a Ph.D., and a wealth of industrial expertise, which have propelled her from an engineering professional to a proficient people manager. Currently serving as a manager, Simone leads a team of world-class engineers in the automotive engineering sector.Simone's journey to leadership involved rapid learning in areas like team management, building business relationships, positive influence, and strategic goal...2023-11-0148 min
Femme LeadS05 E01 His Majesty's Ambassador to Denmark Emma Kate Hopkins OBE on Building a Career: From Criminal Barrister to Diplomat and Spotlighting Women Stories.Send us a textAmbassador | Diplomat | Human Rights | Justice | Women's Rights | Career Change | Emma Kate Hopkins OBE took up her post as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Denmark in October 2020. Prior to this, she served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2015 to 2020. Whilst in Bulgaria she was also the senior regional lead for organised crime and rule of law projects (including modern slavery) in Central and Eastern Europe.Emma was born in Bolton and studied at St. Clement Danes Comprehensive School (Chorleywood) and Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College) where she graduated with a deg...2023-10-0851 min
Femme LeadS04 E24 Sarah Freiesleben, Digital Transformation Lead on Authenticity, Agency and Building a Career in Consulting.Send us a textAuthenticity | Agency | Transformation | Activism | Leadership | Shaping Humanity | Technology | Role Model | Consulting | Curiosity | Digital Transformation |Sarah Freiesleben is a fantastic role model and an inspiration and once you hear her speak you know you have met an extraordinary person! Sarah helps purpose-driven organizations sustainably innovate by harnessing and applying human insights to technology development. With an advanced degree in linguistics and 15 years working on global, cross-functional enterprise tech projects in a wide variety of industries, she has come to believe that te...2023-06-2143 min
Femme LeadS04 E23 Petra Wille, Independent Product Leadership Coach and Author on Building Strong Product Teams.Send us a textProduct Management | Product at Heart | Product Teams | Product Coach | Strong Product People | Coaching | Author | Community Building | In today's episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Petra Wille, an independent product leadership coach and author with a passion for empowering product teams. With over eight years of experience in the field, Petra has been instrumental in helping product teams enhance their skill sets and elevate their performance.In recent years, Petra's focus has been on supporting product leaders in building outcome-oriented product teams. Her dedication...2023-06-1444 min
Equal Inspired013 | Alexandra Ciobotaru - Founder (Femme Lead) & Program LeadWe are thrilled to welcome, Founder of Femme Lead Podcast, Alexandra Ciobotaru.
Alexandra is a source of inspiration and a true embodiment of a role model who is actively involved in promoting women in STEM. She has been nominated for Nordic Women in Tech Awards several times and in 2022, was named one of the Top 100 Talents in Denmark by Berlingske.
In this empowering chat, we discuss:
🌟 The power of self-reflection to align with your North Star
🌟 How to discover your non-negotiables
🌟 Investing in yourself; the transformative impact of having a life/career coach
🌟 Embracing change and discomfort to unlock your full po...2023-06-0848 min
Femme LeadS04 E22 Kathrine Hee Nielsen, Manager Digital Accelerator Research & Early Development at Novo Nordisk on Inclusive Leadership, Skills of the Future and Career Lessons.Send us a textInclusive Leadership | Leader | Career Growth | Career Perspectives | Digital, IT & Data | Novo Nordisk | Research & Development | Role Model | Future Skills | In today's episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Kathrine Hee Nielsen, a leader in Digital, Data, and IT at Novo Nordisk. With a remarkable career spanning 11 years within the company, Kathrine has held various positions in finance, quality, and clinical development. She is currently leading software development teams as the Manager of Digital Accelerator in Research & Early Development.Kathrine thrives in the intersection between people, organizational d...2023-06-0746 min
Femme LeadS04 E21 Ellie King, Co-Founder on Taking a Leap of Faith and Starting Equal IT.Send us a textEqual IT | Co-founder | Equality in IT | Recruitment Services | DEI Partner | Interview Preparation | Entrepreneurship | Career Lessons | Reflection | Voices of Women | Representation | Women in Tech | STEM | Ellie King, the Co-Founder of Equal IT is joining us today. Ellie and her team are on a mission to support organizations worldwide in recruiting inclusive teams and building equitable cultures through their coaching and support services.At Equal IT, diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords - they are the foundation of everything they do. Ellie and h...2023-05-2454 min
Femme LeadS04 E20 Esra Talu, Founder & CEO GoGlobal on Building a Supportive Community for Investments in Early-Stage Start-ups.Send us a textCEO | Co-Founder | Start-up | Investment | Board Member | Fundraising | Global Expansion | Partners for Growth | Social Entrepreneurship | Women Empowerment | Arya Women Investment Platform | Welcome to today's episode of Femme Lead podcast, where we have the pleasure of introducing our guest, Esra Talu. Esra is not only an extraordinary businesswoman but also a renowned writer, keynote speaker, and the Founding Partner & former CEO of Deppo, the first e-commerce company in Turkey. Serving in this role from 1999 to 2014, Esra successfully transformed Deppo into one of the leading e-commerce companies in...2023-05-1048 min
Femme LeadS04 E19 Dovilė Končak, CEO ai RAIT Group on How to not forget yourself when becoming a leader.Send us a textCEO | Leadership | Personal Reflection | Motherhood | M&A | Crisis Management | Team Leader | Business Development | Women’s Business Association | Dovilė Končak is the CEO of RAIT Group, in Lithuania, a market research company, and an active representative of key women's business associations in Lithuania. Her leadership approach is balanced and holistic, combining empathy with directness enabling businesses and teams to align and find their rhythm in a busy market place which in turn helps to achieve a competitive advantage.H...2023-04-2645 min
Femme LeadS04 E18 Alina Engel, Business Development Manager at Meta on Trusting the process: How do you decide to close a start-up?Send us a textEntrepreneurship | Hooves | Start-up | Founder | Business Closure | Venture Architecture | Strategic Partnerships | Meta | Lessons | Business Development Manager | Role Model | In this episode of the Femme Lead Podcast, we have a special guest speaker, Alina Engel, who is not only a source of inspiration but also a close friend of the show. Alina's entrepreneurial journey started with the co-founding of Hooves, an app that revolutionized the expensive sport of horse riding and brought it into the sharing economy. Although COVID-19 forced the app to shut down, it had a m...2023-04-1256 min
Femme LeadS04 E17 Laura Dzurna, Pandora on building a career in brand management and the thought process involved in a career change.Send us a textBrand Management | Communication | Digital & IT Comms | Jewelry Industry | Career Change | Decision Making | Reflections | Laura Dzurna was Communications Manager at Pandora from August 2020 until September 2022, with a special focus on digital & technology. In October 2022, she took on a new role at Pandora as Brand Manager, managing one of Pandora’s collections.Her career in the jewelry industry spans a variety of roles within Brand Communications & PR and internal communication, driving various initiatives and campaigns. A recent example is setting up internal communications for...2023-03-1342 min
Femme LeadS04 E16 Inese Podgaiska on Bringing Your Whole Self to Work.Send us a textCoaching | Self-Awareness | Career Development | Bring Your Whole Self to Work | Career Progression | Reflection | Mindfulness | Women in STEM | Role Model | Our guest is a former Latvian diplomat with more than 21 years of experience in stakeholder management, negotiation, advocacy, and communication.Inese Podgaiska is the Secretary General of the Association of Nordic Engineers, ANE, and previously worked for the European Environment Agency. She received the 2019 Women Economic Forum Award for Women of the Decade in Science Leadership and was included in the 100 Brilliant W...2023-02-0639 min
Femme LeadS04 E15 Kathy Borys Siddiqui on Building a Life Abroad and Cultural Adjustment in the Nordics.Send us a textCultural Adjustment | Living Abroad | Culture Shock | Consultant | Integration | Well-Being Specialist | Intercultural Awareness | Founder | Role Model | Trainer | Our guest is Kathy Borys Siddiqui the founder of Active Action, an organization supporting International companies as well as internationals and their families in the intercultural transition when moving abroad. Active Action focuses on raising awareness and bringing solutions to challenges that internationals, their families, and employers are faced with, in order to create thriving and positive environments. Kathy lived in 4 countries and...2023-01-2348 min
Femme LeadS04 E14 Sonja Lakner on Taking a Career Break. Reflections and Goals from a Managing Director.Send us a textCareer Break | Career Development | Digital Innovation | Digital Agency | People Leader | Goals | Reflections | Learnings | Career Progression | Pause | Our guest today is Sonja Lakner. Originally from Austria, Sonja studied communications and media and after a few years of working in digital agencies in London, she has worked in leadership positions in Sweden for the past 15 years. Sonja is passionate about people and helping them develop their full potential in the work environment and loves to work with people from different cultures.H...2023-01-0943 min
Vești Bune - un podcast despre liniștea DuminiciiGânduri și emoție de Sfântul AndreiSend us a text„Oameni dintre noi” este una dintre rubricile noastre preferate, pentru că în cadrul ei putem fi împreună, într-un alt fel, cât mai mulți dintre noi. Fiecare dintre aceste emisiuni reprezintă un motiv de bucurie pentru noi toți, cum la fel este și fiecare reascultare a ei.De data aceasta, vă propunem, în locul retrospectivei de la început de an, o emisiune pe care am înregistrat-o în 30 noiembrie 2022, când, cu prilejul Zilei Naționale Religioase ne-am adunat și pentru a sărbători Ziua Națională a României. Îi avem și acu...2023-01-0531 min
Femme LeadS04 E13 A year in review: The breakthroughs of 2022 with Alexandra Ciobotaru.Send us a textIn this episode, we review all the career breakthroughs that 2022 brought along, including hosting our first career conference and planning new community events in Denmark. Join our next event in Copenhagen on January 25th, 2023 with AWS: https://www.femmeleadpodcast.com/events Stay up to date with all of our events via email: https://www.femmeleadpodcast.com/subscribe Follow Femme Lead online for more inspiring content:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femmeleadpodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/femme-lead-podcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/femmeleadpodcast/ ...2022-12-2930 min
Femme LeadS04 E12 Sophie Jelstrup, Chief Dealer & Functional Lead at Nordea Markets on Navigating a Finance Career.Send us a textFinance | Trading | Chief Dealer | Capital Markets | Nordea | Career | Progression | Leadership | Graduate Program | Role Model | Women in Finance | Sophie Jelstrup is the Chief Dealer & Functional Lead - Global Trading at Nordea Markets. Sophie is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, studied economics and has a double master's degree in Finance from the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. She worked within the financial industry since I started at a pension fund as a student worker while studying and continued sin...2022-10-2053 min
Femme LeadS04 E11 Nada Ahmed on The Great Resignation, Pivoting Your Career and the Reputation Dilemma.Send us a textInnovation | CEO | Venture Capital | Board Member | Agile Leadership | Energy & Maritime Industry | Top 50 Women in Technology | Braving Innovation | Nada Ahmed is a public speaker, writer, and innovation and tech advisor with over 15 years of corporate leadership experience in the Energy and Maritime industry. She is the CEO and founder of Agile Leadership- an innovation consulting company helping startups validate their products and scale. Previously she served as Vice President of Innovation and Transformation at a leading engineering firm in the No...2022-09-1949 min
Femme LeadS04 E10 Work as a Force for Good with Tamilla Mahkamova Leadership Coach, Educator & Global Change Director.Send us a textCompany Culture | Organizational Development | Global Transformation | Coaching | Education | Transition at Work | Role Model | Emotional Intelligence at Work |Summing up all aspects of her work Tamilla Mahkamova is a psychologist, HR, Organizational Development and Transformation expert, coach, and educator.Over the last 15 years, she has worked in HR, OD, and Transformation roles in a corporate and non-profit environment through East and West. Currently, as Global Change Director at GrandVision, she leads change management in large-scale business and IT programs.2022-09-0547 min
Femme LeadS04 E09 Career Mentorship with Alexandra Lung, CPO at Uptime: A comprehensive guide to apply, negotiate, and take your next career step.Send us a textChief Product Officer | Mentor | International Speaker | Top Women in Product | Career Advice | Contract Negotiation | Non-Negotiables at Work | Corporate Advisor | Digital Transformation | Femme Lead welcomes Alexandra Lung, an internationally recognized product leader, C-suite executive, public speaker, corporate advisor, and leadership mentor. Her experience spans international roles in large companies and high-growth tech scale-ups.She started her career working as a consultant in strategy. She also held positions in marketing, communication, product strategy, and consulting in digital transformation. She is listed among the t...2022-08-2252 min
Femme LeadS04 E08 Olimpia Mesa on How People Learn. Turning passion into business. How to build your subject matter expertise?Send us a textHow People Learn | Subject Matter Expert | Learning & Development | Passion | Entrepreneur | Learning | Book to Courses | Learning Design | Instructional Design | Thought Leader | Olimpia Mesa is a leading expert and consultant on brain-based learning design. President of Instructional Design Ltd., a company behind hundreds of successful corporate and educational programs, both online and in-person, delivered in various languages. Olimpia designs and consults with organizations on learning projects for leadership development, transformational change management, coaching, and the development and implementation of learning strategies. Olimpia’s broad industry experience includes banking, insurance, reta...2022-08-0850 min
Femme LeadS04 E07 Ramaa Mosley, Film Director & Founder at Adolescent Content. Gen Z & the new generation of content creators.Send us a textDirector | Career Path | Media Industry | Gen z | Adolescent Content | Advertising Agency | Promoting Talent | Entrepreneur | Diversity & Inclusion | Content Creators | New Generation | Ramaa Mosley is a commercial director, filmmaker, and advocate. Ramaa came across her passion for content creation and advertising at the young age of five when she directed her first documentary, screened at the United Nations, by the time she was 15. Not long after that, she began directing commercials and music videos and now has hundreds of commercials, feature films, and numerous documentaries under her belt. ...2022-06-2736 min
Femme LeadS05 E06 Poorvi Shrivastav, GM & VP, Products at HubSpot on the pillars to promote more women in leadership. Forbes Technology Council.Send us a textWomen in Leadership | Product Leader | Executive Team | Professional Advice | Career Progression | Role Model | People, Product & Process | Healthy Company Culture | Poorvi Shrivastav is the GM and VP of Products at HubSpot. She has more than a decade of experience leading global customer, product, and engineering teams. She has launched products, built high-performing teams across enterprise SaaS companies, and is known for scaling emerging businesses. Poorvi Shrivastav is passionate about education, technology, and culture and is an investor and advisor for multiple educational and software organizations. She holds a B...2022-06-1332 min
Femme LeadS04 E05 Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire on how to transform your career path. Life science business leader & DEIB advocate.Send us a textCareer Transformation | Career Growth | Pivot | Life Sciences | Life in Denmark | Inclusive Leadership | Diversity & Inclusion | Women of Color | Mentorship | Role Model | ProWoc | Life Science | Researcher | Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire is a Dominican-born Science Business Leader with over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries with a passion for people development and making a difference. She has a proven track record of inspiring and driving cross-functional, multicultural teams to deliver results from her leadership positions at global companies like Carlsberg, and Novo Nordisk; and from her no...2022-06-0545 min
Femme LeadS04 E04 Personal branding starts with "why": Amelia Sordell on branding, leadership and entrepreneurship.Send us a textPersonal Branding | Thought Leader | Entrepreneurship | Career Advice | Failure & Success | Leadership | Hiring Tips | Role Model | Amelia Sordell is a thought leader in personal branding, and as she describes herself: “I brand people, not businesses.” She started the agency Klowt in a small bedroom in the middle of a global pandemic. She believes that the future of branding is personal. People buy from people, and trust is vital in any interaction, whether personal or professional. And that is what a personal brand does, it builds trust. 2022-05-0448 min
Femme LeadS04 E03 Career progression with Gurpriya Bhatia, Product Leader. Advice on setting yourself up for a promotion.Send us a textProduct Management | Leadership | Career Progression | Promotion | Career Planning | Technology | Scale-up | Corporate | HR | Innovation | Growth | Gurpriya Bhatia is a product leader in big tech. She works on product strategy and has over 15 years of experience in growth strategy and business model innovation and has worked across the UK, the US, India, Japan, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe.After growing up and studying in New Delhi, India, she moved to the UK in 2007 to pursue a Master's at the London School of Economics.Gurpriya started her career i...2022-04-0537 min
Femme LeadS04 E02 Dora Palfi on entrepreneurship, EdTech & girls education with imagiLabs.Send us a textEdTech | imagiLabs | Girls Education | STEM | Entrepreneurship | Coding for Future | Creators with technology | Dora Palfi is the co-founder & CEO of imagiLabs, an ed-tech company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology. Dora worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has substantial experience teaching programming to children and teenagers as well as advocating for women in technology. Originally from Hungary, and true to her fictional namesake Dora the Explorer, she has lived, studied...2022-03-2137 min
Femme LeadS04 E01 Mia Wagner, Minister, Investor, Board member, Co-founder, Løvens Hule (Danish Shark Tank).Send us a textDigitalization Minister | Gender Quality | Shark Thank | Investor | Board Member | Unicef Danmark | Co-founder Nordic Female Founders (now exited) | Mia Therese Wagner is an investor, board member, co-founder of Nordic Female Founders (now exited), keynote speaker, and a previous member of the Danish version of Shark Tank - Løvens Hule. 💪In 2023, Mia became the Danish Minister for Digitalization and Gender Equality!When Mia started her career, she became a defense attorney, and later she became a partner in “Wagner Attorneys”. In 2017 Mia became CEO of the fa...2022-03-0745 min
Femme LeadSpecial Episode in Romanian: Melania Medeleanu about life decisions, journalism & the mission of her NGO.Send us a textJournalism | NGO | Purpose | Career Change | Public Speaking | In the Spotlight | Charity | Inspiration | Career Path | Personal Growth | Media Training | A former TV anchor, Melania Medeleanu is a seasoned journalist from Romania that now specializes in speech training & public speaking. She left the spotlight and returned to school to study for a master's in speech therapy. Melania wanted to focus on charity and community work, and this is exactly what she started doing instead. She founded MagiCamp, and more recently, the NGO 'Zi de Bine...2022-02-0538 min
Femme LeadS03 E09 UEFA Top Women in Football: How education in sports can inspire a society with Diana Pirciu, Romanian Football Federation.Send us a textEducation | Sport Management | Women in Sports | Football Education | Volunteer Manager | UEFA EURO 2020 | Leadership | Mindset | Athlete | Tennis Player | A former Romanian international tennis player, Diana Pirciu studied communications and sports marketing in the USA before joining the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) as a corporate social responsibility manager and education specialist. For EURO 2020, she was the volunteer manager in Bucharest, overseeing a team of 850 to ensure the city's four matches go to plan. Diana is now the education manager of the Romanian National Fo...2022-01-2443 min