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Femme LeadS06 E11 Navigating a Zig-Zag Career in Tech and Transformation with Melanie McGrory Director, EMEA Tech Amazon Web Services.Send us a textLeadership Development | Executive Career Track | Career Pivot | AWS | In this Femme Lead episode, Melanie McGrory, Director of the EMEA Tech team at Amazon Web Services, shares her unique career journey spanning cybersecurity, defense, and tech leadership. Known for her “zig-zag” career path, Melanie discusses pivotal moments of risk-taking, overcoming challenges in male-dominated industries, and the evolving nature of leadership in today’s digital world.Melanie and her team at AWS support digital native companies and enterprises by enabling digital transformation, innovation, and new customer experiences. With expertise across 1...
2025-10-0146 min
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 DenmarkPanelet 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/?viewAsMembe
2024-07-0849 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
Femme LeadS03 E08 Redefining entrepreneurial success with Mashal Waqar, Co-founder, The Tempest. Forbes 30 Under 30.Send us a textSuccess | Entrepreneur | Introvert | 60 Day Startups | Founder | Leadership | Mental Health | Boundaries | Media Platform | Role Model | Women in Media |Mashal Waqar is a serial entrepreneur who loves being in the midst of startups, cool tech, writing, and good people.Her first media startup, The Tempest, impacts millions of readers globally through powerful storytelling. Mashal Waqar also co-created a business accelerator taking women founders from early-stage to revenue in 60 days. She is passionate about gender equality, accessibility, and intersectional growth and has previously worked with the United Na...
2022-01-1040 min
Femme LeadS03 E07 The Imposter Experience with Joy Beland, Cybersecurity Expert & Thought Leader.Send us a textThe Imposter Experience | Imposter Feeling | Cybersecurity Specialist | Thought Leader | The Human Element of Cybersecurity | Personal Growth | Organizational Culture | Confidence | Joy Beland is a cybersecurity expert & thought leader. She gained worldwide attention for her thought leadership in the Human Element of cybersecurity while successfully training over 3,000 people on cybersecurity fundamentals. She has many accreditations and has successfully contributed to the cybersecurity world. Her mission is to protect organizations from cybercrime, whether caused by external or external internal threat actors. In addi...
2021-12-2039 min
Femme LeadS03 E06 Caroline Gorski CEO - R² Factory at Rolls-Royce on AI Trends, Future of Work & Inclusive Teams.Send us a textArtificial Intelligence | Internet of Things | Rolls Royce | R² Data Labs | Data Science | Punk | Geek | Superfreak | Future of Work | Leadership | STEM Careers| Motherhood | AI Trends |Caroline Gorski is a technology leader with more than 25 years of experience, with a background in strategy consulting, market development, and commercial decision-making at FTSE 100 board level.She is also the Group Director of R² Data Labs, the data innovation and artificial intelligence catalyst inside Rolls-Royce:"We create data and AI-based innovations, apps, and services that imp...
2021-12-0650 min
Femme LeadSpecial Episode: Transform Your Passion into Your Career Path (Webinar Recording).Send us a textWebinar | Passion | Women-Led Business | Accelerator | Purpose | Career Path | Inspiration | Startup | New Beginning | Personal Story | Our guest Peggy joined the Femme Lead community to share her professional journey & share how she transformed her passion for startups and communities into her day job at both IBM & Microsoft. Peggy started Time to Raise to accelerate women-led startups to investment.In our live event, we covered the process of finding one’s passion, the decision to leave a job to pursue a new endeavor, steps to manage this decision successfully, and pla...
2021-12-0431 min
Femme LeadS03 E05 Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life with Poornima Luthra, Author, CEO of TalentED Consultancy.Send us a textMindset Shift | Career Change | Talent Management | Human Resources | Consultancy | Diversity & Inclusion | Representation | Entrepreneurship | Education | Thought Leader |Four our episode on mindset shift, we have brought to the table a special guest: Dr. Poornima Luthra is the author of ‘Diversifying Diversity: Your guide to being an active ally of inclusion in the workplace’ and the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS as well as a member of the teaching Faculty at the Copenhagen Business School. She has spent the last fifteen years researching and teaching university courses in th...
2021-11-2242 min
Femme LeadS03 E04 Women in Tech: The Journey to a Career in STEM with Anne-Sofie Nielsen, VP of Software Development at Workday.Send us a textWomen in Tech | STEM Careers | Role Model | Software Engineering | Talent | CXO | Leadership | Professional Growth | Advice | Working Mother | In our interview, we explore the multi-facets of running an international organization as a technical leader and the need for more representation in STEM. Anne-Sofie shares her experience from starting her career in web development to leading teams and continuing to bring innovation to large organizations. Looking back, the business world still needs to advance the mission of diversity and representation. Anne-Sofie Nielsen leads the development of th...
2021-11-0834 min
Femme LeadS03 E03 Human Potential: How to unlock your potential with Antesa Jensen, Emotional Intelligence Expert & Coach.Send us a textHuman Potential | Emotional Intelligence | Coach | Unlock Potential | Talent | Personal Growth | Fulfilment | Zone of Genius | Leadership | EmpowermentAntesa Jensen is an extraordinary speaker and coach whose philosophy is the fastest way forward is inward. Antesa helps people take something that exists within us, empathy, and use it to fulfill one's path. In our latest interview, we explore the topic of unlocking human potential. Antesa shares that parts within that are not yet potentiated can get opened, and as a result, we become more of w...
2021-10-2539 min
Femme LeadS03 E02 Boundaries: How to create a life by design with Sigrid Tasies, Embodiment & Leadership Coach.Send us a textBoundaries | Embodiment | Coach | Practice | Self-Reflection | Boundaries at Work | Alignment | Leadership | Women EmpowermentSigrid is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach. She is on a mission to help purpose-driven entrepreneurs tap into their infinite potential as leaders by fully embodying their truth and most profound alignment to amplify their impact in this world.In our interview, we discuss the process of establishing boundaries, how to communicate our boundaries, and how to integrate the practice of setting boundaries in a world that is constantly changing.She has coached...
2021-10-1140 min
Femme LeadS03 E01 Confidence: How to build the confidence to go for your dreams with Yan Fan, co-founder and CTO of Code Chrysalis.Send us a textConfidence | Founder | Coding Bootcamp | CTO | Software Engineering | Code Chrysalis | Speaker | Diversity in Tech | Women EmpowermentYan Fan is changing the way Asia trains software engineers. She is the co-founder and CTO of Code Chrysalis, a coding Bootcamp in Tokyo. She started Code Chrysalis because she was brimming with ideas on best teaching programming and developing top software engineering talent. Code Chrysalis helps individuals change their careers through our programs and works with large enterprises to re-engineer their teams. Code Chrysalis ...
2021-09-2739 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #10: Diversity & Inclusion in leadership with Dr. Anino Emuwa. How to promote more women in leadership?Send us a textThe live session shared via LinkedIn Live with Dr. Anino Emuwa in the spring of 2021 is now available for streaming! Dr. Anino Emuwa was named one of the top 125 Diversity and Including experts to follow on LinkedIn & she has spoken at prestigious conferences and institutions including Forbes, University of Cambridge, France’s National Assembly, and TechPark Davos, to name a few.An executive strategist, she works with high-achieving women CEOs and founders, and she is a coach and mentor for several global organizations. She is the founder of...
2021-09-2633 min
Femme LeadAnniversary Episode: One year of Femme Lead with Alexandra Ciobotaru and Brittany Arthur.Send us a textIt's happening! The one-year anniversary of Femme Lead is here! On August 27th, 2020 we shared the first episodes of the podcast on female leadership and role models!Now, one year later, we decided to share with you a special interview, hosted by Brittany Arthur, Design Thinking Expert, and Host of Business Karaoke Podcast interviewing Femme Lead's Host, Alexandra Ciobotaru.Stay tuned for season 3 and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook & Youtube! Check Linktree: https://linktr.ee/FemmeLeadPodcast We hope you enjoy this episode!
2021-08-2646 min
Femme LeadS02 E12 Agile Mindset: How to find your calling with Signe Hjorth Hansen, Agile Coach & Board Member Women in Tech DK.Send us a textAgile | Agile Coach | Nuuday | Agile Mindset | IT Transformation | Find your Calling | Career Development | Experiment | The Agile Way Signe Hjorth Hansen is the last guest of Femme Lead Podcast season 2! Signe is an Agile Coach for the tech & telecom company Nuuday in Denmark and a board member in the organization Women in Tech Denmark. Signe's career started with a graduate program in the company Cisco and continued as a business manager before moving into the telecommunication space for the last 4 years at TDC/N...
2021-07-0543 min
Femme LeadS02 E11 Growth Marketing: How to build a growth machine in tech with Irina Scarlat, Chief Growth Officer at Bitpanda.Send us a textGrowth Marketing | BitPanda | Growth Machine | Leadership | Product-Led Growth | Well-being | Career | Uber | Revolut | Marketing Executive | Teamwork | Sabbatical Irina Scarlat is the Chief Growth Officer at Bitpanda and an Uber & Revolut Alumna. She joins Femme Lead Podcast to discuss her amazing trajectory in the marketing space, how she tackled becoming a global manager, and how she helped build the growth machine that Revolut is known for. Additionally, we explore well-being and balancing career and family life in a real conversation that “you cannot have it all” and how to...
2021-06-2143 min
Femme LeadS02 E10 Creative Industries: The best in advertising with Sandra Bold, Digital Creative Director at Publicis Milan. Cannes Lions Jury Member.Send us a textAdvertising | Creativity | Cannes Lions | Creative Industry | Digital Creators | Best Ads | Publicis | Ad World | Creatives | In this episode, we discuss advertising and working with the best creatives. Our guest is no other than Sandra Bold, Cannes Lions Jury member and Digital Creative Director at Publicis Milan. Sandra Bold is far from the typical path of working on a traditional career path, having graduated in architecture and deciding to work with ads instead to showcase the talent that lies within her. Sa...
2021-06-0745 min
Action 2 Impact Podcast with Gwen JonesI'm A Rotarian Season 5 Ep.8 Alexandra CiobotaruSend a textMeet Alexandra Ciobotaru she's a member of the International Rotaract Club of Copenhagen and the marketing officer for ERIC - Rotaract Europe. we're talking about the business of Rotary in this battle of the podcasters part 2Support the showJoin me as I talk to those "amazing people turning their Actions 2 Impact all over the world. #BE THE CHANGE
2021-05-2653 min
Femme LeadS02 E09 Entrepreneurship: How two women disrupted the fishing industry with Nima Tisdall, Co-Founder at Blue Lobster.Send us a textSocial Entrepreneurship | Social Change | Impact Business | Blue Lobster | Fishing | Disruptors | Business Acumen | Innovation | Digitalisation |Nima Tisdall is a well-known entrepreneur in Denmark. Together with her co-founder Christine Hebert, they founded Blue Lobster, a platform for sustainable fishermen to sell their catches at a fair price.In 2020, Nima Tisdall became the European Laureate for the Obama Foundation Leaders' Program, and in 2021 Nima was listed as one of Forbes 30 under 30.In...
2021-05-2446 min
Femme LeadS02 E08 CFO Story with Simone Menne: The career path to top management. Creating long-lasting impact.Send us a textCFO Career Story | Leadership Advice | Top Management | Women in Leadership | Finance Career | Lufthansa | Lead with Impact | In this episode, we converse with Simone Menne, former CFO of Lufthansa AG and Boehringer Ingelheim. Simone Menne is a member of the supervisory board and non-executive director in various companies including BMW AG, Deutsche Post DHL, Johnson Controls International and runs an art gallery in Kiel. We discuss with Simone her impressive career, what are her pieces of advice for people looking into top management positions and what does...
2021-05-1052 min
Femme LeadS02 E07 Impact Investing: How to change the world through healthcare with Dr. Nina Rawal, Emerging Health Ventures.Send us a textImpact Investing | Venture Fund | Innovation | Healthcare Solutions | Women in Science | Business with Impact | World Impact | In this episode, we discuss impact investing: how to change the world through healthcare by creating impact businesses. My guest is Dr. Nina Rawal, the founder of Emerging Health Ventures, in Stockholm, Sweden. We cover how can we all individually contribute to changing the world for the better, and what are the steps to follow if you are interested in investing in healthcare, as the emerging topic to ensure safety for our society. S...
2021-04-2646 min
Femme LeadS02 E06 Diversity & Inclusion: How promoting women in leadership is everyone's business with Dr. Anino Emuwa.Send us a textDiversity & Inclusion | Leadership | 100Women @Davos | Women who impact | Representation | Women in Board Positions | Africa Women CEOs Network | Today’s episode is about diversity & inclusion in leadership. My guest is the amazing Dr. Anino Emuwa, a powerhouse, founder, international public speaker, and advocate for gender-balanced business leadership. She was named one of the top 125 Diversity and Including experts to follow on LinkedIn & she has spoken at prestigious conferences and institutions including Forbes, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, France’s National Assembly, and Te...
2021-04-1245 min
Femme LeadSpecial Episode [in Romanian]: The mission of empowering girls with Andreea Potra, President of Girl Up Romania.Send us a textIn this episode, we converse with Andreea Potra, President of Girl Up Romania, an organization that aims to help young women & girls by sharing content in a way that adolescents can understand their human rights. We discuss the mission of empowering young women and girls, what can civil society do to support their mission and how can each individual contribute to a more equal world where women & girls are protected and empowered. Girl Up Romania is a branch of Girl Up International, a youth organization founded b...
2021-03-2947 min
Femme LeadS02 E05 Neuroscience & Entrepreneurship: The science behind the entrepreneurial mind with Emily Clements Ph.D.Send us a textNeuroscience | Entrepreneurship | Neuroimaging | Exploration | Innovation | Neuroscience of entrepreneurship | Creativity | Ideas Management | Brain Power | In this episode, our guest is Emily Clements who is completing a Ph.D. in Neuroimaging, a collaboration between the Entrepreneurship Institute and Neuroimaging Department at King’s College London, aiming to uncover if there is something different in the brain of those who think entrepreneurial. The questions she will address with her research are (1) How do entrepreneurs' cognition (thinking) differ from non-entrepreneurs? (2) Do these differences in cognition correlate with the...
2021-03-2245 min
Femme LeadIWD Special Episode: Navigating a career path in tech. Lessons from role models. Alexandra Ciobotaru in conversation with Noa Segre.Send us a textIn this special episode Alexandra Ciobotaru, the host of Femme Lead joins Noa Segre, Senior Strategist at Talent Garden to converse about navigating the career path in tech and lessons from female role models. This event was live-streamed on the 8th of March 2021, on International Women’s Day.Noa Segre is a Corporate Transformation Senior Strategist at Talent Garden, who shared insights from her experience in technology and innovation from startups and over 10 years of experience in one of Israel’s leading Venture Capital funds.
2021-03-1458 min
Femme LeadS02 E04 Product Management: Creating psychological safety to support your high performing teams with Soumeya Benghanem, VMware.Send us a textProduct Management | Psychological Safety | High Performing Teams | Product Executive | Women and Earnings | In this interview, we discuss with Soumeya Benghanem the role of a product manager, learnings from Soumeya’s career, and how to create psychological safety to support high-performing teams. In the second part of the conversation, we also discuss the topic of women and earnings. Some of the questions we consider are: Are you happy with your earnings, are you unsure whether to ask for more money in your discussion with your manager, wh...
2021-03-0857 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #9: Wellbeing at work with Lisette de Jonge, Global Health & Wellbeing Leader at IKEA.Send us a textA live session with Lisette de Jonge, Global health & wellbeing leader at IKEA on the importance of well-being in practice at work, what to pay attention to deciding to implement a well-being strategy, and advice for the listeners who want to add well-being as part of their lives. This live session was live-streamed via the Femme Lead Podcast Facebook page. You can follow Lisette de Jonge on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisettedejonge/ Episode Timeline:
2021-03-0628 min
Femme LeadS02 E03 Well-being: How to set up a well-being strategy for your organization with Lisette de Jonge, Global Health & Wellbeing Leader at IKEA.Send us a textHealth & Wellbeing | Wellbeing Strategy | Organizational Wellbeing | Support & Education | How to develop a wellbeing strategy in an organization | Wellbeing Leader | Strategic Role |In this episode, Lisette shares her journey in IKEA, how she helped develop a well-being strategy, and how 2020 was the year that saw increased adoption of this topic in organizations, and what are some key steps to consider when tackling health & wellbeing in this setup.Lisette shares how she developed her own role as a wellbeing specialist, steaming from the...
2021-02-2238 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #8: Parenting authentically with Ashley Avinashi. The role of self love in raising children.Send us a textA live session with Ashley Avinashi on the importance of intuition in parenting, what to pay attention to when developing the relationship with our children, and tools to use to help the journey of authentic parenting. This live session was live-streamed via the Femme Lead Podcast Facebook page. Episode Timeline: 02:50 How can we, as adults, train to follow our intuition?07:25 As a set of tools or practices, is there anything that parents can take away from this discussion abo...
2021-02-2139 min
Femme LeadS02 E02 Authentic Parenting: Shining out who you truly are with Ashley Avinashi, Founder at Raising Humanity.Send us a textAuthentic Parenting | Your authentic self | The impact of your luggage in raising children | Intuition & education | Finding out who you are for yourself and your children | In this episode, we tackle the topic of authentic parenting, how do we find out who we are and what are our values, so we raise children from a place of authenticity and love, not only for ourselves but also for future generations. The main message of this episode is to take responsibility for yourself and widen your lens to see ‘what else is...
2021-02-081h 01
Femme LeadS02 E01 Venture Capital: The future of mobility, careers in VC and the mindset for success with Sohaila Ouffata, BMW i Ventures.Send us a textMobility | Impact of technology on the mobility space| Gender & VC | The role of diversity in building companies | The success of an idea and what impacts it| In this new season, we deep dive into new fields of work and we focus on career paths we haven't mentioned before, as well as some topics we were encouraged by the listeners to add. In this episode, we discuss the world of venture capital, how to get started, what is to know about the mobility space with Sohaila Ouffata, my next gu...
2021-01-2544 min
Femme LeadS01 E08 Management Consulting: The Consulting Mindset. Learnings & Advice with Ceyda Atay Haga, Principal at Kearney.Send us a textIn this episode, we converse with Kearney Principal, Ceyda Atay Haga about her path into management consulting, pieces of advice for young graduates who want to kickstart their career in consulting or experienced hires who want to transition to management consulting. Moreover, we talk about challenges and advice for those who want to learn from Ceyda’s extensive experience across 4 countries: how to tackle an interview, the importance of confidence, and how you can showcase your skills, as well as insights into the consulting lifestyle. For nearly a dec...
2020-12-2948 min
Femme LeadS01 E07 Marketing Communications: Planning your career. A dialogue with Anja Monrad, Senior Vice President at Dell Technologies.Send us a textIn this interview we converse with Anja Monrad, the woman that leads Dell Technologies in the Central & Eastern Europe region, covering 31 countries, from Israel to Poland. This episode focuses on marketing communications and Anja's journey from starting as a graduate in IT sales to becoming an executive, all through planning her career. Having joined Dell as Marketing Director for the Nordic countries in 2000, Anja has since pursued an international career within Dell Marketing holding various regional and global roles. She has been in charge of Dell’s CEE business since 2013.A...
2020-12-2846 min
Femme LeadLive Session #7: From L&D to life skills with Alina Buteica. Attitudes to help you step in 2021.Send us a textIn this session, we deep dive into 9 attitudes to take into 2021 (until minute 48), followed by introducing feminine leadership and understanding ‘’sisterhood’ rather than seeing your setup as a competitive environment. “From L&D to life skills for 2021 and the new reality: Attitudes to help you step in 2021 & the new decade” encompasses learnings from our first podcast guest, Alina Buteica, and her trajectory and professional evolution. Alina built from the base up the largest management programs academy for the fastest growing tech company in Africa...
2020-12-2755 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #6: Building a career in Management Consulting with Ceyda Haga, Principal at Kearney.Send us a textIn this live session, Ceyda Atay Haga, Principal at Kearney Nordic shares pieces of advice on mentorship, moving abroad, and building a career across borders, as well as the state of recruiting and how can more women join this field.Read Ceyda’s recent articles: https://finansavisen.no/nyheter/telekom/2020/10/02/7573195/kearney-mener toget-holder-pa-a-ga-fra-telenor-og-telia https://www.kearney.com/covid-19/article/?/a/10-ways-to-use-digital-to strengthen-your-customer-experience-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic https://www.kearney.com/communications-media-technology/article?/a/winning in-sales-through-technologyEpisode Timeline: 01:30 Mentorship: How do you know...
2020-12-1940 min
Femme LeadS01 E09 Business Cultivation: Relationship Management as the key to a successful partnership with Ana Sarbu.Send us a textIn this episode, we discuss the field of business development, how to work with high-level clients, how to communicate, and what questions to ask. The journey to navigate the corporate setup can be paved with challenges if the relationship with your customers is not strong. Ana Sarbu shares pieces of advice on how to build fruitful partnerships with business partners and ensure their needs are listened to and met while providing the service Palantir is best known for: the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations.Ana has b...
2020-12-1645 min
Femme LeadSpecial Episode: Live Session onn Mindfulness with Rachel Hayek. Personal growth in times of COVID-19.Send us a textFrom corporate to entrepreneurship. Personal growth in times of COVID-19 with Rachel Hayek. In this special live session, we will discuss how to tackle the complete change in the environment that arises with the pandemic and express gratitude!A newly turned entrepreneur, Rachel is a leadership coach and mindfulness facilitator passionate about helping people tune into their inner wisdom. She helps people discover the obstacles preventing them from living the life they desire. She believes that kindness, compassion, collaboration, and self-mastery are the keys to effective leadership. Fascinated by...
2020-12-1038 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #5: Anja Monrad, SVP Dell Technologies on "Planning Your Career."Send us a textIn this live Q&A session, we deep dive into planning your career with Anja Monrad, Senior Vice President & General Manager at Dell Technologies. Anja answered questions about steps to start planning your professional path, what can come out of taking advantage of opportunities and saying yes to new challenges. In the second part of the interview, we discuss how the pandemic accelerated digitalization, challenges for large companies, and how Dell Technologies transitioned to remote work. Lastly, we tackle the topic of how digitalization will shape the next decade. Tune in...
2020-11-2733 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #4: 'Owning Your Story' with Dr. Ghina M. Halabi, Space Scientist.Send us a textJoin us for a deep dive into building a career in science, challenges, and biases. Dr. Ghina M. Halabi is the first person to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics from a Lebanese university, a Space Scientist at the University of Cambridge, Programme Director at Cambridge Judge Business School's Entrepreneurship Centre, and the founder of She Speaks Science. Through all of her initiatives, she aims to make science accessible and women in STEM more visible, one story at a time.Episode Timeline:01:04 How...
2020-11-1630 min
Femme LeadS01 E06 Astrophysics: Owning your story. Science & Storytelling with Dr. Ghina Halabi, Ph.D.Send us a textDr. Ghina M. Halabi is the first person to obtain a doctorate in astrophysics from a Lebanese university, a Space Scientist at the University of Cambridge, Programme Director at Cambridge Judge Business School's Entrepreneurship Centre, and the founder of She Speaks Science. Through all of her initiatives, she aims to make science accessible and women in STEM more visible, one story at a time. In this episode, Dr. Ghina discusses the role of astrophysics in science, gender biases in showcasing science as a career option for girls, and steps to change...
2020-11-0440 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #3: Living a Heart-centered Life with Dr. Madalina Petrescu, Cardiologist.Send us a textThis session with Dr. Madalina Petrescu, Cardiologist, touches upon topics discussed in the 5th episode of Femme Lead Podcast on ‘’Living from the Heart." We discuss the importance of the morning routine, meditation & more practices to reduce stress, the lines between the spiritual speech in a scientific setup, and more on the medical system in the USA & challenges in the last few months. This session was live-streamed via the Femme Lead Podcast Facebook page. The podcast is available on all major streaming platforms. More details on femmeleadpodcast.com00:38 What...
2020-10-291h 02
Femme LeadS01 E05 Cardiologist Dr. Madalina Petrescu on 'Living from the Heart'.Send us a textIn this interview, Madalina Petrescu M.D. is sharing what it truly means to live a heart-centered life. She goes beyond the traditional healing of the physical heart and dives deep into living life from your heart. She talks about how to live an aligned life, a whole, and balanced life, what true health really means, involving all aspects of self including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Madalina has always been attracted to the space of the heart and the healing arts, becoming a cardiologist in 2004. S...
2020-10-2151 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #2: Emotional Intelligence. Taking charge of your life & career with Antesa Jensen.Send us a textThis session with Antesa Jensen, emotional intelligence expert and coach, will deep dive into some of the topics she covered in the fourth episode of Femme Lead Podcast! We discuss taking charge of your environment, mirroring a behavior, and having the courage to look within for the answers to build the career that fulfills you and, ultimately, the life you want. This session was live-streamed via the Femme Lead Podcast Facebook page. If you want to know when the next live Q&A session happens, follow us @femmeleadpodcast on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
2020-10-1958 min
Femme LeadS01 E03 Investment: Educating the next generation of investors with Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen, Co-founder of Female Invest.Send us a textHow do you decide to start a business that would serve women in the financial industry? The answer? You quickly realize that women are underrepresented in the financial markets, and they generally retire with 35% less wealth than men. In Denmark, the number is 43% less for women. Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen is the co-founder of Female Invest, Northern Europe's leading financial educator. The goal of Female Invest is to help women become better at investing and managing their personal finances. They do this, among other things, through video courses and coaching sessions....
2020-09-1934 min
Femme LeadLive Q&A Session #1: Design thinking & building a career abroad with Brittany Arthur.Send us a textThe Femme Lead Live Q&A Session is a new piece of content that focuses on having answers to some of the questions listeners have after hearing the interview. The guests tune in live to answer questions from the viewers that see the live stream via Facebook Live or Instagram. If you want to know when the next live Q&A session happens, follow us @femmeleadpodcast on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.In this episode, Brittany focuses on sharing more thoughts on how to use design thinking for your innovation endeavors, how...
2020-09-1047 min
Femme LeadS01 E01 Learning & Development: How to build a path of opportunities with Alina Buteica.Send us a textThis episode of the interview podcast focuses on the field of learning and development. Alina Cristina Buteica is a professional with years of experience in the learning space, having built the department for Africa's first billion-dollar company, Jumia. 1. Upbringing and education section: Alina Buteica is a graduate of 3 business schools and has lived in 17 countries on 3 continents. With such an amazing life story, Alina will focus on her journey into learning and development and how she stepped into a deeper level of personal growth, how to live a...
2020-08-2744 min
Femme LeadS01 E02 Design Thinking & Innovation: How to create a modern dialogue on design thinking in Japan with Brittany Arthur.Send us a textBrittany Arthur is an expert in innovation and design thinking, and through her company, Design Thinking Japan, she bridges the world of innovation and organizational change.Brittany organically developed the ability to connect her love for Japan with her passion for processes and customer-centricity. She has a double degree in business and Japanese, as she identified that this is the field she wants to pursue as it outlines her passion for people.Career Path Section at 10’: What is design thinking? Design th...
2020-08-2542 min