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Candid Conversations with female role models in the workplace with an aim to connect, empower and inspire more women leaders in businesses everywhere. Through an informal and conversational format, we aim to share and learn from everyday role models on career navigation, dealing with the stereotypes and unconscious biases, leadership styles and fun rapid fire topics.
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What happens when an engineering graduate sets her sights on becoming a top marketer? Meet Sumedha Mahajan who shares her incredible journey from aspiring IAS officer to marketing leader. Sumedha Mahajan is a seasoned marketer, with a passion for brand stories and growth experiments. Currently at the helm as the Head of Marketing, India for Ampverse DMI, she's scripting the next big chapter for Esports in India. She has worked and built marketing campaigns at some of the biggest brands...
In this episode of Unlimited Seating, we sit down with Pallavi Bhowmick, Managing Director at Accenture Strategy and Consulting, operating at the forefront of innovation and AI driven assets in the CG&S Industry. Formerly at Unilever, she spearheaded global initiatives in Ecommerce, Route to Market, Sales, and more, positioning herself at the intersection of Industry and AI. Her recent focus at Accenture revolves around developing Generative AI-driven solutions seamlessly integrated into ...
Ever wondered what it takes to navigate a career in the fast-evolving tech industry? Join us on Unlimited Seating as we sit down with Sudha Jamthe, a renowned Technology Futurist, Business School of AI which is her personal platform, author of 7 books, educator, and independent researcher with 25+ years of entrepreneurial and operational experience in the technology industry. Sudha builds online learning communities at Weeklywed and IoTWomen and Global South in AI at the NeurIPS conference.&n...
Join me your host Sanila Samuel on an engaging and insightful conversation on navigating a corporate and entrepreneurial career journey with Hind Frata. Hind Frata is the founder of Shiftogether, a Barcelona-based Career Coaching & Corporate Leadership training consultancy. Hind's purpose is about humanizing the business world growing business & people together. As an International Executive Career and Corporate coach,Hind has an extensive 18-year tenure in the corporate world as a S...
Join me your host, Sanila Samuel on another insightful conversation, this time with Simone Lawrence. Simone is the co-founder of The Ameliorate Group (TAG), a Dubai-based coaching and people development consultancy working with teams, leaders and women in the workplace. She has over 20 years experience developing people, leading HR, L&D, operations, sales, business development and fundraising teams across a variety of industries, spanning both the corporate and NGO sectors. TAG part...
Meet the extraordinary Emma Henderson, MBE, CEO of Project Wingman, and former commercial pilot. Her story of tenacity and resilience is quite the flight, from childhood dreams of soaring the skies to navigating the challenges of a demanding career while raising three children. Emma's journey wasn't always smooth sailing, but she mastered the turbulence with grace. Prepare for a deep-dive into Emma's exhilarating journey, not just as a pilot, but also as a woman proving that no barrier...
Ever dream of a career that combines math, science, problem-solving, and the thrill of aviation? Meet Danielle Nicole Vardaro, VP of Worldwide Customer Support & Aftermarket Sales for Commercial Aviation with Embraer. In her current role she is responsible for customer relationship management and providing best-in-class support and services to her global customer base while selling aftermarket products and services to keep fleets flying and leading a high impact global team. She ha...
Ever wondered how someone can transition from a marketing career to a thrilling world of security services and global investigations? Join your host Sanila Samuel on an inspiring conversation with Johanna Hladun, a senior executive with over two decades of experience in the government and private sectors. Currently a Senior Director of Security Services at Caterpillar Inc, Johanna shares her fascinating journey from college to the corporate world, her time at Prudential Investments, and her i...
Join your host Sanila Samuel in a conversation with Cristina Seda-Hoelle, General Manager for the Regional and Business Aviation division at GE Aerospace. We talked about Cristina's role models growing up, how her childhood years helped her build resilience and develop empathy for others and some early career mistakes that she embraced and learned from. Cristina shares some good advice on how to choose mentors and how preparation is key when working on building the habit of speaking abo...
Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel on another episode of Unlimited Seating . This time we hear from Shelley Svoren, CEO and Founder of Infinite Branches as she shares how she relied on her years of experience working with clients to start her own business and how she leverages her role with the International Aviation Women's Association to build people up and help them grow. Infinite Branches works with start-up businesses and investors to build impactful, profitable, and sustainable co...
Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel on an insightful episode of Unlimited Seating. This time, I had the pleasure and honor of hosting Keren Rambow, a leader I had heard a lot about and was excited to have as a guest. Keren is Vice President of Sales for the Americas region at GE Aerospace Commercial Engines. In this role, she manages customer relationships and deal strategies in North and South America and is responsible for retaining and winning new business and partnering for the succe...
Join your host Sanila Samuel in a candid conversation with Amita Karadkhedkar. Amita describes herself as a Techno - Functional Leader, Learner from Life, Public Speaker and a Visible Role Model. She is a true change agent and through her advocacy on prestigious platforms such as TedX, NASSCOM, SHRM and many Multi-National Corporations and various Educational Institutions, hopes to lead not just individual changes in terms of behaviors and attitudes but also lay the foundation fo...
Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel on yet another engaging and interesting conversation. This time, I had the pleasure of speaking with Sumathi Chari – we were at school together! Sumathi is Director & Senior Partner at PRHUB. A Brand consultant & integrated communication specialist with close to two decades of experience, Sumathi works with senior leadership at organisations across diverse domains, to help them devise their brand building strategy and execution roadmap. Sh...
Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Ula Bieganska. Ula is a passionate marketeer with 15+ years experience across Europe, Middle East and Africa. She started her career in P&G, where she spent 6 years in various global and local roles. She then moved to the LEGO Group, the most admired toy producer in the world, where she started in a regional Eastern Europe role in Prague. She moved to LEGO HQ in Denmark. For the past four years she supported the opening of a new ...
Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Yosr Hamza - lawyer, mentor, DEI champion and special needs parent. We dove right into talking about Yosr's experience starting out as a young female lawyer in the Middle East to finding her space as Legal Director at Gartner to getting life changing news about her few months old son and her journey of acceptance. Yosr is a bilingual multi award-winning and commended experienced tech legal director with both a private practice ...
Join your host Sanila Samuel in a candid conversation with Natalie Stone as they talk about career choices, leveraging the power of connections and evolving your personal brand and leadership style. Natalie has been with GE Aviation for 22 years with leadership roles in Engineering, Supply Chain MRO, and Commercial Engines. She is currently the product management leader of Legacy Propulsion widebody products, which involves product strategy, upgrades, and keeping the fleet of ~10,000 e...
Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Dinkle Shah. Dinkle is consultant at Deloitte and while she is early in her career, what makes Dinkle a role model is the way she proves her moxie time after time despite multiple challenges that come her way as someone with a permanent disability. Dinkle shares advice on how to approach people with disabilities - Avoid the sympathy and be empathetic but just be as you would with anyone! See the person and not the wheelch...
Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Balkiz Sarihan. In this episode, Balkiz shares her journey that is greatly inspired by her entrepreneur mum and walks us through how she learned to tell her story and build on the power of connections to learn, grow and inspire teams as an Intrapeneur. Balkiz Sarihan is Head of UAM Strategy Execution & Partnerships at Airbus. Balkiz joined the leadership team of Urban Air Mobility at Airbus to focus on the industry, business...
Join your host Sanila Samuel in a candid conversation with Leila Rezaiguia as she shares her career journey starting from how she realized what she is passionate about and the risk of leaving a well paying corporate job to start her own firm. Leila is a highly sought-after multilingual Executive and Systemic Team Coach. She is renowned for her high energy, enthusiasm, passion, fun-loving nature, and her love for empowering, connecting and working with people from diverse cultures. ...
Join your host Sanila Samuel on an upbeat and insightful conversation with Fatima Tomoum as she talks about her journey spanning countries where she learnt by immersing herself in the local culture and language and used her various experiences as an interpreter as well to develop a passion for creating excellent customer experiences, whatever the industry. Fatima Tomoum is a seasoned and passionate CX professional who firmly believes that listening to customers is the key for companies’ succ...
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