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Welcome to Breaking the Tech Ceiling – A podcast about how women are disrupting preconceptions about what Tech Executives look and sound like.
I’m Michelle Ji-Yeun Kim, a strategy & operations leader with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. I’ll interview VP and C level women in Go To Market roles such as Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Product who have been executives at tech startups, unicorns, and consultancies as well as large companies like Salesforce, Go Nimbly, and others. Join me the first Tuesday of every month as I explore THEIR path into executive leadership, their current aspirations, and practical advice they have for mid to late career women to continue Breaking the Tech Ceiling.
Thanks for listening and if you have questions or comments, you can email me at Michelle@michellejkim.com (don't forget the J!). If you’re interested in joining me on my journey, please follow and download episodes the first Tuesday of every month on Spotify, Apple, or at www.breakingthetechceiling.com. Remember: Be courageous in your career!
PS We're working on season 2. Stay tuned for season 2 to launch in 2026!
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I know 5 other Michelle Kims. This particular Michelle Kim is a Co-Founder and VP of Marketing at Pantastic, and this month’s guest on Breaking the Tech Ceiling! One impetus for this podcast was to help me see potential options for my own career journey. I thought it fitting to end season 1 featuring another Michelle Kim, an executive with GTM expertise in the tech industry. Michelle has had an impressive track record in the SaaS space for over 20 years now holding Director, Head of...
I definitely laughed the most with my most recent Breaking the Tech Ceiling guest Jacki Leahy, Fractional RevOps Advisor and Founder of the RevOps consultancy, Activate the Magic. In this month’s episode, Jacki shares how Pavillion’s Rising Executives program inspired her to make the ask for a VP title, how she went from fired to hired in 7 days, and our shared passion for supporting every woman to be the leading lady of her career. See below for some of the resources Jackimentions in ...
Have you ever had a workquake? Ejieme Eromosele, GM for the EMEA business at Quiq and founder of Success in Black, shares her experience in this month’s episode of Breaking the Tech Ceiling. The resources below are a testament to our extremely illuminating discussion. I was particularly intrigued by what the then President of @The NY Times @Tom Thomson said to her, what she learned about doing business in #China, and how as an experiment 🧪 she volunteered herself personally to take on a ren...
If you don’t know Ran Xiao, she is a real strat & ops bada** 😎 And she just happens to be this month’s guest on Breaking the Tech Ceiling! Ran has been at several high-growth companies during critical junctures (Salesforce, Slack, Zendesk, Carta). In this episode, she shares the 3 things you need to keep in mind to thrive in pressure cooker environments and how the Easter bunny 🐰 fits into her career story. She is currently taking a career pause break and is now open to connecting about l...
Hayal Koc is this month’s guest on Breaking the Tech Ceiling! She's currently the Regional Vice President of High Tech Sales at Salesforce. Hayal’s background is impressive (ibanking, management consulting, Founder). She shares how to overcome the perception that you’re not ready for a senior leadership role, tactics for internal networking, and what to follow instead of your passion. If you have questions or comments, you can email me at Michelle@breakingthetechceiling.com. If you’re intere...
Julia Kim is this month’s guest on Breaking the Tech Ceiling! It’s not everyday you meet a RevOps leader with a degree in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins and a Masters in Computer Science from Harvard. Listen in to hear how she made a career pivot from Solutions Architect to VP of Revenue Operations who’s now seen 4 successful exits and somehow finds time to be an adjunct instructor at Columbia University teaching machine learning, python, and writing to blockchains. We talk about Tiara Syndro...
How did Emily Critchfield make the leap from Senior Director of Sales Operations at Zendesk to VP of Sales Operations at Samsara? In this month’s episode of Breaking The Tech Ceiling, she shares how your REPUTATION, your network, and your references matter even more as you ascend to high stakes executive roles. If you are curious about how Emily got the role (spoiler alert: even VPs have to handle case studies and showcase their technical skills!) and how to signal interest in following...
Anjali Jameson, SVP of Product Management at One Medical (acquired by Amazon), is this month’s guest on Breaking the Tech Ceiling. Tune in to learn from this seasoned health tech leader about schedule scanning, the experience that was pivotal in turning her from a Manager into a leader, and how she got her name to stand out on the list of applicants for the VP of Product Management at One Medical. I admire Anjali for her ability to see the forest beyond the trees. While she acknowledges that...
Breaking The Tech Ceiling's second guest is Marie Brunet, a semiconductor engineer turned Go-To-Market leader. She's been at the forefront of virtual reality and AI, not only building Uniphore's video AI unit as the Global VP of Sales, but was also instrumental in establishing the Facebook Reality Labs business at Meta as Head of Global Commercial Sales. Tune in to hear her secrets for how to make sure your achievements are recognized, her advice to bada** women, and how she went from hesitan...
The first episode of Breaking the Tech Ceiling is now live, featuring Jen Igartua! We discuss her chronotype, how she went from Marketing Automation Consultant at Bluewolf to CEO of GoNimbly (a Revenue Operations firm), and how generalists make the best executives. “There’s enough room for all of us, if we make the space.” ⬅️ Jen’s statement encapsulates why I started this podcast. So many of us are conditioned to operate in a scarcity mindset when the reality is that we can make space...
Welcome to Breaking the Tech Ceiling – I’m your host Michelle Kim, and in this podcast, I interview VP and C-level women who are disrupting preconceptions about what Tech Executives look and sound like. In the trailer episode, I share what this podcast is about, who I am, and why this project is important to me. My primary goal is to inspire women to be courageous in their careers and continue breaking the tech ceiling. If you have questions or comments, you can email me at Michelle@...
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