International Women's Day Special with Nicola Breyer, Managing Director at Qwist

In this celebratory Episode 30 on International Women's Day, Sade is joined by Nicola Breyer.Nicola Breyer is Managing Director at Qwist Group, the leading independent European Open Banking platform provider, with key markets in DACH, Spain, and Portugal.Prior to this, she was CEO of finleap connect and Qwist GmbH until the formation of the new Group, and Chief Growth Officer and Managing Director at OptioPay, an Open Banking Fin-/AdTech company, as well as in a leading growth and innovation role at PayPal in Europe. Nicola has over 25 years of experience in operating and advising businesses and has lived and worked in multiple countries in Europe and beyond.Beyond her executive roles, Nicola not only holds board positions as part of her angel investments in for-profit social impact businesses (Vested Ltd. among others), supporting female founders, but also contributes her expertise to the solar energy company Wattz as board advisor. Furthermore, she serves as an advisor to social impact accelerators and funds such as Village Capital, Impact Shakers  and Planet A Ventures.Sade and Nicola discussed the current situation in the tech world. As we all know, there has been a massive shift in focus from top line growth to profitability over the last few years, so for many, navigating this time has been difficult. Nicola shares her insights on how to best manage companies and people in this time and how you can actually turn this around, despite it being completely out of our control.They also discussed how this causes a decent amount of uncertainty for all, and of course, there are topics which add to this uncertainty for women that may not affect men as much, especially women in c-suite positions.We hope you enjoy it!