The View from the Middle People-First Leadership for the Age of AI

Two sisters. Twenty years in tech. Completely different paths — and one shared question: what if the view from here is exactly right?In Episode 1, Ann Samuel (Senior Director of Global Technical Support) and Preethi (Director of Engineering) tell the origin story of Sister Code — from growing up together in India, to starting their careers at the same company, to diverging into support and engineering leadership in the US. They get honest about what middle leadership actually looks like, why neither of them is chasing the VP title, and why they finally decided to have this conversation out loud.Takeaways:Why mid-career is not a stopping point — it's a vantage pointWhat "middle leadership" actually means day-to-dayHow two sisters took the same starting line and built completely different careersWhy South Asian women in tech need more of this conversation publiclyThe question that started it all: what does success look like when you define it yourself?Chapters:00:00 Chapter 1 — Two Sisters, One Mission and How We Ended Up in Tech08:26 Chapter 2 — The Divergence: Support vs. Engineering18:46 Chapter 3 — Where We Are Today?31:19Chapter 4 — Why We Started Sister Code and Who It's For