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Diva Tech Talk Podcast

by Hosted by a Collaboration of Professional Women in Technology

We are on a journey to share insights into leadership, innovation and breaking down the big issues women face in a tech-savvy world. We interview women leaders all around the world from CIOs and Founders, to creators and nonprofit executives, covering generations of innovation. Everyone with whom we've crossed paths has a story of success that we share with our listeners. Don't get tangled along the way in your journey; listen in and learn from dynamic divas who share everything from balancing life duties, to negotiating, forging their way in their fast-changing industry, to (most of all) finding themselves. Podcast currently hosted by Nicole Johnson Scheffler, Kathleen Norton-Schock, and Amanda Lewan. Follow along with us here at www.divatechtalk.com.

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  1. Ep 101: Catherine Tabor: Making Sparks Fly

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Catherine Tabor, CEO and Founder of Sparkfly, a cloud-based offer management solutions company maximizing customer acquisition by connecting real-time behavior with online and in-store sales. Catherine's father was a physics professor, and she visited his university...

  2. Ep 100: Michelle Accardi: Jump in With Both Feet

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Michelle Accardi, President and Chief Revenue Officer at Star2Star Communications, a global VoIP telecommunications vendor. Headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, Star2Star offers proprietary, hybrid unified voice and data communications solutions, in "the cloud." A...

  3. Ep 99: Sandra Estok: Changing Perspectives Through Storytelling

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed cybersecurity expert, author, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur, Sandra Estok. Creator of the international book series, Happily Ever Cyber, Sandra founded her own company: Way2Protect LLC, after an extensive corporate career. Originally from…

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  4. Ep 98: Amelia Ransom: Inclusion Leadership -- Not for The Faint of Heart

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Amelia Ransom, Senior Director, Diversity and Engagement at Avalara, a tech company that ensures global tax compliance is done right. Amelia is dedicated to "trying to solve a problem that the world has not solved. It is not for the faint of heart." "I didn't plan to be...

  5. Ep 97: Dr. Nicki Washington: Armor Up, Every Day

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Dr. Nicki Washington, author, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Winthrop University, founder at Washington Consulting LLC and passionate advocate for women of color, in technology. Winthrop University featured her work. "I was born and raised in Durham, North...

  6. Ep 96: Sunitha Vinnakota: Don't Give Away The Remote Control for Your Life

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Sunitha Vinnakota, tech/IT security leader for General Motors Company, a trailblazer in automotive solutions for almost a century. Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, global GM employs over 180,000 people; serves customers on 6 continents across 23 time zones in 70...

  7. Ep 95: Linda Rose: Raise Your Personal Ceiling

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Linda Rose, merger and acquisitions advisor at RoseBiz Inc., and author of GET ACQUIRED FOR MILLIONS --- offering wisdom and a practical roadmap to business owners interested in divestiture. Linda has owned four companies and has served hundreds of others. In 7th grade,...

  8. Ep 94: Jeanine Heck: No Day but Today

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Jeanine Heck, Vice President, AI at Comcast, the world's second largest broadcasting and cable television company; the U.S. largest pay television, cable TV and home internet service provider; and third largest home telephone supplier in the U.S. As a child, Jeanine...

  9. Ep 93: Liz Armbruester: Reframe Your Possibilities

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Liz Armbruester, SVP, Global Compliance, at Avalara, which helps businesses get tax compliance right. Avalara partners with ERP providers, accounting, e-commerce and financial systems companies, to deliver cloud-based tax compliance solutions, for all transactions....

  10. Ep 92: Liz Siver: Winning Through Networking

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Liz Siver, former Microsoft executive for the U.S. Central Region, now General Manager for NeoPollard Interactive, a breakthrough company, leading transformation of state lottery systems online. Liz credited her "network: the people I knew and encountered" for…

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  11. Ep 91: Sireesha Mandava: Everyone Deserves to Achieve Their Dreams

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Sireesha Mandava, CIO and VP of Innovation at Greenpath Financial Wellness, a nationwide nonprofit with a mission to empower people to lead financially healthy lives, and realize their unique dreams, at all stages of life. With a family legacy of social justice…

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  12. Ep 90: Teri Takai: Giving Back and Getting Things Done

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Teri Takai, former CIO for the U.S. Department of Defense; former CIO for both the state of California and state of Michigan; and automotive industry technology executive. Today, Teri is the Executive Director for The Center for Digital Government, a division of...

  13. Ep 89: Noramay Cadena: Clean Your Closet

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Noramay Cadena, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at MiLA (Make in LA) Capital, an early stage venture fund, in Los Angeles. Launched in 2015, it is a "high touch" VC, founded on two major beliefs: hardware technology can be brought to market more frugally; and LA is an...

  14. Ep 88: Michelle Greene: Bring Your Authentic Self

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed the dynamic Michelle Greene, Vice President of Information Technology at Masco Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of home improvement and construction products. An $8.5 billion conglomerate, comprising more than 20 companies, Masco operates nearly 60...

  15. Ep 87: Sonja Gittens-Ottley: Remember Your Power and Worth

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Sonja Gittens-Ottley, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Asana, a leading work management platform that helps teams organize, track, and manage work. (Dustin Moskovitz, aco-founder of Facebook, is also co-founder of Asana). Sonja's mission is setting standards to drive...

  16. Ep 86: Chloe Condon: Choreographing A Completely New Career

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed actor-turned-technologist/evangelist, Chloe Condon , Cloud Developer/Advocate for Microsoft. Chloe is a passionate supporter of women in technology, with an extensive social media brand following, and "non-traditional background," since she "grew up doing musical…

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  17. Ep 85: Linda Cureton: Master 'Debugger' of Powerful Organizations

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Linda Cureton, veteran U.S. government tech leader, turned entrepreneur. Linda "was always fascinated with numbers." Facetiously she recalled doing a math as a youngster to compute how old she would be in 2000. "I remember coming up with the age --- 41." She thought…

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  18. Ep 84: Tarsha McCormick: Your Plan Might Not Be Your Destiny

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Tarsha McCormick, NA Head of Diversity and Inclusion, for Thoughtworks, a global software consulting company, driving a socially, economically fair and moral world, by bettering humanity through software. The company has won multiple awards as a top company for women in...

  19. Ep 83: Gail Bernard: Live Your Life Like You Stole It!

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Gail Bernard, Director of Sales, Americas for Cybernoor, a leading provider of Oracle platform solutions. In Gail's childhood, she was fascinated by science and attended the University of Washington where she entered pre-med. "I saw technology, originally, as enabling...

  20. Ep 82: Shuchi Sharma: Women Will Change the World...For the Better

    Diva Tech Talk was honored to interview Shuchi Sharma, Global Head and VP, Gender Equality & Intelligence, SAP, the software giant that creates enterprise software to manage operations and customer relations for Fortune 500 companies all over the world. Shuchi never intended to enter software. "I...

  21. Ep 81: Patricia Howard: Putting the Pieces Together, Into Something Beautiful

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Patricia Howard, veteran instructional designer/developer, whose employers and clients have included General Motors Corporation, AAA Life Insurance, the Auto Club Group and MSX International. Patty came to the technology field by happenstance. "When I was a little girl,...

  22. Ep 80: Rebekah Bastian: Leave it better than you found it

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Rebekah Bastian, Vice President of Community and Culture at Zillow Group, leading efforts focused on equity and belonging, social impact and cultural engagement. Rebekah was one of Zillow Group's first employees, moving from Microsoft in 2005. She has spent over 13…

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  23. Ep 79: Nafisa Bhojawala: Anything You Choose to Learn CAN Be Learned

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Nafisa Bhojawala, Studio Chief for Cloud Design at Microsoft Corporation. Nafisa, the daughter of an engineer dad, and an art teacher mom, grew up in India, and Dubai, UAE. "We grew up, drawing, painting, working on embroidery; just basically making things! But I also...

  24. Ep 78: May Russell: Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Ford Motor Company's Smart Mobility and Tech Engineering Leader, May Russell. "I loved mathematics," May exclaimed, "but it's not like I had access" living in Kuwait, from which her college physics professor father and civil engineer mother emigrated to the U.S. when…

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  25. Ep 77: Wanda Castelvecchi: Always Be Learning

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Wanda Castelvecchi, National Practice Manager for Security and Enterprise Networking at ePlus, (https://www.eplus.com/), responsible for over $500 million, annually. Wanda did not enter the technology industry in traditional fashion. In the mid-1980's she was a law...

  26. Ep 76: Monica Bailey: Making GoDaddy the Company Where Everyone Wants to Work

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Monica Bailey, Chief People Officer at GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com). At 18 million global customers and 8,000 employees, the 22-year old company is an indisputable market leader, as the largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, four times the size of its...

  27. Ep 75: Scarlett Ong Rui Chern: Passion Plus Perseverance

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Scarlett Ong Rui Chern, entrepreneur, founder/ CEO of Peerstachio. Scarlett is the epitome of entrepreneurship: courageous, persistent, agile in approach. She grew up in a small town in Malaysia and left to pursue higher education in the United States. "I had one year…

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  28. Ep 74: Grace Hopper Conference 2018: Diversity Leadership Series Launch

    The Diva Tech Talk team was grateful to have the amazing experience of attending Grace Hopper Conference 2018. We highlighted many conference details, discussed the Abie awards, and shared the voice of attendees on the Episode 73 Podcast. If you didn't get a chance to listen, please check it out...

  29. Ep 73: Grace Hopper Conference 2018: Diva Tech Talk is Here!

    The Diva Tech Talk team was ecstatic to attend the 3-day 18th Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing #GHC18 (ghc.anitab.org) --- the world's largest gathering of women in computer technology -- September 26 through 28, 2018 in Houston, Texas. The conference has taken place since 1994…

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  30. Ep 72: Stephanie Espy: Exposure to The Possibilities

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Stephanie Espy, Founder and CEO of MathSP (https://mathsp.com/) and STEM Gems (http://stemgemsbook.com/). Stephanie shares a common goal with Diva Tech Talk (www.divatechtalk.com) to support the next generation of female STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)...

  31. Ep 71: Lori McColl: You Can Cry, but You Can't Quit!

    Growing up in rural Canada, Lori completed her undergraduate BBA in marketing, through a scholarship as a star Division One Volleyball player, at Ohio University. She moved on to complete her MBA at Bowling Green State University, with a minor in MIS (Management Information Services) and…

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  32. Ep 70: Kanika Tolver: Find Your Authentic Self

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Kanika Tolver, Washington, D.C. native, Founder and Product Manager at BrandDMV Inc., (http://branddmv.com/), a digital transformation agency that creates Digital Mobile Visuals. With a fascinating career in our nation's capital, Kanika has consistently focused on...

  33. Ep 69: Christine Rice: Journey of a Successful Leader

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Christine Rice, formerly President of VisionIT (www.visionit.com), and now CEO/President, of its IT staffing division: VisionPro (http://www.visionproteam.com/). VisionPro has 20 offices throughout the U.S., and is also global with offices in Canada, Mexico and Brazil.…

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  34. Ep 68: Pam Metivier: You Don't Have to Be Exceptional to Be Equal

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Monsoon Strategy Partner, Pam Metivier, Co-Creator of STEAMTeam ®5, a children's series to get girls excited about STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math. Pam considers this not just a series but "the beginning of a movement," that tells the stories of five...

  35. Ep 67: Eboni Mack: Always Forward-Thinking

    Diva Tech Talk spoke with Eboni Mack, Senior Manager, Analytics, at GTB (www.gtb.com). In high school, Eboni originally had her eye on a thespian career, but instead decided to focus on communications studies in college ("the way people think and how they consume media."). During her college…

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  36. Ep 66: Chris Rydzewski: Believe In Yourself

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Chris Rydzewski, tech veteran, serving as Executive Director for the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (www.mcwt.org). Chris did not originally plan a path in technology: "Ironically, I stumbled into it," she said. Matriculating at the University of Michigan...

  37. Ep 65: Jennifer Charters: Inspiration From an Iron Woman

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Jennifer Charters, Chief Information Officer of Corporate Technology for Ally Bank (www.ally.com), one of the very first online-only financial institutions in the United States. Jennifer's technology fascination began in middle school. "My family purchased a VIC 20,"…

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  38. Ep 64: Holly Rollo: Turning Uncertainty Into Transformation

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Holly Rollo, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of RSA (www.rsa.com ),a Dell Technologies (www.dell.com) company, offering business-driven security solutions for millions of users around the world and more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Holly said…

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  39. Ep 63: Jill Maiorano: Sales Leader, Blessed to Find Tech

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Jill Maiorano, Director of Strategic Engagements, Americas Division, at Cisco (www.cisco.com). Topics ranged from management, strategy, to balancing home/family with a busy career. "I was not a 'technology tinkerer'" Jill said. "From a relatively early age, I decided to...

  40. Ep 62: Melissa Kennedy: Everyone Can Innovate

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed K. Melissa Kennedy, best-selling author, and Managing Partner/Global Innovation Facilitator at 48 Innovate (http://www.48innovate.com/) a platform for generating employee-driven problem-solving through nimble entrepreneurial practices in 48 hours. Clearly a...

  41. Ep 61: Mamatha Chamarthi: Change Agent Who "Never Has Lunch Alone"

    Diva Tech Talk hosted Mamatha Chamarthi, SVP, and Chief Digital Officer for ZF Group Inc. (www.zf.com) a worldwide automotive leader, employing 137,000 people in 40 countries, with annual revenue of $43 billion. Mamatha drives ZF's digitalization strategy and emergent technologies to transform...

  42. Ep: 60: Diva Special: 2018 Tech Trends

    In our last podcast of 2017, Diva Tech Talk co-founders and hosts (Kathleen Norton-Schock and Nicole Scheffler) provided an interesting discussion of: Why Diva Tech exists, and the demographics of women in tech, now and in the future What, as technology leaders and tech industry veterans, they…

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  43. Ep 59: Elena Lipson: Follow Your Heart

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Elena Lipson, Founder of Mosaic Growth Partners (http://www.mosaicgrowth.com/). Elena is also the host of THE BOOST Podcast, a podcast highlighting accomplished entrepreneurs, athletes and healthcare professionals. Elena has experimented with multiple paths in the...

  44. Ep 58: Janette Phillips: Believe in Yourself; Do The "Extra"

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed multifaceted, tenacious Janette Phillips. In her childhood, Janette was "studious" and "took all the science classes I could," including Accelerated Chemistry, Physics and Science Seminar (an independent science-oriented curriculum) in high school. Her intellectual...

  45. Ep 57: Farnoosh Brock: Position Yourself Powerfully

    Diva Tech Talk hosted engineer, tech expert, author and leadership coach, Farnoosh Brock, who shared lessons in personal development and career pivots. Having completed her master's degree in electrical engineering at Clemson University (www.clemson.edu) , Farnoosh first worked as a design…

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  46. Ep 56: Laura Bilazarian: Not You Can, but You WILL Win

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed former investment banker and social entrepreneur, Laura Bilazarian, CEO and Founder of Teamable (https://teamable.com), accelerating any company's ability to hire top talent by "smarter recruiting through social networks." A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's...

  47. Ep 55: Theresa Ancick: Possibilities Present Themselves

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed musician-turned-technologist, Theresa Ancick, Manager, Enterprise Business Intelligence at Beaumont Health Systems (https://www.beaumont.org), the largest health system in Michigan. Theresa's predilection for technology is genetic. Her father was a second-level…

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  48. Ep 54: Rita Barrios: Managing Massive Projects a Byte at A Time

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Dr. Rita Barrios, Chair for the Department of CyberSecurity and Information Systems, and Associate Professor, at the University of Detroit, Mercy (http://www.udmercy.edu/) graduating approximately 150 trained technology professionals each year. Rita said: "My Dad was...

  49. Ep 53: Natalia Petraszczuk: Find a Need and Fill It

    Diva Tech Talk hosted creative entrepreneur, Natalia Petraszczuk, founder/CEO of new venture, VizBe (www.vizbe.com). Natalia calls herself "a product of the Ukrainian community" in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. Her undergraduate degree, from Michigan State University, was in International...

  50. Ep 52: Meredith Harper: "We Get Nowhere By Ourselves"

    Diva Tech Talk interviewed Meredith Harper, Chief Privacy and Security Officer for Henry Ford Health Systems (www.hfhs.org) With strong science and math aptitudes, Meredith began her tech journey in 2nd/3rd grades and then "I ended up being bussed, with kids all over the city of Detroit, to a...

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We are on a journey to share insights into leadership, innovation and breaking down the big issues women face in a tech-savvy world. We interview women leaders all around the world from CIOs and Founders, to creators and nonprofit executives, covering generations of innovation. Everyone with whom we've crossed paths has a story of success that we share with our listeners. Don't get tangled along the way in your journey; listen in and learn from dynamic divas who share everything from balancing life duties, to negotiating, forging their way in their fast-changing industry, to (most of all) finding themselves. Podcast currently hosted by Nicole Johnson Scheffler, Kathleen Norton-Schock, and Amanda Lewan. Follow along with us here at www.divatechtalk.com.

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