Send us a text Brand Management | Communication | Digital & IT Comms | Jewelry Industry | Career Change | Decision Making | Reflections | Laura Dzurna was Communications Manager at Pandora from August 2020 until September 2022, with a special focus on digital & technology. In October 2022, she took on a new role at Pandora as Brand Manager, managing one of Pandora’s collections. Her career in the jewelry industry spans a variety of roles within Brand Communications & PR and internal ...
Mar 13, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Send us a text Coaching | Self-Awareness | Career Development | Bring Your Whole Self to Work | Career Progression | Reflection | Mindfulness | Women in STEM | Role Model | Our guest is a former Latvian diplomat with more than 21 years of experience in stakeholder management, negotiation, advocacy, and communication. Inese Podgaiska is the Secretary General of the Association of Nordic Engineers, ANE, and previously worked for the European Environment Agency. She received the 2019 Women Economic...
Feb 06, 2023•40 min
Send us a text Cultural Adjustment | Living Abroad | Culture Shock | Consultant | Integration | Well-Being Specialist | Intercultural Awareness | Founder | Role Model | Trainer | Our guest is Kathy Borys Siddiqui the founder of Active Action, an organization supporting International companies as well as internationals and their families in the intercultural transition when moving abroad. Active Action focuses on raising awareness and bringing solutions to challenges that internationals, their fa...
Jan 23, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Send us a text Career Break | Career Development | Digital Innovation | Digital Agency | People Leader | Goals | Reflections | Learnings | Career Progression | Pause | Our guest today is Sonja Lakner . Originally from Austria, Sonja studied communications and media and after a few years of working in digital agencies in London, she has worked in leadership positions in Sweden for the past 15 years. Sonja is passionate about people and helping them develop their full potential in the work environ...
Jan 09, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Send us a text Finance | Trading | Chief Dealer | Capital Markets | Nordea | Career | Progression | Leadership | Graduate Program | Role Model | Women in Finance | Sophie Jelstrup is the Chief Dealer & Functional Lead - Global Trading at Nordea Markets . Sophie is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, studied economics and has a double master's degree in Finance from the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. She worked within the financial industry since I started at a pension fund a...
Oct 20, 2022•54 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Send us a text Innovation | CEO | Venture Capital | Board Member | Agile Leadership | Energy & Maritime Industry | Top 50 Women in Technology | Braving Innovation | Nada Ahmed is a public speaker, writer, and innovation and tech advisor with over 15 years of corporate leadership experience in the Energy and Maritime industry. She is the CEO and founder of Agile Leadership - an innovation consulting company helping startups validate their products and scale. Previously she served as Vice Pres...
Sep 19, 2022•50 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Send us a text Company Culture | Organizational Development | Global Transformation | Coaching | Education | Transition at Work | Role Model | Emotional Intelligence at Work | Summing up all aspects of her work Tamilla Mahkamova is a psychologist, HR, Organizational Development and Transformation expert, coach, and educator. Over the last 15 years, she has worked in HR, OD, and Transformation roles in a corporate and non-profit environment through East and West. Currently, as Global Change Direc...
Sep 05, 2022•47 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Send us a text Chief Product Officer | Mentor | International Speaker | Top Women in Product | Career Advice | Contract Negotiation | Non-Negotiables at Work | Corporate Advisor | Digital Transformation | Femme Lead welcomes Alexandra Lung, an internationally recognized product leader, C-suite executive, public speaker, corporate advisor, and leadership mentor. Her experience spans international roles in large companies and high-growth tech scale-ups. She started her career working as a consulta...
Aug 22, 2022•53 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Send us a text How People Learn | Subject Matter Expert | Learning & Development | Passion | Entrepreneur | Learning | Book to Courses | Learning Design | Instructional Design | Thought Leader | Olimpia Mesa is a leading expert and consultant on brain-based learning design. President of Instructional Design Ltd., a company behind hundreds of successful corporate and educational programs, both online and in-person, delivered in various languages. Olimpia designs and consults with organization...
Aug 08, 2022•51 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Send us a text Director | Career Path | Media Industry | Gen z | Adolescent Content | Advertising Agency | Promoting Talent | Entrepreneur | Diversity & Inclusion | Content Creators | New Generation | Ramaa Mosley is a commercial director, filmmaker, and advocate. Ramaa came across her passion for content creation and advertising at the young age of five when she directed her first documentary, screened at the United Nations, by the time she was 15. Not long after that, she began directing c...
Jun 27, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Send us a text Women in Leadership | Product Leader | Executive Team | Professional Advice | Career Progression | Role Model | People, Product & Process | Healthy Company Culture | Poorvi Shrivastav is the GM and VP of Products at HubSpot. She has more than a decade of experience leading global customer, product, and engineering teams. She has launched products, built high-performing teams across enterprise SaaS companies, and is known for scaling emerging businesses. Poorvi Shrivastav is pa...
Jun 13, 2022•33 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Send us a text Career Transformation | Career Growth | Pivot | Life Sciences | Life in Denmark | Inclusive Leadership | Diversity & Inclusion | Women of Color | Mentorship | Role Model | ProWoc | Life Science | Researcher | Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire is a Dominican-born Science Business Leader with over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries with a passion for people development and making a difference. She has a proven track record of inspiring and driving cross...
Jun 05, 2022•46 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Send us a text Personal Branding | Thought Leader | Entrepreneurship | Career Advice | Failure & Success | Leadership | Hiring Tips | Role Model | Amelia Sordell is a thought leader in personal branding, and as she describes herself: “I brand people, not businesses.” She started the agency Klowt in a small bedroom in the middle of a global pandemic. She believes that the future of branding is personal. People buy from people, and trust is vital in any interaction, whether personal or profess...
May 04, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Send us a text Product Management | Leadership | Career Progression | Promotion | Career Planning | Technology | Scale-up | Corporate | HR | Innovation | Growth | Gurpriya Bhatia is a product leader in big tech. She works on product strategy and has over 15 years of experience in growth strategy and business model innovation and has worked across the UK, the US, India, Japan, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe. After growing up and studying in New Delhi, India, she moved to the UK in 2007 to pursue a Mas...
Apr 05, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Send us a text EdTech | imagiLabs | Girls Education | STEM | Entrepreneurship | Coding for Future | Creators with technology | Dora Palfi is the co-founder & CEO of imagiLabs, an ed-tech company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology. Dora worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has substantial experience teaching programming to children and teenagers as well as advocating for women in technol...
Mar 21, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Send us a text Digitalization Minister | Gender Quality | Shark Thank | Investor | Board Member | Unicef Danmark | Co-founder Nordic Female Founders (now exited) | Mia Therese Wagner is an investor, board member, co-founder of Nordic Female Founders (now exited), keynote speaker, and a previous member of the Danish version of Shark Tank - Løvens Hule. 💪 In 2023, Mia became the Danish Minister for Digitalization and Gender Equality! When Mia started her career, she became a defense attorney, and...
Mar 07, 2022•46 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Send us a text Journalism | NGO | Purpose | Career Change | Public Speaking | In the Spotlight | Charity | Inspiration | Career Path | Personal Growth | Media Training | A former TV anchor, Melania Medeleanu is a seasoned journalist from Romania that now specializes in speech training & public speaking. She left the spotlight and returned to school to study for a master's in speech therapy. Melania wanted to focus on charity and community work, and this is exactly what she started doing inst...
Feb 05, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Send us a text Education | Sport Management | Women in Sports | Football Education | Volunteer Manager | UEFA EURO 2020 | Leadership | Mindset | Athlete | Tennis Player | A former Romanian international tennis player, Diana Pirciu studied communications and sports marketing in the USA before joining the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) as a corporate social responsibility manager and education specialist. For EURO 2020, she was the volunteer manager in Bucharest, overseeing a team of 850 to en...
Jan 24, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text Success | Entrepreneur | Introvert | 60 Day Startups | Founder | Leadership | Mental Health | Boundaries | Media Platform | Role Model | Women in Media | Mashal Waqar is a serial entrepreneur who loves being in the midst of startups, cool tech, writing, and good people. Her first media startup, The Tempest, impacts millions of readers globally through powerful storytelling. Mashal Waqar also co-created a business accelerator taking women founders from early-stage to revenue in 60 ...
Jan 10, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Send us a text The Imposter Experience | Imposter Feeling | Cybersecurity Specialist | Thought Leader | The Human Element of Cybersecurity | Personal Growth | Organizational Culture | Confidence | Joy Beland is a cybersecurity expert & thought leader. She gained worldwide attention for her thought leadership in the Human Element of cybersecurity while successfully training over 3,000 people on cybersecurity fundamentals. She has many accreditations and has successfully contributed to the cyb...
Dec 20, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Send us a text Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things | Rolls Royce | R² Data Labs | Data Science | Punk | Geek | Superfreak | Future of Work | Leadership | STEM Careers| Motherhood | AI Trends | Caroline Gorski is a technology leader with more than 25 years of experience, with a background in strategy consulting, market development, and commercial decision-making at FTSE 100 board level. She is also the Group Director of R² Data Labs, the data innovation and artificial intelligence cataly...
Dec 06, 2021•51 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Send us a text Mindset Shift | Career Change | Talent Management | Human Resources | Consultancy | Diversity & Inclusion | Representation | Entrepreneurship | Education | Thought Leader | Four our episode on mindset shift, we have brought to the table a special guest: Dr. Poornima Luthra is the author of ‘Diversifying Diversity: Your guide to being an active ally of inclusion in the workplace’ and the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS as well as a member of the teaching Faculty at ...
Nov 22, 2021•42 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Send us a text Women in Tech | STEM Careers | Role Model | Software Engineering | Talent | CXO | Leadership | Professional Growth | Advice | Working Mother | In our interview, we explore the multi-facets of running an international organization as a technical leader and the need for more representation in STEM . Anne-Sofie shares her experience from starting her career in web development to leading teams and continuing to bring innovation to large organizations. Looking back, the business world ...
Nov 08, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us a text Human Potential | Emotional Intelligence | Coach | Unlock Potential | Talent | Personal Growth | Fulfilment | Zone of Genius | Leadership | Empowerment Antesa Jensen is an extraordinary speaker and coach whose philosophy is the fastest way forward is inward. Antesa helps people take something that exists within us, empathy, and use it to fulfill one's path. In our latest interview, we explore the topic of unlocking human potential. Antesa shares that parts within that are not yet ...
Oct 25, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text Boundaries | Embodiment | Coach | Practice | Self-Reflection | Boundaries at Work | Alignment | Leadership | Women Empowerment Sigrid is an Embodiment and Leadership Coach. She is on a mission to help purpose-driven entrepreneurs tap into their infinite potential as leaders by fully embodying their truth and most profound alignment to amplify their impact in this world. In our interview, we discuss the process of establishing boundaries, how to communicate our boundaries, and how ...
Oct 11, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text Confidence | Founder | Coding Bootcamp | CTO | Software Engineering | Code Chrysalis | Speaker | Diversity in Tech | Women Empowerment Yan Fan is changing the way Asia trains software engineers. She is the co-founder and CTO of Code Chrysalis, a coding Bootcamp in Tokyo. She started Code Chrysalis because she was brimming with ideas on best teaching programming and developing top software engineering talent. Code Chrysalis helps individuals change their careers through our program...
Sep 27, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us a text Agile | Agile Coach | Nuuday | Agile Mindset | IT Transformation | Find your Calling | Career Development | Experiment | The Agile Way Signe Hjorth Hansen is the last guest of Femme Lead Podcast season 2! Signe is an Agile Coach for the tech & telecom company Nuuday in Denmark and a board member in the organization Women in Tech Denmark. Signe's career started with a graduate program in the company Cisco and continued as a business manager before moving into the telecommunicat...
Jul 05, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Send us a text Growth Marketing | BitPanda | Growth Machine | Leadership | Product-Led Growth | Well-being | Career | Uber | Revolut | Marketing Executive | Teamwork | Sabbatical Irina Scarlat is the Chief Growth Officer at Bitpanda and an Uber & Revolut Alumna. She joins Femme Lead Podcast to discuss her amazing trajectory in the marketing space, how she tackled becoming a global manager, and how she helped build the growth machine that Revolut is known for. Additionally, we explore well-be...
Jun 21, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Send us a text Advertising | Creativity | Cannes Lions | Creative Industry | Digital Creators | Best Ads | Publicis | Ad World | Creatives | In this episode, we discuss advertising and working with the best creatives. Our guest is no other than Sandra Bold , Cannes Lions Jury member and Digital Creative Director at Publicis Milan . Sandra Bold is far from the typical path of working on a traditional career path, having graduated in architecture and deciding to work with ads instead to showcase t...
Jun 07, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send us a text Social Entrepreneurship | Social Change | Impact Business | Blue Lobster | Fishing | Disruptors | Business Acumen | Innovation | Digitalisation | Nima Tisdall is a well-known entrepreneur in Denmark. Together with her co-founder Christine Hebert, they founded Blue Lobster, a platform for sustainable fishermen to sell their catches at a fair price. In 2020, Nima Tisdall b ecame the European Laureate for the Obama Foundation Leaders' Program, and in 2021 Nima was listed as one of Fo...
May 24, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 13
