Technical leadership lessons with Shantha Mohan
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Navigating Forward
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On this episode of Navigating Forward, Lisa Thee sits down with Shantha Mohan, who is an author, mentor, and Executive in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University. They chat about the challenges that people can face when making the jump from a technical individual contributor role to technical leadership. Shantha shares stories of her own career path from an individual role to eventually leading teams around the world — including some of the challenges she faced and how she overcame them. Hear some of the advice she gives her students, including what you should be doing every day and how to know when it's time to find something else to do.
Find Lisa at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisathee/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanthamohan/
https://shanthamohan.com/
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