Empowered with Sarah Moffat

This is a not-to-miss episode with our motivating and encouraging guest, Anjelica Dortch. Sarah and Anjelica talk about how to move through your career with confidence, purpose, and intention. Anjelica shares her experience going from an entry level secretary all the way to the White House serving in the Executive Office of the President. Now a technology policy executive at IBM, Anjelica has a host of practical and actionable advice for listeners about how she developed herself and the practical steps she took along the way... including enlisting a Board of Directors, mentors, and coaches.

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About Anjelica Dortch

Award-winning, highly regarded, and passionate policy executive with over 10 years of professional and management experience, Anjelica is an accomplished change agent recruited to help drive government relations, develop innovative approaches to address complex policy challenges, and enhance strategic partnerships in support of the organization's business objectives. A solid and trusted advisor that is frequently tapped to support domestic and international strategy execution. Experienced in developing and driving positive policy and legislative outcomes while building partnerships with key decision-makers, government officials, and clients.

Lynn Terwoerds, the Executive Director of the Executive Women’s Forum, shares what she’s learned about how to make it to the next level in your career. Lynn shares what she hopes will help women see the value in knowing what you want, building a plan to that goal, knowing yourself personally and as others see you, and then being able to tell a consistent story so that everyone you meet, everyone in your current network, even people who bump into your family will see and hear a coherent message about your career direction. So often, we confuse the people around us by being vague, inconsistent or uncertain. Getting to the next level is about making sure you stack the odds in your favor by taking control of the things you have control over and not obsessing over the things you can’t control.

In this episode, Lynn points us to some great resources including the Critical Thinking Worksheet, Leading Ladies “Why” Tool, and the Networking Worksheet. This episode is full of incredibly helpful, practical, tactical, and strategic things you can do to identify:

• What do I really want?
• How do I devise a resilient plan?
• Where am I in my journey?
• How do I include my family and friends in this journey?
• How do I build the right network?

About Lynn Terwoerds

Lynn Terwoerds, Executive Director, joined the Executive Women’s Forum in 2016 after 20+ years as a global cybersecurity expert and leader at Microsoft, Barclays PLC in London, and Oracle. She is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and serves on the nonprofit board and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for the Northwest Maritime Center. As the Executive Director, Terwoerds has overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, expansion, and execution of the EWF mission. The Executive Director, in conjunction with the CEO and staff, develops core programs and strategic business plans.

In this episode of Empowered with Sarah Moffat, Marie Tjernlund joins us and shares her grace, wisdom, energy, and inspiration. Sarah and Marie talk about COVID-coping, strategies for success, and the ABCs to reaching your next level of capability. Marie shares some really great, memorable, and quotable advice that makes this episode exactly what we all need to hear right now.

About Marie Tjernlund
Marie is a gifted and seasoned executive coach and runs her company, Noble Edge Consulting, where she acts as a Senior Leadership Consultant to accompany leaders and teams through the complexities of executive leadership development, organizational leadership, training initiatives, program management, generational diversity and communications training

Marie Tjernlund is an inspirational and accomplished organizational leadership development executive with 20+ years of experience as a leader, facilitator and specialist in learning and development, executive coaching and communications.

Sarah Moffat is joined by incredible, powerhouse leader and artist, Dorothy Aronson for a compelling talk about her journey through a man's world.

In this talk, Dorothy shares how lessons she learned through being a trained ballet dancer turned business major helped prepare her to be a leader in a man's world. Aronson,  a senior executive in the federal government, talks about how she learned how to really like herself and how she developed a decidedly female mindset — never trying to impress or compete against others — that helped her succeed in as a leader. Ms. Aronson says that what she really wants to do is help people achieve their highest goals.  

Sarah Moffat is joined by Renee Wynn, former Chief Information Officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), for an inspiring talk about how she navigated her career to become the longest-serving CIO in NASA history. Renee shares her best tips for how to be seen and heard, how to ask great questions, and why it's important to have your own personal board of directors.

Ms. Wynn's insights, candor, and advice is so poignant and relevant. Renee discusses why she believes being a life-long learner is critical for any leader and how to respond, rather than react, in situations. If you're wondering about whether or not its okay to get emotional and be vulnerable at work, we talk about that, too! You can reach Renee on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-wynn-8935a24/.



Renee's Bio
Renee P. Wynn retired April 30th as the NASA Chief Information Officer after 30-years of federal service. She recently started her own business, RP Wynn Consulting, LLC to continue to serve the federal government in a different way.

As the NASA CIO, Ms. Wynn led the effort to collaborate with the complex NASA mission programs to improve NASA’s global cybersecurity posture and continuously transform IT management. Ms. Wynn oversaw an IT Portfolio of more than $2B and provided global IT services to more than 60,000 customers, including operations in Russia to support launches to the International Space Station.  Ms. Wynn led the effort to overhaul NASA’s cybersecurity posture and went from “high risk” to “managing risk” in 4 years, this includes space operation and communication systems.   Ms. Wynn joined NASA in July 2015 as Deputy Chief Information Officer and became the Chief Information Officer in September 2015. 

Ms. Wynn came to NASA from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where she had served as the Acting CIO and Assistant Administrator for the Office of Environmental Information since July 2013. At EPA, Ms. Wynn had served as the Deputy CIO and Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Environmental Information from April 2011 to July 2013.  Ms. Wynn spent 25 years with EPA before joining NASA. 

Ms. Wynn had been working in the federal CIO community since 2011 and has brought her experience working on national policy matters, information systems development, program management plus legislative and budget formulation skills to good use in her role as CIO. 
Ms. Wynn was recently selected as a 2020 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Fellow.  Fellows are nominated and selected from a slate of highly qualified individuals.  A Fellow will serve for two years to support NAPA’s efforts to address current and emerging issues to the government.  

Ms. Wynn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from DePauw University, Indiana.

In this second episode of the Empowered with Sarah Moffat podcast, we're joined by "the woman, the myth, the legend," Sharon Atteh-Chi. Sharon shares her journey and the major transitions she's navigated in her incredibly interesting and adventurous  life. 

Sharon is a project management professional (PMP), a master instructional systems designer, and yoga master who has overcome so many obstacles from losing twins when she was pregnant in Cameroon to becoming a nationally recognized journalist, serving with the Peace Corps and UNICEF, and so much more.

You'll love listening to Sharon talk about learning about empowerment and a deep respect and reverence for life in this amazing episode. You can learn more about Sharon and connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonattehchi/. 

Welcome to the Empowered podcast — a podcast for leading ladies. Host and Leadership Coach, Sarah Moffat, kicks off this episode sharing three main mindsets and tenents responsible for her success in 2020.  Plus, Sarah shares three things she thinks are critical habits for all high performing leaders.

On January 1, 2020, Sarah kicked off the year starting her Master's degree in Management and Leadership. On January 8th, she had Gastric Bypass. And, we all know what happened in March 2020.

Learn how Sarah regained traction even in constant change so that she was able to:

• Finish her Master's degree in 8 months
• Lose 100lbs
• Triple her business revenue
• and get a promotion at work

... all while working full time and being a single parent to a kindergartener. 

Setting intentions, building community, and loving who you lead are just three things Sarah shares about how you can level up as a leader and experience living your best life.