Building Women

Here’s the hard truth: people don’t care about how good you are. They care about what value you bring. 

In the sixth episode of Building Women, Anne McNamara interviews Amanda Fisher, CEO of Amey with over 20 years of experience in executive positions. From Amanda, we learn the importance of selling the value you bring in order to succeed in any career, among many other tactics and lessons learned during her impressive career.

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Kristin Gestsdottir, standing up to inequality.
The fifth episode of @BuildingWomen. In this episode of Building Women, listen to Anne McNamara interviewing Kristin Gestsdottir to discover how embracing vulnerability can build strength and is a key tool to identify and deal with injustice and sexism. Despite self-doubt and insecurities, Kristin built an impressive career and hopes her story inspires other women to do the same.

Kristin, Director of Procurement at Isavia, the operator of all airports in Iceland, is driving the change towards a more equal, diversified and transparent working environment. Even in a forward-thinking country such as Iceland, there’s still a way to go in achieving real gender equality.

Nyree McKenzie, a woman who stands up to every challenge. Nyree is an entrepreneur that overcame numerous failures throughout her studies and career. With a remarkable drive to succeed, Nyree proved everyone wrong. Despite many critics and disapprovals, she never gave up and continued with determination towards her success.  In this episode of Building Women, listen to Anne McNamara interviewing Nyree and discovering how she learned to thrive against all odds. Nyree is the CEO and Co-founder of BidHive, the bid management software that supports remote and distributed teams collaborate for improved bidding success.

A woman of many talents, Liz Clausen pursues her Californian dream. After graduating from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she has wandered off the beaten career track to follow her creative interests and build an inspiring life. 
Today, Liz applies her diverse skills to designing beautiful art collections from salvaged materials, reimagining people’s homes, and breathing new life into vintage trailers. Following her heart has led her to become one of the most sought-after interior designers in the North Bay, a passionate Sustainable Artist, and a successful Entrepreneur. 
In today’s interview, Liz speaks about overcoming her dislike of networking, launching in the 2008 crash, and struggling with self-doubt. She shares how she has built her life from design to surfboarding. Already a huge inspiration to me. I hope that she empowers and motivates other women to follow their own path. 

I’m delighted to interview Meirav Oren, CEO and Co-Founder of Versatile. Meirav’s company is on a mission to make construction performance as predictable as manufacturing. Versatile produces sensors which are attached under the crane hook. This tracks real-time activity against site-produced schedules. Versatile’s analytics generate powerful performance insights, sent to the phones and laptops of the site professionals. This accelerates site production while reducing risk and cost.

Christine is a trailblazer. A Civil Engineer with an MBA. She has held some of the top jobs in the public and private sector in the UK in highways maintenance, classified as essential work during COVID19.…but what makes her a trailblazer is not what she has done but how she’s doing it. Her bravery in forging her own path, choosing to be a servant leader in an industry that applauds Churchillian endeavour. A woman who has, in all the highs and lows of a 20-year career concluded that love is what it’s all about.