Thousand Voices

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say” - Stephen Covey. Being a leader is not an easy journey, the responsibilities are huge. Setting an example and ensuring that your actions speak louder than words are important. Many of us are really good managers but not necessarily good leaders. In this episode with Bhuvana Subramanyan, the Chief Marketing Officer of Randstad, we talk about leadership and some of the challenges faced by leaders. Bhuvana has held key leadership roles in IBM, and TNT with expertise in domains such as Product Management, Integrated Marketing, Internal Communications, Corporate Communications and Crisis Communications.

Cecilia MoSze Tham is an Entrepreneur, speaker, technologist, Futurist, and diversity advocate. Cecilia is the principal at Futurity Studio, and advisor to the United Nations world food program. She creates technological solutions for global impact, with a special interest in responsible consumption and climate change. In this episode, we explore how the craft of sewing led to the art of being a creator that resulted in her various startups and much more.

Gender pay gap is a real issue that needs to be addressed and resolved. This episode explores how we can put an end to the gender pay gap with Jonquil Hackenberg. Jonquil Hackenberg is a partner of PA consulting leading on sustainability, ex global Head of Sustainable Business at Infosys, member of global future council on SDG investment at World Economic Forum and a regular contributor to Forbes. She has extensive cross industry experience with expertise in circular supply chain management, employee experience, digitalization and sustainable workplaces.

Raluca Crisan is the CTO and co-founder of ETIQ AI, a London based startup, providing a software solution that aims to eradicate bias from AI and ML systems. She has over 10 years experience in data science, working with large clients such as Sony and Vodafone. Raluca has built the global analytics team for a mobile marketing company which was successfully listed on NASDAQ. Bias not only exist among humans, it's also present in AI systems. In this episode, we explore the bias present not only in systems but also in the real world.

Zehra Cataltepe is the CEO and co-founder of Tazi AI Systems which provides SaaS automated Machine Learning solutions for insurance, finance, retail and telecoms industries. She holds a PhD in Computer Science, has 18 patents and over 100 publications on theory of machine learning and its applications in finance, health, energy and transportation. Zehra has been recognized 3 times as the ‘Woman entrepreneur of the year” and was listed as the top 10 women in AI in 2020. This episode highlights the importance of teamwork and building the right team for your organization.

“Find your element, do not settle for anything else” - Abby Seneor. That’s all the motivation you would ever need to achieve the impossible. Abby Seneor is the CTO and co-founder of Optimi Health that uses AI to provide users with access to elite level physical therapy from anywhere in the world. Despite a car accident that put her in a wheelchair for almost two years with doctors saying she would never walk again, Abby competed in the ironman races and came 2nd in the olympics triathlon. This is a story of a warrior who is driven by her element to fight back and does not let any incapabilities define her.

Anna Nordell Westling is the CMO and co-founder of Sana Labs, a platform that provides personalized learning to millions of users with AI. She is also an advisor of the AI Sustainability Center and sits in the steering committee of Nordic AI and is a board member of the top five global B2B Incubators in Sweden. Learn about the unicorn factory - Stockholm and leveraging opportunities to raise funds amidst a pandemic.

Isabelle Mashola is a Senior executive with a strong track record leading the IT vision and strategy execution. She is also the CEO and co-founder of isahit an award winning startup providing a social impact platform for outsourcing digital tasks. Isabella talks to us about the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, work life balance and also the queen bee phenomenon.

One of the common things that we see in all ceos and entrepreneurs is having a vision. And one of the main challenges that they can encounter is how to transform their vision into a company. It can take a long time and a lot of efforts to make it happen. And as a leader you need to be able to transfer that vision to your team and let them adopt and create their own vision. How do you do that? Camille Morvan tells her story of her going from academia to entrepreneurship and building a multi million dollar company.

Despoina Ioannidou is the CTO and Cofounder of Trayvisor an AI powered payment software that uses computer vision and deep learning for food recognition and self-service checkout based out of France. She believes in using AI to help improve the lives of people every day. In order to eliminate small redundant tasks, she built Travisor to ensure that long lines that employees are subjected to during their lunch break are avoided. This is her story of perseverance.