Closer in Tech by the D2 collective

Meet Lisa. Lisa is an experienced sales professional, having worked at innovative tech organizations such as Zoom, previously, and Lucid now. She is passionate about empowering women in the workplace and talking about mental health.  Today we have her here with us to discuss “The Power of Authenticity in Sales”. Welcome Lisa. You can connect with her on LinkedIn here -- the D2 collective  is a glo...

Meet Hanna. Hanna is a startup enthusiast and leader passionate about disruptive tech and going to market. Over the last decade, she has built and scaled go-to-market strategies, sales orgs, and revenue at disruptive SaaS, Deep tech, and HR tech companies. She is the former Director of Sales EMEA at Remote, where she built and scaled the EMEA market, revenue, and sales team from 2 to 87 team membe...

Meet Charlotte. Charlotte is the CEO of 4-Day Week Global, an organization that is dedicated to promoting the benefits of a shorter workweek. She believes that the idea of a 4-day workweek, along with flexible and reduced hours, is reaching a tipping point and is leading the charge in bringing this change to businesses around the world. Through her Global Pilot Program, she is helping hundreds of...

Meet April. April Lea is a successful product and engineering leader with over a decade of experience. She has been recognized globally as one of the top 100 Emerging Engineering Leaders in 2021. Throughout her career, she has established PMF for several products across web and mobile platforms, onboarded teams, reduced deployment risks, and cultivated positive work environments. She leads teams w...

Meet Jakob. Jakob is an adventurer and an advocate for efficient and delightful remote collaboration. With a background in living in 5 countries and working with people from diverse backgrounds, Jakob understands the importance of seamless communication and collaboration in today's fast-paced, globalized world. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Butter, a virtual platform that aims to rev...

Meet Hady. Hady is a DEI professional focused on shaping and advancing belonging and inclusion while attracting, growing, and retaining underrepresented talent at all levels. She is a founding member of nFormation which seeks to help Women of Color (WOC) meet this unprecedented moment of leadership by stepping into their full voice, full power, and highest contribution. Her last role was as a Dire...

Meet Katie. In 2020, Katie founded MentorHer to empower women through connection. With Mentor Her, female Mentors and Mentees connect in entrepreneurship, corporate careers, and self-development. Late 2022 Mentor Her has made it to Regional Shortlist as a Dublin Tech Startup at the National Startup Awards . the D2 collective  is a global, value-based membership community for all those working...

Meet Leah. Leah is a recruiter who advocates for transparency in recruiting and shares her expertise to empower job seekers on LinkedIn with practical guidance and strategies. Additionally, she values mental health in the workplace, working to de-stigmatize mental health issues and promote well-being among employees. Connect with Leah on LinkedIn ⁠ here -- the D2 collective  is a global, value-bas...

Meet Sarena. Sarena is an Atlanta native, a LinkedIn Speaker and Coach, and a University Recruiter. She has always enjoyed writing and loves sharing stories from her life and career tips on LinkedIn! The true story is she didn't know what she wanted to do... So, she majored in Psychology and Sociology in college and eventually found her way into University Recruiting.  She has grown from 400...

Meet Molly. Molly is an ex-investment banker and strategy consultant. Keen chef and dog owner. On her LinkedIn, she talks a lot about the future of work and her company, Flexa Careers .  Connect with Molly on LinkedIn here Request to join today Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram Subscribe to our newsletter

Meet Laura. Laura is an executive coach (www.lauramongey.com) and an accomplished values-driven leader with over 20 years of experience working in Tech and FinTech industries in senior leadership roles. She specialized in building and scaling diverse, multinational teams in both the EMEA region and Internationally during periods of hyper-growth. She believes the best results are achieved in an eng...

Meet Ross.  Ross is a Product Marketing Manager at Lattice where he helps make work meaningful for employees by deeply understanding customer needs and collaborating across product, sales, and marketing to address them. He started his career at LinkedIn, where he worked with the sales team to help companies be more productive and successful when it came to their hiring strategies. After leavi...

Meet Milena.  Milena is a multi-six-figure coachpreneur who helps individuals get paid to change the world. She is the founder of Impact Coaching Circle and a former yoga teacher who found success in coaching after facing burnout in her teaching career. With over 100 clients from 15 countries, 40,000 followers, and a published book, Milena has proven her expertise in the coaching industry. Th...

Meet Kira. Kira is a Sales Director for the All in One Group. We both had the chance to meet her during our time at LinkedIn, where she was also part of the sales organization. In May she started a podcast, “Sand im getriebe” together with her friend Charlotte. The podcast covers interviews about the so-called sand in gears and the impact of critical life events. In a world in which we are expecte...

Meet Al. Al is a highly accomplished Talent, Leadership Development, and Workplace Connection Speaker, Facilitator, and Consultant with extensive experience helping organizations build positive relationships at work. He is passionate about empowering leaders to create organizations that develop and grow their people, and his work focuses on using innovative ways to bring employees together to achi...

Meet Akgush. In her LinkedIn profile, Akgush describes herself as flexible, compassionate, fast learning, and good at listening and connecting with others. She has lived in five different countries and now she is Global Diversity and Inclusion Lead at Miro, in Amsterdam, where she enjoys working with developing people, leaders, and their organizations. She focuses on how to influence individual an...

Meet Cédric. Cédric is a business leader with over 15+ years of experience in global roles with local responsibilities across Europe and North America. He is now the Head of BeNeLux Mid Market at Meta. He also founded walk the talk 1.5 years ago, a coaching practice that helps individuals and organizations move towards better well-being, happiness, and performance. Connect with him on LinkedIn her...

Meet Lucy. Lucy is an Employee Experience and Communications Consultant with over 12 years of experience working across companies of various sectors and sizes. Lucy is skilled at tackling strategic employee experience challenges and is known for her creativity and hands-on approach to delivery and execution. Her expertise lies in bringing a company's vision and purpose to life through epic storyte...

Meet Thamina. Thamina has been working for over 4 years at LinkedIn, mostly in Media Sales. She worked for over 3 years in the Dublin office and is now almost already a year from LinkedIn’s NYC office. In 2020 Thamina launched the Femme Hive Podcast, helping young female professionals with the often challenging transition from college into the workplace. Next to that, she has a strong passion for...

Meet Marjorie. Marjorie is passionate about the psychology of hiring and interviewing, personal development and coaching. She has lived in many different parts of the world, including NYC, SF, Dublin and Amsterdam. She has over 9 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with companies like LinkedIn, Optimizely, Hubspot. Recently she started a new role at Greenhouse. She also founded her own busi...

Meet Mohmmed.  Mohmmed started his journey by joining the world’s largest student-run organization AIESEC during his studies.  After leading the Marketing department for the Spanish chapter, he joined LinkedIn in 2017 where he worked as a territory manager for three years from their Dublin office.  In 2018, while still at LinkedIn, he founded Educatly to help advance the world's acc...

Meet Gary. Gary is a strategic, integrity-led, and proactive entrepreneur passionate about connecting talent from less privileged backgrounds to opportunity at scale. After joining the ZINC accelerator program for entrepreneurs he recently co-founded Tangent. Their mission is to close the network gap and make employee referrals work for everyone. We met Gary during his 3.5 years at LinkedIn in Dub...

Meet Iwo.  Iwo Szapar is a Remote Work Advocate & Co-founder of Remote-how, the world’s leading platform for remote professionals powered by and for the community of 25,000+ people from 128 countries. Through various initiatives like Remote-how Academy or Virtual Coworking, together with the world's top remote companies like GitLab, Prezi, or Doist, Remote-how is on a mission to help ever...