Alexandra Ciobotaru
Femme Lead
Empowering Women. Shaping Leaders. At Femme Lead, we aim to enable women to build fulfilling careers and close the leadership gap by providing a global platform for career advice, coaching, and community support. Our vision? To spotlight role models, share inspiring content, and build a global network of women and allies. Tune in to our show on all major streaming platforms for career advice, practical tips, and success stories from inspiring role models. Visit www.femmelead.com and get the inspiration and tools you need to elevate your career!
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Alexandra Ciobotaru
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Oct 1, 2025
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Episodes
S04 E23 Petra Wille, Independent Product Leadership Coach and Author on Building Strong Product Teams. 14.06.2023 44:10
Send us Fan Mail Product Management | Product at Heart | Product Teams | Product Coach | Strong Product People | Coaching | Author | Community Building | In today's episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Petra Wille, an independent product leadership coach and author with a passion for empowering product teams. With over eight years of experience in the field, Petra has been instrumental in...
S04 E22 Kathrine Hee Nielsen, Manager Digital Accelerator Research & Early Development at Novo Nordisk on Inclusive Leadership, Skills of the Future and Career Lessons. 07.06.2023 46:42
Send us Fan Mail Inclusive Leadership | Leader | Career Growth | Career Perspectives | Digital, IT & Data | Novo Nordisk | Research & Development | Role Model | Future Skills | In today's episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Kathrine Hee Nielsen, a leader in Digital, Data, and IT at Novo Nordisk. With a remarkable career spanning 11 years within the company, Kathrine has held var...
S04 E21 Ellie King, Co-Founder on Taking a Leap of Faith and Starting Equal IT. 24.05.2023 54:27
Send us Fan Mail Equal IT | Co-founder | Equality in IT | Recruitment Services | DEI Partner | Interview Preparation | Entrepreneurship | Career Lessons | Reflection | Voices of Women | Representation | Women in Tech | STEM | Ellie King, the Co-Founder of Equal IT is joining us today. Ellie and her team are on a mission to support organizations worldwide in recruiting inclusive teams and buildin...
S04 E20 Esra Talu, Founder & CEO GoGlobal on Building a Supportive Community for Investments in Early-Stage Start-ups. 10.05.2023 48:00
Send us Fan Mail CEO | Co-Founder | Start-up | Investment | Board Member | Fundraising | Global Expansion | Partners for Growth | Social Entrepreneurship | Women Empowerment | Arya Women Investment Platform | Welcome to today's episode of Femme Lead podcast, where we have the pleasure of introducing our guest, Esra Talu. Esra is not only an extraordinary businesswoman but also a renowned wr...
S04 E19 Dovilė Končak, CEO ai RAIT Group on How to not forget yourself when becoming a leader. 26.04.2023 45:47
Send us Fan Mail CEO | Leadership | Personal Reflection | Motherhood | M&A | Crisis Management | Team Leader | Business Development | Women’s Business Association | Dovilė Končak is the CEO of RAIT Group, in Lithuania, a market research company, and an active representative of key women's business associations in Lithuania. Her leadership approach is balanced and holistic, combining emp...
S04 E18 Alina Engel, Business Development Manager at Meta on Trusting the process: How do you decide to close a start-up? 12.04.2023 56:58
Send us Fan Mail Entrepreneurship | Hooves | Start-up | Founder | Business Closure | Venture Architecture | Strategic Partnerships | Meta | Lessons | Business Development Manager | Role Model | In this episode of the Femme Lead Podcast, we have a special guest speaker, Alina Engel, who is not only a source of inspiration but also a close friend of the show. Alina's entrepreneurial journey st...
S04 E17 Laura Dzurna, Pandora on building a career in brand management and the thought process involved in a career change. 13.03.2023 42:32
Send us Fan Mail Brand Management | Communication | Digital & IT Comms | Jewelry Industry | Career Change | Decision Making | Reflections | Laura Dzurna was Communications Manager at Pandora from August 2020 until September 2022, with a special focus on digital & technology. In October 2022, she took on a new role at Pandora as Brand Manager, managing one of Pandora’s collections. Her car...
S04 E16 Inese Podgaiska on Bringing Your Whole Self to Work. 06.02.2023 39:46
Send us Fan Mail Coaching | Self-Awareness | Career Development | Bring Your Whole Self to Work | Career Progression | Reflection | Mindfulness | Women in STEM | Role Model | Our guest is a former Latvian diplomat with more than 21 years of experience in stakeholder management, negotiation, advocacy, and communication. Inese Podgaiska is the Secretary General of the Association of Nordic Engineers...
S04 E15 Kathy Borys Siddiqui on Building a Life Abroad and Cultural Adjustment in the Nordics. 23.01.2023 48:26
Send us Fan Mail Cultural Adjustment | Living Abroad | Culture Shock | Consultant | Integration | Well-Being Specialist | Intercultural Awareness | Founder | Role Model | Trainer | Our guest is Kathy Borys Siddiqui the founder of Active Action, an organization supporting International companies as well as internationals and their families in the intercultural transition when moving abroad. Activ...
S04 E14 Sonja Lakner on Taking a Career Break. Reflections and Goals from a Managing Director. 09.01.2023 43:53
Send us Fan Mail Career Break | Career Development | Digital Innovation | Digital Agency | People Leader | Goals | Reflections | Learnings | Career Progression | Pause | Our guest today is Sonja Lakner . Originally from Austria, Sonja studied communications and media and after a few years of working in digital agencies in London, she has worked in leadership positions in Sweden for the past 15 ye...
S04 E12 Sophie Jelstrup, Chief Dealer & Functional Lead at Nordea Markets on Navigating a Finance Career. 20.10.2022 53:54
Send us Fan Mail Finance | Trading | Chief Dealer | Capital Markets | Nordea | Career | Progression | Leadership | Graduate Program | Role Model | Women in Finance | Sophie Jelstrup is the Chief Dealer & Functional Lead - Global Trading at Nordea Markets . Sophie is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, studied economics and has a double master's degree in Finance from the University of Copenh...
S04 E11 Nada Ahmed on The Great Resignation, Pivoting Your Career and the Reputation Dilemma. 19.09.2022 49:52
Send us Fan Mail Innovation | CEO | Venture Capital | Board Member | Agile Leadership | Energy & Maritime Industry | Top 50 Women in Technology | Braving Innovation | Nada Ahmed is a public speaker, writer, and innovation and tech advisor with over 15 years of corporate leadership experience in the Energy and Maritime industry. She is the CEO and founder of Agile Leadership - an innovation c...
S04 E10 Work as a Force for Good with Tamilla Mahkamova Leadership Coach, Educator & Global Change Director. 05.09.2022 47:05
Send us Fan Mail Company Culture | Organizational Development | Global Transformation | Coaching | Education | Transition at Work | Role Model | Emotional Intelligence at Work | Summing up all aspects of her work Tamilla Mahkamova is a psychologist, HR, Organizational Development and Transformation expert, coach, and educator. Over the last 15 years, she has worked in HR, OD, and Transformation ro...
S04 E09 Career Mentorship with Alexandra Lung, CPO at Uptime: A comprehensive guide to apply, negotiate, and take your next career step. 22.08.2022 52:46
Send us Fan Mail Chief Product Officer | Mentor | International Speaker | Top Women in Product | Career Advice | Contract Negotiation | Non-Negotiables at Work | Corporate Advisor | Digital Transformation | Femme Lead welcomes Alexandra Lung, an internationally recognized product leader, C-suite executive, public speaker, corporate advisor, and leadership mentor. Her experience spans internationa...
S04 E08 Olimpia Mesa on How People Learn. Turning passion into business. How to build your subject matter expertise? 08.08.2022 50:31
Send us Fan Mail How People Learn | Subject Matter Expert | Learning & Development | Passion | Entrepreneur | Learning | Book to Courses | Learning Design | Instructional Design | Thought Leader | Olimpia Mesa is a leading expert and consultant on brain-based learning design. President of Instructional Design Ltd., a company behind hundreds of successful corporate and educational programs, b...
S04 E07 Ramaa Mosley, Film Director & Founder at Adolescent Content. Gen Z & the new generation of content creators. 27.06.2022 36:20
Send us Fan Mail Director | Career Path | Media Industry | Gen z | Adolescent Content | Advertising Agency | Promoting Talent | Entrepreneur | Diversity & Inclusion | Content Creators | New Generation | Ramaa Mosley is a commercial director, filmmaker, and advocate. Ramaa came across her passion for content creation and advertising at the young age of five when she directed her first document...
S05 E06 Poorvi Shrivastav, GM & VP, Products at HubSpot on the pillars to promote more women in leadership. Forbes Technology Council. 13.06.2022 32:47
Send us Fan Mail Women in Leadership | Product Leader | Executive Team | Professional Advice | Career Progression | Role Model | People, Product & Process | Healthy Company Culture | Poorvi Shrivastav is the GM and VP of Products at HubSpot. She has more than a decade of experience leading global customer, product, and engineering teams. She has launched products, built high-performing teams...
S04 E05 Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire on how to transform your career path. Life science business leader & DEIB advocate. 05.06.2022 45:38
Send us Fan Mail Career Transformation | Career Growth | Pivot | Life Sciences | Life in Denmark | Inclusive Leadership | Diversity & Inclusion | Women of Color | Mentorship | Role Model | ProWoc | Life Science | Researcher | Phaedria Marie St. Hilaire is a Dominican-born Science Business Leader with over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries with a passion for p...
S04 E04 Personal branding starts with "why": Amelia Sordell on branding, leadership and entrepreneurship. 04.05.2022 48:22
Send us Fan Mail Personal Branding | Thought Leader | Entrepreneurship | Career Advice | Failure & Success | Leadership | Hiring Tips | Role Model | Amelia Sordell is a thought leader in personal branding, and as she describes herself: “I brand people, not businesses.” She started the agency Klowt in a small bedroom in the middle of a global pandemic. She believes that the future of branding...
S04 E03 Career progression with Gurpriya Bhatia, Product Leader. Advice on setting yourself up for a promotion. 05.04.2022 37:52
Send us Fan Mail Product Management | Leadership | Career Progression | Promotion | Career Planning | Technology | Scale-up | Corporate | HR | Innovation | Growth | Gurpriya Bhatia is a product leader in big tech. She works on product strategy and has over 15 years of experience in growth strategy and business model innovation and has worked across the UK, the US, India, Japan, Switzerland, and Z...
S04 E02 Dora Palfi on entrepreneurship, EdTech & girls education with imagiLabs. 21.03.2022 37:27
Send us Fan Mail EdTech | imagiLabs | Girls Education | STEM | Entrepreneurship | Coding for Future | Creators with technology | Dora Palfi is the co-founder & CEO of imagiLabs, an ed-tech company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology. Dora worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has substantia...
S04 E01 Mia Wagner, Minister, Investor, Board member, Co-founder, Løvens Hule (Danish Shark Tank). 07.03.2022 45:52
Send us Fan Mail Digitalization Minister | Gender Quality | Shark Thank | Investor | Board Member | Unicef Danmark | Co-founder Nordic Female Founders (now exited) | Mia Therese Wagner is an investor, board member, co-founder of Nordic Female Founders (now exited), keynote speaker, and a previous member of the Danish version of Shark Tank - Løvens Hule. 💪 In 2023, Mia became the Danish Minister...
Special Episode in Romanian: Melania Medeleanu about life decisions, journalism & the mission of her NGO. 05.02.2022 38:15
Send us Fan Mail Journalism | NGO | Purpose | Career Change | Public Speaking | In the Spotlight | Charity | Inspiration | Career Path | Personal Growth | Media Training | A former TV anchor, Melania Medeleanu is a seasoned journalist from Romania that now specializes in speech training & public speaking. She left the spotlight and returned to school to study for a master's in speech ther...
S03 E09 UEFA Top Women in Football: How education in sports can inspire a society with Diana Pirciu, Romanian Football Federation. 24.01.2022 43:36
Send us Fan Mail Education | Sport Management | Women in Sports | Football Education | Volunteer Manager | UEFA EURO 2020 | Leadership | Mindset | Athlete | Tennis Player | A former Romanian international tennis player, Diana Pirciu studied communications and sports marketing in the USA before joining the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) as a corporate social responsibility manager and educatio...
S03 E08 Redefining entrepreneurial success with Mashal Waqar, Co-founder, The Tempest. Forbes 30 Under 30. 10.01.2022 40:49
Send us Fan Mail Success | Entrepreneur | Introvert | 60 Day Startups | Founder | Leadership | Mental Health | Boundaries | Media Platform | Role Model | Women in Media | Mashal Waqar is a serial entrepreneur who loves being in the midst of startups, cool tech, writing, and good people. Her first media startup, The Tempest, impacts millions of readers globally through powerful storytelling. Masha...
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