Revealing Li

This is Part II of my conversation with Dr. Genevieve Bell. If you have not listened to Part I, you may want to listen to Ep23 first before listening to this episode. Dr. Bell holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel's product development and social science and design research capabilities. She is best known...

I am beyond excited to tell you about my guest on this episode because she is someone who has had a profound impact on how I think about technology, its place in the world and my moral obligation to act in a way that ensures technology innovation is sustainable, ethical and inclusive. Her name is Dr. Genevieve Bell. Dr. Bell holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and spent m...

What is quantum mechanics and how is it applicable to our current digital infrastructure? The answer to that question is what I have in store for you in this episode. I’m speaking to Dr. Sristy Agrawal, the pioneering inventor, co-founder and CEO of Mesa Quantum, a company that is breaking ground in the area of #quantumsensing at chip scale, essentially miniaturizing and securing the capabilities...

This week I am speaking with a rock star in the technology industry. Alexis Black Bjorlin is Vice President and General Manager for DGX Cloud at Nvidia. Prior to Nvidia, Alexis was vice president for Infrastructure at Meta where her team was responsible for Infrastructure hardware and software co-designed systems, including AI Systems, compute and storage platforms, and custom silicon. Prior to Me...

This is the first Revealing Li roundtable conversation on a timely topic. The opportunities and challenges of AI adoption in the healthcare industry. Joining me for this conversation is Marcus Grindstaff, Principal at Bridge HLS, Laney Preheim, operations strategy consultant at Anonymous Health, and Kathleen Perley, Professor of AI at @Rice University’s Jones School of Business.

My guest on this episode is an amazing woman entrepreneur. Her name is Dr. Kalen Hall and she is the the co-founder and CEO of Informuta. During her PhD work on mutagenesis and antibiotic resistance at Tulane University School of Medicine, she was the first to pioneer the use of machine learning to forecasts future resistance acquisition in bacterial infections. While completing her PhD, she co-fo...

My guest for this episode is Kathleen Perley, Professor of AI at Rice University's Jones School of Business and a thought leader in the nascent field of the intersection of artificial intelligence with business strategy, marketing and advertising. Prior to joining Rice, she was the founder and CEO of DECODE, a healthcare-focused digital agency that was recognized as a company building the futu...

My guest this week is a woman who is breaking new ground at the intersection of healthcare, marketing and technology. Her name is Shannon Hooper and she is the President of Unlock Health, a company she helped form through a targeted acquisition strategy that she financed with support from Amulet Capital and Athyrium Capital. Today, Unlock Health is the largest provider-focused marketing, technolog...

This episode features part 2 of Michelle's conversation with Diane Bryant. Listen to part 1 of the conversation in Ep15 A Winning Combination of Empathy, Confidence & Grit with Diane Bryant.

This episode features a powerhouse of a story from a global technology leader with more than three decades of executive leadership in the global semiconductor, cloud computing services, artificial intelligence and technology-based health care solutions industries. Her name is Diane Bryant and her story will blow you away! Diane most recently served as the Chairman and CEO of NovaSignal, a medical...

Hello everyone. I’m Michelle Leyden Li and this is Revealing Li. My guest this week is Kim Ziesemer Principal and Founding Partner at ZM Communications, a strategic communications and PR firm with deep expertise across strategic planning, media and influencer engagement, thought leadership, content development and media training. Prior to founding ZM Communications with her partner Heath Meyer, Ki...

Hello Revealing Li fans. I hope you enjoy our first topic focused minisode. This week, I talk to Kiva Allgood about the future of AI. Stay tuned for my next full episode which will be available on Sunday August 11th. As always, I hope you enjoy the show.

This episode features my conversation with Kiva Allgood, a technology industry veteran who currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum and is the Head of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain at the World Economic Forum. Kiva describes herself as multi-tasking her way through life as a mom, wife, sister, executive, and tech-lover, with a pas...

I’m so excited to introduce you my guest today. Her name is Laney Preheim and she is Vice President of Operations at ICON, a global provider of consulting and outsourced development and commercialization services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices and government and public health organizations. Laney came to Icon through its acquisition of Care Innovations where she served as Vice P...

Have you ever been offered a job opportunity and thought "I can't do that! I don't have the experience for that role" and passed it by? My guest today almost let a good one get by her but she changed her mind and the rest is history. Lisa Cummins Dulchinos is a woman who knows her strengths, has great advice about leaning in to big opportunities, and has a lot to teach us about v...

My guest this week is a technology industry pioneer. She was one of the first people to fully understand the potential of foundry services in the semiconductor industry and to recognize the need for a unified ecosystem approach to harness the fledgling fabless semiconductor sector’s growth opportunities. Her vision of a global alliance was, at first, dismissed by many in the industry, but her grit...

Have you ever encountered a "Mean Girl" at work? How should you handle Mean Girl behavior in the workplace? My guest today is in some ways a departure from previous episodes but I think you’ll recognize why I wanted her to come on the show. Her name is Dr. Bess Rowen, she is an Assistant Professor of Drama at Villanova University. She is a professional actor,  a member of Actors’ Equity...

My guest this week is a force of nature. Over a three-decade career, she has established herself as a technology leader and product visionary. Her name is Rani Borkar. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Rani for many years. We were colleagues together at Intel where she led the microprocessor product development team. She’s also held executive positions at IBM and she is currently Corporate Vice Pre...

My guest this week is an engineer, an inventor, a business woman, an entrepreneur and one of my favorite people in the world. Her name is Liat Ben-Zur. She is the founder and CEO of LBZ Advisory, where she advises C-suite executives on AI strategy, product development and digital transformation. She is also a sought-after board member and currently serves as a member of the board of directors at T...

Melinda Woods is a powerhouse. She is an engineer, a serial entrepreneur and a cyber security expert with over 25 years of experience working in the private sector for such tech giants as Intel and Motorola, and in the public sector, including a stint as the Director of the Defense Production Act Title III Office and several key positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency including Operation Iraq...

Sherry Jiang is a rising star in Fintech and my guest on this episode of Revealing Li. After receiving her degree from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, Sherry worked for Amazon and Google before making the jump to start her own Fintech company, Peek. In this wide ranging conversation, she talks about growing up in a bicultural environment and how that motivated her career choices and...

Christine Dunbar is Senior Vice President of Global Sales at IQE, a semiconductor industry power player and my guest for Episode 3 of the Revealing Li Podcast. We talk about how her childhood passion helped her learn discipline and focus, how she discovered she was not alone, there were other girls and women who liked and excelled at math and science, how she found her way into the semiconductor i...

Jen Whelan is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at Smart Media Technologies, one of the coolest ladies I know, and my guest for Episode 2 of the Revealing Li Podcast. We talk about her childhood growing up in the back woods of Alaska, her determination to be the first in her family to go to college and the challenges she faced in making that dream come true, her rise in the technology industry an...

Maryam Rofougaran is co-founder and CEO of Movandi and she is my guest for the premier episode of my new podcast Revealing Li. We talk about everything from her childhood, to her time at UCLA, co-founding her first start up Innovent, her life as a CEO and as a mom, and more. I hope you’ll join me for this frank, fascinating and fun conversation with a powerful woman leader.

Welcome to Revealing Li. A podcast for women leaders, about women leaders.