Uncharted Journey

Leslie Greenwood is a true force in the realm of community building and engagement. As the founder of Chief Evangelist Consulting and cofounder of Wednesday Women, she is known for her ability to craft innovative strategies for both formal and informal communities while bypassing the constraints of traditional structures. With more than 20 years of leadership in customer-facing roles, Leslie has m...

Dr. Ina Hadsciew is a seasoned dermatologist with an impressive career spanning over 30 years. Dr. Hadsciew's journey is anything but ordinary—she almost became a professional swimmer, but a pivotal conversation with her father led her to pursue medicine instead. Growing up in West Germany after her family fled East Berlin, she was deeply influenced by her strong and supportive parents and her gra...

Meryl Evans was born profoundly deaf, but that has never slowed her down or stopped her from making an impact as a renowned speaker, trainer, author, and accessibility consultant. A true champion of accessibility and inclusion, she is helping push progress in accessibility in education, marketing, advocacy, and product development. Meryl’s expertise helps organizations navigate the complexities of...

Kate Ertmann effortlessly moves between the worlds of business, math, and community service. Her expertise in Organizational Design is all about finding the sweet spot between humans and financials, helping companies and their teams thrive in the fast-paced 21st-century workplace. Kate’s Entrepreneurial journey began with Animation Dynamics, a 3D animation studio she led to success and sale in 201...

Nicki Traikos is an inspiring, creative entrepreneur who has pursued her dreams and made a positive impact along the way. From a young age, Nicki had a deep desire to create beauty through art, but she allowed self-doubt and intimidation to hold her back. Everything changed when she turned 40. Finally, allowing herself to embrace her true calling as an artist, and she went all in on her curiosity-...

As the Group Chief Executive Officer at MicroLoan Foundation, Medha Wilson has dedicated her career to alleviating poverty and creating sustainable change for underserved communities. Under her leadership, the foundation's assets have quadrupled in just five years, and the number of active clients has grown from 44,000 to over 90,000. This incredible growth has made a tangible difference for women...

Karrie Sanderson is the dynamic and accomplished founder and CMO at K.E.S. Consulting. With a wealth of experience in growth marketing, brand leadership and strategy, creative studio management, and strategic consulting, she is a powerhouse leader who knows how to drive success. Her desire to be a journalist, with a detour via an engineering degree, landed her in the sweet spot of marketing that a...

Jessie Shipman has established herself as a pioneer at the intersection of education and technology, paving the way for a brighter future. As the CEO and founder of Fluincy, Jessie Shipman has blended her teaching and technological skills and fostered an environment where her team can make daily impactful contributions. This approach has helped their customers enable partner selling, transform pro...

Soundarya Balasubramani (aka Pooja) is not yet 30 but has already achieved so much. Since quitting that gig, an ex-product manager with Salesforce, she has added 2x author, creator of the online community unshackled.club , and founder to her list of accomplishments. She is a rare combination of writer, creator, and technologist. Curious by nature she aptly calls herself, and her website, Curious M...

Beth Torrie has an impressive 20+ years of experience in IT as an expert in industry analyst relations, marketing strategy, and media communications. She has fearlessly supported and driven AR programs for start-ups, midmarket, and large companies, delivering against aggressive goals, ensuring they meet, but often, with her guidance, exceed their business objectives. As a strategic advisor and ana...

Melissa Moody is a full-stack marketing executive and entrepreneur extraordinaire. With an unwavering passion for user-first products and a remarkable talent for creating clarity amidst chaos, she is the go-to for best practices on finding focus and going big. At the helm as General Manager for Matcha, a platform that empowers professionals, communities, and teams to grow their networks in a focus...

Nikki Carvalho's ascent to the presidency of State Window Corporation is a testament to her exceptional leadership qualities and unwavering dedication. As President, she not only holds the title but also leads by example, setting a high standard for excellence and encouraging her team to reach their fullest potential. But Nikki's journey to success did not start overnight. She honed her business a...

Janna Kimel knows how to unlock potential at the intersection of UX Research, design, and accessibility. For more than 15 years, she has been a driving force in the world of UX Research, design, and accessibility. With an unwavering commitment to championing inclusive design and research, she has transformed countless ideas into reality, igniting new team dynamics and supercharging existing ones w...

Tamsen Webster is part strategist, part storyteller, part English-to-English translator, and with an overlay of enthusiastic positivity. Take all those things to varying degrees depending on the day and tasks at hand, and there is no wonder her clients and followers learn and embrace the council on how to drive action with their ideas. The primary benefactors of Tamsen’s expertise are storytellers...

Cindy Gallop is a woman to be reckoned with. With a background in brand-building, marketing, and advertising, she’s been a trailblazer since 1998, when she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York. Since then, she's only gotten more badass, earning accolades like Advertising Woman of the Year and being named one of the 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Tod...

Liz Robinson is someone who truly knows how to build teams, capacity, and community. With deep roots in communications for financial services, she has led impactful efforts like the one to expand the national conversation about how we value and pay for college, at institutions like Sallie Mae and U-promise Investments. With more than 20 years of combined brand strategy and creative agency expertis...

Lizz Bacon is an innovative problem-solver. A few years after graduating Stanford with a bachelor's degree in literature, she had the epiphany that she was a designer and pursued a master's degree in the discipline. And for the 25 years since, she has been practicing at the forefront of the digital product development. While working for St. Jude Medical, she realized that she loves working on...

Danielle Barnes is the CEO of Women Talk Design, where she’s on a mission to amplify the voices of women and nonbinary individuals. She’s trained hundreds of wanna-be speakers on the power of storytelling and how to become more confident public speakers. Knowing that helping to create great speakers is only half the equation, she and her team also provide resources fo...

Andrea Nordgren an extraordinary Colorado-based commercial, branded content, and film director.     Her journey in storytelling began with her nomadic childhood, which cultivated her into a highly agile creator with an insatiable curiosity about human behavior. She possesses a life-long wanderlust and is deeply passionate about championing diverse communities, cultures, and causes. With...

Margot Bloomstein is a true powerhouse in the content strategy industry. With her notable publications, including "Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap" and "Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project," Margot has become a prominent voice in the field.   As the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a renowned brand and...

Ann Rockley is as resilient as she is innovative and tenacious. Conquering both the professional world and a chronic illness simultaneously for more than three decades, she has defied the odds while leaving an indelible mark as an internationally recognized expert in content strategy and content management. Duly dubbed the Mother of Content Strategy, for three decades Ann partnered with Fortune 10...

Tara King is a force to reckon with. With her palpable passion for life and deep kindness that she extends to all she meets, it’s no wonder she has a zest for transforming the way customers – internal and external – experience brands. As the Director of Customer Experience at Gibraltar Building Accessories, she's taking customer-centric strategies and communications to new heights. Her earned trac...

Amanda Todorovich is a communications and marketing powerhouse in the healthcare industry with more than 20 years of storytelling experience. As the Senior Director, Health Content, at the Cleveland Clinic, she leads one of the most successful content marketing teams in the country. Her accomplishments speak for themselves; she's grown clevelandclinic.org into one of the world’s top 30 most-visite...

We are kicking off 2024 with content and marketing industry royalty. Ann Handley is a writer, a digital marketing pioneer, and a doubling-crowned Wall Street Journal best-selling author. A sought-after speaker, she is as memorable as she is inspiring, empowering audiences around the world to create marketing that your customers will love, and igniting real results for their business. And she is a...

As 2023 takes its final bow, I can't help but be filled with gratitude for every one of you who has become a part of the Uncharted Journeys community. It has been an incredible first 60 episodes filled with inspiring stories, thought-provoking discussions, and beautiful moments of connection. Before we dive headfirst into the unknown wonders of 2024, I need to give a special shout-out to the extra...