WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation

In this episode, Zoia sits down with Latoya Tucciarone, CEO & Founder of SustainAble Home Goods and Amazing Women in eCommerce 2022 honoree, and Ruthie Berber, Head of Community at Yotpo and Program Director at Amazing Women in eCommerce. The conversation discusses the current state of affairs in the start-up world, how retail is evolving and changing to keep up with the times, and how women a...

In this episode, Zoia hosts Victoria Young and Ravi Mehta, co-founders of Scale Higher, a company reinventing how people learn and grow through its development courses and coaching platform. Victoria and Ravi are both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, who have launched and worked on world-class products including Uber Pool, Trip Advisor, Tinder, Facebook Live, and more. Listen for advice on: How to...

In this episode, Zoia sits down with Kirin Sinha, CEO & Founder of Illumix, a leading augmented reality (AR) technology, and media company, focused on developing immersive experiences. They discuss the value of the metaverse and AR and the opportunities for women to create and innovate in hard sciences, and STEM industries. Kirin shares her observations about how women speak to themselves vers...

In this episode, Zoia sits down with Lizzie Azzolino, the founder of Until Now, a coaching & culture transformation design and consulting practice and WIN’s very own Global Development Lead to talk about all things innovation mindset, actionable takeaways for aspiring (and current!) innovation leaders, and, of course, how to advance and develop your leadership capabilities. Lizzie shares insig...

In this episode, Cassidy Fein, Director of Product, Enterprise at Vimeo, talks about the power of video and the challenges and opportunities it brings when it comes to balancing launching innovative products to market while maintaining focus on the user. The conversation also dives deeper into pivots, decision-making frameworks, and leadership in innovation.  Listen for advice on: Understandi...

In this episode, Zoia is joined by Vrinda Gupta, CEO & Founder at Sequin a fintech behind the first debit card to build credit. Vrinda talks about how her mother’s fears around the financial system fueled her desire to build tools to empower women to better leverage and gain access to credit. She shares how she entered a rotational program at Visa, applied for and got rejected from the Chase S...

In this episode, Tui Allen talks about how adaptability and curiosity created opportunities for her career pivots, moving from consulting at EY and Disney to product management at Blackbaud and Shopify. She shares how growing up in Montreal with an entrepreneurial mother fed her desire to learn, and why she wants to use technology to solve problems in the social good space.  Listen for advice...

In this episode, Lucie Buisson, Chief Product Officer of ContentSquare discusses her transition from being a Customer Success Manager to heading up Product and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Whether it is immersing herself in qualitative or quantitive research or restructuring company processes at every step of ContentSquare’s scaling, Lucie is quite the expert on consumer-centric innova...

In this episode, Elyssa Byck shares her path from creating her own roles at Buzzfeed to founding her own company, focused on reimagining corporate leadership training and building values-based communities. She talks about how her entrepreneurial upbringing ignited her to be relentless and scrappy, enter situations with a learning mentality, and embrace vulnerability in professional settings. ...

In this episode, Anne Olderog highlights the importance of having a different point of view when it comes to problem-solving — something that’s been essential during her 25-year consulting career, including time at McKinsey, BCG, and Goldman Sachs. She talks about how having a global outlook, leading with compassion, and reading a lot of novels has helped open opportunities for connecting with con...

In today's episode, Joy Phua, Chief Operating Officer at fintech start-up Heka Global, breaks down how she approaches solving multi-billion dollar problems in the financial ecosystem while applying her liberal arts background and hunger for entrepreneurship in the process. The conversation touches upon the importance of diversity at any scale of a company, why innovation careers are not linear, an...

In today's episode, Sarah Lux-Lee, founder and CEO at Mindr Global, discusses her journey to building out a consultancy and technology platform to help the world's leading workplaces develop their workforces. Sarah's path has always encompassed social impact through her work at the UN's campaign to End Violence Against Women and at the World Health Organization, but she shares how she's built a co...

In this week's episode, the WIN/WIN podcast celebrates Black History Month through a conversation with Netflix's Head of Product Innovation, Animation, Laura Teclemariam. Bringing a plethora of innovation roles at companies like Electronic Arts, Tapjoy, Deloitte, and Microsoft as well as experience as an entrepreneur, Laura breaks down what we can all learn from the innovation and experimentation...

In this week's episode, Zoia is joined by Brittany Driscoll, Co-founder & CEO of Squeeze, a completely fresh approach to a way better massage experience, brought to you by the founders of Drybar. The conversation covers the importance of creating delight in commoditized experiences in order to infuse hypergrowth in a business as well as Brittany's journey scaling Drybar from $30M to $100M busi...

In this week's episode, we hear from Lisa Wang, a board member and contributor to Fast Company, Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, and former Head of Brand and Communications at Republic. Lisa actively invests in the crypto space as well as advises blockchain companies on establishing their brands and marketing practices to help them to connect with consumers. In this conversation, Lisa uncovers the fu...

In this week’s episode, we hear from Cara Shortsleeve, who is CEO at The Leadership Consortium, a leadership development company that helps organizations create the conditions for all leaders to accelerate and thrive. Pulling from over ten years at Google, her tenure at Morgan Stanley, as well as experiences at New Balance and Saucony, Cara discusses the role of leadership development in innovatio...

In this episode, Neetu Rajpal shares how her passion for problem-solving led her to study computer science and her time navigating an 18+ year career at Microsoft — starting with Internet Explorer 3. She talks about finding her voice as a woman in STEM, employing her identity as an immigrant to adapt and solve problems, and entering the health care space —joining OscarHealth nine days before the p...

In this episode, Anastasia Leng recounts her journey from working on an ad product team at Google to bootstrapping a business and finding her way to becoming a CEO. She talks about how a side-project turned into a company, navigating through receiving “nos” at over 100 investor meetings, and how listening and project management helped her build a tech company without a tech background.  ...

In this episode, Vanessa Liu talks about how working on building digital products at McKinsey spurred her to want to run businesses herself; thinking about her career as an opportunity for creating a diverse portfolio. She shares her approach to generating access for underrepresented founders through her time at SAP’s accelerator, and how her college behavioral neuroscience major is impacting her...

In this week’s episode, Renan Gutman talks about her trajectory to becoming a product leader and what she believes to be innovative product leadership, especially in her role as Executive Vice President, Product. She shares what it was like to move from a large-scale company such as Microsoft to a growth-stage start-up, Kaltura, and the role of video in our ecosystem, while constantly embracing ch...

In this episode, Jil Dasher, Managing Director at Corsica Partners, explains how she transitioned her skill set from leading in the events planning space for over a decade to tackling a new career opportunity in executive search. She talks about summoning her inner Nancy Drew and love of learning to problem-solve and how she approaches bringing diverse candidates to roles, conferences, and events....

This week’s episode breaks down what innovation looks like at a fast-moving, fast-growing start-up such as Doordash, with Kelly Ling. Kelly’s innovation trajectory across healthcare, consumer good brand management and consulting has led her to now innovating across Customer Experience and Support area as well as launching a leadership development coaching practice.  Listen for advice on: Why...

In this episode, Janna Gilbert, President of the innovation consultancy, Luminary Labs reflects on her background in business, innovation, and consulting and what it takes to work in innovation. She breaks down her experience of working with the Department of Education on rethinking vocational education in the midst of the pandemic and the role that gender has played in her come up. Listen for adv...

In today's episode, Eugenia Marshall and Wendy Rose Berry talk about their juggling and balancing act of co-founding a sexual wellness product, ConditionHER, as well as keeping up with their day jobs as executives at Warner Brothers and NKSFB. They share the ins and outs of being "employed entrepreneurs" and the importance of perseverance in launching a company despite adversity. Eugenia and Wendy...

In this episode, Lindsey Metselaar shares how she navigated her way from getting fired from a job in 2016 to launching her own social media agency, and how a romantic break-up ultimately led her to create (and monetize) a successful dating podcast. She explains why going with her gut, knowing her strengths, and appropriately charging for her time and expertise helped her forge ahead.  Listen...