The FQ @CES 2022: Top Women in Tech Share Common Qualities and Goals

The panelists shared four common qualities that lead to successNever give up This was the most common advice the panelists reinforced when discussing how they advanced in the field Ishveen Jolly CEO and CoFounder of OpenSponsorship spoke about blindly pursuing her passion to become a sports agent with the thought quotAnything is possiblequot She never let the world39s negative views bring her down nor cloud her positive mindset She knew that she was going to achieve her goals no matter what She was determined to go after her dreams and let passion fuel her journeyUse the resources you are and are not given The COO of what3words Clare Mary Jones shared her struggle with feeling lonely while she was working on a startup She took matters into her own hands and entrenched herself into a resource she knew very well social media amp8211 especially Twitter quotTwitter has been a place where I found a bunch of peer mentors amp8230 and that has really helped me reach a much more diverse range of womenquot she said quotYou39re not limited to the people in the physical space that you39re in that you get to meetquotRemember that your voice matters Sowmya Subramanian Executive Vice President of Engineering at Discovery Inc said she is intrigued by hearing other people39s opinions Your voice matters and needs to be heard No one else has your ideas or opinions Because of these voices Sowmya asserted quotThe marketplace has a more diverse set of creators amp8230 and they are producing different types of content amp8230 so the rules of the game have changed from a content creation point of viewquotThink outside the box CEO ampamp Founder of The Workshop Whisperer Rachael Evans revealed that she was burned out by her fivedayaweek grind Having dreamt about a fourday work week and thinking outside the box she started designating Mondays for her own tasks She quickly noticed how much more efficient she was during the other four days of the week Now her entire business runs on a fourday week Rachael acknowledged the positive impact this has had on her employees39 productivity and credits their healthy worklife balance quotSick leave has become almost nonexistent amp8230 and productivity has increased because nobody wants to work on that Monday when they were supposed to have it off so everybody is really conscious of deadlinesquot she explainedVice President and Chief Information Security Officer of Twitter Rinki Sethi touched on the importance and need for there quotto be more role models and folks like us that are leading the way that then inspire the next generation of women that they can go and do something like thisquot With a goal to quotget more girls interested in STEM early onquot when Rinki worked at Palo Alto Networks she drove one of the initiatives to go in partnership with the Girl Scouts to introduce the next generation to STEMThese women attributed their successful careers to the support of those before them who helped shape a productive path to succeed in the field While everyone in this career starts because of their love for the tech industry their message was that we all can continue to nurture and expand that love for future generations of women in tech Knowing that there is a support system can help empower future generations to make positive changes and push the industry forward in exciting new waysClick the social buttons to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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