Nancy Wang is the General Manager of Data Protection Services at AWS and the Founder and CEO of Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT). In today's episode, Nancy shares the story behind AWIT, and how this nonprofit organization is dedicated to empowering women to attain more leadership roles in product and tech.  We discuss the importance of mentorship and continuing education for women and underrepresented individuals to help accelerate their careers in the tech industry. AWIT has already put 27,000 individuals worldwide through its Coursera-based courses, which range from real-world to cloud product management. AWIT is opening up its mission and scope to serve more women and underrepresented groups to empower women at all stages of their tech career. Nancy reveals how, by focusing not only on early career stages, but also on those already in the pipeline who are just a few steps away from reaching the senior executive level or C-suite, they are making a real difference - and sparks ideas for how you can do the same.

Nancy Wang is the General Manager of Data Protection Services at AWS and the Founder and CEO of Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT). In today's episode, Nancy shares the story behind AWIT, and how this nonprofit organization is dedicated to empowering women to attain more leadership roles in product and tech. We discuss the importance of mentorship and continuing education for women and underrepresented individuals to help accelerate their careers in the tech industry. AWIT has already put 27,000 individuals worldwide through its Coursera-based courses, which range from real-world to cloud product management. AWIT is opening up its mission and scope to serve more women and underrepresented groups to empower women at all stages of their tech career. Nancy reveals how, by focusing not only on early career stages, but also on those already in the pipeline who are just a few steps away from reaching the senior executive level or C-suite, they are making a real difference - and sparks ideas for how you can do the same.

Nancy Wang is the General Manager of Data Protection Services at AWS and the Founder and CEO of Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT). In today's episode, Nancy shares the story behind AWIT, and how this nonprofit organization is dedicated to empowering women to attain more leadership roles in product and tech.&nbsp; We discuss the importance of mentorship and continuing education for women and underrepresented individuals to help accelerate their careers in the tech industry. AWIT has already put 27,000 individuals worldwide through its Coursera-based courses, which range from real-world to cloud product management. AWIT is opening up its mission and scope to serve more women and underrepresented groups to empower women at all stages of their tech career. Nancy reveals how, by focusing not only on early career stages, but also on those already in the pipeline who are just a few steps away from reaching the senior executive level or C-suite, they are making a real difference - and sparks ideas for how you can do the same.&nbsp; &nbsp;

48: Rethinking Data Science and Advancing Women in Tech at Amazon

Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process.

I'm Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn't always. I've been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I've spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. 

Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can't see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.

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Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process. I'm Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn't always. I've been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I've spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can't see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.

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