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Join your host Sanila Samuel on yet another insightful and engaging conversation with Tia Hopkins as they talk about Tia's influences growing up, her passion for all things tech and what drives her to keep going and growing.

Tia (Yatia) Hopkins Hopkins is the Field CTO & Chief Cyber Risk Strategist at eSentire. She is also an adjunct professor of #Cybersecurity at Yeshiva University, a football coach, and is pursuing an Executive MBA and PhD in Cybersecurity.

Tia was recognized by SC Media as an outstanding educator in 2019, as well as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity and Top 100 Women in Cybersecurity; both in 2020. In 2021, Tia was recognized as a Top Influencer in the Security Executives category by IFSEC Global - Security & fire safety news, and was most recently recognized by Dark Reading as #1 on the list of ‘8 More Women in Security You May Not Know, but Should’. She also contributed a chapter to the book The Rise of Cyber Women: Volume 2.

Tia is the Founder of Empow(H)er Cybersecurity, a non-profit organization aimed at inspiring and empowering women of color to pursue cybersecurity careers.

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Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel in a fun and engaging conversation with entrepreneur and marketing expert Maya Itani as she shares at length about the circumstances that led her to starting her own business, her personal ethos and the learnings she picked up along the way on networking, leadership and personal branding. 

A seasoned and award-winning brand and marketing expert, Maya has built her expertise and reputation managing both local and global brands in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa.

After spending the first years of her career in multinational FMCG with brands like Olay, Gillette, NIVEA, and Labello, Maya launched brand and marketing consultancy Itani & Company in 2015 to bring international caliber techniques to local companies in order to improve their brand positioning and marketing strategies.

At Itani & Company, she focuses her energy into helping companies build brands that build businesses. She works with brands of all sizes from ambitious startups to established global giants with services such as brand strategy, marketing strategy, market research, and workshop facilitation.

A passionate advocate for women in the workplace, she has also volunteered on the leadership team of the Dubai chapter of Ellevate, a global network for professional women, since 2018 and currently holds the role of co-president of the chapter. 

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Join podcast host Sanila Samuel as she chats with Elena Marselis - Systems and Services Leader, Eastern Europe at Signify . Lena talks about how she navigated career changes and multiple moves across the world, her passion for coaching and how that led her to set up biiwow in parallel to her role at Signify. 

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Elisha is the brain behind many fortune 500's supply chain and IT operations. She is invested and passionate in improving where she lives, Cincinnati. You can find her volunteering with her passions: women's issues, IT & children. She is a chair, board member, speaker, author and volunteer. When not traveling the world, you can find her on the sidelines cheering on her daughters, concerts, running, or cherishing moments with friends. Her energy, passion and grit are what she considers the qualities that drive her to continually learn, innovate and share her time and talents. 

In this conversation, Elisha talks about her career journey so far in the tech space from when she started in SAP and went on to make informed decisions as she kept building on her skills in global trade and the latest emerging technologies. Elisha talks about the importance of asking for feedback, role of mentors and advocates, talking about your career aspirations, being a working mum and how she juggles multiple roles and responsibilities. Her energy, passion and grit are what she considers the qualities that drive her to continually learn, innovate and share her time and talents. 

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A conversation with Kelly Cole, General Manager for Electric Power for Finning in the UK and Ireland. Join us as Kelly shares her experiences navigating her career journey by understanding the skills and competencies needed to grow and went about working on herself to deliver. Kelly also talks about building her brand and evolving it as she took on senior leadership roles while staying true to her values. 

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Host Sanila Samuel shares a 2 minute background on what inspired her to start Unlimited Seating.

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An energizing and insightful conversation with Dr.Selda Konukcu on her purposeful and strategic moves to build skills that would propel her learning and career growth. Value creation and building an enabling ecosystem are themes she brings to each role she takes on. Selda shares her leadership style and how she sees diversity and inclusion as behaviors that need to be brought to the table every single day. 

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Our launch episode at Unlimited Seating! I had a candid, fun conversation with Loren Finnerty -  Manufacturing Site Leader at GE Aviation, where she leads an organization of approximately 300 people to produce composite parts for aircraft engines.

We talk about her experiences of being the 'only' in the room, how she handles stereotypes and her leadership style and approach to navigating her career. 

Her expertise, experience and leadership style make for role model material!

Hope you take the time to listen and connect. Do share your feedback.

Thanks! 

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