Listen for advice on:

• How to approach your career as an innovation professional
• Lessons to be transferred from big companies to start-ups
• Embedding diversity at every stage of a business
• How to evaluate product-market fit in a new category

Learn more:

• Victoria Young (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriayoung/
• Ravi Mehta (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravimehta/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov/
• WIN: Women in Innovation: https;//www.womenininnovation.co

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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 versus men and why she focuses on delivering a quality product over her founder story. 

Listen for advice on:

• Why the metaverse is a natural progression of today’s world
• The biggest blocker between women and innovation industries 
• How to weave experimentation and innovation into every stage of your business  
• Transitioning into STEM as a second or third career

Learn more:

• Kirin Sinha (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirin-sinha-791b8828/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: https://www.womenininnovation.co

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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 insights and lessons from WIN Relay, a first-of-its-kind program for innovation leaders with 12+ years of experience, and draws from her wealth of experience in the space to give WIN/WIN listeners the latest and greatest on innovation leadership. 

Listen for advice on:

• Why leadership in innovation has an added set of considerations to traditional leadership 
• The common thread amongst top innovation leaders
• How to approach the idea of ‘risk’ to succeed in changing and dynamic times
• What listeners can do to cultivate their own innovation leadership path

Learn more:

• Event Details: https://themindsetofgreatinnovationleaders.splashthat.com/
• Lizzie Azzolino (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzieazzolino/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: www.womenininnovation.co

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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:

• Understanding when incremental innovation can be valuable 
• How to think about prioritization in a B2B business
• Leadership in wartime vs. peacetime innovation 
• The role that video plays in the creator economy and beyond

Learn more:

• Cassidy Fein (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassidyfein/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov/
• WIN: Women in Innovation: https;//www.womenininnovation.co

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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 Sapphire Reserve card — a product she helped build, and ultimately founded her own FinTech company. 

Listen for advice on:

• Why your credit score is the only grade that matters after school 
• Ensuring that investors align with your mission-driven company 
• Exploring ways to tackle logistical challenges
• Navigating the lows of being a company founder

Learn more:

• Vrinda Gupta (Guest): www.linkedin.com/in/vrindag
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: www.womenininnovation.co
• Brand Copy by Nicole Beckley

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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 on:

• Creating trust with stakeholders 
• How to think about customer pain points 
• What’s coming next in eCommerce
• Taking a global view of innovation

Learn more:

• Tui Allen (Guest): http://linkedin.com/in/tuiallen
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): http://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: http://www.womenininnovation.co
• Brand Copy by Nicole Beckley

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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 innovation and product development.

Listen for advice on:

• Prioritizing innovating consumer behavior over searching for new technologies
• How to determine whether an idea will work for the majority of customers
• Creating communities around your product to gather feedback
• A company’s responsibility in promoting equality in Europe vs. the United States

Learn more about:

• Lucie Buisson (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucie-buisson-3195b272/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): http://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: http://www.womenininnovation.co

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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. 

Listen for advice on:

• How to bring your whole self to work authentically 
• Figuring out what to evaluate in the short term to have a long term impact 
• Why 2022 will rewrite the leadership playbook with respect to employee happiness 
• Three questions to ask yourself and your team each week

To learn more: 

• Elyssa Byck (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/elyssabyck/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov/
• About WIN: Women in Innovation: https://www.womenininnovation.co
• Brand Copy by Nicole Beckley

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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 consumers and colleagues.

Listen for advice on:

• How AI and human intelligence can best work together 
• Ways to integrate innovation into a client’s workplace 
• Granularly defining a problem before taking it on 
• Navigating mid-level career roles to move into leadership

Learn more about:

• Anne Olderog (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-olderog-84b41a/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): http://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: http://www.womenininnovation.co
• Brand Copy by Nicole Beckley

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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, and how saying yes to challenges has skyrocketed Joy's trajectory and ability to operate in unknown territories.

Listen for advice on:

• Picking the right career challenges for growth
• Leaning into human-driven design to solve complex issues
• Ecosystem problems in the fintech industry and how they impact consumers
• How to kick-off innovation while executing on 0-to-1 projects

Learn more about:

• Joy Phua (Guest): https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyphua/
• Zoia Kozakov (Host): http://www.linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov
• Women in Innovation: http://www.womenininnovation.co

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