Women Count

Cathryn is an Organisational Change Executive working for a leading technology company operating in the space and defence market and a mentor to a range of executive and non-executive clients across the globe.

This is a very moving podcast about a highly skilled and courageous woman who has successfully navigated male-dominated work environments from a young age, has suffered serious health setbacks, but has fought back and survived. This inspirational lady was then sought out by one of the most challenging and male dominated organisations to help them drive organisational change. Listen to this remarkable and extremely personal story about a woman who is willing to openly share her approaches, her failures, and successes!

Contact Cathryn on LinkedIn to find out more about her journey and her mentorship.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynnicholls/

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Shala Arshi 

Shala is a high-tech industry veteran from Silicon Valley, an active advocate for women in IT and a co-founder of Women in Big Data, Inc. (WiBD) a non-profit organization supporting over 18,000 members across 40+ countries to engage, connect and grow in the big data industry. Shala shares her experience developing and growing a dynamic organisation that brings value and support to so many people across the globe. Her leadership, influencing and co-ordination skills are remarkable.

Shala is currently the COO and co-founder of Job Pairing, an online technical hiring marketplace that supports individuals to leverage a new model of working that enables career based part-time work. The premise is that even though someone may need to work part-time they should still be a valued member of the team and advance in their careers.

Shala has a master's degree in computer science from Oregon State University and was previously an executive at Intel Corporation for over 30 years in technical, management, leadership, and innovation positions.

Shala's life work is centred on supporting women to excel in their work in the technology industry.

Connect with Women in Big Data: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-big-data/

Learn more about WiBD's mission here: https://www.womeninbigdata.org/

For more details on Job Paring: https://jobpairing.com/homepage/

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Laura Hutton, Chief Customer officer and Co-Founder at Quantexa.

Laura has a Master of Mathematics (1st Class) from Durham University, England and has worked in the tech industry her entire career. Starting as a programmer and technical professional, Laura is now is a co-founder of Quantex, one of the most exciting and well-developed IT start ups in the market today.

Laura provides a compelling story of how Quantexa started with the mission to lead the market with data driven solutions that solve complex business problems. The technology is complimented by a purpose built inclusive and supportive culture that enables individuals to excel at what they do while at the same time proving the structural support to enable an intense customer focus at the heart of everything the organisation does.

Laura shares her experience on driving a global employee and customer focused culture and outlines the background and strategy for building and maintaining leading edge technology. This is an extremely informative interview and is a must listen for any individual interested in developing a start-up or leading high performing teams.

Website: https://www.quantexa.com/team/laura-hutton/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lahutton/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Cherelle Murphy, Chief Economist for the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (AUSTRADE).

Cherelle is currently a leading economist in the Australian market, having led economic research teams in major banks and now directing policy decisions for one of Australia’s largest market areas.

Cherelle blends her unique technical and journalism skills in her leadership roles to be both a strong communicator with her immediate and broad eco system and to also motivate, enthuse, and lead her current data science and economist research teams. 

Cherelle joined AUSTRADE just as covid hit and the areas for which she has responsibility were some of the hardest and earliest hit by the pandemic.  Cherelle had to navigate a new environment to drive results that would support the businesses and individuals involved in the areas of her policy responsibility. This podcast discusses Cherelle’s recent experience of navigating unchartered territories and provides a masterclass in the leadership skills, EQ and empathy needed to motivate her team to drive the outcomes needed to support the Australian economy.

Cherelle’s LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cherelle-murphy-2517665a

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