Women Disrupting Tech

Join me as I speak to Leonie Wiggers-Frijters to find out how to get started as a female role model in Tech.

Listen to episode 43 of Women Disrupting Tech to discover that

❤️ Love can make you choose a career in Tech. 
👨‍👩‍👦 You can work part-time and still be a role model 
🤷🏻‍♀️ Tech may be for you even if you have never considered it.

You can find the full show notes, including Leonie's bio, more info about Mosadex, and my personal observations on the podcast on the Women Disrupting Tech Blog.

Join me as Elena Zhebel and Renske Melchers-Vermolen teach us how you can create a safe space in your team, how to keep it safe, and why these safe spaces benefit the entire team.

You can learn more about Elena and Renske by checking out the show notes of this episode on the Women Disrupting Tech website.

And when you're there, don't forget to join the Women Disrupting Tech Community.

Join me as I interview Sabine Schoorl to learn how she uses her curiosity to find exceptional startup founders and investors to create exceptional impact.

Listen to the episode to discover how Sabine

You can find the full show notes, including Sabine's bio, more info about LUMO Labs, and my personal observations on the podcast on the ⁠⁠⁠Women Disrupting Tech website⁠⁠⁠.

Join me as I interview Caroline Cadwell to learn how she uses her 15 years of experience working in tech startups to build Unpluq.

Listen to the episode as Caroline reveals

• the shortcomings of conventional salary negotiation advice for women, 
• how to compliment a female colleague without relying on gender stereotypes, and
• how Unpluq helps people overcome their technology addiction with technology.

You can find the full show notes, including Caroline's bio and my personal observations on the podcast on the ⁠Women Disrupting Tech website⁠.

In episode 39 of Women Disrupting Tech, host Dirkjan Hupkes answers the question from Silvia van Houten "any inkling jumping out at you why there is such a funding gap for women-led startups?"

Listen to the episode to discover why he thinks that the milestone-based funding system is a reason for the funding gap.

You can find the full show notes on the Women Disrupting Tech Website. There you can also find the entire archive with over 1,000 minutes of women disrupting tech.

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Join me as I interview Núria Barceló I Peiró to discover why her team set up a female role model agency called Role It Out.

Listen to the episode to hear how Núria reveals what makes a good role model, why companies should create the right circumstances for women to act as role models, and how Role It Out trains women to become Holland's next female role model in tech.

You can find the full show notes, including Núria's bio and my personal observations on the podcast on the Women Disrupting Tech website.

Join me as I speak to Tessa de Flines to explore why angel investing is about as close as you can get to making an impact as a woman in the first episode of Women Disrupting Tech of 2024.

If you listen, you'll discover how female founders can future-proof their businesses, how scaling is a journey unique to every company, and how visibility is the key to making an impact as an investor and a founder. 

You can read the full show notes on the Women Disrupting Tech website.

Join host Dirkjan Hupkes as he interviews Claudia Bruce-Quartey to discover how she helps other women, especially mothers, disrupt tech.

It's a powerful and inspiring conversation about her motivation to break down the masculine and nerdy image of the tech industry, how women can show their leadership skills before getting an official title, and how she invigorates her daughter to see that being a minority doesn't equal not being normal.

The episode is packed with practical tips on negotiating salaries and promotions, looking through a recruiter's wishlist, and how to enable a sponsor to help you achieve your goals.

Because, as Claudia aptly puts it: "I don't think a tech career should suck for women."

You can connect with Claudia and learn more about her coaching via the ⁠Women Disrupting Tech⁠ blog. And if you want to be among the first to learn when new episodes go on air, don't forget to join the Women Disrupting Tech Community.

Join me as I interview Alyx co-founder and CEO Johanna Spiller to discover how to solve the gender pay gap.

On this final episode of Women Disrupting Tech in 2023, Johanna reveals what makes solving the gender pay gap so difficult, why the scarcity of women in tech makes for a win-win business case for women and their employers, and how her startup Alyx fixes the gender pay gap.

To learn more about Alyx and connect with Johanna, you can ⁠read the full show notes⁠ on the Women Disrupting Tech website.

What is the value proposition of women in tech? And how do you build an inclusive culture in Fintech?

In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I interview Joanna Pamphilis, Chief Digital & Information Officer of Unicredit, to discover the answer to these questions.  

Joanna is our guide as we explore diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of Fintech. She reveals the essential elements of an inclusive culture, emphasizes why working in silos doesn't help in increasing diversity, and highlights the role of men in supporting and promoting women in tech. Of course, we also learn more about the value proposition of women in tech.

You can find more information about this episode and connect with Joanna via the links in the show notes.