Women Leaders on the Move - by HerCsuite® Radio

Why are some leaders the first person people call when an opportunity comes up?

In this Replay episode of Women Leaders on the Move, Natalie Benamou shares three lessons from her leadership and podcasting journey about what it takes to become a trusted, go-to leader.

From listening with curiosity to identifying the problems others are missing, these are the habits that build trust and keep you top of mind.

You’ll hear why visibility alone isn’t enough, how listening can reveal opportunities others overlook, and why solving the right problem can change the direction of your career or business.

Key Takeaway: You become the leader people think of first by listening closely, solving meaningful problems, serving others and consistently doing what you say you will do.

This special replay celebrates all the listeners around the world tuning in each week. Thank you!

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

How does one moment, turn into a movement and build momentum?

In this special Replay, host Natalie Benamou talks with Shelley Zalis, the CEO and Founder of the Female Quotient. Natalie shares her shared connection to CES and how meaningful Shelly's 'power of the pack' walk each year at the show.

Get an insider view on the 80 events the Female Quotient hosts globally. Check out the FQ lounge events including the FQ Health Summit the day of this show releases.

This conversation is for every woman leader who is building what’s next, and finding a way to integrate work and family like Shelley describes with Camp Cannes. Tune in for a little inspiration from a visitor during the episode!

In this uplifting conversation, Shelley shares 'All you need is one yes, you're going to get lots of no's, but there's always a solution, you just have to find it.'

Thank you Shelley for our interview together and a special note of gratitude to Jackie Joy and Holly Corbett.

About Shelley Zalis

Known as the “Chief Troublemaker,” Shelley Zalis, CEO & Founder of The Female Quotient, is a trailblazing CEO, entrepreneur, three-time movement maker and global advocate for women in the workplace.

www.thefemalequotient.com

IG: @shelleyzalis

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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In this Replay interview, guest Sheila Gujrathi, MD, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, health investor, and board leader serving on six boards, joins host Natalie Benamou to share how she advanced her career across medicine, biotech, executive leadership, and board service.

Hear how Sheila created opportunities at each stage of her career and expanded her impact from operating roles into board leadership. Listen in and discover Dr. Gujarathi's personal journey with leadership, authenticity, career evolution, and how to build your own seat at the table.

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About Our Guest:

Sheila Gujrathi MD is a biotech entrepreneur, executive, healthcare investor, and drug developer with over 25 years of experience in the industry. She’s founded, built, and run numerous biotech companies. Sheila is co-founder of the Biotech CEO Sisterhood, a group of trailblazing female CEOs, and the South Asian Biopharma Alliance.

Connect with Sheila Gujrathi:

• Website
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• Facebook
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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

How do you answer the question: Tell me about yourself.

Host Natalie Benamou explores the difference between what leaders have done and what makes them relevant now.

Too often, the answer becomes a walk through the past. Roles. Wins. Years of experience.

Find out why the stronger answer starts with what matters today.

How does your experience connect to where business is going? How are you staying relevant in the AI era?

This episode explores:

• How to lead with what matters now
• Why starting with the direction you want to go in matters more than your history
• How to connect your past wins to what comes next

Try this out. Practice answering the question and how it relates to the future

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About Natalie Benamou

Natalie Benamou is a commercial growth leader, speaker, Founder of HerCsuite®, and CEO of HER HEALTHX. She helps leaders and organizations grow, stay relevant, and build what’s next.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

How can you own your career path and arrive at your 'best yes for what's next'?

Today host Natalie Benamou sits down with Cindy Kent, Managing Partner, Healthcare Executive and Board Director who shares an insider look at building her career with intention.  From finding a mentor early in her career to landing a public board seat, Cindy’s masterful storytelling will have you listening in wanting to know more.

Throughout her career, Cindy Kent continuously sought to broaden her experiences. Early on she worked in engineering, sales , HR, to later on in executive roles across the healthcare industry.

Find out why Cindy feels how a sabbatical helped her be the “best leader I will ever be because I understand myself”.

Tune in to the end and find out what Cindy would say differently to her ‘fearless girl’. Walk away with steps to own your narrative and know  why “you can do hard things”-Cindy Kent.

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About Cindy Kent:

Cindy Kent is a healthcare executive and corporate director whose career spans life sciences, medical technology, healthcare services and health technology—and functions from engineering and manufacturing to commercial and people leadership. She believes diverse experiences build leadership muscle memory: the pattern recognition, perspective and adaptability required to solve increasingly complex problems.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindyrkent/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/i_am_cindyrkent

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

After 30 years in one career, Michelle Muncy-Silva planned her pivot down to the moment. What she didn’t expect was how quickly she would recreate the same pace, pressure and habits she thought she had left behind.

Michelle joins host Natalie Benamou to talk about why the pause after a major career change matters, separating your identity from your title, trusting your instincts again, and choosing how you want to build what comes next.

Take 15 minutes and do a “carry forward / leave behind” check.

Write down:

• What from your last chapter still serves you?
• What habits are you carrying forward just because they are familiar?
• What would you choose differently if you were not reacting from your old role?

Your action: Before you build what’s next, pause long enough to decide what habits no longer serve you.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About Michelle Muncy-Silva

Michelle Muncy-Silva is the founder of Data Parity AI. She is also an AI educator, the Executive Director of the She Leads AI Academy, and host of the Empowered by AI podcast. Her work helps women, founders, and institutions participate actively in generative AI with clarity, ethics, and purpose.

Website Primary Social Channel: https://michellemuncysilvasite.vercel.app/

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The Future is Yours to Build: Wealth. Security. Impact in the AI Era.

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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What does it take to build wealth, protect what you create and stay relevant as work and technology continue to change? Host Natalie Benamou is joined by banking executive Liesl Schmidt and cybersecurity leader Wendi O. Brown and Retired Lieutenant Colonel to connect the dots between Wealth, Security and Impact in the AI Era.

Tune in and hear strategies to negotiate for their value, build career and financial resilience, develop skills that increase future opportunities and think about wealth as more than money. You’ll walk away with new ways to build what’s next while protecting your earning power, choices and impact.

Meet Our Guests:

Wendi O. Brown is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel with more than 20 years of decorated service and deep expertise in cybersecurity, strategic planning and crisis response. Today, she supports U.S. Cyber Command as a Department of Defense contractor and leads iSupportYou, LLC, advising leaders operating in high-pressure environments.

Wendi O. Brown https://isupportyoullc.com

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendibrown/

Liesl Schmidt is a financial executive, board leader, and transformation strategist with over 20 years of experience. As COO of River Valley Community Bank and former EVP at U.S. Bank, she has led finance, operations, HR, IT, and risk. A passionate advocate for women and community impact, she serves on several nonprofit boards.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/liesl-schmidt/

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Wendi O. Brown and Liesl Schmidt are Best Selling Authors with Natalie Benamou in the Power of What's NEXT: Bold Moves By Design and members of HerCsuite®

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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

AI roles offer more than 2X the income potential, yet women account for only 26% of new hires for those AI jobs. That makes this a pivotal moment for women and their careers.

In this episode of Women Leaders on the Move, host Natalie Benamou talks with Erica Rooney about the opportunity in front of women, the bias already showing up in AI, and why learning to use these tools well matters now.

Together they dive in deep into Erica’s new book: ‘The AI GAP: Women, AI, and the Next Great Leap Forward’.

This your time to go beyond understanding how AI is changing work, leadership and what you should do next.

Stay until the end when Erica shares a powerful five-part prompting framework you can start using right away.

About Erica Anderson Rooney

Erica is the founder of HER Collective, a Chief People Officer with over 15 years of experience. She is the author of The AI GAP: Women, AI, and the Next Great Leap Forward and Glass ceilings and sticky floors. If women aren't actively involved in the build and the governance, they will be left behind. Her newest book is a must read.

Find Erica Anderson Rooney here:

joinhercollective.com

ericaandersonrooney.com

linkedin.com/in/ericarooney

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

REGISTER: The Future is Yours to Build: Wealth. Security. Impact in the AI Era. September 18th 11 AM CT Live Session.

What if your next growth move is already inside your business? When market volatility hits, or you lose a customer suddenly it can be easy to look at head count reduction instead of where growth opportunities may already exist.

Find out what to do next as host Natalie Benamou shares actionable strategies to uncover hidden growth moves by identifying market gaps. You'll learn how to break down cross-departmental silos, talk with your customer's customer, and repurpose underutilized internal capabilities to stay ahead of market disruptions. 

Whether you're leading a team, running a business, or serving on a board, discover how conducting listening tours and looking at adjacent industries can uncover opportunities to make your next growth move.

Tune in to learn how to connect the dots to find the hidden growth and achieve success this quarter.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About Natalie Benamou

Natalie Benamou is an executive growth leader driving solutions in the AI Era. She is a sought out speaker and Founder and CEO of HerCsuite®.

Work with Natalie and bridge the hidden gaps in Q4. Schedule a call: Work with Natalie

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

What does a nonlinear career by design look like? For Lisa Davis, a former Fortune 100 executive, it meant intentionally building an executive career that spanned the U.S. Marshals Service, Georgetown University, Intel and Blue Shield of California. As a technology executive, she carried her experience into new industries, with continuous learning as the throughline.

Lisa talks with host Natalie Benamou about the need for technology expertise in the boardroom, combined with an understanding of people, talent and building relationships. Together they explore why women's stories need to be amplified.

This is your go-to-conversation and will guide you as you plan a career pivot, pursuing a board role or moving into a new industry. Find out how you can move out of your comfort zone into intentional growth.

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

About Lisa Davis

Lisa Davis is the Founder and CEO of Davis Core Advisory, a CIO Hall of Fame inductee, corporate board director, and former Fortune 100 executive. She advises CEOs and boards on AI, digital transformation, and leadership, and is the author of The Only Woman in the Room, helping leaders thrive through change with grit and purpose.

Website: http://www.daviscoreadvisory.com/

Instagram: @withlisadavis

Substack: @thelisadavis

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join Natalie Benamou and become a member HerCsuite.com, or connect with Natalie Benamou, Founder + CEO on LinkedIn.