Women Who Change Tech

In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Ingrid Alongi, a Women Who Leads. Ingrid is the founder of Quick Left, a web engineering company, which was acquired by Cognizant in 2016. Ingrid is now the head of Mentor Network at Cognizant Accelerator in Boulder, Colorado. Her focus is on hiring for the team in North America as well as on people and culture. Ingrid is also an accomplished athlete, particularly in track cycling, where she holds a handful of national titles and was on the US Cycling team in the early 1990s. Here, you'll hear some amazing insights about how Ingrid fine-tuned Cognizant's hiring practices to help get a more diverse group applying for roles, and how that helped her get the right people in place for a successful business.

In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Lia James, a woman who is a connector. Lia is the co-host of Human Inclusive, a podcast that champions diversity, and amplifies the voices and experiences of diverse communities. Lia has an innate desire to connect people, to help them tell their story, grow their businesses, and get the right people in the right positions for increased productivity. She also works one-on-one with people to assist them with their personal branding and career visibility. Lia works with companies on their training and curriculum development, leadership branding, operational organization, and diversity & inclusion advocacy. She likes to flip the way people build businesses upside down and get people to think differently about hiring and training.

In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Kristen Brillantes, a woman who is a go-getter who inspires other entrepreneurial women. You can find Kristen in front of the room facilitating workshops or behind the scenes coaching and collaborating with executives and teams to evolve the way they work. She understands the intersection of craft, productivity, and relationships and does whatever it takes to empower people to build resilient, high-functioning organizations. Kristen Brillantes is currently the Design Operations at Stripe and the Co-Founder & CEO of The Sarap Shop.

In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Jennifer Bonine, a Woman Who Embraces Change. Jennifer is VP, Global Delivery and Solutions at TapQA, and is a frequent and inspiring speaker at conferences. She has given talks including; Leading and Embracing Change, What's Your Leadership IQ?, The Lost Art of Live Communication. At the Women Who Test days she talks about one of the most valuable skills to have in today's job market – Building Your Personal Brand.

In this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Denise Jacobs, a Woman Who is Evangelizing Creativity in the Technology community. Denise is a speaker, author and creativity evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. She is the Founder and CEO of The Creative Dose, where she promotes techniques to unlock creativity while helping people become engaged contributors, synergistic collaborators, and authentic leaders. Denise is also the author of the inspiring book "Banish Your Inner Critic."

On this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Dawn Jardine. Dawn is a Test Manager at Caseware in Toronto, and along with being a quality assurance professional, she's an agile enthusiast, and is also a woman who is dedicated to helping break down barriers for other women in tech. Dawn incorporated what she learned as a woman in engineering and leveraged the experiences she gained while participating in a Women Who Test event and made some huge changes in her life and career. Dawn is now working in an environment that supports her passion and life goals. These experiences also inspired her to want the same for other women in tech; she is now leading a chapter of Women Who Test in Toronto.

On this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Angie Jones, a formidable automation engineer who is literally changing the face of technology. This year she recorded and commercial for John Frieda talking about changing the narrative about women of color in tech. Angie holds some 25 patented inventions and has carved a remarkable path for herself working at IBM, Lexis Nexis, Twitter and most recently as Senior Developer Advocate at Applitools. In this episode, you will hear about the decisions that Angie made that lead to her showing up in a way that is b.old and fearless for herself and for others. Listen in and find out what makes Angie Jones tick!

On this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Jaimee Newberry. Jaimee Newberry is the co-founder and CEO of Picture This Clothing. Jaimee's started her career as a metal sculpture and then spent years working in technology helping companies design their products for customer engagement. Picture this clothing was mostly a side project but in August of 2016, it gained viral attention after a write-up in TechCrunch and amongst other things a tweet from Ashton Kutcher. The company passed $1 million by early 2018. Jaimee is a Woman who is continually redesigning her life, and in this episode, she shares some of her secrets to success with us.

On this episode, Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Tania Katan. Tania has been successfully sneaking creativity into Fortune 500 companies, tech conferences, TED Talks, arts organizations, marketing conventions, and innovation summits to spark small to gigantic cultural revolutions. She created the internationally viral empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress for software company Axosoft. She teaches leaders creative principles, tools, and strategies for connecting brands to people, people to purpose, and purpose to action.

Women Who Change Tech is a podcast that gives you access to women who are contributing, inspiring, trailblazing, and disrupting the business of technology. We believe that when women inspire other women, amazing things happen. During this podcast, we will be having conversations with incredible women who are changing the face of technology. These women are software testers, software developers, design thinkers, agilists, creatives, coaches, and business owners.