Ascend Sessions: Recent Episodes
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Have you ever wondered how you're still behind even though you're doing everything right? In this episode, we're joined by Amy Kalokerinos, Founder, AKalaid, who shared her unique insight on "Second-generation gender bias" , through the role and impact in the workplace.
In this episode, we're joined by Ishreen Bradley, Chief Inspiration Officer, Equality Pioneers. Ishreen shares her expertise, insight, and personal experiences on how to effectively workplace conflict; as the challenger, challenged, and the observer.
In this episode, we're joined by Sarah Needham, Founder & Leadership Coach at Unique-U Coaching. Her personal journey ingnired her passion and understanding of the impact she could have in the world. Sarah breaks down the role and the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace.
In this episode, I'm joined by Yasmin Desai, Product Owner at Revolut to share her personal journey and road to entrepreneurship. With first-hand experience and hindsight, Yasmin uncovers some essential steps you need to take with some practical insight to elevate your personal entrepreneurship journey.
In this episode, we're joined by Lucy Mullins, Co-Founder and Course Director of Ride the Wave. Lucy uncovers her new unique approach that we can all adopt when faced with a challenge or a series of challenges while sharing golden nuggets for leaders, founders and those who want to make a difference in the world.
See how to Ride the Wave here.
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr K Harrison, Business Analyst at ThoughtWorks. Dr J uncovers some of the challenges genderqueer professionals face in the corporate world by using her own experiences as the narrative while outlining steps you can take to engage the corporate scene into the genderqueer world.
In this episode, we are joined by Angel Livas, the Founder of The Woman Behind the Business as well as a mom to two awesome boys. Angel shares her personal experiences to showcase the similarities of those facing Mom Guilt, while providing practical steps to overcome this through Mom Guilt.
In this #Throwback Edition, Catherine Trotter shares the steps she has taken to become an authentic leader. Catherine provides the initial steps need that all leaders need, starting off with rapport building.
In today's episode, I'm joined by amazing, insightful, passionate colleagues. Hannah, Joao, Hiywet and myself have a raw discussion critically breaking down what allyship truly means in the current climate. We share current examples, personal experiences and alternative perspectives on how we call all play a part in the fight for equality.
In another #QuaranTea Edition, we're joined by Leila Singh who shares her insight on how to navigate through lockdown by continually building your networking. Leila shares practical approaches to to not only grow but maintain your professional relationships remotely and completely online.
In this episode, we're joined by Steffi Singh, Project Coordinator at Facebook, Ireland. Steffi shares her honest, raw experiences of facing burnout while in her teaching career and shares practical steps you can take to not only stop but notice when you're on the route to burnout.
For our first ever #QuaranTea Edition, we're joined by Dominique Cunningham, who shares her perspectives and experiences of supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, while being at home due to the global pandemic. She shares some golden nuggets on how we can ALL do something and utilise our own skills to be an ally.
In this episode, we are joined by both Jennifer Morris, Lead for Accenture's London FinTech Lab and Tom Graham, Programme Director for Accenture's Fintech Lab. Jen & Tom break down the latest findings from the Accenture report highlighting the challenges female founders are currently facing as well as sharing the steps we can take to further support startups and female founders.
In this episode, we're joined by Joy Poole, an entrepreneur, tech enthusiast, mindset expert & mum. Joy critically breaks down how disruption can provide an unknown avenue of opportunity while highlighting the importance of our mindset to advance ourselves as well as our businesses through exponential thinking.
In this episode, we are joined by Jill Martin Wrenn, who shares her expertise on elevating your communication to enable it to become a superpower for yourself. With two decades of broadcast journalism, learn from first-hand experiences and best practice on the different types of communication, tips to strengthen your personal approach while understanding some of the biggest faux pas while communicating.
In this episode, our guest speaker Sope Agbelusi breaks down the myths surrounding introverted personalities, especially in leadership roles. He flips the tables to showcase calmness, understanding & self-awareness are critical to leaders, especially in the time of a global pandemic.
Excited to have Leila Singh join us for another Maddox Session sharing her best practice and actionable advice on how to effectively build your personal brand. Leila vows by the 6 C's to ensure your personal brand will be critical to you success.
In another episode of Maddox Sessions, we are joined by Ivana Bartoletti who is currently a Technical Director at Deloitte as well as a mother of two amazing children. We discuss motherhood, expectations and reality of working mothers before the pandemic, now and what the potential future can look like for all working parents, especially our professional mothers.
In the 3rd #Throwback Edition, Mennat Mokhtar shares her personal journey and how she has learnt to bring her multiple selves to the workplace, and authentically be herself.
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Loubna Bouarfa, Cofounder and CEO of OKRA Technologies and Ipek Ozsuer, Head of Digital Transformation & IT Enabling Functions at Bayer. Loubna & Ipek share their understanding of how the pandemic may cause a digital revolution in healthcare? Are we ready for this?
In our second episode of Maddox Sessions #Throwback Edition, we're going back to 2018 where Karine Brunet shares her perspective on what the future careers of artificial intelligence will look like. In 2020, is what she shared our reality now?
In the first episode of Maddox Sessions, where we’re joined by Mamta Gera!We breakdown what imposter syndrome is for all types of people while understanding how self-love is the key.
Mamta understands that being a leader is no easy task-it takes courage, hard work and resilience. Often we face obstacles to becoming the leader we want to be and reach our full potential. In The New Leadership, Mamta provides a unique programme combined with professional development & personal leadership.
In our first episode of Maddox Sessions #Throwback Edition, we will be sharing Brenda Romero's insights on The Lost History of Women in Computing.
The history of women in computing has largely been lost, like the histories of factory workers who built the first cars. Yet, women invented programming, were the original developers for the ENIAC, created assembly language and developed the first compiler (not to mention the term “compiler” and “bug”), and were instrumental to the development of many seminal programming languages. So, what happened? It’s a drama that’s equal parts of cultural excavation and celebration. In this talk, Brenda Romero digs up this fascinating history, explores what happened, and looks at how the artefacts of this legacy still affect computing and its growth today.