How do you juggle motherhood and the high pace of consulting? How do you find mentors and support in consulting?

Sook Chua is a Partner at EY Americas Technology Consulting, Cloud Practice. Her career spans across consulting at IBM, PwC and Arthur Andersen.

Connect with Sook on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sook-chua/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:08 Guest Introduction Sook Chua

01:36 What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

05:03 What sparked your interest in technology?

06:42 How did you get into developer mode

07:55 Influence from Childhood

09:42 Consulting is not for the faint of heart

10:50 What is the best part of consulting?

12:25 What is the toughest part of consulting?

14:20 CG Infinity

15:07 Considering children

17:05 It takes a village

21:00 How do you find mentors

22:07 What's your take on AI?

24:10 Conversation Cards

27:26 What kind of legacy you want to leave behind?

30:03 Tech CXO Excellence Program

32:03 Outro

Did you know Dallas-Fort Worth has a hub of biotech innovations happening? There's medical advances that we don't even know are going on.

This episode, we talk to Gabby Everett, Director of Business Operations & Strategy and Site Head at BioLabs Pegasus Park - North Texas. BioLabs are the premier co-working spaces for life science startups — unique places where you can test, develop and grow your game-changing ideas. As entrepreneurs and investors ourselves, they have firsthand experience with the pain points biotech startups face. Their goal is to change how scientific entrepreneurs do business by building an ecosystem that empowers bio-innovators to grow quickly, while maximizing capital efficiency.

As a biotech hub developer, BioLabs Pegasus Park is partnering with accelerators, VC's, trade organizations, university technology commercialization offices, vendors, and corporate leaders to build a strong biotech ecosystem in North Texas.

Gabby is an experienced scientist, leader, innovator, and mentor with a demonstrated record of success in the biotechnology industry. Actively focused on making the world a better place, one scientific breakthrough at at time. As a scientific communicator and industry leader, her goal is to educate, excite, and empower stakeholders by sharing her passion for all things science!

Connect with Gabby on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabbykutyeverett/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:23 Guest Introduction Gabby Everett

01:49 What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

02:29 What is Biolabs?

04:02 What Fort Worth Dallas?

04:55 How did you start with biotech?

08:46 Let's break this down

10:30 From corporate to start up

12:55 Advise for people...

Neelu Sethi is the Global CIO of Brinks and a multiple award-winning digital transformation leader with 26+ years of experience across Consumer Product Goods, Hospitality, Healthcare and Textile industries with passion for driving digital innovation & operational excellence.

Learn how her father inspired her to pursue a career in technology despite being a woman in India, 30 years ago, as well as her journey moving up the career ladder at McKesson, Cadbury, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Reddy Ice and now, Brink's Inc.

Connect with Neelu on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelusethi/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:34 Guest Introduction Neelu Sethi

01:17 What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

01:59 Talk is cheap

02:08 How did you get into technology?

06:59 New Job, New Country

09:23 What motivates you?

11:22 What factors contributed to your success?

14:53 CG Infinity

17:23 What keeps CIO's up at night?

18:55 What advise do you tell your team or mentees?

20:24 How do you approach a possible mentor?

23:29 Aggressive vs Soft...

Lucy Mariappa grew up in India and learned valuable lessons around crisis management from her father who was a police inspector. Since then, she's had 24 years of global experience across 40 countries, in corporate & public sectors, across multiple industries - Technology, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Energy, Hardware, Software, Education, Financial, Non-Profit.

She's worked at top technology companies leading the global product development for 32 countries, consulted at Fortune 500 companies & served at industry-leading organizations including SAP, Oracle & large education orgs.

Connect with Lucy on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-mariappa-5624147/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:50 Guest Introduction Lucy Mariappa

01:11 What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

01:39 Childhood Lessons

04:00 What is Courageous Leadership?

08:44 Crisis Management Mindset

12:14 Nurturing Creativity through Technology

14:20 CG Infinity

18:12 Merging Careers

19:32 What kept you going through the low points of your career?

21:49 Favorite topics to talk about

22:45 What kind of legacy you want to leave behind?

23:26 What would you say to your little self?

24:48 Conversation Cards

27:25 Tech CXO Excellence Program

29:00 Outro

What leadership skills will you need in this modern tech world? The old ways of command and control does not work. Learn what's needed to be a great leader.

Trey Smith has been the CIO at multiple firms across the chemical, finance and insurance industries.

On this episode, we discuss leadership lessons in dealing with IT and big business problems. Trey shares his background in technology and how he became interested in the field. He also talks about his first job and the stepping stones that led him to become a CIO. Trey emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and the willingness to confront fear in order to grow as a leader. He also discusses the evolving role of the CIO and the need for leaders to have ethics, compassion, and fearlessness. Trey shares his perspective on toxic personalities in the workplace and the importance of creating a positive and supportive team environment. Finally, he reflects on his legacy and the importance of self-acceptance and positive thoughts.

Connect with Trey on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/trey-h-smith/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:45 Guest Introduction Trey Smith

01:18 Let's Start at the Beginning

02:50 What was your first job?

03:56 How did you get into tech?

05:59 How do you when to take the leap?

07:48 Emotional Intelligence vs Intellectual Intelligence

10:04 3 Leadership Traits We Need to Know

14:38 What does confronting fear looks like to you?

19:10 CG Infinity

20:00 Tips on presenting in front of CEOs, Board of Directors

25:23 How have the CIO role evolved in the last decade?