Challenges of the C-Suite: The Courage to Lead with Layla Ramirez, Episode 81
01/28/22 • 62 min
About our Guest:
Layla A. Ramirez is an Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (ID&E) practitioner at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a global cloud service provider. During her tenure at AWS, Layla has built, scaled, and managed leadership development programs to address the needs of early, mid-career, and executive-level Latinx talent across the globe. Most recently her work has focused on re-imagining and transforming the onboarding and first-year experience of Black, Latinx, Native American, and Women talent globally.
Layla joined AWS after having held ID&E positions at Netflix, Danaher Corporation, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). Prior to launching her career as an inclusion practitioner, Layla spent several years as an Analyst in the Global Wealth & Investment Management division at Merrill Lynch.
Layla holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Smith College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is passionate about leadership, diversity, college access, coaching and ultimately enabling others to be the best version of themselves.
Layla is based out of Brooklyn, NY, where she lives with her partner.
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About our Guest:
Layla A. Ramirez is an Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (ID&E) practitioner at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a global cloud service provider. During her tenure at AWS, Layla has built, scaled, and managed leadership development programs to address the needs of early, mid-career, and executive-level Latinx talent across the globe. Most recently her work has focused on re-imagining and transforming the onboarding and first-year experience of Black, Latinx, Native American, and Women talent globally.
Layla joined AWS after having held ID&E positions at Netflix, Danaher Corporation, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). Prior to launching her career as an inclusion practitioner, Layla spent several years as an Analyst in the Global Wealth & Investment Management division at Merrill Lynch.
Layla holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Smith College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is passionate about leadership, diversity, college access, coaching and ultimately enabling others to be the best version of themselves.
Layla is based out of Brooklyn, NY, where she lives with her partner.
Connect with us: https://linktr.ee/cbbowman
WEBSITES:
Speaking: https://www.cbbowman.com/
Coaching Association: https://www.acec-association.org/
Workplace Equity & Equality: https://www.wee-consulting.org/
Institute/ Certification: https://www.meeco-institute.org/
SOCIAL MEDIA:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbbowman/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/execcoaches
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CB.BowmanMBA/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZU3KqucXRXDsrHLvj8UIw
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Challenges of the C-Suite: The Courage to Lead with Gina Bianchini, Episode 80
About our Guest:
Gina Bianchini, Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks Gina Bianchini is the CEO & founder of Mighty Networks, where creators and brands start and grow businesses powered by the community. Mighty Networks is trusted by creators from Yoga with Adriene, Wall Street Trapper, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, and Project 863 to brands like TED, Mindbody, and Fortune.
Before Mighty Networks, Gina was the first entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to A16Z, she was the CEO and co-founder of Ning, a pioneering global platform for creating niche social networks she started with Marc Andreessen in 2004. Under her leadership, Ning grew to ~100 million active users across 300,000 social networks led by brands and creators across subcultures, professional networks, entertainment, politics, and education. The company was sold for $150M in 2011.
In addition to Mighty Networks, Gina serves as a board director of TEGNA (NYSE: TGNA), a $4.0 billion dollar broadcast and digital media company, and served as a board director of Scripps Networks (NASDAQ: SNI), a $14.6 billion dollar public company owner of HGTV, The Food Network, and The Travel Channel purchased by Discovery Communications in 2018.
Gina and Mighty Networks have been featured in Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Wired, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN. She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University, started her career in the nascent High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and received her M.B.A from Stanford Business School.
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WEBSITES:
Speaking: https://www.cbbowman.com/
Coaching Association: https://www.acec-association.org/
Workplace Equity & Equality: https://www.wee-consulting.org/
Institute/ Certification: https://www.meeco-institute.org/
SOCIAL MEDIA:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbbowman/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/execcoaches
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CB.BowmanMBA/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZU3KqucXRXDsrHLvj8UIw
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Courage: To Leap and Lead, with Amii Barnard-Bahn, Episode 82
About Amii:
A former Fortune Global 50 executive, Amii Barnard-Bahn is a consultant to the C-Suite and leaders at global companies like Bank of the West, Adobe, and The Gap. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives, she is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches. Amii guest lectures at Stanford and UC Berkeley is a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Compliance Week, and is a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Coaching. The author of The Promotability Index® Guidebook, you can receive her free Promotability Index self-assessment.
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Speaking: https://www.cbbowman.com/
Coaching Association: https://www.acec-association.org/
Workplace Equity & Equality: https://www.wee-consulting.org/
Institute/ Certification: https://www.meeco-institute.org/
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