Make Way for Change: A Conversation with Olga V. Mack

08/14/20 • 38 min

Getting to 50/50: Conversations to Bridge the Gender Gap

Make way for change: the change that you are creating within your sphere of influence and the change we would all like to see when it comes to women in tech.
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Olga V. Mack is a blockchain and distributed ledger technology strategist, security professional, experienced board director, nationally-recognized author, public speaker, and impactful women’s advocate. She is the CEO of Parley Pro, a collaborative & intuitive contract platform. Olga was instrumental in passing AB 2658 and SB 838, which define blockchain and form a working blockchain group in California. She co-authored Fundamentals of Smart Contracts Security (Momentum Press, March 2019) and she is writing a book about blockchain and distributed ledger technology business models. Olga leads the Smart Contracts Security Alliance to help enterprises innovate in blockchain securely. She spoke at TEDxSanFrancisco about the impact potential of blockchain and smart contracts and at SXSW about blockchain business models. Olga was previously General Counsel at ClearSlide. She also worked at Zoosk, Visa, Yahoo, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She serves on the California Law Revision Commission (appointed by Governor Jerry Brown).

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Becoming an Advocate for Women Peers: A Conversation with Pierre Vannier

At what point does someone become an advocate for others? for yourself?
Could it be as simple as taking the thing that makes you uncomfortable or the thing that inspires you to awaken yourself to the reality that surrounds you?
Pierre offers his unique viewpoint for how sees the men and women in his life, in the workplace, and in the world. Join Pierre and Pratima in this raw, thought-inspiring conversation about bias, advocacy, and developing yourself.
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Pierre Vannier is an ex software engineer and serial entrepreneur. He pledges for a more diverse Tech and more women in Tech and created Flint and Flint Academy, respectively a Tech consulting Firm and a Remote Tech bootcamp dedicated to ramp up software engineers to new technologies after they lost their jobs because of COVID19 crisis.

Both Flint and Flint Academy are animated with humanist values at heart.

Pierre has also a podcast called Refactor where he interviews developers (women and men) to talk about their experiences and how they became developers. This helps evangelize and maybe could create vocation.

Pierre's vision is to create companies which make sense for Society and acting also in mecenat and solidarity, giving both time and money to a children's hospital in France.

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Negotiating Salaries: A Conversation with Nadia De Ala

Discover the keys to negotiating your pay while avoiding conversations that could deter you from earning a higher potential salary. Join me, Pratima Gluckman, in this conversation with Nadia De Ala, Leadership & Negotiation Coaching for Women of Color in Tech, on this episode of Getting to 50/50: Conversations to Bridge the Gender Gap.
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Leadership and negotiation coach who specializes in helping women of color in technology thrive and elevate pay, positions, and purpose. Her mission is to close the leadership and wage gap for women of color, one bad-ass leader at a time. Nadia earned a Co-Active Coach Certification from the Coaches Training Institute through one-on-one, group coaching and workshops. She empowers her clients to activate their voices, fully negotiate their value, and get excited about their careers again. Previously, she was an audio engineer and in senior tech sales for thriving enterprise corporations and rapid growth startups like Booking.com and HelloSign which were acquired by Dropbox. Through her practice today, she has helped women of color leaders navigate, grow, and thrive at companies like Expedia, Google, and Lift.