Lemme 'splain podcast | Ep.6 - Karen Ko: Mentorship for Women in Technology
10/17/23 • 48 min
Why is there a need for mentorship for women tech?
Today we’re talking to Karen Ko, Managing Director at WEST D&I
In this conversation, we discuss:
➔ how mentorship impacts on an individual level
➔ finding mentorship mid-career
➔ what to think about when finding a mentor
➔ the importance of objective mentorship outside of your employment
➔ creating a network in a virtual world
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Women Entering and Staying in Tech website: https://www.joinwest.org/
WEST Career Summit: https://westleadershipsummit.splashthat.com/
Follow WEST on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/west-women-entering-and-staying-in-tech-/
Why is there a need for mentorship for women tech?
Today we’re talking to Karen Ko, Managing Director at WEST D&I
In this conversation, we discuss:
➔ how mentorship impacts on an individual level
➔ finding mentorship mid-career
➔ what to think about when finding a mentor
➔ the importance of objective mentorship outside of your employment
➔ creating a network in a virtual world
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Women Entering and Staying in Tech website: https://www.joinwest.org/
WEST Career Summit: https://westleadershipsummit.splashthat.com/
Follow WEST on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/west-women-entering-and-staying-in-tech-/
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Today we’re talking to Beth Jaswa, Director of Software Engineering at Campspot
In this conversation, we discuss:
➔ transferable skills
➔ deciding to make the jump
➔ advocating for yourself
➔ managing teams with compassion
➔ why neither of us will ever want to wear sensible black sneakers to work again.
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Campspot: https://www.campspot.com/
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How do you maintain team member engagement throughout a Digital Transformation?
Today we’re talking with Ema Rolloff, speaker, facilitator, and co-founder of Roloff Consulting. We’ll discuss the importance of the human factor in change management for digital transformations.
In this conversation, we discuss:
➔ every good salesperson is a teacher at heart
➔ the different levels of communication for different audiences
➔ maintaining communications across the entire process
➔ facilitating digital literacy across a company
➔ it is even possible to over communicate during change management?
➔ how can sales teams build trust?
➔ how does effective change management positively impact technical sales?
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Connect with Ema:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emaroloffhttps://www.emaroloff.com
https://www.roloffconsulting.comhttps://www.tiktok.com/@transformationprincess
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