Episodes

Yesenia Sevilla is the Director of Strategic Engagement and Ecosystem Development at Vanderbilt University, but Yesenia's career journey has been anything but linear. Speaking to host Chris Atiyah, Yesenia shares insights on embracing possibility and seizing opportunities, likening her career...

Heidi Wyle is the CEO and Founder of Venti Technologies; from a lower socio-economic background, she excelled through her love of learning, achieving a bachelor's from Brown, an MBA from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from MIT. She started in biotech when the industry was in its infancy, and following ...

Jamila Parham's fascination with technology ignited in childhood when she played video games with her brother. Raised on the south side of Chicago, Jamila attended DePaul University School of Computing. However, she soon realized that STEM lacked diversity and inclusion, reflecting a disparity ...

Lisa Ventura was recently awarded an MBE for her services in Cyber Security, spearheading diversity and inclusion. It's undoubtedly one of the most exciting career journeys we've heard of in the tech space, following an incredibly successful career in the entertainment industry. Lisa work...

In this episode Chris Atiyah interviews Katelyn Arnold, Principal Scientist and Research Assistant Professor recently named a Forbes 30 under 30 scientist. Katelyn's journey to success is an inspiring one. As a young woman, she had dreams of becoming a ballerina, but a career-ending injury forc...

Leslie Vickrey is a woman on a mission - she wants to empower other women to thrive by achieving their dreams in the world of work; following a successful career in recruitment, she's the Founder and CEO of ClearEdge, a specialist boutique agency that supports staffing firms with their marketin...

Jennifer Lee immigrated to the US from South Korea in the late 1980s. She tragically lost her father when she was five years old and then her grandfather to cancer two years later. Financial hardship followed, and Jennifer's mum worked seven days a week for up to 16 hours a day to support the f...

'Difficult doesn't mean impossible' is Yewande Akinola's mantra. Yewande Akinola MBE is an award-winning Chartered Engineer and Innovator; her story is a remarkable one; growing up in Nigeria shaped Yewande's perspective of the world; she witnessed the infrastructure challen...

Leslie Bondaryk is a visionary who, through her role as CTO at The Concord Consortium, is driving large-scale improvements in teaching and learning through groundbreaking technology. Discover how Leslie's passion for STEM has ignited a fire in the next generation's hearts and minds - thro...