Episodes

Join me your host, Sanila Samuel on another insightful conversation, this time with Simone Lawrence.Simone is the co-founder of The Ameliorate Group (TAG), a Dubai-based coaching and people development consultancy working with teams, leaders and women in the workplace. She has over 20 years experience developing people, leading HR, L&D, operations, sales, business development and fundraising teams across a variety of industries, spanning both the corporate and NGO sectors. TAG partners with be...

Join me your host Sanila Samuel on an engaging and insightful conversation on navigating a corporate and entrepreneurial career journey with Hind Frata. Hind Frata is the founder of Shiftogether, a Barcelona-based Career Coaching & Corporate Leadership training consultancy. Hind's purpose is about humanizing the business world growing business & people together. As an International Executive Career and Corporate coach,Hind has an extensive 18-year tenure in the corporate world as a Senior Market...

Meet the extraordinary Emma Henderson, MBE, CEO of Project Wingman, and former commercial pilot. Her story of tenacity and resilience is quite the flight, from childhood dreams of soaring the skies to navigating the challenges of a demanding career while raising three children. Emma's journey wasn't always smooth sailing, but she mastered the turbulence with grace. Prepare for a deep-dive into Emma's exhilarating journey, not just as a pilot, but also as a woman proving that no barrier is insurm...

Ever dream of a career that combines math, science, problem-solving, and the thrill of aviation? Meet Danielle Nicole Vardaro, VP of Worldwide Customer Support & Aftermarket Sales for Commercial Aviation with Embraer. In her current role she is responsible for customer relationship management and providing best-in-class support and services to her global customer base while selling aftermarket products and services to keep fleets flying and leading a high impact global team. She has spent her en...

Ever wondered how someone can transition from a marketing career to a thrilling world of security services and global investigations?Join your host Sanila Samuel on an inspiring conversation with Johanna Hladun, a senior executive with over two decades of experience in the government and private sectors. Currently a Senior Director of Security Services at Caterpillar Inc, Johanna shares her fascinating journey from college to the corporate world, her time at Prudential Investments, and her inc...

Join your host Sanila Samuel in a conversation with Cristina Seda-Hoelle, General Manager for the Regional and Business Aviation division at GE Aerospace. We talked about Cristina's role models growing up, how her childhood years helped her build resilience and develop empathy for others and some early career mistakes that she embraced and learned from. Cristina shares some good advice on how to choose mentors and how preparation is key when working on building the habit of speaking about your a...

Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel on another episode of Unlimited Seating . This time we hear from Shelley Svoren, CEO and Founder of Infinite Branches as she shares how she relied on her years of experience working with clients to start her own business and how she leverages her role with the International Aviation Women's Association to build people up and help them grow. Infinite Branches works with start-up businesses and investors to build impactful, profitable, and sustainable connections ...

Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel on an insightful episode of Unlimited Seating. This time, I had the pleasure and honor of hosting Keren Rambow, a leader I had heard a lot about and was excited to have as a guest. Keren is Vice President of Sales for the Americas region at GE Aerospace Commercial Engines. In this role, she manages customer relationships and deal strategies in North and South America and is responsible for retaining and winning new business and partnering for the success of our ...

Join your host Sanila Samuel in a candid conversation with Amita Karadkhedkar. Amita describes herself as a Techno - Functional Leader, Learner from Life, Public Speaker and a Visible Role Model. She is a true change agent and through her advocacy on prestigious platforms such as TedX, NASSCOM, SHRM and many Multi-National Corporations and various Educational Institutions, hopes to lead not just individual changes in terms of behaviors and attitudes but also lay the foundation for systemic chang...

Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel on yet another engaging and interesting conversation. This time, I had the pleasure of speaking with Sumathi Chari – we were at school together!Sumathi is Director & Senior Partner at PRHUB. A Brand consultant & integrated communication specialist with close to two decades of experience, Sumathi works with senior leadership at organisations across diverse domains, to help them devise their brand building strategy and execution roadmap. She has led award winnin...

Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Ula Bieganska. Ula is a passionate marketeer with 15+ years experience across Europe, Middle East and Africa. She started her career in P&G, where she spent 6 years in various global and local roles. She then moved to the LEGO Group, the most admired toy producer in the world, where she started in a regional Eastern Europe role in Prague. She moved to LEGO HQ in Denmark. For the past four years she supported the opening of a new office f...

Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Yosr Hamza - lawyer, mentor, DEI champion and special needs parent. We dove right into talking about Yosr's experience starting out as a young female lawyer in the Middle East to finding her space as Legal Director at Gartner to getting life changing news about her few months old son and her journey of acceptance. Yosr is a bilingual multi award-winning and commended experienced tech legal director with both a private practice and in-hou...

Join your host Sanila Samuel in a candid conversation with Natalie Stone as they talk about career choices, leveraging the power of connections and evolving your personal brand and leadership style. Natalie has been with GE Aviation for 22 years with leadership roles in Engineering, Supply Chain MRO, and Commercial Engines. She is currently the product management leader of Legacy Propulsion widebody products, which involves product strategy, upgrades, and keeping the fleet of ~10,000 engines she...

Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Dinkle Shah. Dinkle is consultant at Deloitte and while she is early in her career, what makes Dinkle a role model is the way she proves her moxie time after time despite multiple challenges that come her way as someone with a permanent disability. Dinkle shares advice on how to approach people with disabilities - Avoid the sympathy and be empathetic but just be as you would with anyone! See the person and not the wheelchair or any other...

Join your host Sanila Samuel on a candid conversation with Balkiz Sarihan. In this episode, Balkiz shares her journey that is greatly inspired by her entrepreneur mum and walks us through how she learned to tell her story and build on the power of connections to learn, grow and inspire teams as an Intrapeneur.Balkiz Sarihan is Head of UAM Strategy Execution & Partnerships at Airbus. Balkiz joined the leadership team of Urban Air Mobility at Airbus to focus on the industry, business and service...

Join your host Sanila Samuel in a candid conversation with Leila Rezaiguia as she shares her career journey starting from how she realized what she is passionate about and the risk of leaving a well paying corporate job to start her own firm. Leila is a highly sought-after multilingual Executive and Systemic Team Coach. She is renowned for her high energy, enthusiasm, passion, fun-loving nature, and her love for empowering, connecting and working with people from diverse cultures. For 23 years, ...

Join your host Sanila Samuel on an upbeat and insightful conversation with Fatima Tomoum as she talks about her journey spanning countries where she learnt by immersing herself in the local culture and language and used her various experiences as an interpreter as well to develop a passion for creating excellent customer experiences, whatever the industry. Fatima Tomoum is a seasoned and passionate CX professional who firmly believes that listening to customers is the key for companies’ success....

Join your host Sanila Samuel on yet another insightful and engaging conversation with Tia Hopkins as they talk about Tia's influences growing up, her passion for all things tech and what drives her to keep going and growing. Tia (Yatia) Hopkins Hopkins is the Field CTO & Chief Cyber Risk Strategist at eSentire. She is also an adjunct professor of #Cybersecurity at Yeshiva University, a football coach, and is pursuing an Executive MBA and PhD in Cybersecurity. Tia was recognized by SC Media as an...

Join me, your host, Sanila Samuel in a fun and engaging conversation with entrepreneur and marketing expert Maya Itani as she shares at length about the circumstances that led her to starting her own business, her personal ethos and the learnings she picked up along the way on networking, leadership and personal branding. A seasoned and award-winning brand and marketing expert, Maya has built her expertise and reputation managing both local and global brands in the Middle East, Turkey, and Afric...

Join podcast host Sanila Samuel as she chats with Elena Marselis - Systems and Services Leader, Eastern Europe at Signify . Lena talks about how she navigated career changes and multiple moves across the world, her passion for coaching and how that led her to set up biiwow in parallel to her role at Signify.#powerwomen #womeninleadership #womenempoweringwomen #diversity #diversityandinclusion #equalopportunities #leadership #leadershiplessons #career #opportunity #leader #globalleader

Elisha is the brain behind many fortune 500's supply chain and IT operations. She is invested and passionate in improving where she lives, Cincinnati. You can find her volunteering with her passions: women's issues, IT & children. She is a chair, board member, speaker, author and volunteer. When not traveling the world, you can find her on the sidelines cheering on her daughters, concerts, running, or cherishing moments with friends. Her energy, passion and grit are what she considers the qualit...

An energizing and insightful conversation with Dr.Selda Konukcu on her purposeful and strategic moves to build skills that would propel her learning and career growth. Value creation and building an enabling ecosystem are themes she brings to each role she takes on. Selda shares her leadership style and how she sees diversity and inclusion as behaviors that need to be brought to the table every single day.#powerwomen #womeninleadership #womenempoweringwomen #diversity #diversityandinclusion #e...

A conversation with Kelly Cole, General Manager for Electric Power for Finning in the UK and Ireland. Join us as Kelly shares her experiences navigating her career journey by understanding the skills and competencies needed to grow and went about working on herself to deliver. Kelly also talks about building her brand and evolving it as she took on senior leadership roles while staying true to her values.#powerwomen #womeninleadership #womenempoweringwomen #diversity #diversityandinclusion #...

Our launch episode at Unlimited Seating! I had a candid, fun conversation with Loren Finnerty - Manufacturing Site Leader at GE Aviation, where she leads an organization of approximately 300 people to produce composite parts for aircraft engines. We talk about her experiences of being the 'only' in the room, how she handles stereotypes and her leadership style and approach to navigating her career. Her expertise, experience and leadership style make for role model material! Hope you take the tim...