Growing as a women technology leader | Monica Bajaj | #TGV308

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence"

~Sheryl Sandberg

Tune into #TGV308 to get clarity on the above topic. Here are the timestamp-based pointers from Monica's conversation with Naveen Samala on The Guiding Voice

0:00:00 INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT SETTING

0:03:15 Monica’s PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY AND THE TOP 3 THINGS THAT HELPED IN His/Her SUCCESS

0:05:45 Challenges that Monica faced in your career as a woman leader

0:08:18 What is leadership in her opinion? What has she learned not to do from leaders?

0:09:00 Who inspired you to take up leadership roles?

0:12:00 Her experience with technologies and how tech evolved per your career journey?

0:14:00 How does she keep herself up to date on the technologies?

0:16:00 Her advice to women aspiring to take leadership roles? How to balance work and life?

0:18:30 WITTY ANSWERS TO THE RAPID-FIRE QUESTIONS

0:21:00 ONE PIECE OF ADVICE TO THOSE ASPIRING TO MAKE BIG IN THEIR CAREERS

0:23:00 TRIVIA ABOUT Women Leaders

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Monica Bajaj is a seasoned engineering leader with over 2 decades of industry experience building and scaling global diverse teams across both the consumer and enterprise space. She is currently VP of Engineering at Okta where she leads the developer experience portfolio for their Customer Identity Cloud for developers and SaaS applications.

Monica brings decades of industry experience across various tech industries and has been successful in building global diverse teams and scaling technology across multiple industries.

Prior to Okta, Monica led engineering leadership roles at Workday, UKG, Perforce, and NetApp primarily in the space of Consumer/ Enterprise, Infrastructure, and Security.

Monica earned an M.S. in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India. Outside of work, Monica is very active in programs around mentorship, diversity, and uplifting women and young girls. She has won several awards as a Mentor of the Year 2021 award “ and has been recognized as top 60 Women technical leaders by the Girl Geek X Community. She has also served on the board as Technology and Chief Compliance Officer for Women in Localization for their GDPR and Security initiatives. Outside work, Monica enjoys the outdoors, hiking, painting, and the cuisines of the world.

Connect with Monica:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mobajaj/

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Naveen Samala: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveensamala

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