Breaking the Misfit Mold: Turn Workplace Challenges into Leadership Opportunities (With Sathi Chowdhury)

Do you ever feel like a misfit in the workplace, struggling to fit in and share your ideas? In this episode, we're joined by Sathi Chowdhury, Director of Data Engineering, Risk Tech, at Capital One, who shares her journey from feeling like an outsider and being shy to thriving as an underrepresented leader. Sathi discusses:

✔️Leveraging hard skills to develop soft skills

✔️Overcoming the need for perfection before sharing ideas

✔️Embracing opportunities to fail and grow

✔️Strategies for navigating feelings of invisibility or not fitting in at work

✔️The importance of diversifying the face of leadership

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