36 min
Women Empowerment: Embracing Your Unique Skill Sets to Make a Difference Activate Yourself by Geeta Sidhu-Robb
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- Entrepreneurship
Stephanie Slocum knows what it’s like to have a corporate career that looks amazing on paper but makes you feel trapped. After 15 years working as an engineer, she started her business as a side project by self-publishing the Amazon.com bestselling book She Engineers: Outsmart Bias, Unlock Your Potential, and Live the Engineering Career of your Dreams. She wrote the book while working 50+ hour weeks as an employee and with three small children at home.
That book spurred the founding of Stephanie’s business, Engineers Rising LLC, where her mission is to normalize engineering, technology, and STEM women in leadership. She helps women become influential business leaders while having a life, and she helps organizations committed to gender equity in STEM create work environments that retain and engage their women.
Stephanie is a winner of the 2020 Connected World’s Women in Technology Award for her work empowering women in engineering and technology. She’s also a mom of three girls, proud introvert, and a keynote speaker, having directly reached more than 5000 technical professionals in the last two years alone through attendance at her talks, workshops, coaching, and courses.
Stephanie’s superpowers: public speaking (although I have a good story about overcoming he
Known for her unique presentation style combining data, story, and actionable insights, Stephanie’s audiences learn how to embrace their unique skill sets, stop second-guessing their worth at work, and articulate the business case for themselves so that they can become recognized for the leaders they are.
Stephanie Slocum knows what it’s like to have a corporate career that looks amazing on paper but makes you feel trapped. After 15 years working as an engineer, she started her business as a side project by self-publishing the Amazon.com bestselling book She Engineers: Outsmart Bias, Unlock Your Potential, and Live the Engineering Career of your Dreams. She wrote the book while working 50+ hour weeks as an employee and with three small children at home.
That book spurred the founding of Stephanie’s business, Engineers Rising LLC, where her mission is to normalize engineering, technology, and STEM women in leadership. She helps women become influential business leaders while having a life, and she helps organizations committed to gender equity in STEM create work environments that retain and engage their women.
Stephanie is a winner of the 2020 Connected World’s Women in Technology Award for her work empowering women in engineering and technology. She’s also a mom of three girls, proud introvert, and a keynote speaker, having directly reached more than 5000 technical professionals in the last two years alone through attendance at her talks, workshops, coaching, and courses.
Stephanie’s superpowers: public speaking (although I have a good story about overcoming he
Known for her unique presentation style combining data, story, and actionable insights, Stephanie’s audiences learn how to embrace their unique skill sets, stop second-guessing their worth at work, and articulate the business case for themselves so that they can become recognized for the leaders they are.
36 min