Unlimited Seating
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCandid Conversations with female role models in the workplace with an aim to connect, empower and inspire more women leaders in businesses everywhere. Through an informal and conversational format, we aim to share and learn from everyday role models on career navigation, dealing with the stereotypes and unconscious biases, leadership styles and fun rapid fire topics.
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Hind Frata on successfully navigating a corporate & entrepreneurial career with purpose
February 18, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBJoin 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 M...
Career Transformations, Women in Leadership, and the Future of Work
September 23, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBJoin 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 wi...
Soaring Beyond Challenges: The inspiring journey of Emma Henderson - Pilot and Leader
August 13, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBMeet 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 ...
Living your life loudly: Danielle Vardaro is redefining leadership in STEM
July 22, 2023 07:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBEver 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 ...
Candid conversation with Johanna Hladun: Unconventional choices in a journey with the FBI and Corporate World
May 28, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBEver 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...
Candid conversation with Cristina Seda-Hoelle: Empathy, Resilience and a Love of Learning
April 23, 2023 17:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBJoin 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 y...
Candid conversation with Shelley Svoren: Always be curious
April 23, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBJoin 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 connec...
Candid conversation with Keren Rambow: Sometimes you'll fail, most times you won't.
March 27, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBJoin 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 o...
Candid conversation with Amita Karadkhedkar: Acceptance begins with you.
March 19, 2023 06:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBJoin 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 systemi...
Candid conversation with Sumathi Chari: Re-writing the narrative
January 15, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBJoin 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 ...
Candid Conversation with Ula Bieganska - Finding your voice, your own way
December 11, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBJoin 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 off...
Candid Conversation with Yosr Hamza - Share your journey, normalize the discussion
November 03, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBJoin 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 ...
Candid conversation with Natalie Stone - Making sure I'm bringing a whole team along with me
July 17, 2022 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBJoin 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 engin...
Candid conversation with Dinkle Shah - Empathy, not sympathy is the mindset shift we need
June 17, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBJoin 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 an...
Candid conversation with Balkiz Sarihan - If it scares you, do it anyway
May 28, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBJoin 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 se...
Candid conversation with Leila Rezaiguia - What does risk mean for you?
May 07, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBJoin 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...
Candid conversation with Fatima Tomoum - Keeping the Customer as the common denominator
April 21, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBJoin 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’ suc...
Candid Conversation with Tia Hopkins - "Stay ready so you don't need to get ready"
March 18, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBJoin 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 Medi...
Candid conversation with Maya Itani - Work in progress!
January 30, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBJoin 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...
Candid conversation with Elena Marselis - Are you interested? Or are you committed?
December 06, 2021 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBJoin 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 #in...
Candid Conversation with Elisha Herrmann - "No voice, no choice"
October 30, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBElisha 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 qu...
Candid Conversation with Kelly Cole - Don't predict the answer, just ask
October 16, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBA 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 #diversityandinclusio...
What's Unlimited Seating all about?
October 09, 2021 11:00 - 2 minutes - 1.53 MBHost Sanila Samuel shares a 2 minute background on what inspired her to start Unlimited Seating. #powerwomen #womeninleadership #womenempoweringwomen #diversity #diversityandinclusion #equalopportunities #leadership #leadershiplessons #career #opportunity #leader #globalleader #interview https://unlimitedseating.com
Candid Conversation with Dr.Selda Konukcu
September 20, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBAn 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 #diversityandinclusi...
Candid conversation with Loren Finnerty: Not how far I can go, but how much I can do
September 03, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBOur 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 tak...
Candid conversation with Loren Finnerty
September 03, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBOur 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 tak...