{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64f8df02aa4e5a0011e2ab89/6a15b7e38ff41815a87ecb35?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"63 - Hard Work Has No Shortcuts: Silvia Gonzalez on 27 Years in Industrial Automation, Global Leadership, and Paying It Forward","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64f8df02aa4e5a0011e2ab89/1779807432623-6f8afb59-af7c-47fd-b942-8534223e7c4c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>63 - Hard Work and Focus: Silvia Gonzalez on 27 Years in Industrial Automation, Global Leadership, and Paying It Forward</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Silvia Gonzalez</strong> has spent 27 years in industrial automation, moving from her first role at GE Fanuc in Mexico City to her current position as Global Head of Software Business at Emerson, where she holds global P&amp;L responsibility and sits on the board of directors of Progea SRL. Hers is a career built on learning fast, staying curious, and refusing to be defined by the rooms she walked into alone.</p><p>In this conversation, Silvia takes us through the full arc of her journey: from tearing apart radios as a child in Mexico, to training sales forces on PLC programming before she felt ready, to developing critical control solutions for some of the largest oil and gas companies in Latin America, to leading global software teams across multiple time zones and cultures. She is direct about the moments she doubted herself, the leaders who believed in her before she did, and what it took to eventually believe it herself.</p><p>This is a conversation about what it actually looks like to build a career over decades, not overnight.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What we cover</strong></p><ul><li>Growing up in Mexico with an engineer father and a brother who pushed her to compete, and how that shaped her early drive</li><li>Walking into her first job at GE Fanuc without feeling ready, and what she learned from getting up to speed fast</li><li>Building the critical control business across Latin America, working with Pemex, Petrobras, and PDVSA</li><li>Spending over a decade at GE across multiple restructures, and when she first started thinking of her work as a career rather than just a job</li><li>The move to Baker Hughes and why she said yes to a role that took her outside everything she knew</li><li>The shift from individual contributor to global leader, and how the narrative changes when it stops being about you</li><li>Owning a global P&amp;L for the first time and what it feels like from day one</li><li>Sitting on a board of directors and learning to communicate from the driving seat</li><li>Leading across time zones and why she does 6 AM calls without complaint</li><li>Being a woman in industrial automation, what has changed, what has not, and how she approaches mentoring the next generation</li><li>The leaders throughout her journey who saw something in her before she saw it in herself</li><li>Her blueprint for anyone building a long career with integrity</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Support the show</strong></p><p>If She Talks Tech has added value to your life, consider buying us a coffee. It helps keep the stories coming. buymeacoffee.com/shetalkstech</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Find us on Spotify</strong> open.spotify.com/show/7aZRzRG0jFs0i8hLrmpG2R</p>","author_name":"Hlulani"}