Multiple hats

Like any kids, Cassie Leonard wanted to go into space and so she studied aerospace engineering ( at UCLA, mind you)What if you turned up on your first day and was the only woman in a room of 35 engineers? Maybe quite daunting.But it did not stop Cassie from spending 16 years at Boeing!And You know what's great in accumulating 16 years of corporate experience in the biggest aerospace company in the world? You get to explore a lot of possibilities and growth to your own pace!After a lot of technical jumps, she started her leadership journey and led very large complex teams.She now leverages all of her experience to help other mid career STEM professionals and especially parents navigate how to build a career that fits within their life and not the other way around. She took the leap a little more than a year ago and released her first book STEM moms and is now in full swing of her coaching business.Tune in for lots of career advice!And her book ? Well it is amazon best sellers Number 1!https://www.elmmcoaching.com/

This time, we are talking neurodivergence with Dr. Lorien Parker, aka Dr. Loz.Lorien is the founder of SciencePlay Kids, a company she founded 9 years ago for ALL BRAINS and ALL learners type to engage with Science and learn. And she did so with zero prior experience in business or education but she jumped right in the deep end and followed her passion for science to help neurodivergent learners and she knows all about it because she has ADHD and is autistic herself and the mother of neurodivergent kids.Lorien is the one of many women who left academia after having kids because academia just is not designed to accommodate for parents and she did not want to choose being her work and her family. No one should really!Anyway, she takes us through her first step, the business model she thought she would follow which turned out to be her unicorn model but not sustainable but listen up for Lorien as she nailed the business pivot! Best pivot ever which now allow Lorien to be her best self, empower students and schools with a Win Win model funded by corporates!Tune in for Lorien's founder story which come with the blessing of embracing her way of working, surrounding herself with the people who can bridge her gaps. Great lessons on tweaking your business model as hers really evolved to an offering she could not have thought of before being buried into delivery of her initial model first. you can learn more about Lorien and SciencePlay kids on her website and social mediashttps://www.scienceplaykids.com.au/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorien-parker-ba7b6a36/https://www.facebook.com/SciencePlayKids/You can visit my website - angeliquegreco.com.au  

That's a wrap up for Multiple Hats and 2023!What a great ride we had with our amazing founders sharing their journey and what it takes to be an entrepreneur, call it success and sometimes, call it quit!Thank you for lending me your ears and coming along with me on this journey of entrepreneurship!Let's make Multiple Hats a conversation and tell me what you think or what you want for next year. This episode is a word of me, your host, Angelique, and what prompted me to launch Multiple Hats.it is an episode to connect with you and hear from you.Multiple Hats is all about you and how it can help you finding your own script and taking your very first step!Tune in for this kudos and reflection episode.For now, I will leave you with some thoughts on making the first move, experiment with a portfolio career, get into the mindset of these who act with purpose, armed with grit and letting go of perfectionism.For more insights,, I suggest a few good reads: - Find your why, Simon Sinek- The power of perseverance and grit, Angela Duckworth-The power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant- This working life, Lisa Leong- There has to be more, Rachel ServiceHave a good end of the year 2023

 Alison Gartner, the co-founder of Evidently, an Australian Start-up whose technology can analyse complex health care data to guide clinicians in their practice.This is a holy grail in healthcare data because we are now generating more data than ever, and we don’t tap into the full potential of these so called "data lakes" due to the difficulty of standardising, cleaning and linking different data sets to produce actual actionable insights.And then who owns the data? With Evidentli, there is no exchange of data, the medical centre will use their own data and question it in their own way.There are companies doing some of this out there, but there is a big need for a fast reliable and robust technology, that can be used by the clinicians themselves, with adaptable parameters to tweak questions to reflect real clinical scenario. Alison has unique perspective because she has both experience as a co-founder and has an investment manager! So she has seen it all before and now it is unravelling for her. Awesome Multiple Hats insights there. She recounts the investment landscape 10-15 years ago and tells us about the in and out of building a product that people want to use, including finding your early adopters. I also loved her insight on how a double degree in science and finance paved the way for her unique career! Listen up for a truly insightful journey You can learn more about Alison and Evidentlihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-gartner-51408459/https://www.evidentli.com/ You can visit my website - angeliquegreco.com.au Follow Multiple hats https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6311fe9bae5d13001250521f

Have you ever thought of a brilliant idea as a rough gemstone? That's a what Natalie Chapman, the founder of Gemaker, thinks researchers and inventors have, a rough gem that needs a great deal of polishing before becoming an actual Gem.With a bachelor in chemistry, an MBA and a decade of marketing, communication and tech transfer experience, she decided that there was a better way to accelerate this process and founded Gemaker ! A successful commercialization agency, helping researchers and innovative businesses take their tech ideas to the people they can help.Gemaker has been in the business for over 12 years and employs around 20 people with many different expertise.The team won multiple awards including the Telstra Business award for microbusiness, and winning this award was definitely a great boost in credibility and associated business.Hear the genesis of Gemaker from Natalie Chapman.You can visit Gemaker website https://gemaker.com.au/if you like the show, please leave me a review on your podcast platform You can also leave me a message at https://angeliquegreco.com.au/contact/

Deep Tech aspiring founders, this one is for you!Some people fall into their PhD, following the next logical step after their Honours or Masters.Some people fall into it because they are not sure what job to go after yet.Not Dharmica Mistry, she wanted to go into nutrition but didn't get in the course so instead of ruminating she picked subjects which were close to what it would have looked like in the nutrition degree and fell in love with microbiology in the process. After graduating she was not keen on a PhD either because she felt she could not see the impact of such work in a near future.But her first job at a biotech changed her mind when she did a discovery which had such a great potential to change the odds of aggressive breast cancer in women under 50 with a simple blood test.With this mission in mind, she co-founded BCAL diagnostics, a diagnostic company looking to detect breast cancer early with a blood test.If you have heard of the valley of death, you would know that deep tech has many of these because proving the science and making it robust is a really challenging task. It can't "just" work, it has to work in a clinical setting, which means at scale and speed for a diagnostic lab to work with it. It needs a great amount of fundings and so her PhD was a great way to get to validate the science and make this further fundable. Dharmica takes us through the journey of a deep tech founders and the crucial steps that make you or brake your start-up.Happy listening!You can learn more about Dharmica and her current role as a Director Diagnostics Industry Engagement at MTP connect and about BCAL diagnostics.https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharmica-mistry-2468a148/https://www.mtpconnect.org.au/Story?Action=View&Story_id=485https://www.bcaldiagnostics.com/ If you like the show share it with your community! Or leave me a review.I would love to hear from you, just leave me a message on LinkedIn or on my websitehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/angelique-greco/https://angeliquegreco.com.au/ Follow Multiple hats https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6311fe9bae5d13001250521f