Bogdan Rackow

Carla Rivera

“We will help clients to move from a current state to a future state. We will help with the transition having the people always in the middle”, tells Carla Rivera about her job as an Engagement Manager for Future State, a management consulting company. “What I love about my job is to be part of something that’s bigger than the job itself.”

Renaud Visage

Kyle "Beef" Bautista

Thomas "Sodapoppin" Morris

Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk

Casey McNeil

Sue "Smix" Lee

Victoria "Dinglederper"

Nick "BreakyCPK" Caras

Dirk Ahlborn

Gil Penchina

Lesley Rusca

Brendan Paul

Easton LaChappelle

Bobak Ferdowsi

Steli Efti

Erica Greve

“One of the things we say to the 27 million people trapped in slavery is ‘We are coming for you’.” tells Erica Greve, Founder and CEO of Unlikely Heroes, a nonprofit organization, that rescues kids out of sex slavery. Her powerful advice to her 14-year-old self: “Just live in the moment and allow yourself to be there because if you’re always pushing towards the next moment, you won’t enjoy the actual time you have.”

Sangbae Kim

Tomaso Poggio

Steve Aitken

“Everything I do makes a big impact on the company.”, that’s what Steve Aitken enjoys about his role as Project Manager at Jaybird, an active lifestyle brand making Bluetooth headphones and wearable devices. The other side of the coin when working in a small company is “not having a huge variety of expertise”, Steve explains. “I need to be an expert at whatever we are doing.”

Gina O'Reilly

“My strength is really that I am a pretty good generalist. I used to think that was a weakness when I was younger because I was not really good at anything.” tells Gina O’Reilly about her role and its requirements as the COO at Nitro. Another misconception she had when she was young: “I used to think when I was younger that work was the crap thing you do from 9 to 5 and life was all the other hours in the day. I am fortunate to be in a role that I genuinely enjoy.”

Francine Gordon

“I wound up on the faculty as one of the first two women on the faculty at the Stanford graduate school of business at a time when … there were only 5 women out of 600 students in the whole student body.” explains Francine Gordon, CEO of Womennovation, about her interest in the advancement of women. About her own path she tells “I’ve done a variety of things” and “I have taken advantage of opportunities.”

Joanna Weidenmiller

“The FBI came to me in my sophomore year in college and recruited me into the FBI to work for them in the international training unit.” tells Joanna Weidenmiller about her life before becoming the co-founder and CEO of 1-page, a recruiting company. Today she is excited to “have an incredible team of people that are smarter than me and I get the hell out of their way - that’s my job: I stand up and I am the voice of the company.”

Eileen Carey

“My day is really whatever happens from 7am until midnight.” describes Eileen Carey her role as a founder and CEO of Glassbreakers, a mentorship community for women. She encourages others that “anyone can be a CEO as long as they are passionate about what they are doing.”

Michelle Li

“As a Customer Care Program Manager my job is to make the customer’s life really easy”, explains Michelle Li her job at Jawbone, a consumer electronics company that produces Bluetooth headsets, speakers and fitness trackers. Her advice: “Wherever you can help other people, I think, you should do it. Paying it forward is really important in your own career and in others’ careers.”

Marcello Schermer

“We work with telecom companies mostly around the world and help them bridge the gap between them and the startup world”, tells Marcello Schermer about his job as a consultant with Detecon in San Francisco. The good and bad about his job? “I worked on 4 continents this year, which is really amazing” but “you never really know where you gonna be 2 weeks from now, 2 months from now, 4 months from now.”

Ame Elliott

“Figuring out ways to ask for help that feel authentic to yourself is a great tool for success in life”, Ame Elliott would tell her 14-year-old self. “The key thing that you need is empathy and the ability to uncover unmet needs and then communicate that to a different audience”, she reveals about her job as Design Researcher at Ideo.

Cindy Alvarez

Maroane Abdallaoui

Sean Patrick Butler

William Grundfest

Julie Lorch

David Charron

Charlotte Han