Episodes

In this episode, Sarah Tenisi speaks with Hernani Alves, a public speaker and the Founder and Chief Motivation Officer at Balanced IQ Leadership. He serves leaders to help make the most complex business skill awesomely simple, by helping their teams fall in love with accountability to maximize workplace culture. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ● [01:19] How Hernani’s work was impacted by COVID-19 ● [03:35] The origin of the name “Hernani” ● [04:40] Is enthusiasm innate or devel...

In this episode, Sarah Tenisi speaks with Tracy Jackson, a SHRM-certified HR executive with decades of executive leadership experience working in large organizations in the retail and banking space. As the founder of HR E-Z, Inc., Tracy recognizes a company’s most valuable assets are employees, and helps companies develop HR practices supporting the success and culture of the organization. She is also a speaker who helps people have uncomfortable conversations around diversity, inclusion, and ot...

In this episode, Sarah Tenisi speaks with Deanna Kosaraju, founder of Global Tech Women, an online community with over 16,000 members. The network offers resources, inspiring role models, mentoring, and community-building in every corner of the world. Deanna herself has a long history of working in technology and developing communities for women across the globe. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ● [01:20] Deanna’s thoughts on the historic inauguration of VP Kamala Harris ● [02:22] Wh...

This week, Sarah Tenisi (CEO of Tenisi Tech) chats with Jill Stelfox , the CEO of Panzura in Silicon Valley. Panzura is the fabric that transforms cloud storage into a high-performance global file system. The conversation ranges from listening with curiosity, trusting intuition, going on the offense and being kind to one another at work! 0:17- Introduction 1.32- Working with Zebra Technology, Location Solutions and player tracking in the NFL 4:42- How the project changed the way broadcasters u...

Welcome to this episode of Tech Me Seriously with Sarah Tenisi - candid conversations with women exploring their passion for what they do. Our guest in today’s episode is Marilou Macfarlane who is the founder of women in sports technology, nonprofit organization focused on driving opportunities for women in sports technology. Episode Highlight and show notes 1; 12- What is sports technology? 2:17- Sports performance and fan engagement in eSports 3:16- Breaking down the broad umbrella of sports...

Antonia Mora: Why User Experience Defines the Success of a Product In this episode, Sarah Tenisi speaks with Antonia Mora, Sr. UX Program Manager at Google Cloud Platform. She has spent her career working within big program management organizations at some of the largest well-known software companies in the world such as Adobe, in addition to Google. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ● [01:26] The difference between “program management” and “project management” ● [02:36] What is “user...

Sarah and Motocross champ -turned eSports entrepreneur Stefy Bau discuss the evolution and impact of the eSports indusry in today's world.

Val Langmuir: IT Should Be Invisible In this episode, Sarah Tenisi speaks with Val Langmuir, Director of IT at large nonprofit based in San Francisco. Val describes IT specialists as the people who “work on the plumbing” that allows your device (specifically its computer system) to function securely and productively . Sarah agrees, saying that it is the job of the IT practitioner to “make IT invisible”; however, this opens up a whole world of misconceptions regarding what IT really is and how th...

Kristi Royse: Leadership Secrets In this episode, Sarah Tenisi speaks with Kristi Royse, founder and CEO at KLR Consulting. She is also an Executive Coach at Skyline Group International, and a leadership development consultant for a wide variety of well-known companies, including Workplace by Facebook and Rodan + Fields. A great leadership team, according to Kristi, is defined by vulnerability and passion . Every individual on the team—especially during these challenging times—needs to be willin...