SheTrailblazes

SheTrailblazes helps ambitious women future-proof your career whether you rise in the boardroom or build your own.

We help women choose the path forward, without waiting for permission. You can rise into executive leadership with Leadership Edge or leave the grind behind and launch a profitable business with Founders Edge. 

1. Leadership Edge Program helps women in tech fast-track their next promotion and become the obvious choice for leadership. Not by working harder, but by becoming strategic partners to executives and driving undeniable impact.

2. Founders Edge program helps women ditch the corporate and build a profitable business.

The Results:
🔥 98% lead innovation, surpassing revenue goals by 10x
🔥 4.8x more likely to be recognized by leadership
🔥 82% earn multiple promotions
🔥 25% build profitable business from day 1

We’ve helped 1,500+ women at companies like Meta, Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn, Visa, and Amazon to achieve their career goals.

Ready to accelerate your career? Let’s chat.

👉 To get promoted, learn more: https://www.shetrailblazes.com/leadership-edge-program
👉 To ditch corporate to build your profitable business, learn more: https://www.shetrailblazes.com/founders-edge-program

Founder

PMDojo

We help Product Teams to think bigger, move faster, and drive business impact.

At PMDojo, we deliver custom training and coaching that’s immersive, practical, and immediately actionable—tailored to how your company works. I help product teams build strong product thinking, sharpen their commercial mindset, and deliver real business results through hands-on programs designed to transform how they operate.

We specialize in shifting execution-heavy, feature-focused teams into innovative, strategic powerhouses that drive growth, innovation, and measurable impact.

I’ve had the privilege of working with product leaders from Netflix, Amazon, Meta, and other industry leaders to redefine what’s possible in their roles.

Ready to transform your team? Let’s chat!

🔔 https://www.pmdojo.me/pmdojo-for-teams

Founder & CEO

My role as a Fractional Product Executive is to work with Founders and Product Leaders on solving challenging product, business, and growth problems. My goal is to help teams deliver impact through innovation and build strong product teams and set you up for long term success.

I share patterns and anti-patterns I have observed in my experience working with and advising startups, growth-stage companies, and larger, more traditional companies on what it takes to move forward and succeed. 

I love both to get my hands dirty as a Product Executive, or support your team as an advisor and coach.

Advisor & Fractional Chief Product Officer

Women In Product

Leadership Coach

Outpace

As a founding coach, at Outpace, I help accelerate the career of ambitious tech professionals (product, engineering, sales, marketing and customer success) through 1:1 coaching and guided learning. I also help to inform product innovation and build community across the Outpace's ecosystem.

Scale Founding Coach Advisor

PowerToFly

I’ve joined PowerToFly, a 360-degree diversity solution, and the leading international diversity platform, as a virtual event speaker, hosting ongoing talks and workshops. PowerToFly’s mission is to fast-track economic equity by upskilling and connecting underrepresented talent to roles in highly visible sectors, and providing tools and support for them to thrive.

Speaker

RebelBase

Advisor

Spark To Substance

Spark To Substance is an innovation company based here in Vancouver BC. ​We work with entrepreneurs & growth stage companies to build, scale and grow cross functional innovation frameworks, collaboration and outcomes.

​Our mission is to unlock the potential in every individual so that we can collectively solve complex problems of today and tomorrow.

Expertise:

Innovation | Business Growth Consulting | Product Management Coach | Design Thinking Workshops | Fractional Product Executive | Product Discovery | Design Sprints | Service Sprints | Customer Experience

VRIFY

Interim Chief Product & Technology Officer

Function Point

General Manager/President

Director of Growth (Product, Design, Marketing)

Part of Function Point's Executive Team - responsible for leading, coaching and developing a team of Product Managers and UX Designers. Own & set the overall product strategy, direction and overall product roadmap to transform Function Point's workflow management software. Set and defined a lean framework for customer & market discovery and product delivery to build a team that embodies high quality and is operationally excellent. Worked closely with the CEO to completely rebuild the product development teams including product Managers,  UX & Development. 

Work with the CEO to help shape overall business strategy and growth drivers and in turn align product strategy with business strategy. Collaborate cross functionally to align and bring together all the teams towards shared business and product objectives. Storyteller at Function Point about the "possibility of future".

Director Of Products (Product Management & Design)

Neurio Technology Inc.

Head product management at Neurio, a small cleantech start-up that builds smart home energy monitor and home energy consumption analytics software. 

Led efforts cross functionally to establish the function of market focussed product management. Defined the practice of validating concepts via rapid prototyping and qualitative/ quantitative research before development. Led efforts to validate Neurio's product market fit business challenge

Director Product and Design

Founder @ PMDojo | Ex-Atlassian | Product Leadership Coach | Keynote Speaker | Community Builder | Mom 👩‍👦🐶

More women deserve a seat at the table. But being in the room isn’t enough; we need to lead it.

With 24+ years in tech from startups to hyper growth companies like Atlassian; I’ve held executive roles (GM, President) leading teams, driving innovation, and scaling businesses.

I built SheTrailblazes to help women in tech move from execution to leadership faster (in company boardrooms or start their own profitable business), and PMDojo to transform product teams into strategic powerhouses.

The results:
✅ 93% of SheTrailblazes members earn multiple promotions
✅ 25% of SheTrailblazes members have built profitable business from day 1
✅ PMDojo teams are 3.8x more likely to secure resources and 4.8x more likely to be recognized by leadership

I’ve worked with leaders from companies like Meta, Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn, Uber, Visa, Amazong, Walmart, Cisco and others to redefine what’s possible.

DM me if you want to connect.

Learn more:
For women in tech: https://www.shetrailblazes.com
For product teams: https://www.pmdojo.me/pmdojo-for-teams

Bosky Mukherjee

Most people think career reinvention is for young folks. 
Bobbi Brown proves the opposite by doing it in her 60s!

This is her story and the proof that it's "Never Too Late."

It all started in 1995 when Bobbi Brown sold Bobbi Brown Cosmetics to Estée Lauder for a reported $74.5 million at age 38 and signed a 25-year non-compete.

It prevented her from:
- launching a new beauty company
- selling makeup under her own name
- using "Bobbi Brown" for any beauty product

In 2016, Bobbi announced her exit from Estée Lauder.
She waited to be legally free and build again (October 2020). Between 2017 and 2020, she built multiple ventures like...

The George, a boutique hotel in Montclair
A lifestyle site [justbobbi.com](http://justbobbi.com/)

Began experimenting with makeup formulae.
October 26, 2020, marked her comeback as she launched Jones Road Beauty, a clean, minimalist beauty brand.

Jones Road was self-funded with 0 debt, 0 VC money. 
From 2021, the company saw wins like:
- $20M in sales in 2021, profitable within months
- On track to 3x its sales number in 2022
- 2023 projections were 2x of 2022

She leveraged TikTok fully, and at 65, became a sensation there. Her satire video from “Foundation-gate” passed millions of views and 3xed daily sales.
At 60, most people told her to slow down.

She chose to do the opposite and reinvented herself using what she always knew.
world was overwhelmed with over-engineered products.
how women were tired of being told to “fix” themselves.
her instinct to build her first empire

And it worked. 🙌 

Like Bobbi, if you feel like you are “late,” you are not.

You are simply standing at the part of your career where everything finally makes sense.
Your experience is not a weight. It is to your advantage.

P.S. What would you build if you stopped believing it was too late?

#inspiration #cxos #work #leadership #women

Helping 1B women rise | Get promoted, build companies & own your power | 2X Founder | Ex-Atlassian | SheTrailblazes

I have never done this but need to because of how serious this has become.
LinkedIn team this is for you.
Ryan Roslansky Gyanda Sachdeva (tagging you because I’m running out of options)

I’ve been on LinkedIn since 2006-07.
I am a long-time Premium Business user.
And I support women in corporate and women founders rise.

This platform has been central to my career, my growth, my community, and now as a founder of 2 small businesses.

Since early November, my account has been repeatedly restricted and flagged. 

I don’t use bots.
I don’t use any automation tools.
I’m not part of engagement pods.
And yet, I’m being hit with multiple restrictions and warnings every few days.

I can’t trace back to anything I’ve done.

My support ticket has been open for weeks, and Stewart has tried but we still haven’t resolved the root cause.

Here’s why I’m escalating this:
These restrictions have shut down my primary business channel.
My revenue dropped to ZERO in November and December is heading in the same direction. 💔 

I’m now hesitant to use LinkedIn now from fear....
even message, comment or reply to an in-mail or reach out to my customers because I don’t know what will trigger another restriction.

I want to be clear:
I deeply value LinkedIn and the work being done to keep the platform safe.
But something in the system is hurting a rule-abiding small business founder who depends on this platform to operate.

I’m tagging you both because I’ve run out of paths through regular support channels.

I need help identifying what’s causing this and getting it fixed quickly before my business gets negatively impacted.

Please help and if someone from LinkedIn team knows how I can get help or speak to the right person, I would really appreciate.

#linkedin #support #help #womenfounder #smallbusiness

The biggest career jump I’ve seen in 2025 started with a woman taking a "step down” after a layoff derailed her goals. 👀 

(This was the best message I got this week. I hope it inspires you)

Mary had spent almost 20 years building her career.
She finally earned a VP of Product role.
And then the company layoffs hit.

At first, she stayed confident.
But even with an impeccable track record… she couldn’t land a job.
For 2.5 years.
She applied to 500+ roles.
Joined every networking and accountability group she could.

But with companies cutting layers in 2024–25…
The ladder she spent two decades climbing simply wasn’t there anymore.

In this market, we can’t think about career the way we did five years ago.
Today, we need to think about building leverage not climbing ladders.

So when a Principal PM role came up, she hesitated.
It meant a huge title drop and a massive pay cut.
After years of working her way to VP… she’d be an IC again. 🫢 

I could see why the decision crushed her.
She told me,
“I’m scared taking this role proves what people always thought… that I was never VP material.”

And a lot of women are being pushed into this exact fear right now.

When we talked, we focused on:
- what would give her leverage long-term
- the mindset and strategies champions use in hard markets

She didn’t take the role as a step down.
She stepped around. Because careers aren’t linear anymore.

And that’s when the real work began.
Inside the company, she looked like every other Principal PM.

1. So we rebuilt her narrative to match how execs think using the language and numbers her SVP and C-level leaders cared about.
2. We upgraded her exec communication.
3. We refined her storytelling.
4. And we engineered sponsors.

Nine months later, her SVP told her they’d never seen a Principal PM operate at this level.
She was promoted to Senior Director with compensation above her former VP role. 🙌 

What looked like a step down became her power move.

When Mary joined Leadership Edge, she told me she didn’t need pep talks.
She needed a pathway built for this market not the one she outgrew.
That’s why she rose again.

If any part of Mary’s story made you think, “this might be me…” and you want support building your comeback, reach out.

P.S. What would you have done in Mary’s place?

#womenleadership #careergrowth #womenintech #careeradvancement

My 11-year-old son T asked me a question last year:
“What’s the point of entrepreneurship if you can’t make the world better?” 🥰 

So when he started his handmade candle business “Eternity by T“ and decided on his own to donate 10% to the Children’s Heart Foundation, I was incredibly proud.

Every year...
1 in 100 babies in the U.S. are born with congenital heart defects.
Many don’t make it. 💔 
T knows that could’ve been him.
And the gratitude is what built this business.

There is still so much research needed to understand the causes and to improve the open-heart surgeries newborns often endure.

That’s why his business is special to him.
And why I’m sharing this today on his behalf (he’s not on social media).

If you’re looking for Christmas or holiday gifts…
His candles might be something meaningful to give.
He hand-makes each one over 3-4 hours.

And who knows…
You might just help save the life of a baby in the process.
Even if you’re not a candle person, they make beautiful, unique décor pieces.
(T says, you will not find anything like this in stores...)

P.S. If you’d like one, message me; he ships throughout the U.S.
♻️ Want to support him? Sharing this post would mean the world to T.

$225k. $475k. $1M. And 2x salary. 4 women in my Founder's Edge program built a 6-figure business without quitting their jobs first. 💃 

Here’s how:
Here are a few stories I hope lift you today and show what's possible in 12 months:

1. Sarah thought she needed to "do this for FREE for testimonials" before she could sell homemade dog treats. 
We applied my "Sales Conversion Framework" and focused only on early customers and cash flow. 12 months later, she built a $225k business from her kitchen, which is profitable.

2. Rina believed she had to quit her corporate job to start anything meaningful that brought her joy.
She began making natural soaps on weekends, used my "Monetization Framework", and stayed consistent. Last year her sales crossed $475k! That's 2X times her salary.

3. Tara assumed side hustles never scale into real income and she would need to undercharge and do it for free.
Using my "Scaling Blueprint", she tightened operations, raised margins, and repositioned her jewelry line. She crossed one million dollars in sales in a year.

4. Neha thought coaching only works if you already have a huge audience and needed to build a personal brand first.
With my "Messaging Framework for High Ticket Sales", she filled her client roster, matched her corporate salary in twelve months, and now has a year long waitlist.

These are the frameworks I wish I had I got laid off and found myself unclear on what I wanted to do career wise. 👀 

They would have saved me years of confusion and second guessing myself.

And that is what I want you to think about today.

The goal for 2026 is not to quit your job tomorrow.
The goal is to build a secure financial backup so your future is not 100% dependent on an employer, economic shifts, or a moment of luck.

Rooting for you. 🥰 🙌 

P.S. Which story feels closest to where you are right now?

#solopreneurship #inspiration #womenintech #leadership #womensupportingwomen

I left the office at 4:15 to pick up T, my son and spent the entire evening refreshing Slack like I’d committed a crime. 🤢

- Nobody messaged me.
- Nobody asked anything.
- Nobody even noticed.

But my brain was in overdrive… convinced I’d done something wrong.
Convinced I was a “bad leader” and a "bad mom" to even feel like this.

My husband encouraged me to stop justifying when I had to leave early for school pickups and simply say it as a matter of fact... Just like he has done.

I then realized how common this was in the company.
Every mom in the company did exactly what I was doing.
And every single dad left by giving a single disclaimer:
“Gotta go, I will be offline from x–y today.”
That’s it.

After speaking with hundreds of women inside SheTrailblazes, I can tell you this:

1. The more we justify, the more we invite scrutiny in what we do.
2. The guilt working moms feel has nothing to do with falling behind.
We already know we’re not behind.

Most of us have done more by 2pm than many people do all day. 🤗

The guilt is about being judged.
It’s the fear someone will notice you left.
That you’ll be seen as less committed...
Less serious, less deserving of the seat you earned.

And in all of this, one of the harshest truths I’ve realized is that…

It’s not their voice. It’s the one we were trained to hear.
We’ve internalized decades of “always on” culture so deeply…
We punish ourselves before anyone else even gets the chance.

A few years ago, I again picked up T again early.
We got ice cream and talked about his day.

And nothing at work fell apart.
Was I still feeling anxious? Yes, I was checking my Slack in between. 

But did I feel as guilty as before. NO.

To all the mamas out there… If this sounds familiar to you, I want you know this
Your guilt doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong.

Your guilt is proof our hustle culture has trained you to feel wrong...
Simply for having a life. You are an amazing mom and an amazing leader.

♻️ Share this if you’re a working mom fighting these feelings too.
And if this hit home, you might want to hit follow.

Helping 1B women rise as leaders or founders | Ex-Atlassian | FREE workshop on Jan 19 (sign up below)👇

I used to get praised in every single job I’ve had.
But the promotions always went to a “Dave” or a “John.” 🤢 

I was seen as someone who was “trusted,” “reliable,” and a “doer.”
So every time something important came up.
My name was first on the list.
Because they knew I’d deliver it well.

For the first few years in my career, being the “workhorse” actually worked.
It got me my first 3 promotions.

By the time I reached Senior Manager levels,
That praise became the very thing that held me back.
I was now the “execution machine.”

So when I brought up promotion, I kept hearing the same thing:
“Bosky, you’re the best. Once you become more strategic, the promotion is all yours.” 💔 

And then, to “support” me, Dave, my peer was assigned as my mentor.
Because he was somehow the strategic one.

Dave was charming. A big talker.
But he handed a lot of his work to his mentees…
80% of whom were women. 

I felt used.
Blindsided.
Invisible.

The hardest part wasn’t hearing the NO’s.
It was realizing I was following every rule…
And somehow it still wasn’t enough.

After 5 promotion denials, I knew something needed to change. 

So I changed how I was managing my career:
1/ Think, operate and speak in the exec language
2/ Go beyond impact. Work commercially (with confidential numbers)
3/ Build 3–5 exec level sponsors across the business

These 3 levers shift how decision makers talk about you in talent reviews.
And that is where promotions actually happen.
And this changed everything for me.

I stopped trying to “speak up more.”
Stopped saying yes to extra work.
Stopped pretending to be extroverted just to fit the mold.

Instead, I started getting invited into the right rooms.
Even during reorgs.
Even with leadership changes.

Eventually, I was promoted to General Manager and Company President.
I was tapped for multiple C-Level roles. 

Since then, I’ve coached 5,000+ women globally rise even when things are stacked against them.

And I promise you: My clients say, they will never go back to the over-delivering, over-working “doer.” 

Because without these 3 shifts, you will keep working harder, burning out, and still hearing: “You’re not strategic enough.”

Just last month alone:
✅ Elle was promoted to VP after 6 years of overworking
✅ Neha was recognized by her CEO and promoted to Director
✅ Sarah made a 2-level jump with a $200K comp increase

That’s 3 major client wins. 🙌 🥰 
All using the same levers I teach inside my LIVE, hands-on workshop.
The shift from being the trusted doer -> a strategic leader…
 
 Get the same training that 5,000+ women have used to rise once and for all.
(It’s been voted “a MUST” for every woman in corporate.”) 💪
 And I’m incredibly proud of that.

Join my next LIVE session - https://lnkd.in/gz6S4C5H

P.S. If you’ve ever felt underestimated in your bones… gift yourself an hour your future self will be proud of.

#womenintech #womenleadership #careergrowth  #careeradvancement
#leadership

During a crisis, leadership roles still tilt toward men and the psychology behind it is terrifying 👇

Reut Itzkovitch-Malka's 2024 study revealed something that as women we have always felt.

When uncertainty hits, people instinctively default to men as leaders.

None of this happens because of experience or competence or lack of it.
But because stress disrupts the brain’s ability to recognize capability.
And when cortisol spikes, human’s old programming takes over.

Here’s how this shows up for so many women in real life:
1/ A woman can spend years building credibility and results.
2/ And it takes only one crisis for decision-makers forget it in a week.

I hear versions of this every week in tech, finance, education and even government. This happened to me too.

Years ago, I said yes to a crisis assignment that everyone else refused.
I walked in thinking, “If I fix this, people will finally see what I’m capable of.”

But halfway through I realized: I was never meant to succeed. 💔 
I was the scapegoat for a mess that had been brewing long before I showed up.

And when the situation inevitably blew up because it was never salvageable…
A man was immediately brought in as the “steady hand.”

This is when I realized that in a crisis, women don’t become less competent. People simply become worse at seeing competence.

Once you understand that, you start looking at your whole career differently.

Inside SheTrailblazes, we see a pattern consistently:
- Brilliant women get overlooked the moment there’s chaos.
- Less-experienced men suddenly get labeled “strong leadership material.”

It’s unfair BUT it’s also predictable.
And what’s predictable can be planned for.

You cannot out-perform unconscious bias when a system is under pressure.
But you can build influence, identity, and visibility before the pressure hits.

And that’s exactly what so many women inside SheTrailblazers are doing…
so when crisis arrives, their value doesn’t vanish with the stress.

P.S. Have you ever seen a capable woman be skipped for an opportunity during crisis?

#womenleadership #careergrowth #womenintech #careeradvancement #leadership

Women rarely pause to celebrate themselves.
But we never forget to celebrate everyone else’s milestones. 🤢 

And honestly?
For everything 2025 has demanded from us… I don’t need a science-backed explanation for why women avoid spotlighting our wins. 

I see it every day.
I’ve seen women leading multimillion-dollar businesses still apologize before sharing their accomplishments.

Somewhere along the way, we started confusing humility with shrinking.
We downplay.
We rush past our wins.
We tell ourselves “it’s not a big deal” and move on to the next thing without taking a breath.

And THIS is exactly why I’m hosting our Year-End Virtual Celebration for women on Dec 11th. 🥳 💃 

We only do this once a year and the energy in the room is always unreal.

Most of us won’t give ourselves even one hour to celebrate what we survived this year. Let’s not end the year like that.

Women deserve more than surviving day to day..

This is the space where we don’t apologize for our achievements.

We own them.
Together.

Come as you are.
Bring your favorite boba (or whatever feels comforting).
Join us for one lighthearted, inspiring hour with incredible women like you.

Let’s end this year that way loudly and unapologetically.

✨ Celebrate you here- https://luma.com/v1n6voaz

P.S. If you joined this party… what drink are you bringing? ☕🧋🍷

#womensupportingwomen #2025celebration #womenintech #womenfounders #womenleaders

I left my C-level role because I had a front-row seat to a problem no one wanted to admit. 💔 
Wickedly smart women were doing everything right… and still not rising.

That’s why I started SheTrailblazes.
Because it became impossible to look away.

And yesterday, this message from a woman who attended my September workshop reminded me exactly why I do this work:
1. Recognized by her leadership
2. Praised by a GM for strategic thinking
3. Getting promoted to Director in Feb

Followed by:
“NONE of this would have happened without your workshop.”
And:
“Every woman in tech MUST attend this.” 🥰 

As I’m prepping for my December 2nd workshop, this reminder couldn’t have come at a better time.

Because here’s the truth very few women hear honestly:
Hard work gives you more hard work.
But being seen as a strategic leader?
That requires a completely different set of skills.

The advice that helped early in your career...
 “Speak up more.”
 “Work more.”
 “Be confident.”
 “Find a mentor.”
 “Lean in.”
…has an expiry date.

At senior levels, decisions get made for entirely different reasons.

Executives don’t promote you for doing more.
They promote you when they’re confident you make them look like they made the smartest talent decision of the year.
And that shift requires two things...the two levers I teach over and over:

1. Engineer the right executive sponsors
Not mentors. Not allies. But exec sponsors who stake their political capital to insist on your growth.
You don’t “earn” sponsors by accident.
 You create them through the right conversations at the right altitude.

2. Communicate like someone operating two levels up
Your manager cares about how well you execute.
Executives care about how you think and operate commercially.
When your work reflects this you become sponsorable.

That’s when leaders stop seeing you as the "DOER" and start seeing you as someone who changes the business.

And that is exactly the transformation I’m preparing women for inside the Dec 2nd workshop.

Every day I speak to women who are exhausted from repeating the same year over and over.

If 2026 is the year you want to rise differently, I hope you join me and the most amazing women who already are.

P.S. Do you want 2026 to be the year you rise? Tell me in the comments.

#careergrowth #careeradvancement #womenleadership #womenintech #leadership

This happened again (ahhhhhhhh)...
So I decided to do what I tell women to do.
Celebrate clients wins for November and December. 🥰

✅ 4 women got promoted
✅ 14 women went from being the “get sh!t done person” → strategic leaders
✅ 5 women landed their dream roles after months of navigating layoffs

(+ so many women crushing it as founders building revenue) 💃 💃💃

None of this was pure luck.
And it definitely wasn’t the result of doing more work.

At senior levels, we focus on 3 non-negotiables:
1️⃣ Reclaim how women communicate like executives
2️⃣ Think and operate commercially (this is where real leverage shows up)
3️⃣ Engineer executive-level sponsors across the business

After coaching thousands of women, I see this as a repeatable pattern.

While it’s easy to fall into the endless trap of:
 “do more work”
 “be more visible”
 “speak up more”
 “advocate harder”

I want to see women rise strategically without burning themselves out.

That’s exactly what the women above did.
And it’s the same playbook they used to get the results they wanted.

Get the exact strategies in my workshop for women - https://lnkd.in/gz6S4C5H

Now let’s do something important.
Fill the comments with unstoppable hype. Celebrate these wickedly smart women.

P.S. Tag a woman who deserves to be next. ❤️

The woman who forced Big Tech to rethink dominance. 
Her journey matters for your next chapter. 👀 

Here’s how Lina Khan’s career shows senior women’s unstoppable influence doesn’t require staying in 1 lane:

Lina Khan was born on March 3, 1989, in London. 
Her family moved to the US when she was 11. 
She studied political science at Williams College and graduated in 2010.
She was also editor of the student newspaper and completed a thesis on political thought. 
Later, she earned her law degree (J.D.) from Yale Law School in 2017.

The same year she published what became one of the most influential papers challenging Big Tech’s dominance. 
Her paper on Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox challenged how tech dominance was defined and how innovation gets blocked.

As a policy researcher, she observed that a few companies controlled entire sectors and the laws remained stuck in the past.

- She didn’t wait for permission or for someone to give her credibility.
- She used deep expertise and conviction to launch antitrust actions against tech giants like Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.

What I believe we, as women, can learn from her journey is:
1/ You don’t need to stay in the same job or title to make an impact.
2. Your deep knowledge matters most when you decide to act on it.

"Strategic Influence" happens when you identify a "system failing" and show how we will fix it.

Lina’s path reminds us that at the senior level you’re not just a leader in your domain. You can be a re-definer of your domain.

If you’re a senior woman wondering where your next chapter leads, remember that the map you need does not exist yet.

You can be the one to draw it.

P.S. Which part of Lina’s story resonates most with you?
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🔔 Follow me Bosky Mukherjee for more stories of women breaking glass ceilings.

#inspiration #womeninleadership #work #leadership #women #womenintech

6 brilliant women changed the world. 
None got the credit they deserved. 🤢 

Their stories matter for every senior woman who has ever been overlooked or underestimated.

1. Colette
She wrote four bestselling novels including the Claudine series under a pen name of her husband’s that made him famous while she stayed invisible.
Years later she rebuilt her career under her name and got nominated for Nobel.

Lesson: Your talent is not defined by who gets the spotlight first.

2. Margaret Keane
For nearly a decade her husband sold her paintings as his own. She worked 16-hour days behind closed doors until she finally proved the truth in court by painting live.

Lesson: Your work speaks louder than theft. It just needs the right stage.

3. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
She discovered radio pulsars, one of the greatest findings in astrophysics. Her male colleagues won the Nobel Prize without mentioning her.

Lesson: Being overlooked does not erase your brilliance. It exposes flawed systems.

4. Lise Meitner
She co-discovered nuclear fission, but her colleague won the Nobel alone. Her contribution was written out of history for decades.

Lesson: You can be the mind behind the breakthrough even if others take the credit. Truth outlasts bias.

5. Rosalind Franklin
Her X-ray photos proved the structure of DNA, yet her male peers published first and got the Nobel.
Her work was the foundation. They got the legacy.

Lesson: Doing the foundational work is leadership, even when unrecognized.

6. Esther Lederberg
She advanced bacterial genetics, but her husband took the spotlight.
He won the Nobel and never mentioned her once.

Lesson: Shared work is not shared recognition. Build a career where your name is tied to your impact.

Here is what these stories tell senior women today:
💔 Your contributions may get overlooked.
💔 Your ideas may get taken.
💔 Your leadership may get minimized.

But history shows this clearly.
Women have always been talented. They just were not always given the credit.

If you are a senior woman shaping your next chapter, remember this:
Your work deserves your name on it. 💖 🙌 

P.S. If you want to build a career where your work, leadership, and influence are unmistakably tied to your name, my newsletter breaks down real strategies senior women use to rise with clarity and power.
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Yale analyzed thousands of manager evaluations across multiple companies.
Another team studied ~30,000 promotion documents at a major U.S. retailer.

Both studies found the same thing:
Women weren’t underperforming.
In fact, they received higher performance ratings on average.

Yet they were still…
14% less likely to be promoted each year. 🤢 

Here’s what the data makes it impossible for women to ignore:
→ Managers consistently underestimate women’s leadership potential.
Not performance. Potential.

At the retail chain, women made up 56% of entry-level roles.
But at every rung, their numbers dropped.
Why?

Because managers assumed men would grow into leadership faster.

This is one of the biggest reasons why SheTrailblazes was born 7 years ago.

Even when women outperform men later, their potential scores stay lower.
The ceiling never fully resets.
Their upside stays invisible.
Their long-term value is underestimated even when the results say otherwise.

This is the moment so many women realize that merit and hard work alone don’t move us forward.

And the problem isn’t “confidence.”
It isn’t “speaking up.”
It isn’t “leaning in.”

The real problem is the perception of future value.

Here’s one shift I see that moves women forward the fastest inside SheTrailblazes:

You cannot wait for people to notice your potential. You must pre-frame it.**
I call this “The Pre-Framing Rule”. 👀 

It sounds like:
“Here’s how this work ladders into next year’s strategy…”
“Here’s why this decision unlocks X for the business…”
“Here’s the longer-term opportunity this creates…”

These is how strategic framing works that signals:
You already thinking, operating and communicating at the next level.

Because if you don’t shape the story of your future value, someone else will and the data shows they will always underestimate it.

Rooting for you! 🙌 

P.S. What do YOU think signals future potential of someone?

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$90B in AI debt. $3.5B in funding. 13k layoffs. Here are the shifts senior women can’t ignore this week.

The AI industry is moving faster than most leaders can track.

Here are the 10 shifts senior women in tech should know this week.

1. Big Tech is taking on massive debt to fund AI.
Hyperscalers have issued nearly ninety billion dollars in bonds since September to finance AI infrastructure. Analysts expect AI capex to hit $600 billion by 2027.

2. Microsoft just made AI agents enterprise infrastructure.
At Ignite 2025, they announced Agent 365 and deeper Copilot integrations. Governance, security, and budget planning for agents are now board-level responsibilities.

3. Google is warning about an AI bubble while regulators step back.
Pichai has raised concerns about overheated valuations and energy costs. At the same time, the EU is delaying parts of its AI Act, shifting compliance timelines for global tech teams.

4. Foxconn and OpenAI are doubling down on U.S. hardware.
They announced a collaboration to co-design data centre hardware with billions in manufacturing investments.

5. Cyber incidents are now a supply chain problem.
Recent breaches highlight how OAuth scopes, vendor integrations, and third-party tools are becoming the core of CISO and CIO risk conversations.

6. AI employment laws are happening state by state.
Several U.S. states introduced bills on algorithmic hiring, bias audits, and workplace monitoring. Cross-functional AI governance is becoming a strategic leadership muscle.

7. Verizon announced its biggest layoff ever.
More than thirteen thousand roles are being cut to free capital for network and automation investments.

8. Tech layoffs remain high across mid-sized firms.
More than seventeen thousand tech workers were laid off in a single week this month. Senior women cannot rely on one employer’s AI narrative to secure long-term resilience.

9. AI funding is still strong.
November alone crossed three and a half billion dollars in global AI startup funding. Infra and workflow automation are leading the way.

10. New power seats are emerging inside companies.
AI governance councils. Vendor risk committees. Transformation offices that report to the CEO. These seats are becoming the real pipelines to COO, CIO, and CEO tracks.

If you are a senior woman in tech, this is your moment to step toward roles that cut across the whole business, not just your function.

The companies betting big on AI need leaders who can bridge people, policy, and product.

Which of these shifts will matter most in your company? Comment the number.

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We turn tomorrow’s ideas into today’s market leaders because disruption is only powerful if people believe in it.

We partner with founders and companies shaping what’s next — in AI, deeptech, healthcare, future of work, fintech and beyond; to turn complex ideas into stories people want to be part of.

Our goal? Build gravity around brands.

We scale trust. 
We make customers want you. 
We drive growth that really really lasts.

How?

By telling the kind of story no one can stop talking about.
By creating content people feel in their gut.
By building communities that turn your idea into a movement.

Because the future doesn’t reward innovation alone.
It rewards the stories that make innovation matter.

Our work spans:

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Sakshi Shukla

My career in one sentence: The fastest way to get invited into powerful rooms is to make yourself valuable enough that rooms seek you.

(Btw, read that again!)

Let me break down what this means: 

👉 I started Physics Club in April 2021 

Within a week, I onboarded 200+ active members. People saw that I was doing something which was unheard of.

👉 I started Mogul's Mingle in September 2023 

I've hosted 71 women so far. Ambitious women see how intentionally and passionately I'm building this space. 

👉 I started Founder's Cubbon Walks February 2025

I have 700+ founders in my email list at this point. They keep requesting guests. 

People see that I'm enabling the ecosystem even when I don't have to. 


I'm not suggesting that you start your own community (haha it's not that easy)... 

I'm saying: 

I've not done any of this to get into so called "elite" circles.

I was trying to create value.
And value is what opens doors.

You cannot "network" your way into getting outcomes anymore. 
"Chasing validation" will drain you faster than anything. 

So just doing do meaningful work that makes people say, “I want to be part of whatever she’s building.”

When your work speaks loudly enough, rooms stop being gatekept - they become accessible.

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I'm SICK of "just put yourself on the internet" advice. 🤢 It's so misleading. 

Randomly posting anything won't change your life or career.  Never has, never will. 

We started with "personal branding" and now all people do is constantly try to "brand" themselves.

This is why almost every corner of the internet feels so saturated and sterile. 

In fact, we overdid authenticity too. 

Because now, there are 1001 ideas being sold for $7 on how to fake authenticity. 🤷‍♀️

So what do we do? 

Where do we go from here? 

DO WHATEVER YOU DO WITH INTENTION. 

(Yep, I screamed that!)

The edge is having an interesting life and then writing about that interesting life.

Not "10 ways I changed my life as a 19 year-old" but tell the world why you've started to read the newspaper again. 

The edge will now be in connecting the dots. 

In doing the hard work. 

Kinda ironice, right? 

That AI was supposed to make writing online and creating content easier and now we will have to work 10x harder to completely reinvent ourselves to actually gather any kind of community. 

A better advice would be: 

Put yourself on the internet because you have something out-of-the-ordinary to say. 

Otherwise you're just another floating voice. 

And no-one likes to be that.

I chatted with a founder who raised $3M within weeks. Here's her advice for anyone fundraising: "Have utmost clarity on the type of investor you want to partner with." 

They were clear that they don't want to spray and pray. 

Instead, she focused only on the investors who would understand her pace, her model, and her ambition. 

That clarity saved the team time, energy, and countless conversations that would’ve led nowhere (and drained them).

She and her co-founders spent months researching investors - how they think, what they back, what they expect, and how they work with founders post-cheque. 

And when they finally started fundraising, it worked. Everything moved faster because the alignment was already there.

Interesting to note that in fundraising tables are turning. Founders will filter investors as hard as investors filter founders. 

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Tomorrow, I’ll share a list of signs to identify your ideal investor (based on her playbook and my own learnings from working with founders).

An observation after meeting 300+ founders this year: The real founder loneliness isn’t emotional. It’s intellectual.

Almost no founder is short on motivation; they’re short on people they can actually think with. 

In my Founder Cubbon Walks and 1:1 conversation, I've heard things like:

> "Half the time I don’t ask for help because I don’t want my uncertainty to become part of my reputation."
> "My biggest questions sound stupid on paper, but they’re blocking me more than any strategy problem."
> "Having founder friends is a privilege I don't have."

Most of the questions they carry are not existential or strategic - they’re practical, daily, messy decisions. 

And founders don't know where to go with them? 

Investors aren’t always the right people for these questions because the fear of “looking uncertain” is real, and the answers often come packaged in frameworks instead of usable direction. 

Operators who could help are buried in their own worlds, and peers who understand the context deeply enough are hard to find. 

So founders end up thinking through everything alone, even when they shouldn’t have to.

The truth is, founders aren’t scared of hard work; they’re scared of working in a vacuum. 

The companies that move fastest are often led by founders who have at least one person they can think aloud with - someone who understands and respects their messy middle. 

Founders, do you feel the same?

In my next post, I'll be writing about actually useful ways to find your tribe who "get" you. 

Stay tuned :)

Founders, if you feel like you don't have anyone to think through problems with ... here are a few strategies that work:  

I've collected advice from founders who've felt this and solved it for themselves in some way:

1️⃣ Former founders who've exited. 

They have nothing to prove and no agenda. A founder told me her best sounding board is someone who sold his company 3 years ago and now just wants to think through hard problems. 

She wrote him a message with a very contextual problem and that's how they started talking.  

2️⃣ Peers 12-18 months ahead. Not 5 years ahead - the problems are too different. Someone who just navigated what you're about to face remembers the messy middle.

3️⃣ Avoid experts everyone focuses on (this one's my favourite!)

One founder told me: "Everyone wants time with the same 3-4 VCs/experts. Even if I got 30 minutes, I'd just get their polished frameworks - the stuff they've said publicly a hundred times."

Instead, he found another founder at a small event. Both fundraising, both figuring out similar problems in real-time. They grabbed coffee to debrief. Now it's a monthly thing.

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Finally, how to vet people before opening up to them👇🏻

Start with a small question. And see if they: 

- Ask questions instead of jumping to advice
- Challenge your thinking without making you feel stupid
- Make you feel sharper after talking

If any of these fail, keep looking.


♻️ Repost this to help more founders.

If you’re fundraising, researching investors isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the most critical step. (Here's how a founder did it and raised $3M in weeks) 👇🏻

1️⃣ Define “fit” and ask yourself 

> What kind of company am I actually trying to build: blitzscale or disciplined scale?
> Do I want a hands-on partner or low-touch capital?
> Who tends to “get” founders like me (outsider / operator-first / second-time / woman / etc.)?

This becomes your investor filter, not a vibe.

2️⃣ Shortlist with intent

> Look at the kind of conviction they show publicly (through content, events, podcast appearances) and identify whether they’re narrative-first, product-first, or metric-first. 

> Talk to 2–3 founders they’ve funded (and not the superstar ones)

Some questions I urge you to ask: 

“How do they help when things go wrong?”
“What do they consistently push you on?”
“Do you feel smarter or smaller after your calls with them?”
“Would you pick them again?”

3️⃣ Things to keep an eye on during calls 

> If you’re spending the entire call explaining basics, that’s not a match 
> What they push you on immediately (and does it align with you)
> Are they asking questions that help you think, or questions that make them look smart? (trust your instincts)


♻️ Repost this so it helps more founders.

I cried after an in-person event. That day, I learned that loyalty at work shouldn't be one-sided.
(I’ve never talked about this):

It wasn’t a big incident.
No massive conflict or harsh feedback.

It was the tone - the kind that makes you realise you care about the work far more than the person speaking to you cares about you.

I was showing up with intent, effort, and ownership… (not saying I'm perfect!) but the other person spoke to me with a certain entitlement.

It hurt. 

I thought maybe I wasn’t good enough. 

But the more I sat with what was going on, I could clearly feel: 

The issue wasn’t my loyalty. It was giving it to a place that didn't respect it. 

Some environments expect your best while offering the bare minimum in return —

no respect, no clarity, no curiosity about who you are or how you work.

I know I'm not the only one who has been treated like this. This is why I'm sharing this story. 

If "disrespect" is wrapped as "feedback" please run in the other direction. 

We don't need to be loyal to spaces that don’t value effort. 
We don't need to be in rooms that confuse ownership with obligation.

And we won’t shrink myself to make someone else feel more in control.

Loyalty at work should feel reciprocal - not a one-sided affair. 

Has something like this ever happened to you?

Niches I consult in:   

> Deeptech / Robotics  
> Consumer AI 
> Consumer tech  
> Healthtech  
> Insuretech  
> Fintech  
> Energy / Cleantech
> Community / Future of Work 
> Sportstech  
> Media / Events  
> Investing / VC

Precisely why my edge has been: Stealing patterns from one world and winning in another.

In your 20s some people will make you feel that your work is worthless.
It is very important that you don't believe them. 


I've worked with people who dismissed my work because they didn't think it added value. 

They assumed they knew better. 

They wanted me to take full ownership while paying the bare minimum.

They'd casually pass comments at how I live my life. 

They thought less of me because I choose to reject full-time employment. 

It is important that when you cross paths with these people (no matter who they are) - you run in the other direction. 

Why? Because they will force you to think small of yourself. Shrink yourself. 
They will make you believe that you don't deserve the world. 
They will cage your ambition with their limitations. 

Guess what happened when I gave up that project? 

My energy aligned. 

I started meeting (and closing deals with) founders who are more aligned to my values. 

My abilities began expanding. 

I made mistakes, but I learned to be better. I was given feedback and it helped me strengthen my creative muscles.

Above all, happiness just skyrocketed. 

And now they watch me closely (and they think I don't know it!).

My 2-week Japan trip gave me back something I didn’t know I had lost — my curiosity. 

6pm in Tokyo.

It’s 10° celsius. My hands are freezing. It’s dark already. 

I’ve walked the whole day. But I still need to walk 20 more minutes to get to the place I’ll grab dinner from. 
 
My legs hurt a bit. 

Out of nowhere I’ve entered the hottest part of Tokyo. It’s so bright and colorful that it feels like I’m in a video game. 

The city is alive. 

So much is happening around me. 

My senses weren’t ready. 

I cannot help but smile. 

I watch people - some are taking pictures, some are sipping on their boba tea, almost everyone has a shopping bag in their hand or two. 

I watch the buildings. They’re huge and the billboards are so enormous. 

Somehow, hundreds of people cross in complete order. 

I wonder where they’re from. 

The place is covered in restaurants. Everywhere I look, there’s something or the other to eat. 

When was the last time you were an observer, Sakshi? 

When was the last time, you weren’t in a rush to get somewhere? 

When was the last time, you truly thought deeply without your brain reminding you that you need to change the context tab now because tasks are pending?

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The moment a founder becomes dangerous is when their language finally matches their intent.

I love how Brain Chesky describes it: 

“If you don’t have a clear story, you don’t have a clear strategy.”

This is why creating a narrative is so critical. 

It makes a startup go from: 

“We need to defend our thesis” → “We’re just declaring our direction and the world will follow”

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